The Perfect Run

Voidey is getting better and better at this thing called writing. Characters feel so real and the power system/world building are a breath of fresh air. This is peak content on RR. Looking forward to the day this story completed but also sad as well. High IQ people will check out his patreon 😉

Characters: 8/5.  These people leap right off the screen and ask you why you aren't wearing cashmere.

Plot: 7/5.  This story has over-the-top problems you normally find in badly written fiction.  And it makes them completely believable.

Happily Ever After: 5/5.  Yes, it's only a perfect score.   ....Sorry?

I'm hoping you read the author's story description.  Some additions that don't spoil anything:
1. The main character has lived through multiple timelines before this started and could be considered to be over 800 years old.
2. As the oldest human in existance, he views sanity as an option.  And he has no shame at all.
3. He has no friends.  Most of the life he has lived has been erased by his restarts.  The people he has going on adventures with, fought with, fallen in love with, etc. have been overwritten by their own pasts and don't remember him.

This story reads like some of the best super-hero fiction I've ever read/watched.  There's silliness, danger, romance, alliances, betrayals, old enemies threatening the future, current enemies threatening the present, and cashmere formal wear.

If I haven't convinced you yet, please read a couple chapters.  I'm confident you will be hooked.  And the story's complete, so you can binge-read to the end!

I just finished the story and there is nothing else to say appart from it being a chef-d'oeuvre.

When you start reading this type of story, you can't imagine 130 long chapter about the same story-time without it being repetitive or predictable but it wasn't at all and its an achievement that derverse all my respect.

The writing is the best point about this story. All the reference of pop culture in the joke of ryan romano was a plus that make me love to follow in all the chapter.

If I had to put in my top, it would not be in my top 3 because I'm more of the emotional type or with an extremely smart MC but if I had to juge objectively, I can't put this story with less than a 9,5/10. That's why I put 10.

This story was a blast to read, yet managed to be terrifying and mysterious for a long time. It slowly tought us events and the history of the world and the people inhabiting it, and kept us in suspense for almost the entire time. The first time we started learning about August or Leo I couldn't help but love the fear and power they could cause purely by existing.

Though some of the reveals later on felt like they removed the danger of a lot of the story, I think it was an overall solid adventure that led us from the start to stop of a Perfect Run. Exploring the city and people it never really feels like something exists just for the main character to discover and felt fleshed out. It never felt like we saw everything there was to see in an area, seeing but a facet of the world.

The grammar was solid, with no major or immersion breaking errors striking out to me throughout the story. However, it wasn't perfect spelling and there were moments where I had to reread it several times just to understand what the author wanted, but I was never left feeling frustrated over the way the sentences were worded. 

The characters in Perfect Run are simply amazing. Even at the end of the story it feels like we no next to nothing about  Ryan's adventures or history, his motivations complicated and detailed even as we understand why he's doing what he can. We learn his past mistakes, traumas, and fears that make him a real person who is trying to maintain his humanity even through the insanity he has gone through. Ryan is a strongpoint in the story, but he's far from the only fleshed out and interesting character. Truthfully, the only characters who I ever felt were too 2d were some of the psychos who were simply evil to be evil using the nature of being a Psycho as an excuse. Personally, my favorite character was Leo simply because he felt like the odd one out, oddly heroic and noble in the sea of people suffering through life. He has the coolest power in the entire story, and I simply love the concept and use of the Carnival. 

The book succeeded at making me laugh at the childishness of Ryan, all while feeling an existential terror at the higher beings of color or world ending threats that existed.

All around, I loved the story and recommend it to anyone in the mood for interesting time-loop story.

The story gets an automatic 5 stars for style for the fascination with cashmere. Do I think cashmere is that important? No. BUT! The story does, and the story knows that about itself, and everyone else knows it too. The story is carried extremely heavily by style, knows it, leans into it, and is better for it. 

This is the extrachronological story of Ryan "Quicksave" Romano, in a near-future not quite post-apocalypse of mostly human manufacture. In this story you see some debauchery, a little bit of depravity, some heartbreak, some heartstring-tugging love, and above all else some incredible humor!

Spoilers ahead, obviously. Please read with caution. 

Style: 

The best comparison stylistically that I can make for this is that if you enjoyed Saints Row III and/or Saints Row IV, you will absolutely adore this book. 

Story: 

A genuinely novel presentation of a time loop story, at least to me. 

Grammar: See this is where the story loses one half of a star overall. The story is rather rife with grammatical or spelling errors, and while I'm normally the type of person to be turned off by that to the point of abandoning books, this story was so dang good that I kept reading in spite of these issues. This is one of the highest marks of respect that I can bestow. 

Character(s):

In short: Read this dang story

I like this story a lot. It feels like half the action is driven by Rule of Cool, which is executed well and largely enjoyable. A few of the attempts fell flat for me, which always makes me notice how simple the rest of it is. The pacing is well done.

Most of the details could be driven by Rule of Cool. Everything happens in a way that would be an awesome action movie scene. Things explode with colors and movement, with everything meeting its perfect counter to drag it out and be awesomer.

I enjoy the style of the action a lot. It definitely kept me reading. It's good at incorporating all the participants and explaining the mechanics without being boring. Lots of good one liners in the middle of it too.

There is a story under there, and it's interesting, but it's pretty barebones and slow. Developing a story over time loops is unique. I felt that some of interactions between the story and the action were a bit clunky, especially the earlier ones. It seemed like characters would jump between them without any transition.

The characters are all fun, and it's nice to watch them interact. Their development can be a bit choppy at times though. Seeing that happen over iterations of the time loop is neat.

The spelling/grammar never got in the way, but there are definitely typos.

From grammar, to world building. From side character development and meaningful relationships to MC growth and change. This story deserves its place in the top rankings in RR. There is no critical aspect in which this story does not exceed. So don't hesitate to read it, it's a good one, even by legitimate publication standards.

Just worth the read honestly, blew through this story fairly fast, and loved about everything of it, it is just so entertaining, the unusual premise helped a lot also, not often that you see a superhero ‘timeloop’ story, let alone this well written, by an already established author to boot!  And then there is the MC, what an amazingly well written character he is!

I just love the MC Ryan and how he is written, he has just a such carefree attitude developed from his many reloads. He just fully embraced the absurdity and yet remains sane, even if it does not seem like it at first sight. He just keeps advertising what he can do, that killing him is futile, and keeps making those jokes and references, all just part of the greater personalia the MC has built.

The MC’s power is just insanely strong, as one would expect from a power that allows you to set a save point AND also use time stop, though with clear limits, and he uses it to maximum efficiency to achieve the best possible result for him and those he cares about. But even with such a power, he still has to be careful because he is not truly invincible, he may be able to ‘reload’ his way out of any bodily harm, but cannot do the same for his mental wellbeing.

In my opinion, Void Herald has done a good job with the setting this story takes place in, even more so since its rather wildly different from his other stories, which were all LitRPG’s. While this does take place in a dystopian Italy where you can get superpowers from using one of the rare Elixir’s or their more common knock-offs which grant lesser powers.

Grammar is great in my opinion, some typos and inconsistencies do pop up, but not frequent enough to be of any hindrance to the reading experience.

This story reads amazingly well and is paced without even letting up, it just keeps going without slowing down and drags the reader just in the story from the very start. I really like the way information is delivered in this story, more than enough information to let readers become familiar with the characters and the setting, while at the same time also keeping up a sense of mystery, without even infodumping anything! There’s also just the right kind of humour and comedy as one would expect from Void Herald.

Looking forward to what this story will become, I personally have high expectations due to the author's previous works, and the rather phenomal start this story has so far. The author is also very capable of writing quite different types stories and succeeded at it all, like demonstrated with this story.

Anyone interested in reading a good story with an interesting premise executed very well and fun MC, I recommend you this one. Oh also the author is one of the most reliable on this site, having completed multiple books already and in my opinion, this one is shaping up to be his best work so far. And if you loved his other stories, then of course you should start reading this one right now.

So, RR kept suggesting this story, but I'm not so much into superhero stories, well, at all, so I had dismissed it. Tried to read it once, but found it lacking, stopped after the fourth chapter for a few months. Then, after reading another of the author's stories, and watching The boys, and reading Reroll here, I gave it one more try. And changed my opinion. But, but, I'm not writing a review for each story I like. I only write reviews if I think it's important for other potential readers. Well this is the case here. Just read it. I'm now at chapters 70—72, the pay off is fantastic, I can only say it's all worth it and the ranking well deserved. 

Thanks so much.

10/10 its feckin amazing honestly the comedie with the action and crazy deadpool energy is so perfectly blended together its makes an amazing story. The character is sorta like comic book deadpool with a tad bit better moral conscious. Only 8 chapter and love the main character and sooooo much plot already like damn its just feckin amazing #Cthulhuapproved