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First Book of the Mind - Celesi Veil Trilogy
A Remembrance of one's Life, or a Life of one's Remembrance, four girls from different corners of a fantasy world's upper society are suddenly faced with memories of earth. A story of another world, these four girls, awakened to memories of another life, now have twice the trouble to worry about, as they work to discover the truth hidden behind the cause.
As this story was inspired by the act of language translation, the story does feature a new world with a multitude of foreign concepts, one being a brand new language with a completely unique phonetic style. There is in fact two new very similar languages, both Izhaethyx and Elaethyx (the language of humans and elves, though “izh” translates close to “normal”, because humans are like that). Related to both languages (both have the same phonetic style, just different sentence structures and words), most Q-sounds are like a windy k-sound, so like Qicir is Kweas-ir… and might actually sound like sounds from a certain fantasy bird from a certain fantasy series now that I think about it (Yes, there are popculture gaming references everywhere in this story). Qtehlatys is then a quick hard K-and-t whistle, with no real feeling of a vowel between (like you are blowing on your tongue), with then a tongue roll, and a “layth-S” (hard s-ending), like it was two syllables, sorta three with that sudden S (human family names tend to end in a sudden hard sound, elven ones are generally softer and drawn out at the end). Wyxir phonetically sounds like you’re trying to say wyvern and weather at the same time (similar idea on their royal family’s last name). Considering that Qictae and Wyxtae are effectively Eastward and Westward, neither name are actually very creative to the locals. Possibly suspicious by now, they have no o-sound at all, and there are plenty of y-forms. Elaethyx also originally co-opted a lot of Izhaethyx words because their language never bothered with anything outside their cultures (still being as related to each other as earth’s Latin-based language variants.. so not much really). Hopefully, the other names aren’t as insane to phonetic for people. This is also only phonetics, lets not even start on their writing systems. This should be enough to get a reader started, after all.
This story does not sustain a static flow, it begins with four prelude chapters, and then things start to happen. From there, everything will develop and evolve overtime. This is both important for consideration in material so that a reader can understand if this is a good read for them, and to note that not every tag or genre matching this story will be in effect at the start of the story. In the same context of story evolution, the tag "Reincarnation" is actually heavily questioned, one of the biggest questions of the story is if it is a matter of reincarnation, or of getting the memories of another. The tag has been included only because of this matter of uncertainty, where characters involved are left wondering if this had happened or not. It is highly recommended to not begin reading resolved that the answer is simply reincarnation, and to instead explore the question in more depth. Please be aware that, although this story is marked for profanity, its usage is both rare and constantly censored (please let me know if you see a word that should also be censored but got missed, I'm very complacient in this, as it's technically not in my nature to have used such profanity at all).
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- Completed
- Year
- 2019
- Author
- Luminaeris
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- 3.5/ 5.0
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- VartakotariRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I loved the main idea of the book that four people wake up to the memories of their other life in another world and they make use of their new-gained wisdom in a world that's a stranger to the technology of our own world while having an identity crisis and making sense what happened amidst trying to survive in their journey and make things better for themselves and for their world even though among them there is a half-elf who fights for the world that wants to kill her just for being a half-elf. For the people of Celese, technology seems like magic as how Arthur C. Clarke once said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." and as you had expected in their world there is magic called "gift". "Then what would happen if you had combined magic with technology?" is one of the small things you can enjoy discovering by reading this book as there are many treasures to discover and there are many moments to experience and cherish as you experience fall, winter, autumn and summer with the four women.
In a general sense the story is mostly picaresque whether physically and psychologically. As these four women travel, constantly embark on new adventures and even severely get hurt they grow up and become a better version of themselves while trying to unite the personality they had from their another world self as they fight with their weaknesses to improve themselves as much as they fight with strong enemies.
The tag of the book may have comedy but the genre of the book is actually drama with a great dosage of sad and funny moments that are in great harmony. There are lots of action to experience, even war, as well as serene moments when close friends just enjoy their dinner in which while reading the book so much focus on food made me hungry a lot so if you have eating disorders the book can be very helpful!!!
A reader might want to experience intimate deep romantic moments but while romantic moments are hinted a little in the book there are no ac - Endless PavingRoyal Road★★★★★ 4.5This is largely a first impressions review and the ratings are my impression of where the story is going based on the first 8 chapter I’ve read rather than a final judgement.
Looking at the genre tags the story has a lot of places to go to that it hasn’t even touched on yet. I feel the most important ones so far are Adventure, Multiple Leads, and maybe Drama for how the characters interact. There haven’t been much in terms of significant character interactions other than the four protagonists so far, so how they interact with each other is core to the story. Since they are interesting characters with distinct personalities, the “drama” between them is largely engaging to read.
The plot is mostly adventure placed, and by adventure I should clarify that they travel towards places, plan out their travels, meet stuff along the way, climb over obstacles, very clearly an adventure by definition.
Reincarnation, Isekai, and Gender Bender might offer the most confusion. It’s reincarnation in the more classical interpretation, where the protagonists realise they have had previous lives rather than the actual depiction of those lives during the reincarnation process as is common on RR. So it’s not really from the perspective from a person who gets thrown into portal fantasy and more from the perspective of the ones who deal with the echoes of those past individuals becoming part of them.
My overall impression of the story is that it has momentum, it feels like a book that has already been planned out or edited and knows where it’s going, a lot like the feel you’d get from a published story in a book store. This is important because even scenes that feel a bit slower paced have that same momentum that tells you it’s going somewhere deliberately.
The biggest flaw with the book I would say is actually with the grammar and the prose. It doesn’t really use words incorrectly or anything bad, but I feel like the some of the descriptions are a bit awkward and struggle to convey their - NeoMareRoyal Road★★★★ 3.5The plot itself is interesting, at least of what I read. However, there are some confusing parts that get more confusing as the story advances
- BedwigRoyal Road★★★ 3.0I liked the idea of this novel, about four girls gaining the memories of earth, and dealing with it. I've only read 5 or 6 chapters of this novel, so things might change from what I'm writing.
The main reason why I decided to write a review is that the grammar is absolutely terrible, at least, it is in my opinion. The main thing is that the dialougue is all spoken in one line, with no 'said' or 'asked' or whatever in between. The whole thing is something like this: "Oh no I did something wrong." "Of course you did." "Well I agree" "So what"
You have no idea who's talking and who's not.
At the point where the girls gain their memories, it seemed so sudden. It had nothing leading up to it, only just suddenly, 'WHAM! you have the memory of earth now!' I didn't read far enough to know more about it, but from so far it just seems like they're just going with the flow.
The characters so far feel very shallow, but I think that might be just me reading the beginning chapters.
So far the plot feels meandering along nowhere, but, like before, I think this is just because I only read to the sixth chapter.
My main gripe is the grammar, still. I only reason I wrote this review was the grammar. At least the capitalization and punctuation is good for the most part. Some words are misused, like using 'your' instead of 'you're'. Other than the dialogue problem, the grammar is about average.
The auther uses pretty good descriptive words, though.
So, to anyone who might be reading this, I don't recommend this to anyone who might have a fixation on at least good grammar, but to anyone else, I recommend them to read this fiction. The story is interesting, and the plot is alright so far.