Down She Falls: A Lit-RPG

by Coco vanRoss

Solace Online, a game world where the rich excel and the poor are tasked with proving themselves. On the outside it may seem like an escape from life in the Stations, giant skyscrapers that loom above the landfills suffocating Earth. Unfortunately, a system defined by class exists in both realities. Deaun, a girl from the bottom rung, must prove herself not only in Solace Online but also in the Stations. Mydon, a boy from the top tier, will do all he can to stay under the radar; especially a particular person's. The emergence of a Quest Chain will affect both sides; Solace Online and the Stations will have their hopes resting on a small group of Players. Will the Players be able to prove themselves?
Welcome to Solace Online, where realities collide and quests are king!

Gamelit / LitRPG
Multiple POV
Female MC
Not a Harem
Present Tense!!! (Yes, I'm yelling this)

290 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 4, 2018

Reviews

[ProbityDefence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad overall

A decent read but I have have some hopefully constructive criticism for the author of the book.

The setting was vague and hard to pin down. Even having read the entire book I only have a vague idea about the world the story is taking place in.
There's apparently a city? Tower? Space station? Arcology? Which has tiers? Or levels? With the richest in the top or second to top tier. Outside of the city? Is either a wasteland of an unexplained kind, giant garbage dump, or some magically contaminated ruins of some kind.

If this seems unclear and vague to you that's because he entire book has an unclear, vague almost half formed setting.

For the author. Think about what is common knowledge for the characters in the book, relevant to the story. So the city? They live in the basics of the game and whatever he hell "echelon gifts" are, some basic "how we got here" history and whether this is SciFi, fantasy, or alternative history. Before the first half of the reader should know most of what the characters do.

Secondly you chose 3rd perspective narrations for the story. This makes sense since you are writing a few characters and hoping around characters in 1st perspective is confusing. However 3rd perspective doesn't mean you have to entirely neglect what the characters are thinking. the girl in this seems like a totally lunatic because we can't see her reasoning. Without anyone to bounce reactions off she comes off as an emotionless robot killing things recklessly without a goal. Without a look at the inside of her head it becomes hard to emphasize with the protagonist detracting form the book.

[Anders Nordesjö · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard to follow

I liked the story and overall plot in this book. The game was interesting with alot of skills and magic. However, the writing fell flat and the multinarration was really annoying. One character a couple of pages and then another for a few pages. Nowhere near enough information to relate to them since there were like six.

Will probably get the sequel in case it's better but wouldn't recommend this book to any of my friends.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a very good read. Based on this first book there likely to be 8 books in the series. I like the story well enough to continue with it, though it seems to me levels are way to easy to come by in this one. Still, even with that, it was certainly a good enough story to hold my attention, and there were few spelling and grammar errors, which all by itself raises it up a few notches in my estimation.

[Jon Freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great litrpg

Decent read, i enjoyed the character development in this one. If you like litrpg books this is a good option. Looking forward to the sequel.