A Small Town in Southern Illvaria: An Isekai LitRPG

A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World, Book 1

De: Acaswell

Narrado por: Alexandra Ryan

A young woman must navigate the dangers of a strange new world filled with magic and mystery in this imaginative and highly detailed LitRPG adventure.

When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teen from the Denver suburbs. She definitely didn't expect to be transported to a magical alternate dimension, inhabited by monsters and presided over by a mysterious System. Here, people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens.

Grappling with the mechanics of the elusive System isn't the only challenge Alice faces. It seems an underground organization known as the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions. If they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to hunt her down and forcibly extract from her the secrets of her world.

Now, in addition to pursuing her own scientific endeavors, as well as learning to harness the magic that surrounds her, Alice must determine the Society's ultimate intention—and how she ended up here in first place. Before it's too late . . .

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I honestly loved it.

This book is serious like is really good. It's a very different type of EC tie that I have read before.
The fact that the main character is happening worried about disease from this play where she's been teleported to. Is vastly different than most of the other light knob is that I have Read of late. It's not a huge detail in the grand scheme of things. But it's nice to see a character. Actually do something and present the ideas. It's something that I never considered. Usually, when the all-powerful gods are whatever. Pulls you to another place. This stuff is all taken care of so it's nice to see a character that has to deal with this. Other than that it has a very interesting magic system. I thought the main character is very inchristine. I enjoyed her quite a bit and her struggles to Survi found the beginning of the book. Pretty interesting. I could see some people not liking it because of his slow pace. I love the kind of slice of life that we have going on here. I'm a big fan of the wondering ends wondering if this is gonna be a serious life that where it slowly expands the world to the reader. Who knows we'll see in the future? I thought the voice performance was excellent. And I thought the character were well written seriously. Highly recommend this book.

A young intellectual demands her fantasy world makes sense

This was a great find. I'm a bit of an armchair scientist myself and can see the raw drive to know and make rational sense of everything really well reflected in this little girl. Although it was realistic to have so much survival based action in the beginning, and she was certainly self conscious she was costing on luck to survive, IMHO it was a bit much. Still, I chalk it up to the Everett Many Worlds model being correct in this universe and we're just following along the lucky Alice who survived. After the survival bit, it gets much more believable on the story front. In any case it was enjoyable throughout. I would have liked more of a sense of completion to some of the questions and plot points I had, which makes it frustratingly hard that I'll have to wait for the next book to see some movement on that. But when it comes out, I will get it. I would have switched to the Kindle version of only that was available but the two editions are synced. Narration was really good but had a few clips I could tell were different takes. Not enough of an issue to cost a star, but room for improvement.

I recommend this to people who are more critical of the fantastical elements of fantasy because you can just feel how she is slowly closing the gap on the fantasy to make it reality. It's a unique feeling I have not seen in any other fantasy or litrpg or there. I'm excited to see more.

not really a book.

The unending introspection of a 15 year old written as a thirty year old. literally nothing happens for almost thirty hours. The whole of the book is just restating the same underwhelming points in different ways. 10 hours of the book is dedicated to figuring out that mana makes people stronger, which any human being could figure out from context clues. The characters in the book don't have emotions so all conversations read like robots analyzing a sentence on rotation. The main character is completely reactive so the plot just sits still until, once or twice, action happens to the character and they have no choice but to react, otherwise they just stand still and introspect. This wouldn't be terrible if they were having interactions with the people around them, but there's no one around them. there are only 6 characters in the book. All those characters are just magguffins instead of people. I am the teacher character, I am the exposition character, I am the other teacher character. The worst part of all this is that the writing is good. if this story went anywhere I would have been able to enjoy it. Or if it was about personal interactions and growing as a person I would have enjoyed it. Or if the fact that this 15 year old super scientist was ever able to actually scientific method her way into actually making any discoveries about the world that mattered to anyone. Instead everything just swirls around like a beach ball in a swimming pool. It might move a little but it's not going anywhere.

a bit hard to follow

The biggest problem for me was the voice actor's reading. Almost the entire recording sounded like she was yelling, and kind of put me off to the point I almost didn't finish listening. Aside from that, the MC spends sooooooo much time rambling and thinking and contradicting her own thoughts that it was hard to follow and I found myself rewinding to listen to things three, four, or more times just to make sense of things.

good book for a calm read

the focus she has on how everything works is a breath of fresh air. Most characters are either anomaly calm from start to finish or seem to never stop freaking out. the fact she knows things should work but don't and doesn't just accept it is great to hear. truly didn't expect to enjoy its as much as I did.

very unique and fun

I can't wait to see where this series goes! I like that it someone trying to figure the system out instead of just rolling with it.

it's a good story . . just kinda rambles though

it's a pretty good story. It kept me pretty entertained through the plot but man it kinda rambles at points. and I caught myself just zoning out and not caring about what the story just says. so there's that. probably won't continue. but we will see.

Slow but steady story

A story that started off slow like a fire starting the kindle that takes off as we see our MC learn more about the world she is in. I look forward to the next book and how the story unfolds

From the perspective of a dedicated researcher

I will keep this short, the MC isn't a monster hunter, adventurer or murder hobo. She is a researcher in mind and spirit. Originally from Earth, she finds herself on a new world and struggling for survival. In these Isekai stories we normally get MC's that either whine about what's not fare and become OP due to extreme plot armor or we get MC's that decide to get stronger as fast as possible so they don't have to worry so much about old monsters bullying them in their new "might makes right" world. With some crafting thrown into the mix of course. But that is not this story. This is a story about a girl that will defend herself but will not go looking for danger. She doesn't level to get stronger, she levels for other reasons. It's a completely different perspective and I really enjoyed it. Well done!

I love the slower pace and in depth look into the system this novel takes.

I love the slower pace and focus on the system. It’s one of my favorite parts of this genre so having it be a huge focus with a scientific lens is amazing.