• Battle Trucker by TomWrites [Review]

    From John Dovey@4:920/69 to All on Thursday, April 14, 2022 08:48:07
    Well, I introduced my 16 year old daughter to LITRPG a couple of years back, trying to wean her off Harry Potter FanFic encouraging her to read things like [Wandering Inn], [Skyclad] and [Under the Dragon Eyed Moon] with strong female leads and good writing. Just a few days ago, she turned that on it's head and encouraged me to read this story on Royal Road.. taking the time to warn me it has quite a lot of swearing because the protaganist is nicknamed "JunkMouth" and, years you guessed it, swears like a trucker... going so far as to have had a desk calender with a "swearword of the day"...
    This was an unusual enough situation for me to dive straight into the story.

    I emerged from binge reading all 16 available chapters a few hours later. I had a number of thoughts and feelings.

    My first thought was anger that the story posted so far ended on a massive cliff... and that I cannot wait for the next update.

    My next was that this was brilliant writing and storytelling from someone who has taken what are slightly fuzzy and irritating tropes and made it into a story I would pay actual money to read.

    I cannot reccomend this highly enough.. Jump right in and give it a go.

    x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
    Battle Trucker
    by TomWrites

    Tags: Original, HIATUS, Action Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Dystopia, Female Lead, Genetically Engineered, LitRPG, Magic, Post Apocalyptic, Progression, Ruling Class, Soft Sci-fi, Strong Lead, Technologically Engineered

    Jill MacLeod might be just a long haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When Mana, monsters, and an RPG style levelling system comes to Earth it's the end of the world as anyone knows it: the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe. Mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies it doesn't matter. Nothing's going to stop Jill making her way home!

    [Warning Tags: Gore, Profanity]

    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48497/battle-trucker

    John Dovey
    ===
    * El Gato de Fuego (The Fire Cat) 4:920/69 * Pedasi, Panama

    ... The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
    --- SBBSecho 3.14-Win32
    * Origin: El Gato de Fuego. Home of LITRPG! (4:920/69)
  • From Sharon Aitken@2:460/256 to John Dovey on Thursday, April 14, 2022 22:49:29
    Well, I introduced my 16 year old daughter to LITRPG a couple of years back, trying to wean her off Harry Potter FanFic encouraging her to read things like [Wandering Inn], [Skyclad] and [Under the Dragon Eyed Moon] with strong female leads and good writing. Just a few days ago, she turned that on it's head and encouraged me to read this story on Royal Road.. taking the time to warn me it has quite a lot of swearing because the protaganist is nicknamed "JunkMouth" and, years you guessed it, swears like a trucker... going so far as to have had a desk calender with a "swearword of the day"...
    This was an unusual enough situation for me to dive straight into the story.
    I emerged from binge reading all 16 available chapters a few hours later. I had a number of thoughts and feelings.
    My first thought was anger that the story posted so far ended on a massive cliff... and that I cannot wait for the next update.
    My next was that this was brilliant writing and storytelling from someone who has taken what are slightly fuzzy and irritating tropes and made it into a story I would pay actual money to read.
    I cannot reccomend this highly enough.. Jump right in and give it a go. x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x
    Battle Trucker
    by TomWrites
    Tags: Original, HIATUS, Action Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Dystopia, Female Lead, Genetically Engineered, LitRPG, Magic, Post Apocalyptic, Progression, Ruling Class, Soft Sci-fi, Strong Lead, Technologically Engineered
    Jill MacLeod might be just a long haul trucker with a dirty mouth and back pain, but with Bertha the big rig under her she always makes her deliveries. When Mana, monsters, and an RPG style levelling system comes to Earth it's the end of the world as anyone knows it: the apocalypse is here. On her journey it's just Jill, her Soulbound truck, and any survivor she can find against the universe. Mutated animals, aliens, dragons, droid armies it doesn't matter. Nothing's going to stop Jill making her way home!
    [Warning Tags: Gore, Profanity] https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48497/battle-trucker
    John Dovey
    ===
    * El Gato de Fuego (The Fire Cat) 4:920/69 * Pedasi, Panama
    ... The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

    That sounds like good reading to me
    --- tg BBS v0.7.1
    * Origin: Fido by Telegram BBS from Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/256)
  • From John Dovey@4:920/69.1 to Sharon Aitken on Thursday, April 14, 2022 14:53:52

    https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48497/battle-trucker
    John Dovey
    ===
    * El Gato de Fuego (The Fire Cat) 4:920/69 * Pedasi, Panama
    ... The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.

    That sounds like good reading to me

    Please let me know what you think once you've read it.

    JD
    --- AfterShock/Android 1.6.8
    * Origin: Firecat Mobile (4:920/69.1)