A chance at immortality, an unpopular world, and hidden forces that want you gone. What’s not to love?
If Topha doesn’t face the harrowing Trial of Wires, she’ll forfeit her dream of becoming an External—an immortal adventurer within the boundless worlds of the Singularity. Her reward for succeeding? Entering a beautiful new world teeming with possibilities and perils.
When she arrives, she can’t locate any other Externals.
Worse, a fatal encounter exposes Topha’s true nature to the denizens of the planet, and they sentence her to death.
An unlikely alliance with a sharp-tongued, always-hungry serpent made of leaves and vines is her only chance to survive…if they can defeat the looming threat before it destroys Topha’s new home.
Otherwise, her first adventure might be her last.
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Spawn Point is an interesting story that starts in the real world. It's kind of a Matrix theme initially, what with using humans for the processing power used for the virtual worlds, but that's where the similarities end. The main character is one of those who tends the bodies of the ones that maintain the worlds, and since incorporating into the worlds gets harder the older one gets, this is her last chance for her to actually join the virtual environment (and presumably) become one of those humans donating brain power to the running of the virtual environments. We're not shown very much of the world outside the processing centers, nor do we see more than a glimpse of the centers themselves, but you already knew that, based on the name of this title. For what it's worth, I like the initiation system, and the way they choose the world where they plan to spend their time. There are a few older titles with this kind of a mechanism, but nothing in the past few years that treat the selection similar to this. But, that's not what you want to know I'm sure. The story starts innocent enough, but soon turns dark, and the whole story is based on how the main character handles it when she finds out that other folks that have preceeded her into this world that nobody has entered for nearly 10 years, and what happend to them. It's a decent enough story, and I'd expect most LitRPG fans to find the story interesting enough. For me though, while it was interesting enough to keep me reading, for some reason, I felt it lacked that special something that makes it an excellent story. I love the choices she gets at every decision point (not really levels, more accomplishments), and the system itself is interesting, but it just seems to me that the main character was always second guessing herself, and making things more complicated than they needed to be. That doesn't affect the story a whole lot, but it did annoy me more than once, especially during the final boss battle, but you'll see what I mean when you get to that point. In any case, I think it's a passingly good story, and can recommend it to LitRPG fans, especially those looking for unique spell/skill sets and esystems that don't follow the typical upgrade paths.
This is a new game universe. The concept of life after life has theological consequences for me as a rabbi. Good versus evil. Moral codes. Sacrifice requirements. Tiered systems. Ultimately, playing the BIG BOSS. NOTE: Part of my superstition is not to use the "G" word in vain as part of a system of 613 commandments. I truly like literary Role playing games. This game has me guessing choices before the character and wishing to see if the sidekick has a similar system "in play."
Great story, I found the game theme different from what little I was used to. bit of a challenge. looking forward to volume 2. (maybe in December) well I have a few hundred books on my kindle and many more available. bit unusual to have a female protagonist. but not really a problem. again, as Michael pointed out C.R. has a talent and point of view that is worth following. And I found the story, once I got started riveting.
This was a good book, the main character was interesting, the world was interesting, the magic system was interesting. This was just a really good book. Loved the action and adventure, the characters and of course nettle was great. I enjoyed this book and recommend it.