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Revary by Abigail Linhardt is a fantasy LitRPG novel about a young girl faced with the realities of life staring her in the face. She’s 18 years old. In a matter of months, she’s going to be graduating from high school, faced with a choice of going to college or taking a different path, and the devastating loss of the park where she and her friends have done their LARPing since they created their game Sun Age. Clare isn’t ready for the changes that are coming, but what she isn’t expecting is to find herself transported to another world of where her help is needed if the beings there are to have any hope of survival. A darkness is spreading and destroying all that it touches. The inhabitants need Clare’s help as one such as herself was foretold. Can she help them? Or will she fail and all be lost?
Revary is the first book that I have read by Abigail Linhardt and for the most part, I enjoyed this book. While I am an avid reader of fantasy novels, I don’t read that many LitRPG novels, but I have to say that I enjoyed this book overall. The author starts the story off in the real world, but in a computer game initially. I initially thought the game was the actual fantasy world, so when it transitioned quickly to real life I was a bit disappointed, but I kept reading. I found the comradery between Clare and friends to be appealing. I liked how they seemed to be such good friends. While the transitions between Clare being in the real world and the fantasy realm are quick, they left me confused a bit. For me, I like the fantasy world the best. The variety of characters and creatures that the author gives the reader are fascinating. The fantasy world is broken up into several realms, but they are all facing the same fate.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit but there are some points in it that I am disappointed with. I understand that Clare is a teenager, but there are a couple of moments of where I felt that she was a bit too juvenile or sensitive about certain situations. At the dinner with her parents at her father’s boss’s house, I felt that she was overreacting to the situation. At the park, when she was with her friends and she just took off from the group…why didn’t at least one person go after her? It didn’t make sense especially when they had been told not to go off alone, and then it took them hours to find her.
This is an enjoyable story, but of course not without its flaws. I enjoyed the different characters, and how some, even in the human realm, are more than they appear. I do appreciate how the author pushes Clare to make a choice though because that was essentially her biggest problem…deciding what path she would take in life. Full of a variety of characters, this book gives the reader adventure, danger, and a storyline that crosses back and forth between a fantasy world and reality. I am rating this book 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Revary is the first book that I have read by Abigail Linhardt and for the most part, I enjoyed this book. While I am an avid reader of fantasy novels, I don’t read that many LitRPG novels, but I have to say that I enjoyed this book overall. The author starts the story off in the real world, but in a computer game initially. I initially thought the game was the actual fantasy world, so when it transitioned quickly to real life I was a bit disappointed, but I kept reading. I found the comradery between Clare and friends to be appealing. I liked how they seemed to be such good friends. While the transitions between Clare being in the real world and the fantasy realm are quick, they left me confused a bit. For me, I like the fantasy world the best. The variety of characters and creatures that the author gives the reader are fascinating. The fantasy world is broken up into several realms, but they are all facing the same fate.
I enjoyed this book quite a bit but there are some points in it that I am disappointed with. I understand that Clare is a teenager, but there are a couple of moments of where I felt that she was a bit too juvenile or sensitive about certain situations. At the dinner with her parents at her father’s boss’s house, I felt that she was overreacting to the situation. At the park, when she was with her friends and she just took off from the group…why didn’t at least one person go after her? It didn’t make sense especially when they had been told not to go off alone, and then it took them hours to find her.
This is an enjoyable story, but of course not without its flaws. I enjoyed the different characters, and how some, even in the human realm, are more than they appear. I do appreciate how the author pushes Clare to make a choice though because that was essentially her biggest problem…deciding what path she would take in life. Full of a variety of characters, this book gives the reader adventure, danger, and a storyline that crosses back and forth between a fantasy world and reality. I am rating this book 4.5 out of 5 stars.
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