{"id":11781,"date":"2024-10-08T00:25:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T00:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=11781"},"modified":"2024-10-08T00:25:23","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T00:25:23","slug":"web-novels-vol-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/web-novels-vol-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Novels, Vol. 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/90172\/rise-of-the-frontier-lord-kingdom-builder\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rise of the Frontier Lord<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>While there are some exceptionally contrived bits, like the whole sequence with the throne ship and miasma (or the spontaneous herald thing), this is a pretty fun kingdom-building story with a diverse cast. At this point I&#8217;d have to say the biggest oddity is how the Imperials don&#8217;t take the existence of the Wolf-God seriously despite being fully aware of multiple other gods.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/82999\/from-londoner-to-lord\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">From Londoner To Lord<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>A somewhat slowly paced kingdom-building story that occasionally goes a bit too heavy on the sentimentality. And while I&#8217;m not personally fond of the advertising scheme the author has adopted (which greatly resembles what a pay-to-win MMO would use), nor how desperate they seem to be to acquire more readers, if you just focus on the story itself while ignoring the set-dressing it ends up a decent enough time-waster.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/83787\/reborn-as-a-fantasy-general-army-building-isekai\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reborn as a Fantasy General<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>A story about an aspiring historian war-nerd who gets summoned to a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warhammer_Fantasy_(setting)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warhammer<\/a>-like world as a savior figure destined to lead a band of ratmen to greatness. Apart from having a misleading title (no one is reborn here) the only real issue is how abnormally fast the protagonist adapts to life underground among pestilence-worshiping cannibals. That said, I&#8217;m not really a fan of the first book&#8217;s rushed ending, nor the total setting\/character shift of the second.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/85892\/rise-of-the-worthy-litrpg-system-apocalypse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rise Of The Worthy<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>While interesting, there are some weird holes in the setting and event developments that strain credulity to the breaking point.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/73703\/soul-merger\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Soul Merger<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>A fun and engaging series (the MC is apparently only succubus-adjacent to justify an entirely female cast) that handles creature-related lore-dumps by providing in-universe encyclopedia entries as integrated chapters. Unfortunately, at a certain point the protagonists decide to go raiding the bottom of a labyrinth for ~reasons~ and when the inevitable happens I just lost all interest in finishing it.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/80986\/a-relatively-powerful-mage\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Relatively Powerful Mage<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>A well-written (apart from some rather abrupt romantic developments) post-apocalyptic System-based series. Despite having a good mix of personal power-gain and empire-building I ended up having to drop it at the end of the first book, at which point it explicitly decides to set off on a path of human supremacy. That&#8217;s just not something I&#8217;m interested in reading about.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise of the Frontier Lord While there are some exceptionally contrived bits, like the whole sequence with the throne ship and miasma (or the spontaneous herald thing), this is a pretty fun kingdom-building story with a diverse cast. At this point I&#8217;d have to say the biggest oddity is how the Imperials don&#8217;t take the existence of the Wolf-God seriously despite being fully aware of multiple other gods. From Londoner To Lord A somewhat slowly paced kingdom-building story that occasionally goes a bit too heavy on the sentimentality. And while I&#8217;m not personally fond of the advertising scheme the author has adopted (which greatly resembles what a pay-to-win MMO would use), nor how desperate they seem to be to acquire more readers, if you just focus on the story itself while ignoring the set-dressing it ends up a decent enough time-waster. Reborn as a Fantasy General A story about an aspiring historian war-nerd who gets summoned to a Warhammer-like world as a savior figure destined to lead a band of ratmen to greatness. Apart from having a misleading title (no one is reborn here) the only real issue is how abnormally fast the protagonist adapts to life underground among pestilence-worshiping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[983,986,992,28,991,984,988,990,982,989,993,987,64,985,30,511],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-a-relatively-powerful-mage","tag-cybercinder","tag-edgarfig","tag-fantasy","tag-from-londoner-to-lord","tag-icedfairy","tag-ironlung","tag-kuzunalis","tag-omnipotence101","tag-reborn-as-a-fantasy-general","tag-rise-of-the-frontier-lord","tag-rise-of-the-worthy","tag-romance","tag-soul-merger","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-web-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}