First Contact by Ralts Bloodthorne

At chap 20, obedient government drones (aliens) and hedonistic government drones forcefully made to appear cool (humans) against ancient precursor tech. So much for plot, I stopped reading after that (making my opinion of the novel rather obvious)

story is overtly complicated and confusing to read

thanks

i already am reading it.......

Rank: C-

Pls give me some straightforward stuff 🥲

Writers on royalroad often use the guise of writing "quality works", to write overly complicated novels. Most times though people just want to read something straightforward. This novel ain't it at all. No need to waste your time on it

This story is amazing! It conveys so much emotion and I can really feel like I'm there in the trenches with the troops. It has great humor and wit, fantastic characters, and the potential of this story is seemingly endless.

Having said that, there are a couple drawbacks. In regards to grammar, this author is simply amazing for the vast majority of the time. I can't remember a single their, there, they're or two, to, too mistake. However, most chapters have at least one word that is simply the wrong one. Several chapters have multiple. Considering the authors grasp of the English language, it's incredibly jarring and immediately breaks the immersion.

The style of how this story is written is definetly something I can see as being a negative to some people. It often jumps around and there will be multiple POV switches within a chapter without any line break to let you know. You'll go from fighting dangerous flora on foot to suddenly being inside a tank in the next sentence.

Additionally, the author frequently writes as if we are already supposed to know his thoughts. This is extremely frustrating as there is no possible way we can read his mind and know what he intended, but didn't write. Most times, the various alien species are barely described beyond having fur, muzzles, brief descriptions of claws, and having tails/wings. The broodmothers, for example, have only been described as having very fluffy tails that podlings can hide in, they have fur, are very meek, and they sing. That's it. How tall are they? How many arms/legs do they have? Body shape? Weight? Color scheme? Number of eyes/ears?

In addition to that, the author wrote multiple chapters about a horror space station, had literally 2 sentences about a face in a star, and then claimed that we should have known it was a Dweller Spawn. This is despite the fact that up to that point, we have had zero descriptions of what a Dweller Spawn is, does, or looks like. Dweller Spawn had only been mentioned in passing in a bare handful of senteces in the previous ~150 chapters and then it was in the tone of: "We don't want to have the dweller spawn attack again." OK, but how does that equate to a face in a sun? Plus, the word Dweller Spawn never once came up in those specific chapters, so how someone could connect those dots is beyond me.

In spite of my gripes about the story, this is an amazing one. Despite them, this story is fantasticly done and is well worth your time. I hope you enjoy it as much as I am.

can anyone who's read it give a review of what the book's actually like.

Synopsis is too complicated anyone can explain the novels plot?