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Portal to Nova Roma
by J.R. Mathews
I liked this book despite its glaring flaws.
It features an sophisticated AI who portals himself into another universe in a human body. The author could have played up the humour of just-gotten-a-body and dont-know-how-to-be-human, there was some but it could really have been explorer more.
I enjoyed the nano technology giving the MC a boost, I also enjoyed that his previous experience as an AI made mindless grind and other boring work a cakewalk for them. Tho I was personally annoyed at the lack of knowledge about the nano bots, there was absolutely no information about them. Nothing about how the MC communicated with them and gave them orders.
My biggest issue however was the pacing and the skipping. I understand that with how little gains there were in the book, that reading about the MC grinding out dungeons could have been boring. But it peeved me when the book would skip days, weeks and sometimes even months of work and progress because of this. I would have preferred a slower read, giving me time to get invested in the MC and the people around him.
There is also the fact that the MC came from a place that was vastly superior technologically than where he landed, and the only thing he decided to attempt to implement into this world was guns. He has hundreds of years of technology advancements in his head, there are countless things he could have tried to implement that would have improved peoples lives that he just.. shrugged off.
It felt like a huge missed opportunity imo
It features an sophisticated AI who portals himself into another universe in a human body. The author could have played up the humour of just-gotten-a-body and dont-know-how-to-be-human, there was some but it could really have been explorer more.
I enjoyed the nano technology giving the MC a boost, I also enjoyed that his previous experience as an AI made mindless grind and other boring work a cakewalk for them. Tho I was personally annoyed at the lack of knowledge about the nano bots, there was absolutely no information about them. Nothing about how the MC communicated with them and gave them orders.
My biggest issue however was the pacing and the skipping. I understand that with how little gains there were in the book, that reading about the MC grinding out dungeons could have been boring. But it peeved me when the book would skip days, weeks and sometimes even months of work and progress because of this. I would have preferred a slower read, giving me time to get invested in the MC and the people around him.
There is also the fact that the MC came from a place that was vastly superior technologically than where he landed, and the only thing he decided to attempt to implement into this world was guns. He has hundreds of years of technology advancements in his head, there are countless things he could have tried to implement that would have improved peoples lives that he just.. shrugged off.
It felt like a huge missed opportunity imo