{"id":12055,"date":"2025-01-02T06:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T06:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2025-01-03T00:28:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:28:29","slug":"web-novels-vol-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/web-novels-vol-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Novels, Vol. 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/86852\/infernal-investigations\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infernal Investigations<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>While I&#8217;m not thrilled with how the protagonist deliberately weakens herself nor how many are keen to take advantage of her, the world-building is interesting and the parts where she&#8217;s not pigeonholed as a victim are top notch.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/76440\/shadowbane\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shadowbane<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>Something about the irreverent atmosphere doesn&#8217;t quite feel right when meshed with the heavy subject matter and it&#8217;s annoying that the protagonist has such a perfect assassination ability yet no offensive abilities or ranged weapons to go with it. Was also more than a little annoyed by the soft reset at the end of the first book.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/66484\/i-will-strive-beyond-this-cursed-bloodline\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I will strive Beyond This Cursed Bloodline<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>This story reads very much like a fan-translation of a Japanese light novel, with a large number of odd turns of phrase and instances of broken syntax. Personally I ended up finding the style kind of charming&#8230; even if I did have to give up providing edit suggestions only a few chapters in. No, ultimately what caused me to drop it near the end of the second book was the whole &#8216;can&#8217;t control her powers&#8217; plotline that got introduced. It just felt completely arbitrary and at odds with how her soulscape had been built up specifically to grant total control over her abilities.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/85592\/farisas-crossing\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Farisa&#8217;s Crossing<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul>Definitely interesting, but I&#8217;m starting to think psychological and\/or underdog stories just aren&#8217;t what I&#8217;m looking for.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/91626\/demon-queen-wants-to-paint\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DEMON QUEEN Wants to Paint<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>The title is pretty accurate, far moreso than I was expecting honestly. Starting her off as a baby was a bold move when combined with her total rejection of everything around her, and one that just doesn&#8217;t work for me.<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/72301\/1-lifesteal\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1% LIFESTEAL<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>The setting pissed me off just a little bit too much to stick around long enough to see how\/if the protagonist&#8217;s personality evolved.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infernal Investigations While I&#8217;m not thrilled with how the protagonist deliberately weakens herself nor how many are keen to take advantage of her, the world-building is interesting and the parts where she&#8217;s not pigeonholed as a victim are top notch. Shadowbane Something about the irreverent atmosphere doesn&#8217;t quite feel right when meshed with the heavy subject matter and it&#8217;s annoying that the protagonist has such a perfect assassination ability yet no offensive abilities or ranged weapons to go with it. Was also more than a little annoyed by the soft reset at the end of the first book. I will strive Beyond This Cursed Bloodline This story reads very much like a fan-translation of a Japanese light novel, with a large number of odd turns of phrase and instances of broken syntax. Personally I ended up finding the style kind of charming&#8230; even if I did have to give up providing edit suggestions only a few chapters in. No, ultimately what caused me to drop it near the end of the second book was the whole &#8216;can&#8217;t control her powers&#8217; plotline that got introduced. It just felt completely arbitrary and at odds with how her soulscape had been built up [&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":[1037,1033,1035,1038,28,1039,1040,1042,1034,29,1032,1036,1031,62,1041,30,511],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-1-lifesteal","tag-alexanders-katsu","tag-amberatlas","tag-demon-queen-wants-to-paint","tag-fantasy","tag-farisas-crossing","tag-i-will-strive-beyond-this-cursed-bloodline","tag-infernal-investigations","tag-michaelochurch","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-reimia","tag-robert-blaise","tag-saithorthepyro","tag-science-fiction","tag-shadowbane","tag-urban-fantasy","tag-web-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","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=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}