Review Detail of StenDuring in Otherworldly

This review is part of a review swap and valid as of chapter 14. You have your kind of traditional transported to another (D&D) world here. One main character leaves his ordinary life behind him, well, it wasn't really that ordinary, and he was quite dead at the point of departure, just to awake in another world. At fourteen chapters you'd expect to be deeply entrenched in the story, but in this case the reader has just started to taste the beginning of the story. It's very slow paced, with the first eight chapters basically exposition and setting up the premise. The last six published thus far takes us through more training and the very first adventure, even if that kind of is labelled as training as well. If you need your daily does of adrenalin then just stay off this one. If you, like this reader writing the review, has a soft spot for slice-of-life type of stories, well just enjoy. While not slice of life per se it's paced at exactly the glacial speed that allows you to sit back in your chair safe in your knowledge that your hot cup of tea will be lukewarm before something actually happens. The story is mostly written in third person omniscient point of view and in the past tense. I write 'mostly' because it wavers between the objective point of view and third person limited. I'd argue that this is the only noticeable problem with the story. Now for the stars. Writing. Five stars, which should have been four and a half. The English used is good, but there are some peculiar errors, the occasional shift into present tense (apart from deliberately breaking the fourth wall) and the lack of warning before the story shifts between TP omni and TP limited. Updates. Four stars. There are gaps in the delivery. Story. Five stars. For me at least. If you're after breathtaking action this is a no-brainer two, or even one star. Character. Five stars. No comments needed. World. Five stars. With this kind of slow paced story you get your overdose of setting. If anything you could complain you get too much of it, but this reader is happy. This one goes into my library. I'm in no hurry.