Re: Royal Road To Card Magic Pdf Free
Angie Troia
In a divided and chaotic world, where all creatures and magic are controlled by cards, Tobias is a young summoner with a persistent problem. He's cursed, born with an unnatural mark that radiates evil and a strange talent for controlling monsters. People look at him differently, treat him as less.
overview: the story is quite interesting in it own way. And I can see the inspiration from other magic card story whether it is magic the gathering or dungeon and dragon. While the main protagonist is interesting with his own flaw and personality. But here the actual review in detail.
story: a great story about a cliche topic in a litrpg setting while not the most original it manages to make it self unique through the used of characters development and making the believable. And not to mention the description of the scene and action it quite different and it what I imagine a summoner in dungeon and dragon is doing most of the time.
character:the strongest point in this book, it believably they have flaw and they action have consequences, and this manage to make itself unique and engaging. And the characters dynamic maybe overused in this book and many other it mange to bring the characters out of they role and make them realistic to a point.
Overall: I think the main hook of this series is the characters and setting. The characters are interested, and well crafted. We given enough insight about their life, and interests to make us interested in the characters, but not to much that it becomes infor-dumping. And the setting strives off being original(I am not familiar with card-monstet catching novels, so may be it isn't?) and Alot of effort has been put into the world.
For the unlucky stuff, because of Tobias having a certain eye colour, which is associated with a group of people, people treat him weirdly. But it's realistic and tame, and not over the top like a lot of animes.(Though, discrimination irl often are over the top, but it's sometimes, and not always extreme so. So it's kinda cool to see it being shown differently, instead of going with the cliche.)
Despite that, he doesn't allow it to get under his skin deeply. He even questions if it would be right to make people stop having believes that hurt others, since it would be tyrannical to strip away someone's right to believe in what they want.
The battle system is especially my fav(ig I will be talking about world building) So, they have cards which can summon monsters, right? Well, they have to do a bit more than just send monsters to fight. They themselves are just as involved in the fight. They have to actually be trained so that they can fight off the other combatant both in swordsmanship or with magic alongside their monsters.
While I may not be a big fan of it, it is mostly clear and concise. So, it does it's job. But, I suppose a couple sentences and certain usage of words may throw people off. Either way, it's very much a personal taste thing. If the style does it's job at narrating the story in an very understandable way, it's good in my eyes.
I'm enjoying this story a lot. It feels fresh and different. It has some elements to the fighting that make me think of Pokemon, and the deckbuilding creature/spell stuff is cool. I've binged my way through the first eleven chapters and am looking forward to reading more.
I really like the style of the story. Scenes are long, but words don't feel wasted. It's fun to be in the main character's head and learn more about him and the world through him, and it's interesting to see how he's treated by others and his own views on the world.
The deckbuilding concepts and worldbuilding is cool, but I feel like I'm a bit lost sometimes. Some of the things going on in the world are either vaguely mentioned or not given the attention it is deserved. Many other stories in this genre give us some info on the world as it becomes prevalent, this story seems obsessed in keeping its world wrapped in mystery and it can be frustrating at times not having all the information.
To avoid spoilers, I will say that there are some really intriguing story elements in the set-up though. My complaint is just based on the chapters I've read so far though. Things might start to make more sense later, and I'll update this if that's the case.
The characters in this story are fun and really well-written so far. I really like Peleogas. I love him and the MC's dynamic and how they speak to each other. It's not something I expected when I first clicked on this story, and that's something I can say for a lot of what I've read so far. No character feels one-diamentional. Dialogue feels like real people talking and it's easy to keep on reading.
I am a big fan of this so far. It's different to other LitRPG's I've read and in a refreshing way. I'm writing this review in order to encorage the author as I think what they're making is really cool. I'd totally recommend people to try it. Check it out if you like deckbuilders and distinct characters.
Story suffers from ignorant protagonist syndrome. His emotions and \"ideals\" are also too inconsistent and clich for my taste. Being totally against killing but barely batting an eye when people get torched in front of him.
I have dropped it early for these reasons - so take this review with a pinch of salt. I don't know how the story changes afterwards!