Fates Parallel: Vol. 1

Fates Parallel, Book 1

It's easy to wager everything when you have nothing to lose.

It's a hard life for a young mortal girl, living on the streets. After Lee Jia narrowly escapes a fate worse than death, her last ditch effort to flee her pursuers and survive the winter finds her accidentally enrolled in a brand-new academy for immortals. Now faced with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Lee Jia will have to survive a violent roommate, arrogant young masters, and—worst of all—social hierarchies in order to carve out a place for herself in the world of magic, martial arts, and cultivation.

Join Lee Jia in a progression fantasy adventure about friendship, self-discovery, personal growth, and, of course, magical martial arts!

©2022 Mikal Parrott aka. DarkTechnomancer (P)2022 Podium Audio

Good Example of it's genre

A very well written book it took me by surprise honestly a very enjoyable experience. Well written characters and a plot I'm very much interested in seeing how it continues.

An old magic trick with a spectacular new finisher

As of wring this review I have Listened to all three volumes that are out currently. At first i was rather apathetic to the story. It seemed like the same old song and dance that most cultivation stories follow, OP MC, Effortless seeming natural talent, constantly outstripping everyone around them, constant praise about how amazing they are.... blah blah blah. It didn't help that i really didn't like one of the main characters do to personal reasons and that Cindy Kay was the narrator of one of my biggest disappointing experience with audible to date. However, as i went a long i started to realize that like a magician using the bones of an old trick, it is meant to give you a false sense of security so that when they pull of the new finisher it is that much more impactful. The writing is great, the plot comprehensive and focused, the characters complicated and interesting. This story is very good at sneaking up on you and hooking you. I look forward to seeing where it all lands. Also it made me like Cindy Kay again!!!

P.S. This story seems heavily inspired by Steven Universe so...

Magical Martial Art School with cute cat girl

The story manage to be a fun world full of chinese inspiration which I have not seen before. It is fun, imaginative, and you get two cute girls that might become a couple in the future dealing with their inner and outer struggle together

Peak

Slow burn yuri meets cultivator meets sword and sorcery sounds like to much but it isn’t

What a neat into to this style.

I'm not 100% Sure what you would call this style of Fantasy but it is outside my normal range and I loved it. Refreshing for someone who mostly reads fiction from a Western viewpoint to see one based on Eastern Writings and Mythology. I look forward to reading subsequent books in this series and by this Author.