This downtrodden kobold finds himself with one hell of a quest ...
Kek has spent his life being treated like a dog, but he's only dog-like in appearance. You see, he's a kobold who originally came from a dungeon. And he's spent most of his life enslaved to a gang of exiled mercenaries hiding out in a deadly jungle. When Kek gains the power to see the hidden mechanics of reality and learns to "game" them to expand his skills and find hidden meanings, he is soon entrusted with a noble quest. He must return to the dungeon where he came from and rescue his people from servitude to the dungeon lord!
Faced with untold dangers, Kek is going to need allies—such as a sweet muck fairy with a killer streak, a deadly-beautiful siren who fights best au natural, and a sensual cat woman with lightning quick moves. They are sure going to keep this lone kobold on his toes. Throughout this quest, Kek will learn the hard way that one of the greatest opponents a hero confronts is his own self-doubt.
This is a LitRPG with a twist. There is no VR. The fantasy world is real. The game mechanics are part of a unique magical power that only the lucky few obtain. If you're not into this sort of thing, maybe it's time you give it a go. There's also a fun and adventure-packed story that will keep any fantasy reader engrossed right up until the end.
Book two in the series is planned for launch early 2018!
Unique characters. Good story. Not heavy like a Russian novel, but still some drama. Unique twist on getting a status screen. I look forward to book 2.
First volume of this fantasy novel series of 2 volumes so far. It is very short, at about 150+ pages, could be written in about one or two days, especially with all the typos (spelling errors) (like patient instead of writing potion). With 31 chapters, it means about 5 pages a chapter, which really does not allow for character or world development. One doesn't really know what the main plot arcs are, until close to the end. First Kek, the Kobold, escapes to give a message to Hendrik's family, then it is to make the potion and become aware, then it is to delve in the Dungeon and try to find his people, and lastly to try to take down the Dungeon/Demon Lord that has caused so much damage and loss to the Beast-Spirit-folk people. Author suffers from non-commital attitude towards the choices and characters. For example, main character, Kek, chooses a path in the forest, and then author doubts this path, doubts reasons to go, etc. One of the characters, the siren, Selena was killed by one of the floor bosses, without reason or warning, just because...Kek, the Kobold main character, starts to make more potions for the Cathard (cat person), Rita and Faye the Fairy. Hendrick is Kek's Master not because Kek was a slave, but because Henrik taught him alchemy. So this story could be a lot better if author had worked on it a bit. Made everything clear, eliminated all of the doubt and needless play by play commentary.
I enjoyed reading this book. However, I will point out that there are some editing issues that broke up the flow of the story. The story did not feel like it had much depth to it. Additionally, the way it flowed, along with the editing issues, made it hard to get lost in the world the author was trying to create. I still want to see what happens to the characters in the next book but overall the story felt rushed or ruff around the edges in places.
The premise behind the story is intriguing, but the formation of the party strains even my sensibilities (and I have been playing TT RPGs for over 25 years).
Beyond that, this makes a great rough draft, and once all the typos and missing words are cleaned up with a few more editing runs, I'm sure the story will be very interesting. Unfortunately, in it's current state, there were simply too many errors for me to look at this as a finalized piece.
I really like book but was displeased with the many that were misused or misspelled in the preparation to send it to the printer without someone reading it first.