{"id":82630,"date":"2024-07-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/?p=82630"},"modified":"2024-07-16T22:37:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T05:37:10","slug":"review-a-small-town-in-southern-illvaria-acaswell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/review-a-small-town-in-southern-illvaria-acaswell\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: A Small Town in Southern Illvaria &#8211; acaswell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bookreview\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/198642783._SX300_.jpeg?w=1280\" alt=\"Review: A Small Town in Southern Illvaria &#8211; acaswell\" title=\"Review: A Small Town in Southern Illvaria &#8211; acaswell\" class=\"ubb-cover-image alignright\"><strong>A Small Town in Southern Illvaria<\/strong><br>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/authors\/acaswell\/\">acaswell<\/a> <br><strong>Series:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/series\/a-budding-scientist-in-a-fantasy-world\/\">A Budding Scientist in a Fantasy World #1<\/a> <br><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/publishers\/podium-publishing\/\">Podium Publishing<\/a> <br><strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> September 19, 2023 <br><strong>Genres:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/fantasy\/\">Fantasy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/genres\/young-adult\/\">Young Adult<\/a> <br><strong>Pages:<\/strong> 545 <br><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/sources\/booksprout\/\">BookSprout<\/a> <br><br><p>I received this book for free from BookSprout in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.<\/p>My rating: <span class=\"ubb-buy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/llama-40.png?fit=31%2C40&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Star\"><\/span><br><br><br><blockquote class=\"ubb-synopsis\"><p><b>A young woman must navigate the dangers of a strange new world filled with magic and mystery in this imaginative and highly detailed LitRPG adventure.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When Alice Verianna went to sleep, she was just another teen from the Denver suburbs. She definitely didn\u2019t expect to be transported to a magical alternate dimension, inhabited by monsters and presided over by a mysterious System. Here, people resemble RPG characters and everyone has access to their own status screens.<\/p>\n<p>Grappling with the mechanics of the elusive System isn\u2019t the only challenge Alice faces. It seems an underground organization known as the Society of Starry Eyes has taken a particular interest in other dimensions. If they find out about Alice, they will stop at nothing to hunt her down and forcibly extract from her the secrets of her world.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in addition to pursuing her own scientific endeavors, as well as learning to harness the magic that surrounds her, Alice must determine the Society\u2019s ultimate intention\u2014and how she ended up here in first place. Before it\u2019s too late . . .<\/p>\n<p><b>The first volume of the hit LitRPG adventure series\u2014with almost two million views on Royal Road\u2014now available on Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><center><span class=\"ubb-buy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0CFW34H98\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amazon.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Amazon\"><\/a> \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/a-small-town-in-southern-illvaria-acaswell\/20579399?ean=9781039438415\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/bookshop.png?w=1280\" alt=\"Bookshop\"><\/a><\/span><\/center><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/197025499-a-small-town-in-southern-illvaria\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/widget_logo.gif?w=1280\" alt=\"Goodreads\"><\/a><br><\/center><center><p class=\"ubb-buy\"><div class=\"ubb-icon-tags\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/3stars\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0002_3-stars.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"3 stars icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/fantasy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"80\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/categories_0000s_0011_fantasy.png?fit=80%2C100&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"fantasy icon\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/index.php\/reviews\/book-tags\/young-adult\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"117\" height=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.llamareadsbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/categories_0000_young-adult-copy.png?fit=117%2C101&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"young adult\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div><\/center><br>\t\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n\t\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n\t\"@type\":\"Review\",\n\t\"datePublished\": \"2024-07-17T19:00:00+00:00\",\n\t\"description\": \"The reader enjoyed the book\\u2019s unique concept of a nerdy girl scientist in a fantasy world studying an RPG system. 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I&#8217;d read manga\/manhwa\/light novels involving leveling and systems and that sort of thing, but not anything that I think would technically be classified as LitRPG. I get the feeling that this is not your usual sort of book in that category but the plot was right up my alley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In classic isekai fashion, Alice goes from falling asleep in her bedroom to waking up in a strange place that is almost-but-not-quite Earth. And almost equally startling, there seems to be some sort of System with stats and perks and achievements. Basically, Alice has become an RPG character, though unfortunately a very unprepared one plopped in the middle of nowhere in her pajamas. But as Alice learns to survive in her new world, she also learns more about the System and how it works which leads to even more questions. The people there view the System as a god, but is it even sentient? Why do some things work in her world but not here? And most importantly, how can she go home again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think I might have just accidentally broken one of my really big assumptions about how mana works, and I might need to revise some things.\u201d<br>\u201cIsn\u2019t that usually grounds for realizing you\u2019re on to something big?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was pretty much predisposed to like this book. C&#8217;mon, it&#8217;s about a nerdy girl scientist in a fantasy world! She can do magic! Mostly magic that helps her research more things! And her research item of choice is how the System works! It&#8217;s a pretty cool idea and something I found very fascinating. Alice has a lot of predisposed ideas about how the system should work and is pretty great at figuring out experiments to test those ideas, even when she doesn&#8217;t have much of anything to test with. As her experiments get more and more complicated, I really enjoyed everything she discovered about the System &#8211; especially the things that threw her for a loop. This was my favorite part of the book and it was exactly what it said on the tin &#8211; a budding scientist in a fantasy world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the other parts of the book, well. There&#8217;s also some pretty decent world building. The structure of how society would work when everyone has access to a status screen and leveling up is handled well (and also interesting!). The book is mainly restricted to the titular small town and its environs so while we only get a broad overview of politics and geography, it worked well enough for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides Alice, I liked that several of the other major characters were also women. 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