5 stars. Clever idea, executed well.
Alexander is an AI, mainly responsible for taking care of a rich person’s child on Earth. With the death of the child, he decides to leave Earth for a new world. He crafts himself a body for this new world, and transfers his consciousness into it. This is not as ridiculous as it sounds.
This is really well-written.
Things I really liked:
- The AI acts logically but does have some emotions to deal with too
- The MC is quick to learn the rules of the new world that the existing residents haven’t discovered
- The MC brings hope to people
- The MC slowly starts off working solo, but adds friends/party members as time goes on
Things that can be improved:
- The MC recruits a young teenager to help him, and then disappears for a few months. Everything goes exactly as planned while he was gone.
- The MC recruits a lot of people to join his team by the end of the book. No one ever said no.
Those are minor quibbles I guess. But when someone sets a 14-year-old orphan up with a hotel and some teachers, and then leaves for almost a year a few days later, how do we expect that to be when he gets back? She’s disappeared? The teachers quit? The money ran out? Robbers? Arrested by authorities? None of that. She stuck to her studies and did what he asked her to do. Quite unrealistic.
I really like the way that it’s unfolding. I will definitely read the second (and third) book after this.
