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Savage Divinity
"A modern man finds himself reincarnated in the body of a young slave with no skills and quickly fading memories. Follow his journey to find normalcy while living in a savage world, filled with myth and legends, monsters and Demons. In a land where the strong rule, the weak serve, and bloodshed is a way of life, peace is a luxury few can afford."
2130 pages, Unknown Binding
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February 27, 2020
Something I've noticed about webfics is that while plenty of authors can write exciting or interesting stories for a few dozen chapters, only a fraction of them have the ability to keep the story going. I get tired of most of the webfics I read because the authors would lose control of the plot, fail to develop interesting characters, or fall into in a mindless cycle of fights and power-ups.
It's really rare for a story to not stray into one of those categories after half a million words, but Savage Divinity manages it, and it's impressive.
It's really rare for a story to not stray into one of those categories after half a million words, but Savage Divinity manages it, and it's impressive.
February 28, 2021
10 hours in, chap 107/2000+
It is a fine book, but I didn't like it. This web-novel tells an interesting and in-depth story.
It is not for me because there are too many points of view and political considerations that I have to hold in my mind.
Characters: 2/5 "Ok"
World: 2/5 "Ok"
Story: 4/5 "I really liked it"
Characters:
Multiple points of view - There are points of view from many different characters all in different areas dealing with different people, and the story skips between these Point(s)OfView very frequently. I find it rather annoying to keep track of the circumstances of 4 different areas of the world at the same time while reading, especially since many of the POV are not worth reading for the following reasons:
One dimensional - The main character is the only character with any depth. Everyone else is one dimensional with singular drive.
Mostly stagnant - The main character is the only character that has meaningful character changes. Other characters have no/minor changes (loves the main character differently, comes out of shell, etc.).
World:
Helplessly uncomfortable - This is a book that tries to be legitimate high fantasy/xianxia. It is constantly mentioned how in other parts of the world humanoid beasts are enslaved and used to breed legions of slave demi-humans. This is a significant problem, and I'm not suggesting that it be glossed over, but it is very stomach churning to read about all these problems knowing that they will not be resolved for the next 100 hours of read time because the main character has other, more pressing problems, and because he is too weak to do anything. It turns me away from this book, because I read to escape my problems, not hear about other peoples' worse problems.
Not comprehensive - There are all sorts of political relationships brought up, but there is no clear context for how things REALLY work. Okay, the big sects have made a club, and they are strong enough that the emperor doesn't really want to push them, but nobody can push the emperor, but the emperor is getting whooped in a war, but he still cant push them to focus, even though he is supposed to be invincible... so there is lots of world building, but it isn't fleshed out enough to make for an engaging story, since many things are up in the air about relationships and dynamics.
Story:
Good, in the main character's perspective - The mc is the only interesting character that is so interesting as to deserve a POV, and his POV is really gripping and enjoyable. The other characters are good, but not developed to the extent of the main character, leaving the 1/6? of the story spent in alternate perspectives feeling lame and annoying.
It is a fine book, but I didn't like it. This web-novel tells an interesting and in-depth story.
It is not for me because there are too many points of view and political considerations that I have to hold in my mind.
Characters: 2/5 "Ok"
World: 2/5 "Ok"
Story: 4/5 "I really liked it"
Characters:
Multiple points of view - There are points of view from many different characters all in different areas dealing with different people, and the story skips between these Point(s)OfView very frequently. I find it rather annoying to keep track of the circumstances of 4 different areas of the world at the same time while reading, especially since many of the POV are not worth reading for the following reasons:
One dimensional - The main character is the only character with any depth. Everyone else is one dimensional with singular drive.
Mostly stagnant - The main character is the only character that has meaningful character changes. Other characters have no/minor changes (loves the main character differently, comes out of shell, etc.).
World:
Helplessly uncomfortable - This is a book that tries to be legitimate high fantasy/xianxia. It is constantly mentioned how in other parts of the world humanoid beasts are enslaved and used to breed legions of slave demi-humans. This is a significant problem, and I'm not suggesting that it be glossed over, but it is very stomach churning to read about all these problems knowing that they will not be resolved for the next 100 hours of read time because the main character has other, more pressing problems, and because he is too weak to do anything. It turns me away from this book, because I read to escape my problems, not hear about other peoples' worse problems.
Not comprehensive - There are all sorts of political relationships brought up, but there is no clear context for how things REALLY work. Okay, the big sects have made a club, and they are strong enough that the emperor doesn't really want to push them, but nobody can push the emperor, but the emperor is getting whooped in a war, but he still cant push them to focus, even though he is supposed to be invincible... so there is lots of world building, but it isn't fleshed out enough to make for an engaging story, since many things are up in the air about relationships and dynamics.
Story:
Good, in the main character's perspective - The mc is the only interesting character that is so interesting as to deserve a POV, and his POV is really gripping and enjoyable. The other characters are good, but not developed to the extent of the main character, leaving the 1/6? of the story spent in alternate perspectives feeling lame and annoying.
December 7, 2025
Writer/author has deep psychopathic tendencies.
To be impartial I will define Psychopath: (American Heritage Dictionary, 5th edition) " 1) A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized. 2) A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses. 3) A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder."
There is really something dark about a person/author/writer that spends their life/time writing about "another world" in a "fictional" setting just to fill it up with the same depravity, evil, psychopathic people, entities and goals that are present in reality. For reality, everybody can just look at the news, read a newspaper and get depressed about how far humanity has fallen, not to have an author like this one promote the same extreme violence, gore, evil, depravity, psychopathy in yet another world.
What is the name of this other world? Why was this main character (Rain) teleported/body snatched into the body of a would be fallen/demon? Why would anyone be interested in a story of how a regular person becomes depraved/fallen/evil/demon? If duty is so important, then why can't anyone in this story (characters) or the author see, that fighting the dark side, only makes you become part of the dark side? So, again, what would be the point of a story like this one?
Why do the divinities in this place favor the fallen (author uses defiled, but defiled means impure/raped/etc so it leads to confusion. While fallen/transformed/demonized does not lead to confusion or contradiction)?The world is hell and everybody is just waiting to die in torture, and macabre deaths or roaming this other world as horrible-evil-depraved fallen? The more the main character/supporting characters train the higher the risk of becoming demons? So, what is the point of training to become a demon-fallen-devil? Is this an advertisement for HELL? Are only heretics and devil-worshipers supposed to enjoy the depravity, torture and psychopathy in a story like this one?
It's as if author and readers should be cheering for the antagonists of the story and everybody (in the real world) and in this shit-forsaken (other) world to be victimized, tortured and destroyed.
I do not recommend this hell-hole, nor do I recommend the story, writing or style.
To be impartial I will define Psychopath: (American Heritage Dictionary, 5th edition) " 1) A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized. 2) A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses. 3) A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder."
There is really something dark about a person/author/writer that spends their life/time writing about "another world" in a "fictional" setting just to fill it up with the same depravity, evil, psychopathic people, entities and goals that are present in reality. For reality, everybody can just look at the news, read a newspaper and get depressed about how far humanity has fallen, not to have an author like this one promote the same extreme violence, gore, evil, depravity, psychopathy in yet another world.
What is the name of this other world? Why was this main character (Rain) teleported/body snatched into the body of a would be fallen/demon? Why would anyone be interested in a story of how a regular person becomes depraved/fallen/evil/demon? If duty is so important, then why can't anyone in this story (characters) or the author see, that fighting the dark side, only makes you become part of the dark side? So, again, what would be the point of a story like this one?
Why do the divinities in this place favor the fallen (author uses defiled, but defiled means impure/raped/etc so it leads to confusion. While fallen/transformed/demonized does not lead to confusion or contradiction)?The world is hell and everybody is just waiting to die in torture, and macabre deaths or roaming this other world as horrible-evil-depraved fallen? The more the main character/supporting characters train the higher the risk of becoming demons? So, what is the point of training to become a demon-fallen-devil? Is this an advertisement for HELL? Are only heretics and devil-worshipers supposed to enjoy the depravity, torture and psychopathy in a story like this one?
It's as if author and readers should be cheering for the antagonists of the story and everybody (in the real world) and in this shit-forsaken (other) world to be victimized, tortured and destroyed.
I do not recommend this hell-hole, nor do I recommend the story, writing or style.
November 8, 2023
I mostly enjoyed the beginning, not so much middle and ending. The later chapters are filled with misery, suffering, and depression. If you appreciate stories that delve into emotional pain and depression, then this book is worth a read. However, if you prefer lighter content, it may not be recommended for you.
December 6, 2017
Very good writing style with very diverse and coherent different points of view (differentcharacters tell the story). It has a kind of slow start, butvery enjoyable. The author has a very good grasp on the use of suspense that leaves you just craving for more.
August 24, 2020
At the beginning the writing was atrocious; there was an over-reliance on memes and pop culture references, the protagonist was very weakly written and the pacing was wrong. After this poor start the writing did quickly improve, but it felt like a power fantasy at times.
It improved further still, tropes were subverted, there was an interesting plot and decent characters. It became something I looked forward to reading. Then it devolved into this strange formulaic filler story that pretty much entirely revolved around poop jokes.
I would not recommend this to anyone. If it maintained a level near its peak it would have been worth putting up with the poor quality of the start, it's a real shame that it worked out this way.
It improved further still, tropes were subverted, there was an interesting plot and decent characters. It became something I looked forward to reading. Then it devolved into this strange formulaic filler story that pretty much entirely revolved around poop jokes.
I would not recommend this to anyone. If it maintained a level near its peak it would have been worth putting up with the poor quality of the start, it's a real shame that it worked out this way.
May 12, 2019
I’m nearly 100 chapters in and still waiting for the story to start. The main character is still an idiot (average middle age man in a teens body and yet still lacking basic common sense, self awareness and empathy) not even trying to understand the world he now lives in. The side characters/love interests haven’t grown at all as people and exist only to have simplistic duplicate conversations with the MC. The world and story as a whole is told from the perspective of a willfully ignorant protagonist so there isn’t any meaningful plot development. I’m dropping this now because it’s becoming increasingly clear that the author is padding his chapters rather than continuing the story. Apparently this gets much worse in a later arc.
- Dropped Ch 95
- Dropped Ch 95
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