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Save Scumming: Book 1
I died nine months from today, on the day that Fortress ENE, my home and one of the few safe cities left in North America, was assaulted by a million monsters pouring from the same portals we’d been exploiting for years.
Nine months. I have nine months to find out who is responsible for the breach, which corporation stands to gain the most, and who is pulling the levels or power to burn my home down.
What do I have?
A shitty apartment on the outskirts, a job interview in the morning that I’d passed nine months ago, and my obese cat, Mister Couchtop.
Oh, and the ability to set Save points and Reload to them as often as I want, reliving entire days or a few minutes over and over again until I get everything just right.
Yeah... I can do this.
Nine months. I have nine months to find out who is responsible for the breach, which corporation stands to gain the most, and who is pulling the levels or power to burn my home down.
What do I have?
A shitty apartment on the outskirts, a job interview in the morning that I’d passed nine months ago, and my obese cat, Mister Couchtop.
Oh, and the ability to set Save points and Reload to them as often as I want, reliving entire days or a few minutes over and over again until I get everything just right.
Yeah... I can do this.
620 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 1, 2026
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RavensDagger
58 books262 followersA bird that likes comfy and happy things, and also knives. Once ate a god’s eye and awakened the ability to see all that is good in the world. Known to steal shiny ideas and baubles. Currently forbidden from writing his own bios.
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August 2, 2026
Interesting world building and exploration of what a character might do with time loop abilities to quickly skill up. A bit grittier than my preference, but overall enjoyable.
June 29, 2026
A bit of a fail
Now I really liked the tone, the characters and mood of Stray Cat Strut, so I know the author can write good books. This one? It had it's fun parts , the premises was good and the world was amazing. The execution was...poor. She has one save point and can reload
Premises? Some big deadly event is happening in 9 months and she has to figure out a way to stop it.
Well she can repeat those 9 months as much as she wants with time looping right? Wrong...Not with how she does it.
Now if she had two save points. One at the start and one to use when ever, what she did would make sense. Instead she keeps resetting her one save point every other day or week. Making her permanent choices constantly move forward. Making her ultimate be unable to change things. From joining a corps, to who she meets, who she tells, what events are taking place. Stuff she doesn't know but learns later? All that ends up being unchangeable because she keeps moving her save up.
What would be smart? Live 9 months. Learn as much as she could with the foreknowledge, gain knowledge on spells and fighting in nine months. Then reset. Live another nine months doing something new, join a new company. Learn fighting a new style for nine months. Reset.
Does she do this? No,...she uses her powers to reset the day, to change minor things, taking it one step at a time and making her only run through the whole nine months once..which makes no sense. She literally could wait 9 months wait outside the portal that breaks, see who broke it and reset with that in mind back to the start.
The character is just impatient and doesn't like waiting, doesn't have the self control to do stuff. Making her a horrible character for time looping powers. Which ruins the book. Maybe it makes it realistic that someone with bad personality would get those powers and not use them well but it doesn't make the book good..
Then there is the worst part. She uses her powers to manipulate someone into bed. Like using mind reading to read someone's mind to know what to say to get hem in bed. Or using a high charm skill. Or per-congintion, she uses her power to reset a conversation over and over until she knows just what to do to seduce someone. A total abuse of powers, invasion of privacy and basically sexual assault.
There should be laws against it and it should count as rape. It's messed up. How do they handle someone with mental powers not just reaching into someone's mind to lie and invade someone's private thoughts to know how to get them into bed. It's not true consent as they weren't able to make a choice in the matter. It's like with youths, sure they can make 'choices' but they don't have the mental capacity to do so, so it's not consent. This is the same, she had no choice in the matter. Any time she refused or wasn't interested. Just reset the timeloop and try again until find what exactly to say to make her want to do it. That's wrong..just over the line.
It's enough to make me drop the series.
Now I really liked the tone, the characters and mood of Stray Cat Strut, so I know the author can write good books. This one? It had it's fun parts , the premises was good and the world was amazing. The execution was...poor. She has one save point and can reload
Premises? Some big deadly event is happening in 9 months and she has to figure out a way to stop it.
Well she can repeat those 9 months as much as she wants with time looping right? Wrong...Not with how she does it.
Now if she had two save points. One at the start and one to use when ever, what she did would make sense. Instead she keeps resetting her one save point every other day or week. Making her permanent choices constantly move forward. Making her ultimate be unable to change things. From joining a corps, to who she meets, who she tells, what events are taking place. Stuff she doesn't know but learns later? All that ends up being unchangeable because she keeps moving her save up.
What would be smart? Live 9 months. Learn as much as she could with the foreknowledge, gain knowledge on spells and fighting in nine months. Then reset. Live another nine months doing something new, join a new company. Learn fighting a new style for nine months. Reset.
Does she do this? No,...she uses her powers to reset the day, to change minor things, taking it one step at a time and making her only run through the whole nine months once..which makes no sense. She literally could wait 9 months wait outside the portal that breaks, see who broke it and reset with that in mind back to the start.
The character is just impatient and doesn't like waiting, doesn't have the self control to do stuff. Making her a horrible character for time looping powers. Which ruins the book. Maybe it makes it realistic that someone with bad personality would get those powers and not use them well but it doesn't make the book good..
Then there is the worst part. She uses her powers to manipulate someone into bed. Like using mind reading to read someone's mind to know what to say to get hem in bed. Or using a high charm skill. Or per-congintion, she uses her power to reset a conversation over and over until she knows just what to do to seduce someone. A total abuse of powers, invasion of privacy and basically sexual assault.
There should be laws against it and it should count as rape. It's messed up. How do they handle someone with mental powers not just reaching into someone's mind to lie and invade someone's private thoughts to know how to get them into bed. It's not true consent as they weren't able to make a choice in the matter. It's like with youths, sure they can make 'choices' but they don't have the mental capacity to do so, so it's not consent. This is the same, she had no choice in the matter. Any time she refused or wasn't interested. Just reset the timeloop and try again until find what exactly to say to make her want to do it. That's wrong..just over the line.
It's enough to make me drop the series.
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June 29, 2026Save Scumming was disappointing. It started out with a really interesting premise and creative world building. A world with portals with monsters and magic isn't groundbreaking but the power of being able to reload time and try various options had a lot of potential.
By the middle it was really repetitive and contradicted itself. The main character would know something, then be surprised about it later. There were several typos. The character started out determined to solve what caused the portal breach in her city but had stopped even mentioning it by the middle. The big calamity wasn't well explained either - a portal with monsters opened up inside the city limits, but that happens regularly throughout the book. There are several side characters who are either blank slates or whose personality change drastically. I wasn't a fan.
By the middle it was really repetitive and contradicted itself. The main character would know something, then be surprised about it later. There were several typos. The character started out determined to solve what caused the portal breach in her city but had stopped even mentioning it by the middle. The big calamity wasn't well explained either - a portal with monsters opened up inside the city limits, but that happens regularly throughout the book. There are several side characters who are either blank slates or whose personality change drastically. I wasn't a fan.
June 9, 2026
It was good. It felt a bit repetitive.
MC uses her power to travel back in time for the simple pleasure of seducing women.... I mean i guess we all would? Sex scenes were unexpected, but easily skippable.
Side characters were full-on NPC energy; the only goal of the side characters seemed to be S*xing.
The story was good; the MC uses her power to develop knowledge and practice. Felt slow, and stakes always felt low.
3.6/5
MC uses her power to travel back in time for the simple pleasure of seducing women.... I mean i guess we all would? Sex scenes were unexpected, but easily skippable.
Side characters were full-on NPC energy; the only goal of the side characters seemed to be S*xing.
The story was good; the MC uses her power to develop knowledge and practice. Felt slow, and stakes always felt low.
3.6/5
June 5, 2026
I guess I just don't like RavensDagger. The horniness of the MC, the subtle misogyny. I find it unpalatable. And I haven't liked any of his other novels either.
At least in this book, the sex scenes are clearly marked and can be skipped easily.
At least in this book, the sex scenes are clearly marked and can be skipped easily.
June 7, 2026
Good solid book, kinda follows the structure as a progressive fantasy / litrpgs Dresden files with a time loop and a goal. Some spice and good combat and a limitation on how long the Mc wants to redo loops keeps things from getting repetitive.
June 8, 2026
Quite delightful. The author maintains a certain theme across all their characters though lol
June 18, 2026
Really good
didn-t-like-it
June 24, 2026Note to self: not for me.
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