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The Godking's Legacy
A legendary sword is left behind by his master, the Godking. Trapped for millennia, the sword's spirit awaits the day he'll be set free. Will his new master be worthy of inheriting the Godking's legacy?
By the author of The Blue Mage Raised by Dragons.
Content Warning: Profanity. Gore. Sexual themes.
By the author of The Blue Mage Raised by Dragons.
Content Warning: Profanity. Gore. Sexual themes.
1015 pages, Audiobook
First published January 25, 2018
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May 28, 2018
The Godking’s Legacy is a diamond in the rough, but there is around 30% diamond to 70% rough.
The book is about Lucia, a squirrel girl who, let’s say, chances upon the sword of the legendary hero called The Godking, which was hidden away for mysterious reasons when he passed away. Then Lucia decides to set out on a journey to become a legend greater than the Godking. It’s not a sterling motivation, but Lucia is not a particularly deep character.
The book is a parody of fantasy tropes common to anime and video games. It can be genuinely hilarious at times, with a very refreshing and direct sort of humor. The quality of the prose itself is simple but good, with a lively quality that will usually keep you intrigued even when the story takes a plunge into boredom.
Sadly, that happens pretty often. The book has all kinds of technical problems that make it just not as fun to read as it could be.
The main problem of the book is that much of it is wasted on completely irrelevant things. Very large sections are devoted to what’s effectively grinding for EXP, which involves the main character killing different kinds of cliche fantasy RPG monsters and harvesting their... urm... body parts, with the story at a complete stand-still and no character growth occurring at all. They could've been replaced with a training montage, thereby reducing the length of the book by around 40%.
The combat isn’t even interesting. Lucia’s technique of dealing with a giant bear is the same as her technique for dealing with a giant snake or a two-headed lion. She hits them, and if that doesn’t work, she hits them again.
We’re often treated to rather dry explanations of how the cliche magic system of the world works, in the form of monologues from one of the characters. If the magic system were interesting, that might be alright, even though a better storytelling technique would be to show rather than tell, giving out information in small bits throughout the narrative. But the magic system is not interesting, not at all. In fact, it’s probably written to be a huge cliche. So why dwell on it so much?
Another big problem is the recycling of jokes. In a novel that’s entirely built out of humor, too much of it is being repeated. There aren’t enough characters and no interesting events happen, so no new jokes can't be created. Generally, Lucia travels with one or (a record) two other characters. Characters are very simple and have the same stereotyped interactions all the time.
For a while, Lucia travels alone, which is when the book turns especially boring, since the only thing Lucia interacts with at that point are replaceable extras with no personality. That’s also when I considered dropping it and adding it to my DNF pile. After some time we’re introduced to a new character though (Ilya, who is actually my favorite character in the book) and things improve again.
The pacing of the book is also a problem. It’s extremely fast - a lot of plotlines are abandoned, characters appear and are quickly forgotten, situations are contrived from nothing, and concepts are brought out of nowhere without any foreshadowing or hints of their previous existence. That can be okay, provided enough is going on. But there is nothing happening that justifies the pacing.
Ostensibly, we’re supposed to gain a sense of progress from Lucia achieving new levels of power, but they change nothing at all about the story. We are told her attacks are stronger, that she can lift double the weight she could’ve before, etc, but all that happens is that she starts fighting different generic fantasy monsters. She even fights them in exactly the same way, except that her attack is described as being stronger. She never accomplishes anything. This might be taken as a parody, but not when the book wallows in it for so long.
It doesn’t help that everyone is constantly in awe of Lucia’s powers. She always defeats enemies easily. She always exceeds everyone’s expectations. She is always portrayed as being overpowered to the point of cheating. So people were in awe of her when she was at level 5, and people are in awe of her when she gets to level 10. Nothing has changed at all.
Those could be things to parody, but again, the book wallows in them for too long and treats them at face value. As a sidetone, I really feel like this book could’ve used a lot more fourth wall-breaking.
Closer to the end of the book, more characters appear and Lucia grows a bit as a character. I say grows, but the change is not necessarily for the better. The pace remains the same though, so all the more interesting stuff is done in a handful of chapters. I wish more chapters would’ve been devoted to this latter part rather than to the grinding Lucia did before. Honestly, let’s say Lucia gained 5 power levels and fought 30 different monsters throughout the book. It would be exactly the same if she only gained 3 levels and fought 15 different monsters, and it would’ve left a lot more room for actually interesting things to happen.
Another issue is Lucia’s character - she is very hard to identify with, mainly because over the course of the story she starts being delusional. This is a problem because the book, as I’ve said previously, doesn’t offer you much besides Lucia. You’re alone with her for quite a while. So if you can’t identify with her, it’s hard to convince yourself to keep reading.
The problem with her delusions is that they’re not funny and they’re not endearing. If she believed she was half-chicken, that would be an endearing delusion to have. Her delusions aren’t like that. I was honestly happy when her delusions turned into bare-faced extortion and avarice.
However, in spite of all those issues, I did enjoy the book. The thing is, I felt a lot of promise when I started reading the book. I found it hilarious and its use and exaggeration of fantasy tropes very original. I found Lucia cute and fun to read about. Over time, a lot of that disappeared.
It was still a fun read.
The book is about Lucia, a squirrel girl who, let’s say, chances upon the sword of the legendary hero called The Godking, which was hidden away for mysterious reasons when he passed away. Then Lucia decides to set out on a journey to become a legend greater than the Godking. It’s not a sterling motivation, but Lucia is not a particularly deep character.
The book is a parody of fantasy tropes common to anime and video games. It can be genuinely hilarious at times, with a very refreshing and direct sort of humor. The quality of the prose itself is simple but good, with a lively quality that will usually keep you intrigued even when the story takes a plunge into boredom.
Sadly, that happens pretty often. The book has all kinds of technical problems that make it just not as fun to read as it could be.
The main problem of the book is that much of it is wasted on completely irrelevant things. Very large sections are devoted to what’s effectively grinding for EXP, which involves the main character killing different kinds of cliche fantasy RPG monsters and harvesting their... urm... body parts, with the story at a complete stand-still and no character growth occurring at all. They could've been replaced with a training montage, thereby reducing the length of the book by around 40%.
The combat isn’t even interesting. Lucia’s technique of dealing with a giant bear is the same as her technique for dealing with a giant snake or a two-headed lion. She hits them, and if that doesn’t work, she hits them again.
We’re often treated to rather dry explanations of how the cliche magic system of the world works, in the form of monologues from one of the characters. If the magic system were interesting, that might be alright, even though a better storytelling technique would be to show rather than tell, giving out information in small bits throughout the narrative. But the magic system is not interesting, not at all. In fact, it’s probably written to be a huge cliche. So why dwell on it so much?
Another big problem is the recycling of jokes. In a novel that’s entirely built out of humor, too much of it is being repeated. There aren’t enough characters and no interesting events happen, so no new jokes can't be created. Generally, Lucia travels with one or (a record) two other characters. Characters are very simple and have the same stereotyped interactions all the time.
For a while, Lucia travels alone, which is when the book turns especially boring, since the only thing Lucia interacts with at that point are replaceable extras with no personality. That’s also when I considered dropping it and adding it to my DNF pile. After some time we’re introduced to a new character though (Ilya, who is actually my favorite character in the book) and things improve again.
The pacing of the book is also a problem. It’s extremely fast - a lot of plotlines are abandoned, characters appear and are quickly forgotten, situations are contrived from nothing, and concepts are brought out of nowhere without any foreshadowing or hints of their previous existence. That can be okay, provided enough is going on. But there is nothing happening that justifies the pacing.
Ostensibly, we’re supposed to gain a sense of progress from Lucia achieving new levels of power, but they change nothing at all about the story. We are told her attacks are stronger, that she can lift double the weight she could’ve before, etc, but all that happens is that she starts fighting different generic fantasy monsters. She even fights them in exactly the same way, except that her attack is described as being stronger. She never accomplishes anything. This might be taken as a parody, but not when the book wallows in it for so long.
It doesn’t help that everyone is constantly in awe of Lucia’s powers. She always defeats enemies easily. She always exceeds everyone’s expectations. She is always portrayed as being overpowered to the point of cheating. So people were in awe of her when she was at level 5, and people are in awe of her when she gets to level 10. Nothing has changed at all.
Those could be things to parody, but again, the book wallows in them for too long and treats them at face value. As a sidetone, I really feel like this book could’ve used a lot more fourth wall-breaking.
Closer to the end of the book, more characters appear and Lucia grows a bit as a character. I say grows, but the change is not necessarily for the better. The pace remains the same though, so all the more interesting stuff is done in a handful of chapters. I wish more chapters would’ve been devoted to this latter part rather than to the grinding Lucia did before. Honestly, let’s say Lucia gained 5 power levels and fought 30 different monsters throughout the book. It would be exactly the same if she only gained 3 levels and fought 15 different monsters, and it would’ve left a lot more room for actually interesting things to happen.
Another issue is Lucia’s character - she is very hard to identify with, mainly because over the course of the story she starts being delusional. This is a problem because the book, as I’ve said previously, doesn’t offer you much besides Lucia. You’re alone with her for quite a while. So if you can’t identify with her, it’s hard to convince yourself to keep reading.
The problem with her delusions is that they’re not funny and they’re not endearing. If she believed she was half-chicken, that would be an endearing delusion to have. Her delusions aren’t like that. I was honestly happy when her delusions turned into bare-faced extortion and avarice.
However, in spite of all those issues, I did enjoy the book. The thing is, I felt a lot of promise when I started reading the book. I found it hilarious and its use and exaggeration of fantasy tropes very original. I found Lucia cute and fun to read about. Over time, a lot of that disappeared.
It was still a fun read.
April 8, 2024
This story was a parody of classic power fantasy anime tropes. I’d have said a classic battle Shōnen parody but there was a bit too much sexual innuendo in the comedy for that to be strictly true.
The premise was fine. Squirrel Beastkin, Lucia, ends up getting selected to be the next companion of a recently discovered magical sentient sword despite only being on the quest to find it as a slave of the true adventurers. From there she grows ridiculously in strength and rampages across the land.
The idea behind the story was fun but the execution was poor. The comedy was more miss than hit. Which was a big problem as this parody was heavily driven by the comedy as there was not much depth to the worldbuilding, plot, or characterisation. The writing was also not great.
My biggest issue with the story ended up being the characters. They all sucked. Lucia and her magical companion had potential and were initially mildly amusing but the charm wore off pretty quickly and it was apparent both were horrible people. We jumped from one mindless slaughter to the next and I had a hard time caring about both the characters and the story in general. All the other characters in the story were completely throwaway and forgettable.
All in all this was pretty bad. I’ve no chance of reading more books in this series.
Rating: 2 stars
Audio Note: Mare Trevathan went full over the top anime in style which fitted the story but definitely added to making Lucia extra annoying to deal with.
The premise was fine. Squirrel Beastkin, Lucia, ends up getting selected to be the next companion of a recently discovered magical sentient sword despite only being on the quest to find it as a slave of the true adventurers. From there she grows ridiculously in strength and rampages across the land.
The idea behind the story was fun but the execution was poor. The comedy was more miss than hit. Which was a big problem as this parody was heavily driven by the comedy as there was not much depth to the worldbuilding, plot, or characterisation. The writing was also not great.
My biggest issue with the story ended up being the characters. They all sucked. Lucia and her magical companion had potential and were initially mildly amusing but the charm wore off pretty quickly and it was apparent both were horrible people. We jumped from one mindless slaughter to the next and I had a hard time caring about both the characters and the story in general. All the other characters in the story were completely throwaway and forgettable.
All in all this was pretty bad. I’ve no chance of reading more books in this series.
Rating: 2 stars
Audio Note: Mare Trevathan went full over the top anime in style which fitted the story but definitely added to making Lucia extra annoying to deal with.
October 12, 2018
Unrelenting Path of Slaughter: Breaking Blades!
This book was something else having elements such as potentially dangerous kingdom struggles (Humans, Demons, and the Fae), a power race for higher ranked magics, friendship that can tame the wildest of hearts, a heart throb weapon spirit with emotions though he shouldn't have them, and an often delusional heroine/opportunist thrust into a struggle before anyone even knew there was one. Woe be unto they that stand in her way.
With the major majority of the book being about a simple squirrel beastkin named Lucia struggling to become stronger after obtaining the sword of the legendary Godking the story starts of a bit on the slow side and dips now and then but all together I enjoyed the book. Certainly Lucia can deny to her hearts content (she is not a murderer after all) and can deal with being less then a genius (or perhaps the average person) which make some of the jokes in the book a bit on the repetitive side but considering Lucia is not exactly a people person and lived as a slave much of her life watching her become bolder and stronger is still enjoyable (to me at least.)
Something that does bother me though is I wonder if I might have missed a follow up to something when I think back on the story because certain things seemed to have been dropped after being put in the story. I am hoping that with the potential villain exposed toward the end of the story that these things might be explained in the sequel though I won't hold my breath on them. Sometimes authors throw out red herrings or forget to follow up on things and that is the way it is. :)
This book was something else having elements such as potentially dangerous kingdom struggles (Humans, Demons, and the Fae), a power race for higher ranked magics, friendship that can tame the wildest of hearts, a heart throb weapon spirit with emotions though he shouldn't have them, and an often delusional heroine/opportunist thrust into a struggle before anyone even knew there was one. Woe be unto they that stand in her way.
With the major majority of the book being about a simple squirrel beastkin named Lucia struggling to become stronger after obtaining the sword of the legendary Godking the story starts of a bit on the slow side and dips now and then but all together I enjoyed the book. Certainly Lucia can deny to her hearts content (she is not a murderer after all) and can deal with being less then a genius (or perhaps the average person) which make some of the jokes in the book a bit on the repetitive side but considering Lucia is not exactly a people person and lived as a slave much of her life watching her become bolder and stronger is still enjoyable (to me at least.)
Something that does bother me though is I wonder if I might have missed a follow up to something when I think back on the story because certain things seemed to have been dropped after being put in the story. I am hoping that with the potential villain exposed toward the end of the story that these things might be explained in the sequel though I won't hold my breath on them. Sometimes authors throw out red herrings or forget to follow up on things and that is the way it is. :)
April 24, 2018
Hilarious!!!
This book is so bad that it borders on genius. It's Monty python in book form. It's a couple of hours of hilarious fun. Please make more!!!
This book is so bad that it borders on genius. It's Monty python in book form. It's a couple of hours of hilarious fun. Please make more!!!
October 23, 2018
This book is AWESOME!!!!!! All I know is that Lucia is awesome. She's the type of girl that literally came from the bottom and clawed her way to the top, and did it in such an epic way. While a bit dense at times, she's still awesome, and her reasoning for doing things might not be the best reason's but coming from being an almost drowned to death slave to the strongest person who has half a kingdom.....yeah, can't say she was wrong in the way she went about it.
Anyway, this book is just insanely funny with all the one liner's wise cracks and just insane stuff that happens throughout this book.
If you're looking for something deep and philosophical, skip this. If you're looking for an insane Michael Bay Transformers action with Die Hard humor. This is the book for you.
Anyway, this book is just insanely funny with all the one liner's wise cracks and just insane stuff that happens throughout this book.
If you're looking for something deep and philosophical, skip this. If you're looking for an insane Michael Bay Transformers action with Die Hard humor. This is the book for you.
March 31, 2018
Squirrelly insanity
Takes a while to get really going, but once it does its rather mental and funny. Having several viewpoints helps as the MC is bugnuts. But wonderfully so. Path of finding acorns! Its a good qi and magic based world that makes sense and flows nicely after it gets going, takes about a third of the book to really go off the rails but worth it. Recommend!
Takes a while to get really going, but once it does its rather mental and funny. Having several viewpoints helps as the MC is bugnuts. But wonderfully so. Path of finding acorns! Its a good qi and magic based world that makes sense and flows nicely after it gets going, takes about a third of the book to really go off the rails but worth it. Recommend!
September 17, 2021
I enjoyed Virlyce's series "Blue Mage Raised by Dragons", and thought, this'll be just as great. It starts off high, with the squirrel beastkin, who goes from noble's slave to the most OP person because her hot for teacher sword spirit, said get strong. And her development as a character is one, where those around her just deal with her BS like Sheldon in "The Big Band Theory". The plot seems to follow Lucia's train of thought, skipping around, forgetting plot points and moving along at break neck speed. Lucia does something assholish or down right wrong, says she didn't do it, and then bully people to get her way, rinse and repeat. By midway, I hated the main character, and enjoyed the secondary characters. I struggled to get through.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 9, 2018
Okay, I read Blue Mage and think it was AWESOME, and this one is similar in a lot of aspects.
Where this one is different and made me enjoy it less is that the MC didn't have the setup to be quite so abusive to her companions. I mean, I hadn't really considered it due to the theme of the book (i.e. normal logic went off and died in a corner somewhere), but at the end when we find out why Snow did what he did, I sympathized with him so badly.
Essentially, I didn't really care about the MC having both ADD and ADHD, but I was kind of turned off by all of the abuse that the MC was throwing around.
The rough equivalent of this happened a LOT: "Someone says something mildly irritating? Oh, let's throw a VERY DEADLY attack at them for goofs. Wait, that was deadly? Oops, Teehee. But I'm a nice person."
Every time this happened I liked the story a little less. The MC here is a monster (I'm not referring to race), and I didn't appreciate that.
To put it in D&D terms, if the Blue Mage MC was chaotic neutral, the MC here is Chaotic evil.
Even so, I liked the rest of the story.
Where this one is different and made me enjoy it less is that the MC didn't have the setup to be quite so abusive to her companions. I mean, I hadn't really considered it due to the theme of the book (i.e. normal logic went off and died in a corner somewhere), but at the end when we find out why Snow did what he did, I sympathized with him so badly.
Essentially, I didn't really care about the MC having both ADD and ADHD, but I was kind of turned off by all of the abuse that the MC was throwing around.
The rough equivalent of this happened a LOT: "Someone says something mildly irritating? Oh, let's throw a VERY DEADLY attack at them for goofs. Wait, that was deadly? Oops, Teehee. But I'm a nice person."
Every time this happened I liked the story a little less. The MC here is a monster (I'm not referring to race), and I didn't appreciate that.
To put it in D&D terms, if the Blue Mage MC was chaotic neutral, the MC here is Chaotic evil.
Even so, I liked the rest of the story.
January 11, 2021
Yeesh....way to goofy and not what I expected at all. I was expecting some light anime-styled adventure and ended up with a squirrel girl who has the hots for a sword-spirit-god thing - I think? I didn't get too terribly far into it but it was a hot mess for sure. Other people seem to like it but it wasn't my thing.....
March 11, 2020
I am seriously trying to give this a chance, as it's a great concept and it seems hilarious. However, I am struggling every time I have to listen to the main character doing an anime/pixie/airhead routine.
I know that's what it's going for, but it's pretty bad. The narrator isn't helping in this either, which is strange as I like every other voice she's doing. I can't tell if it's the dialogue or her, but I cringe when it switches to the MC's POV.
Also, while I like the concept of taking out "He said", or "They yelled", and all that, it does make the story harder to follow with all the internal dialogue it has. It's also a bit annoying when you go over a whole section from a different POV, instead of just picking up around the end, and continuing from there (would explain why the audiobook seems long).
I hope I'm being overly critical and others like it, but it just feels like it's trying too hard to be "anime funny". When I think about some of the other books that I've listened to in this genre, it seems like the comedy just flows more naturally.
I think I'm only 5 or 6 hours in, should I stick with it? Try the kindle version?
I know that's what it's going for, but it's pretty bad. The narrator isn't helping in this either, which is strange as I like every other voice she's doing. I can't tell if it's the dialogue or her, but I cringe when it switches to the MC's POV.
Also, while I like the concept of taking out "He said", or "They yelled", and all that, it does make the story harder to follow with all the internal dialogue it has. It's also a bit annoying when you go over a whole section from a different POV, instead of just picking up around the end, and continuing from there (would explain why the audiobook seems long).
I hope I'm being overly critical and others like it, but it just feels like it's trying too hard to be "anime funny". When I think about some of the other books that I've listened to in this genre, it seems like the comedy just flows more naturally.
I think I'm only 5 or 6 hours in, should I stick with it? Try the kindle version?
October 17, 2019
I tried.
i really did.
Yet anothe LitRPG sure but maybe with a feamle protagonist it would finally mature a little and have SOMETHING to say.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH... *cries in wasted effort*.
Not so much.
The protagonist IS the empty headed blondes from the other litrpg novels and nothing happens worth even mentionning.
Hard pass.
i really did.
Yet anothe LitRPG sure but maybe with a feamle protagonist it would finally mature a little and have SOMETHING to say.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH... *cries in wasted effort*.
Not so much.
The protagonist IS the empty headed blondes from the other litrpg novels and nothing happens worth even mentionning.
Hard pass.
July 28, 2020
Delightful
I originally have this book a pass. A year or so later I saw it again and figured I'd try the sample. All I can say after reading the full novel is that it is jam packed with squirrelly goodness.... For a certain squirrels definition of goodness.
I originally have this book a pass. A year or so later I saw it again and figured I'd try the sample. All I can say after reading the full novel is that it is jam packed with squirrelly goodness.... For a certain squirrels definition of goodness.
March 8, 2018
Hilarious!
This book was so silly in such a good way. I laughed until I cried, then laughed some more. Can't wait for the sequel!
This book was so silly in such a good way. I laughed until I cried, then laughed some more. Can't wait for the sequel!
April 25, 2018
Amazing
This book was amazing and hilarious Lucia is by for one or my favorite characters in a book of all time and the story was very interesting.
This book was amazing and hilarious Lucia is by for one or my favorite characters in a book of all time and the story was very interesting.
April 20, 2019
Interesting Litrpg parody
The Godking’s Legacy by Virlyce is a pretty interesting book which obviously takes a lot of inspiration from Japanese light novels and is also a parody of the litrpg genre. It has a lot of ups and downs but it was a good book overall.
The book is most certainly not for those who don’t like uncomfortable topics such as brutal slaughter of both animals and sentient creatures, addiction, slavery, etc. The book uses these topics a lot throughout the story and jokes a lot about them, so if you do not like reading about it, do. not. read. this. book.
I really like the OP-character-who-doesn’t-have-to-give-a-shit-trope, when done right, and I think that Virlyce does it pretty well. Lucia starts out from the bottom of the barrel and works her way up to becoming the world’s strongest fighter, while being funny, for the most part. There are a few training montages throughout the book that could be shortened, since after a while they just feel like a drag to read and nothing other than “she hit this creature really hard, killed it and ate it” for a hundred pages, so these “grinding sections” could have been shortened down.
The characters in The Godking’s Legacy are for the most part very well written, and probably one of the reasons why I managed to get through this book. Virlyce manages to give each character a personality and makes them act on those very well. It is very easy to know how a character will act, not because it’s a predictable story, but because you get into their heads and understand how they thinks. The character dynamics are also well written and the relationships that Lucia creates are interesting and funny. For example, how Lucia only sees everyone else as a means to get what she wants and how the other characters indulges her, out of fear or something else.
I have to say though, that the action is pretty boring. When you have a story about a character who can win every fight, you have to at the very least make the fight interesting. As mentioned before, the majority of the fights in this book is written as “she hit the thing hard, and if that didn’t work, she hit it even harder.”, or is just skipped and only the results are presented. This takes away a lot of the hype I felt when I started reading this book and disappointed me a little.
I also wasn’t too fond of the worldbuilding. In a fantasy setting, the world, and that you understand how it works, is very important, but when I was reading this book there was quite a few moments where I thought: “huh, was that how this world was supposed to work?”, which felt pretty annoying as i read.
I’ve seen in a lot of complaints in other reviews about how Virlyce often writes the same scene twice, out of different perspectives (in the beginning it’s mostly Lucia and Durandal), but I didn’t think this was a bad part of the book at all, in contrary, I felt that this enhanced the story so that you could learn about the two characters in a very easy way, by seeing the same thing out of both of their views. It also served as a good way to get some humor out if it.
Speaking of humor; this book has quite a lot of it that is pretty funny when it hits, but it then has long sections with no humor at all, which makes the book feel unbalanced.
In short, I generally liked this book, but it has a few problems that I hope is solved in the sequel: The Immortal Continent. I will give this book a 6/10 and a good job to Virlyce.
The Godking’s Legacy by Virlyce is a pretty interesting book which obviously takes a lot of inspiration from Japanese light novels and is also a parody of the litrpg genre. It has a lot of ups and downs but it was a good book overall.
The book is most certainly not for those who don’t like uncomfortable topics such as brutal slaughter of both animals and sentient creatures, addiction, slavery, etc. The book uses these topics a lot throughout the story and jokes a lot about them, so if you do not like reading about it, do. not. read. this. book.
I really like the OP-character-who-doesn’t-have-to-give-a-shit-trope, when done right, and I think that Virlyce does it pretty well. Lucia starts out from the bottom of the barrel and works her way up to becoming the world’s strongest fighter, while being funny, for the most part. There are a few training montages throughout the book that could be shortened, since after a while they just feel like a drag to read and nothing other than “she hit this creature really hard, killed it and ate it” for a hundred pages, so these “grinding sections” could have been shortened down.
The characters in The Godking’s Legacy are for the most part very well written, and probably one of the reasons why I managed to get through this book. Virlyce manages to give each character a personality and makes them act on those very well. It is very easy to know how a character will act, not because it’s a predictable story, but because you get into their heads and understand how they thinks. The character dynamics are also well written and the relationships that Lucia creates are interesting and funny. For example, how Lucia only sees everyone else as a means to get what she wants and how the other characters indulges her, out of fear or something else.
I have to say though, that the action is pretty boring. When you have a story about a character who can win every fight, you have to at the very least make the fight interesting. As mentioned before, the majority of the fights in this book is written as “she hit the thing hard, and if that didn’t work, she hit it even harder.”, or is just skipped and only the results are presented. This takes away a lot of the hype I felt when I started reading this book and disappointed me a little.
I also wasn’t too fond of the worldbuilding. In a fantasy setting, the world, and that you understand how it works, is very important, but when I was reading this book there was quite a few moments where I thought: “huh, was that how this world was supposed to work?”, which felt pretty annoying as i read.
I’ve seen in a lot of complaints in other reviews about how Virlyce often writes the same scene twice, out of different perspectives (in the beginning it’s mostly Lucia and Durandal), but I didn’t think this was a bad part of the book at all, in contrary, I felt that this enhanced the story so that you could learn about the two characters in a very easy way, by seeing the same thing out of both of their views. It also served as a good way to get some humor out if it.
Speaking of humor; this book has quite a lot of it that is pretty funny when it hits, but it then has long sections with no humor at all, which makes the book feel unbalanced.
In short, I generally liked this book, but it has a few problems that I hope is solved in the sequel: The Immortal Continent. I will give this book a 6/10 and a good job to Virlyce.
September 11, 2021
Highly recommend the audible version. The voice actress used was absolutely amazing. Her portrayal and range of characters made it feel like a full cast production. Her ability to appropriately act out exactly what this book needed was amazing as well. She really made this a enjoyable time. I love her cutesy voice for the main character, it's perfectly annoying just like I imagine the character would sound like.
This was overall just a joy. It follows a lot of typical anime tropes you'd see. I wouldn't call it a parody, more like just a representation of anime in a book form. Since it doesn't really poke fun of anime, it more so does exactly what you'd expect in a anime as long as you're familiar with the kind of over the top, high camp and tropes that usually occur in most anime.
I definitely laughed out loud a few times, enough to even have to step away from the book for a bit before being able to continue just to get the silliness out of my system.
I enjoyed nearly my entire time with this book. The only small parts I didn't enjoy were some loosely LitRPG moments that would happen on occasion where there'd be dialog about stats and powers. This is very rare though and short enough that it didnt impact my enjoyment, i just found when that would occur my eyes would glaze over a bit because I really don't care about that kinda stuff.
Overall the main character is fantastically thick headed, stubborn and over the top anime trope. The humor used for her is extremely, very, ridiculously over the top violent. Despite her cuteness she's a ruthless killing machine and i love it. This felt like a fun journey watching a character become OP. Sometimes her represention even sorta reminded me of the parody story telling of One Punch Man. Except this would be her journey to get to that stage of OP.
The supporting cast was fantastic as well. There are great characters that pop in and add flavor to the ridiculousness that's going on and they provide good comic relief with their reactions to the main character. They also manage to stick out as fully realized and well thought out characters. My favorite being Puppers and the ridiculous grimly comedic way the MC uses them in combat.
The plot is fairly typical 'adventure' for the sake of adventure. It didn't totally have a lot of focus until the last half of the book. Mostly you're following along a 'being the very best' type journey. Towards the later half of the book it does focus in more with creating a plot for the MC to work through. It's nothing groundbreaking, it could have been, but the MC is just so ridiculous and not the brightest so her tackling of what could have been a serious plot turns absolutely silly and unexpected.
The world building was great too. I felt like it was descriptive, well written and engaging enough that I could picture the world as somewhat of a videogame. A lot of talk happens about zones and areas that represented certain levels of power that reminded me of videogames so it was easy for me to relate to. Even for people who don't play videogames I think any anime watcher could probably still understand as several anime sometimes do this sort of world building too.
Overall this book was just pure joy to me. It was ridiculous, light hearted if you don't mind the dark humor and interesting. The audible version as well made this feel like a play. That voice actress really was just the best for this book. Maybe her performance just made this a new favorite of mine.
This was overall just a joy. It follows a lot of typical anime tropes you'd see. I wouldn't call it a parody, more like just a representation of anime in a book form. Since it doesn't really poke fun of anime, it more so does exactly what you'd expect in a anime as long as you're familiar with the kind of over the top, high camp and tropes that usually occur in most anime.
I definitely laughed out loud a few times, enough to even have to step away from the book for a bit before being able to continue just to get the silliness out of my system.
I enjoyed nearly my entire time with this book. The only small parts I didn't enjoy were some loosely LitRPG moments that would happen on occasion where there'd be dialog about stats and powers. This is very rare though and short enough that it didnt impact my enjoyment, i just found when that would occur my eyes would glaze over a bit because I really don't care about that kinda stuff.
Overall the main character is fantastically thick headed, stubborn and over the top anime trope. The humor used for her is extremely, very, ridiculously over the top violent. Despite her cuteness she's a ruthless killing machine and i love it. This felt like a fun journey watching a character become OP. Sometimes her represention even sorta reminded me of the parody story telling of One Punch Man. Except this would be her journey to get to that stage of OP.
The supporting cast was fantastic as well. There are great characters that pop in and add flavor to the ridiculousness that's going on and they provide good comic relief with their reactions to the main character. They also manage to stick out as fully realized and well thought out characters. My favorite being Puppers and the ridiculous grimly comedic way the MC uses them in combat.
The plot is fairly typical 'adventure' for the sake of adventure. It didn't totally have a lot of focus until the last half of the book. Mostly you're following along a 'being the very best' type journey. Towards the later half of the book it does focus in more with creating a plot for the MC to work through. It's nothing groundbreaking, it could have been, but the MC is just so ridiculous and not the brightest so her tackling of what could have been a serious plot turns absolutely silly and unexpected.
The world building was great too. I felt like it was descriptive, well written and engaging enough that I could picture the world as somewhat of a videogame. A lot of talk happens about zones and areas that represented certain levels of power that reminded me of videogames so it was easy for me to relate to. Even for people who don't play videogames I think any anime watcher could probably still understand as several anime sometimes do this sort of world building too.
Overall this book was just pure joy to me. It was ridiculous, light hearted if you don't mind the dark humor and interesting. The audible version as well made this feel like a play. That voice actress really was just the best for this book. Maybe her performance just made this a new favorite of mine.
June 16, 2018
This book was recommended to me by someone on Goodreads, who saw that I enjoyed the Super Sales on Super Heroes books. It's kind of up the same alley. Where Super Sales lampooned superheroes and harem anime stereotypes, this one is kind of lampooning Shounen and Shoujo anime stereotypes. I can see how some people would look at this and just wonder what the hell they're reading, but if you have any familiarity with what the book is satirizing it is pretty entertaining. It's not really laugh out loud funny, or at least not at about 1/4 of the way through, but it is, in my opinion at least amusing enough to keep my interest. The book is a little repetitive, but that's kind of part of the joke. Shoujo and Shounen anime are notorious for doing the exact same thing over, and over, and over, and over, and over again x 1000 over several hundred episodes with no eventual ending in mind, because that's what sells in Japan. Also part of the joke is how Lucia, the main protagonist, keeps getting more and more powerful, and her power levels never really seem to affect anything. That's exactly what Shounen and Shoujo anime do. The line everyone likes to quote is "IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!" Which has 0 meaning at all to the plot, which makes it a laughably ridiculous line. The author is doing it in a way that anyone who is familiar with it can tell that it's a joke. Anyway, I'm liking it. It is mostly written in present tense, though, something that I usually hate with a burning passion, but it's done in a way that mixes in enough past tense that's not really annoying me too much. Which, I mean, I would be saying pick a tense and stick with it, but the fluid tense is the only thing keeping me from grinding my teeth in annoyance, so there is that.
Okay, if Lucia's personality gets on your nerves you're going to hate this book. The second quarter of this book is almost entirely her alone. It's starting to get a lot funnier, because you've got this cute, ditsy little squirrel girl, who has a chaotic evil alignment slaughtering and murdering her way across the landscape, manipulating and cheating anyone she doesn't kill. I'm really entertained by it. I mean, it's dark as hell, but it's really funny. It's also starting to poke fun of old JRPGs as well as Shounen and Shoujo anime. And despite writing a lot of the first quarter of the book in present tense, most of the second quarter has been in past tense. I mean, I'd still say pick a tense and stick with it, but I'm just glad the writer is sticking mainly to the one that isn't like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
The last half of this book is incredibly entertaining. It goes from mildly amusing to laugh out loud funny, as Lucia becomes more powerful, and exponentially more evil. The tournament at the end is probably the best part of the book.
As a whole, the book is written somewhat inconsistently, often changing between past and present tense for no real reason, and again, if you’re not really in on what it’s making fun of, or find Lucia’s personality to be grating, you may not have a good time with this book. But if you’re like me and know what it’s satirizing, and are entertained, rather than annoyed by Lucia, it’s a lot of fun. The first third of the book is a little slow, I was entertained by it, but it did take a bit to really get going. Things speed up and get a lot funnier as you progress through. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is familiar with Shounen/Shoujo and jrpg tropes, and maybe has a similar sense of humor to mine.
Okay, if Lucia's personality gets on your nerves you're going to hate this book. The second quarter of this book is almost entirely her alone. It's starting to get a lot funnier, because you've got this cute, ditsy little squirrel girl, who has a chaotic evil alignment slaughtering and murdering her way across the landscape, manipulating and cheating anyone she doesn't kill. I'm really entertained by it. I mean, it's dark as hell, but it's really funny. It's also starting to poke fun of old JRPGs as well as Shounen and Shoujo anime. And despite writing a lot of the first quarter of the book in present tense, most of the second quarter has been in past tense. I mean, I'd still say pick a tense and stick with it, but I'm just glad the writer is sticking mainly to the one that isn't like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
The last half of this book is incredibly entertaining. It goes from mildly amusing to laugh out loud funny, as Lucia becomes more powerful, and exponentially more evil. The tournament at the end is probably the best part of the book.
As a whole, the book is written somewhat inconsistently, often changing between past and present tense for no real reason, and again, if you’re not really in on what it’s making fun of, or find Lucia’s personality to be grating, you may not have a good time with this book. But if you’re like me and know what it’s satirizing, and are entertained, rather than annoyed by Lucia, it’s a lot of fun. The first third of the book is a little slow, I was entertained by it, but it did take a bit to really get going. Things speed up and get a lot funnier as you progress through. I definitely recommend it to anyone who is familiar with Shounen/Shoujo and jrpg tropes, and maybe has a similar sense of humor to mine.
July 24, 2018
A bit of a mixed bag here. This book is clearly meant as a satire of Litrpg and fantasy tropes and at times it's hilarious.
The hero of the tale is Lucia. A Squirrel-girl with the attention span of... well, a squirrel!
She -insert reason here- finds a legendary sword that sets off to training her to create her own legend like his previous master the Godking (see title)
The Author is taking clear shots at the fantasy tropes and magical systems all through out and it shows in both character's inner monologue as it always amount to "This is stupid! Why am I doing this again?"
I liked Lucia's character. She doesn't change much throughout the story and her IQ kept fluctuating between that of a 5 year old and a normal person but otherwise she was fine.
The sword was hilarious as his entire shtick was man explaining things to Lucia whenever he goofed to save face... and to be the reverse princess that the MC lusts after and attempts to save. It never got old.
The negatives however is that almost 2/3 of this book is oddly placed filler. Chapter after chapter something happens and we get it from the perspective of Lucia first... then we get the same thing using another character's voice. Not even a different perspective. Just a re-telling using a different attitude.
Example.
Lucia and her sword are lost. She suspect they're lost and asks him about it. She feels he's bullshitting her to cover his goof. When she's not convinced he does intimidate and she is subdued.
Next paragraph.
Lucia and her sword are lost. He decides to talk and talk so as not to lose face. When he feels she might object he does intimidate and she is subdued. crises averted...
This is can take anything from a few pages to almost a chapter with you re-reading the same thing over and over so it feels like filler since the perspective didn't really change.
Another issue with this book is the grind happy portion in the middle of it. This over one third of the book and it all comes down to (she swung a sword at him... hard...) It's a bit boring and just dragged.
Overall this book was fun. The characters never got annoying (which happens a lot in Litrpg nowadays) and it ended on a very high note that I wasn't expecting after all that filler. With some polish you'd have a gem a here... as is you got a pretty rock but hey it's prudy so give the author some love!
The hero of the tale is Lucia. A Squirrel-girl with the attention span of... well, a squirrel!
She -insert reason here- finds a legendary sword that sets off to training her to create her own legend like his previous master the Godking (see title)
The Author is taking clear shots at the fantasy tropes and magical systems all through out and it shows in both character's inner monologue as it always amount to "This is stupid! Why am I doing this again?"
I liked Lucia's character. She doesn't change much throughout the story and her IQ kept fluctuating between that of a 5 year old and a normal person but otherwise she was fine.
The sword was hilarious as his entire shtick was man explaining things to Lucia whenever he goofed to save face... and to be the reverse princess that the MC lusts after and attempts to save. It never got old.
The negatives however is that almost 2/3 of this book is oddly placed filler. Chapter after chapter something happens and we get it from the perspective of Lucia first... then we get the same thing using another character's voice. Not even a different perspective. Just a re-telling using a different attitude.
Example.
Lucia and her sword are lost. She suspect they're lost and asks him about it. She feels he's bullshitting her to cover his goof. When she's not convinced he does intimidate and she is subdued.
Next paragraph.
Lucia and her sword are lost. He decides to talk and talk so as not to lose face. When he feels she might object he does intimidate and she is subdued. crises averted...
This is can take anything from a few pages to almost a chapter with you re-reading the same thing over and over so it feels like filler since the perspective didn't really change.
Another issue with this book is the grind happy portion in the middle of it. This over one third of the book and it all comes down to (she swung a sword at him... hard...) It's a bit boring and just dragged.
Overall this book was fun. The characters never got annoying (which happens a lot in Litrpg nowadays) and it ended on a very high note that I wasn't expecting after all that filler. With some polish you'd have a gem a here... as is you got a pretty rock but hey it's prudy so give the author some love!
January 11, 2021
I'll say most books with inner monologues are for me personally, pretty annoying and yet this book does it in a way that is fascinating and fun.
The MC does at first seem evenly smart and lucid but after some things that break her a bit she tends to get less and less grounded in reality which make the story more and more hilarious.
There was a point in either this book or the next that I was listening to that I was laughing so hard that I was snorting and at work at the time , so everyone stared at me like I was a loon but it was still hilarious.
Honestly this series is pretty great, at first you think this is a Fantasy story from a unique perspective, it's only later you really realize as it delves into it, this is a cultivation series! Not that it matters to the squirrel of awesomeness.
I will say that the story is told from a more POV dialogue format which is quiet unique, most books have a few speaking lines with paragraphs of description, while this is lacking on details and more focused on talking byplay which can be...different.
That is the only negative I can think of, as the side characters are fun, the story great and a sense of growth in it. It also doesn't do the expected, like she will arrive at a town and you think shes going to start selling tons of stuff to make money and bam out of left field she'll just leave and do randomness. The author will introduce a new character and go into their background and make you like them, only to bam remove them from the story later on. Honestly this is the first series where I honestly couldn't predict where the story was going to go.
Side note- The audiobook really brings the voices and characters to life, making it ten times more hysterical fun. Though the downside is that the author does inner voice and speaking in the same tone, so it can be hard to realize then they are speaking to others vs when they said it to themselves. I constantly found myself thinking she only said it in her mind, only to have someone else respond to it and vice versa.
Great read and if you can get used to a few..wait did she say that outloud moments, a amazing audiobook.
The MC does at first seem evenly smart and lucid but after some things that break her a bit she tends to get less and less grounded in reality which make the story more and more hilarious.
There was a point in either this book or the next that I was listening to that I was laughing so hard that I was snorting and at work at the time , so everyone stared at me like I was a loon but it was still hilarious.
Honestly this series is pretty great, at first you think this is a Fantasy story from a unique perspective, it's only later you really realize as it delves into it, this is a cultivation series! Not that it matters to the squirrel of awesomeness.
I will say that the story is told from a more POV dialogue format which is quiet unique, most books have a few speaking lines with paragraphs of description, while this is lacking on details and more focused on talking byplay which can be...different.
That is the only negative I can think of, as the side characters are fun, the story great and a sense of growth in it. It also doesn't do the expected, like she will arrive at a town and you think shes going to start selling tons of stuff to make money and bam out of left field she'll just leave and do randomness. The author will introduce a new character and go into their background and make you like them, only to bam remove them from the story later on. Honestly this is the first series where I honestly couldn't predict where the story was going to go.
Side note- The audiobook really brings the voices and characters to life, making it ten times more hysterical fun. Though the downside is that the author does inner voice and speaking in the same tone, so it can be hard to realize then they are speaking to others vs when they said it to themselves. I constantly found myself thinking she only said it in her mind, only to have someone else respond to it and vice versa.
Great read and if you can get used to a few..wait did she say that outloud moments, a amazing audiobook.
March 2, 2021
Consider it a bit of a 3.5 for one part I'll get into but as a basic summary.
Take the traditional story of a destined hero finding a blade and rising to greatness, then replace the young hero with a demi-human half squirrel girl, make her completely adorable in the best irrational ways of the squirrel and then turn her into a sadist with an insatiable love for 2 things (well technically three but as the first book is all I've read, she's not got hers yet...)
How to explain Book one of this without spoiling the ever loving hell out of it?
The tale of Lucia and Durandal, their travels in a world that - as of book 1 - is only really being hinted at in places, its an immensely fun one with a lot of laughs and intense moments, I simply do love Lucia, she is one of the best protagonists I've read ever, especially seeing as she is both insecure about her intelligence, a total thickheaded idiot and the most dangerous being alive lol.
There's not really any single character that I dislike here, from Snow to Illya (number 1 and 2) I like them immensely and I'm fascinated to see where these people go from here. The inclusion of a looming threat that makes the supposed most powerful man alive tremble has me itching to want to get book 2 and start reading immediately.
The one downside I have with this book - and its something I've said on this over and over - is in the very beginning parts of the book, we get a repeating of scenes, from from Lucia's pov and then from Durandal's and that in itself drags it down just a tiny bit for me. I don't need to hear how Durandal thinks about Lucia doing a Horse Stance while holding a 3 ton sword over her head above spears, the important part was hearing Lucia worrying and then falling asleep - and not falling over - so repeating several things wasn't something that I enjoyed at the start and was partially why it took me so long to get there, I hesitated on it for quite a while while reading before ploughing though and finding a pretty damn good book.
It's a fun independently funded and produced novel by a decent author with a good voice, I'm definitely getting the series and will be seeing his other stuff too, it's definitely worth it.
Take the traditional story of a destined hero finding a blade and rising to greatness, then replace the young hero with a demi-human half squirrel girl, make her completely adorable in the best irrational ways of the squirrel and then turn her into a sadist with an insatiable love for 2 things (well technically three but as the first book is all I've read, she's not got hers yet...)
How to explain Book one of this without spoiling the ever loving hell out of it?
The tale of Lucia and Durandal, their travels in a world that - as of book 1 - is only really being hinted at in places, its an immensely fun one with a lot of laughs and intense moments, I simply do love Lucia, she is one of the best protagonists I've read ever, especially seeing as she is both insecure about her intelligence, a total thickheaded idiot and the most dangerous being alive lol.
There's not really any single character that I dislike here, from Snow to Illya (number 1 and 2) I like them immensely and I'm fascinated to see where these people go from here. The inclusion of a looming threat that makes the supposed most powerful man alive tremble has me itching to want to get book 2 and start reading immediately.
The one downside I have with this book - and its something I've said on this over and over - is in the very beginning parts of the book, we get a repeating of scenes, from from Lucia's pov and then from Durandal's and that in itself drags it down just a tiny bit for me. I don't need to hear how Durandal thinks about Lucia doing a Horse Stance while holding a 3 ton sword over her head above spears, the important part was hearing Lucia worrying and then falling asleep - and not falling over - so repeating several things wasn't something that I enjoyed at the start and was partially why it took me so long to get there, I hesitated on it for quite a while while reading before ploughing though and finding a pretty damn good book.
It's a fun independently funded and produced novel by a decent author with a good voice, I'm definitely getting the series and will be seeing his other stuff too, it's definitely worth it.
June 30, 2021
This was an entertaining LitRPG ride. The main character starts from the absolute bottom and through circumstances out of their own control gains the opportunity for power. The enjoyment of the story comes from the writing style and side characters.
If you like over-the-top anime with OP main characters, lewd jokes, actual profanity, with a plot of being the most BA of BAs; you will enjoy this book.
The plot is very fast-paced. Other commenters had mentioned the need for a training montage and sections that bog down. I disagree. The pace during these sections is still quick. She kills this and then goes there and kills that, and so on. It is just not that interesting. Not because of the plot but because of the repetition of abilities and the character's personality.
I will continue the series because it is fun and I am looking forward to the world-building which was teased near the end.
If you like over-the-top anime with OP main characters, lewd jokes, actual profanity, with a plot of being the most BA of BAs; you will enjoy this book.
The plot is very fast-paced. Other commenters had mentioned the need for a training montage and sections that bog down. I disagree. The pace during these sections is still quick. She kills this and then goes there and kills that, and so on. It is just not that interesting. Not because of the plot but because of the repetition of abilities and the character's personality.
I will continue the series because it is fun and I am looking forward to the world-building which was teased near the end.
December 30, 2018
I've never done a 180-degree turn-around like I did when reading "The Godking's Legacy." What at first seemed like an annoying eight-year old's mental drivel, eventually resolved into the voice of an anime princess. Until I was able to make that mental shift, the squirrel girl's dialogue nearly made me give up.
The way I see it now is that the thing that almost drove me away, is one of the best features of this novel. It's her mindset that makes this book unique. Sure the main character is ridiculously over-powered, but it's the reactions of the characters around her that are so enjoyable. The reader is in on the joke, and can laugh as her friends' and enemies' expectations are subverted.
The way I see it now is that the thing that almost drove me away, is one of the best features of this novel. It's her mindset that makes this book unique. Sure the main character is ridiculously over-powered, but it's the reactions of the characters around her that are so enjoyable. The reader is in on the joke, and can laugh as her friends' and enemies' expectations are subverted.
February 4, 2020
Lewd looks and heavy petting
One Punch Squirrel Girl
Unrelenting Path of Anime Cliches!
If you really enjoy anime cliches, you'll probably like this book. For me, the constant presences of tropes was tiring. There's only so much slapstick violence I can take. Maybe it was supposed to be a subtle inversion of the shonen genre with Lucia's meandering march from slave to most powerful. But it was a little too subtle and read as straight that was basically an anime I've seen many times before. Lucia simpleminded coning of the powerful people of the world was a bit too on the nose of current events to be enjoyable for me.
One Punch Squirrel Girl
Unrelenting Path of Anime Cliches!
If you really enjoy anime cliches, you'll probably like this book. For me, the constant presences of tropes was tiring. There's only so much slapstick violence I can take. Maybe it was supposed to be a subtle inversion of the shonen genre with Lucia's meandering march from slave to most powerful. But it was a little too subtle and read as straight that was basically an anime I've seen many times before. Lucia simpleminded coning of the powerful people of the world was a bit too on the nose of current events to be enjoyable for me.
February 17, 2022
Before considering reading this book, note that it contains some... objectionable content.
An uneven gamelit story that's part comedy, part mediocre battle shōnen. While definitely fun at times, and clearly intended to be a parody, it tends to drag on in the middle and features mostly uninteresting — sometimes downright detestable — characters which is in part intentional, I'm sure, but it's still difficult to identify with any one group or person. The main character spends most of the novel which really bogs down the pace of the book.
An uneven gamelit story that's part comedy, part mediocre battle shōnen. While definitely fun at times, and clearly intended to be a parody, it tends to drag on in the middle and features mostly uninteresting — sometimes downright detestable — characters which is in part intentional, I'm sure, but it's still difficult to identify with any one group or person. The main character spends most of the novel which really bogs down the pace of the book.
June 14, 2018
Silly, stupid book, but also entertaining and a lot of fun. There were several laugh out loud points in this book, including one point where I laughed for about five minutes straight.
Unfortunately, Mare Trevathan, the Narrator, gave the main character an exceptionally annoying voice which hurt my enjoyment a fair amount.
Side Note: I wonder if I met this author somewhere before He apparently went to my collage and there are some other unusual coincidences in the book.
Unfortunately, Mare Trevathan, the Narrator, gave the main character an exceptionally annoying voice which hurt my enjoyment a fair amount.
Side Note: I wonder if I met this author somewhere before He apparently went to my collage and there are some other unusual coincidences in the book.
December 8, 2018
I didn't think I liked Virlyce, until I read this book.
Let me say up front that this book is stupid, No it's Stoopid.
I moaned and groaned and laughed out loud, and laughing said to myself "OH God, that's so stupid!" as I wiped tears of mirth (and shame) from my eye.
Strong influences from Comedy anime, Divine Dungeon (Dakota Krout), Kung Fu anime, and user sub memes.
I can't actually recommend this book, But I'm going to go get the next one for myself.
Ps. Sexual themes does not equal Sexual scenes.
Let me say up front that this book is stupid, No it's Stoopid.
I moaned and groaned and laughed out loud, and laughing said to myself "OH God, that's so stupid!" as I wiped tears of mirth (and shame) from my eye.
Strong influences from Comedy anime, Divine Dungeon (Dakota Krout), Kung Fu anime, and user sub memes.
I can't actually recommend this book, But I'm going to go get the next one for myself.
Ps. Sexual themes does not equal Sexual scenes.
January 19, 2022
I couldn't finish the book. She is so self centered, terrible, and cruel in her ignorance that I had to stop. Attacking your companion because it's funny or annoyed when your thought is 'might have killed him this time' doesn't make for a character I'm interested in. Forcing your party to go without food for days because you love good and they 'don't need it' (when they clearly do, and they did all the cooking) isn't fun, or funny, or being an anti-hero or even evil.
I did like the sword's stories though.
I did like the sword's stories though.
June 7, 2023
REFUNDED IT NOW!! I 'Love' it.
This book is wonderful it gave real life proof that God/Aliens/our creaters didnt give previewers the ability to read and understand what is written down Amazing!!!
Not only that I am now convienced that most of humanitiy doesnt understand anything to do with Plot, Story struture, passing, world building, charator development or well story written.
This sile book has done so much for me in my life i cant recommend refunding it enough!
7/5 stars it true saves lifes!
This book is wonderful it gave real life proof that God/Aliens/our creaters didnt give previewers the ability to read and understand what is written down Amazing!!!
Not only that I am now convienced that most of humanitiy doesnt understand anything to do with Plot, Story struture, passing, world building, charator development or well story written.
This sile book has done so much for me in my life i cant recommend refunding it enough!
7/5 stars it true saves lifes!
October 20, 2018
American take on the Japanese light novel
Book is written in a comedic style that reminded me of Robert Aspirin's Myth series. Unfortunately, this book didn't manage to balance the comedy with enough serious elements. If the book was shorter this may not have been a problem, but at novel length it started to get boring. If you like video games, anime and Japanese light novels then you might like this book. Not a bad book, but not for me.
Book is written in a comedic style that reminded me of Robert Aspirin's Myth series. Unfortunately, this book didn't manage to balance the comedy with enough serious elements. If the book was shorter this may not have been a problem, but at novel length it started to get boring. If you like video games, anime and Japanese light novels then you might like this book. Not a bad book, but not for me.
January 31, 2019
So far the book is not as funny as the Blue Mage Series. But I'm enjoying it enough.
This series seems to be the Chinese cultivation genre.
Well I've finished this book, but I don't think I like it enough to continue. Seeing how this book ended, I would assume book two would be the protagonist going to a higher plain and strengthening herself.
If I'm low on interesting books to read, or I need a laugh I might pick up the sequel.
3/5 Stars
This series seems to be the Chinese cultivation genre.
Well I've finished this book, but I don't think I like it enough to continue. Seeing how this book ended, I would assume book two would be the protagonist going to a higher plain and strengthening herself.
If I'm low on interesting books to read, or I need a laugh I might pick up the sequel.
3/5 Stars
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