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Electric Shadows #1
Dragon Web Online: Inception
I didn’t set out to destroy the world.
Honest.
Dragon Web Online promised its players a virtual world filled with simulated adventures and real treasures. Play games, get rich. It seemed like the perfect way to make the cash my family needed to keep us off the streets. It seemed too good to be true.
It was.
I made a terrible mistake and stumbled into the truth behind the world’s most popular Virtual Reality game.
Now I’m marked for death and the most powerful people in the world want to hang their crimes around my neck.
They call me a thief. A murderer. The killer of worlds.
The people who know the truth call me the Saint of Shadows.
I didn’t set out to destroy the world, but somebody had to do it.
Somebody had to set you free.
Dragon Web Online: Inception kicks off the Electric Shadows LitRPG Adventure series. Meet the Saint of Shadows as he begins his journey into a virtual reality that threatens to consume the world as we know it.
- GenresFantasy
165 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 5, 2016
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January 16, 2019
This book has almost nothing to do with the description given about the book. Sure, it's (slowly) building up to it, but you can't say a book is about a turnip if the turnip is only mentioned a time or two during the entire book (and at that, only in passing). No, this book isn't about how the main character crashes the world cash markets, and becomes the most wanted person on the planet, it's actually about the first couple days of the main character's adventures in an online world that (may eventually) lead to all that it talks about in the book description. I call that false advertising. You can't claim a story is about a purple unicorn if the purple unicorn only shows up in the last sentence of the book, and it only shows up there, because a little girl just happens to look out her window and see it running past.
This isn't a bad book, but it isn't really much of a story at this point, it's like the author wrote the first third of a book, and tried to pass it off as the whole thing. I know there's another one in the series, and hopefully that one actually goes far enough into the tale that it makes sense, but honestly, if you're looking to read the tale in the description, I'd skip this one, at least until the whole series is already out, because this one only touches on the first day or two of the online activities, and even much of that is interspersed with reporter nonsense like he's on a news show being asked about his activities. Not a good approach in this case in my opinion.
This isn't a bad book, but it isn't really much of a story at this point, it's like the author wrote the first third of a book, and tried to pass it off as the whole thing. I know there's another one in the series, and hopefully that one actually goes far enough into the tale that it makes sense, but honestly, if you're looking to read the tale in the description, I'd skip this one, at least until the whole series is already out, because this one only touches on the first day or two of the online activities, and even much of that is interspersed with reporter nonsense like he's on a news show being asked about his activities. Not a good approach in this case in my opinion.
September 17, 2016
Weak main character
The story is about a character that gets pushed around by everyone throughout the book. No real self discovery and no point does he really stand up for himself, not without immediately waffling. Usually this it mitigated in many other books by some humor, but not in this case. I can see the potential in the series but this book does not make me want to continue reading to find out.
The story is about a character that gets pushed around by everyone throughout the book. No real self discovery and no point does he really stand up for himself, not without immediately waffling. Usually this it mitigated in many other books by some humor, but not in this case. I can see the potential in the series but this book does not make me want to continue reading to find out.
September 8, 2016
I got a copy of this prior to it being published and I will be reading it again now that I have bought the final version. It is amazing, do yourself a favor and pick it up.
Reminiscent of Ready Player One but with a darker tone that I loved. This is a true struggle between wanting to be friendly but knowing you can't in order to help save someone you love. Saint is trying to save his mom in the real world while dealing with an abusive brother. He finds a way, but sometimes the means don't justify the end. Ends on a great point to keep you wanting the next installment without being an X-Files WTF cliffhanger ending.
Reminiscent of Ready Player One but with a darker tone that I loved. This is a true struggle between wanting to be friendly but knowing you can't in order to help save someone you love. Saint is trying to save his mom in the real world while dealing with an abusive brother. He finds a way, but sometimes the means don't justify the end. Ends on a great point to keep you wanting the next installment without being an X-Files WTF cliffhanger ending.
September 22, 2016
Wow, I really don't know what to say. I've never played an RPG and I was afraid I'd fumble through this book totally clueless. But S R Witt's clear and descriptive writing had me fascinated from the first chapter. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and look forward to the next in the series since there are a lot of unanswered questions.
I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review.
I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review.
November 9, 2016
Frustratingly short!
This was a fun book to read. The main character isn't the typical by any means with his rogue focus and sneaky ways. Also, the way the author blends the real world with the game was different, but grew on me.
What kills me is right when you are getting into the storyline, BAMMM! Book over! It was soooo short. Like short story short. This seems to be a common theme for a lot of LitRPG authors (End Online, Universe online, etc) and it drives me crazy!
This was a fun book to read. The main character isn't the typical by any means with his rogue focus and sneaky ways. Also, the way the author blends the real world with the game was different, but grew on me.
What kills me is right when you are getting into the storyline, BAMMM! Book over! It was soooo short. Like short story short. This seems to be a common theme for a lot of LitRPG authors (End Online, Universe online, etc) and it drives me crazy!
October 13, 2016
The genre is fast filling up, but the angle of this one was a little different and the whole telling of the story motif, though not new, was handled gracefully and with mouthwatering read-moreability. There's clearly much, much more to hear from this one!
November 26, 2016
Great start
I was wavering between 3 and 4 starts till the last 10%. Then the ending hit. It hit hard. I actually cared what happened and how the characters felt about it. I am excited for book 2.
I was wavering between 3 and 4 starts till the last 10%. Then the ending hit. It hit hard. I actually cared what happened and how the characters felt about it. I am excited for book 2.
December 28, 2016
Nice start ... I can hear the clock ticking
I like Saint. While his setup is somewhat stale, the world in which he acts is not stale. Nor is his story in that world. I want too see what happens when the bomb, which is his life, stops ticking.
I like Saint. While his setup is somewhat stale, the world in which he acts is not stale. Nor is his story in that world. I want too see what happens when the bomb, which is his life, stops ticking.
September 10, 2016
This was fun!
September 30, 2016
a great read cant wait to see what he does with the rest of the series
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