Splinter Angel: Book 1

De: Avaritiabona

Narrado por: Jessica Threet

Ana just wanted to get home. To slip out of her dress and her heels, take a shower, and get into her PJs. Maybe have some hot chocolate before bed. It had been that kind of night. Instead, the kid she was bodyguarding got dragged through a hole in reality, and she went with him.

The bad news is that once the smoke settled, once she’d dealt with the idiots who dragged them through time and space or whatever, Nic was dead, Ana had no way home, and she had to deal with magic and floating text and a forest full of demons.

The good news? The locals are friendly—when they’re not trying to kill her. And Ana just keeps getting stronger.

©2025 Avaritiabona (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

Amazing

I love this title so much this was such an amazing book awesome narration! Cant wait for the next one.

Enjoyable

Enjoyable story. Like the side characters. Like the main character. The setting is neat, and it’s pretty sad the way that nic went out. Though I guess there are worse things to be doing in your final moments. Found this story through royal road - I wanted to check it out but book one is stubbed. Almost never pick up a book when it’s stubbed, if I have to go off platform. But I was curious enough this time to check it out. Glad I did.


My nitpick is that it seems as though the author is testing things out with her. She wants to be seen as kind but acts and speaks edgily, and intentionally intimidates at the drop of a hat (by the way: being passive aggressive isn’t intimidating, though I can see how it may seem so as an imagined scenario). She describes herself as a sort of stoic professional but seems to have pretty intense mood swings. Constantly needling at the idea that she’s a sociopath but always talking about how much she cares about this person or that person or this topic or that topic.

I once read a ww1 story written by a 27 year old who had never even been in a gym, let alone a real fight. The way this character is written reminds me of that. Enjoyable, sure, and fantastical. But always there with some internal monologue, character feature, or quip to remind you how unrealistic she is. As though the author had this great idea for a character but simply doesn’t have the breadth of knowledge or the desire to delve into those aspects of her, and just wanted to use them as character traits. Without going into details, let’s just say that of all of her character traits, there aren’t any for which she has any of the negative side, the yang (or rather, in the way that she is described/she thinks of herself). It’s all yin. Homeless? Yeah, but still beautiful, unmarred by disease or violence, lacking empathy/sociopathic? Yeah but somehow so good socially that she can trick magic professionals. Kinda girlbossy. And I’m not deluding myself - I came for an op progression fantasy. I was expecting girlboss. I just wish she’d grown into that state rather than starting there. And I wish the author had gone a little bit more deep, more visceral into those very extreme character traits. But I also wished the same for DOTF and TPH, and here I am still reading both years later.

Regardless. It’s a good one, I’ll keep reading on RR. And I’ll definitely recommend it to a specific friend of mine. I know she’ll enjoy it.

Good but can be better

It was cool. Bit too touchy feely for my taste so not sure if I'll get the 2nd we'll see. I don't mind emotion makes it deeper imo but multiple times in the same chapter every other chapter and sometimes during fights is exhausting. Need that inner monologue rant of emotion she does to be turned down by like 2/3rds at least. other than that I was fucking with it. But if you have a secret don't just spill the second it's brought up like what even is the point in putting it in the book. And the leaps of judgment that was made leading to it was ridiculous imo. Uses her charisma for everything but misleading because feelings.

Also you shouldn't set up a character then do a complete 180 of their personality just to fit whatever arc you're taking the story to. Feels like whiplash and these things should take time. It's been like 3 weeks and most of this book takes place in the last week so this character talking about bonds, friendship and all this nonsense is nonsense. Especially with the background you gave her. If it was a month or two I'd believe but a week? With most of that time said to be them literally just walking and camping. Cmon.

Yeah long rant of mine. I would talk about what I love but most of these stories are the sameish and anyone reading this should know what you're getting into by now. The book isn't bad this was just my personal pet peeve about certain tropes I guess. I still recommend to pick this up.