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Ghoul Empire #1
Rust
A Dark Fantasy Rebirth LitRPG
Betrayed by his own kind, King Belial loses everything: his wife, his newborn, and his kingdom. When offered a chance at revenge by the mischievous twin Goddesses Enmu and Enma, he willingly takes it. The deal is simple, at least for them. Belial gets to be reincarnated into a vessel of their choosing and offered free reign on how to go about getting his revenge, however, there is a catch. The one thing the two want from him is simple: take Humanity down a notch. Or two.
This novel contains the following elements:
Dark Fantasy, Reincarnation, Crunchy LitRPG/GameLit, Town building, Foul Language, Lots of visceral battles, both small and large scale, Character progression and more...
Betrayed by his own kind, King Belial loses everything: his wife, his newborn, and his kingdom. When offered a chance at revenge by the mischievous twin Goddesses Enmu and Enma, he willingly takes it. The deal is simple, at least for them. Belial gets to be reincarnated into a vessel of their choosing and offered free reign on how to go about getting his revenge, however, there is a catch. The one thing the two want from him is simple: take Humanity down a notch. Or two.
This novel contains the following elements:
Dark Fantasy, Reincarnation, Crunchy LitRPG/GameLit, Town building, Foul Language, Lots of visceral battles, both small and large scale, Character progression and more...
- GenresFantasy
355 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 4, 2020
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March 5, 2020
Poorly written and confused
This is a book written by someone without the faintest grasp of the English language. Not one aspect of grammer is properly used consistently. Capitalizations are wrong, spaces are left out, the writer doesn't seem to have any idea why a proper noun is. The commas are terrible, spelling is bad, whole words are left out. The writing style is inconsistent, language is chosen poorly character voices are literally identical.
The plot is confused. Is it an adventure tale? Revenge story? Dungeon delve? Political drama? The writer seems unsure.
The characters are uninteresting, and the concept of showing and not telling seems to entirely passed our writer by as he goes out of his way to tell us things and not show us.
Avoid this book, it's a waste of time and named after an uninteresting sub character.
This is a book written by someone without the faintest grasp of the English language. Not one aspect of grammer is properly used consistently. Capitalizations are wrong, spaces are left out, the writer doesn't seem to have any idea why a proper noun is. The commas are terrible, spelling is bad, whole words are left out. The writing style is inconsistent, language is chosen poorly character voices are literally identical.
The plot is confused. Is it an adventure tale? Revenge story? Dungeon delve? Political drama? The writer seems unsure.
The characters are uninteresting, and the concept of showing and not telling seems to entirely passed our writer by as he goes out of his way to tell us things and not show us.
Avoid this book, it's a waste of time and named after an uninteresting sub character.
January 6, 2020
Nothing Extraordinary
The main character starts out as a human king who loses his wife in childbirth and his kingdom the same day and is offered a chance at revenge if he agrees to kill other humans. Placed into a demon kin body and awakened with a game like interface and leveling system he begins his adventure. That part I gave 2 stars. The story plots are basic, the main character rarely plans ahead and is a bit of a dum dum. For a former king he has little grasp of the world he lived in. The grammar ranges from mediocre to bad. I can't recommend this to anyone.
The main character starts out as a human king who loses his wife in childbirth and his kingdom the same day and is offered a chance at revenge if he agrees to kill other humans. Placed into a demon kin body and awakened with a game like interface and leveling system he begins his adventure. That part I gave 2 stars. The story plots are basic, the main character rarely plans ahead and is a bit of a dum dum. For a former king he has little grasp of the world he lived in. The grammar ranges from mediocre to bad. I can't recommend this to anyone.
April 1, 2020
Great book
Stellar work from Jaeger Mitchells! Lots of action and adventure, twists and turns.Looking forward to seeing what the next one brings!
Stellar work from Jaeger Mitchells! Lots of action and adventure, twists and turns.Looking forward to seeing what the next one brings!
September 11, 2020
Life is not a statistic. you don't get something if you put one more percent into training. These stats books should really stop trying to quantify everything with numbers. I don't know if the author's first name means he is German, but the writing does read like English isn't the author's first language.
This book could have been great if the author didn't try to integrate stats in his story. Why do you have to call out your attack before you do it? Why do you have to hit an exact number of times to "refresh" an ability?
I have a quarter of this book remaining, when I am finished, I don't think I will be continuing with the author or the series. The author tried to make it too gameplay like as possible.
The power-ups our protagonist had rushed upon him near the end doesn't help matters with me liking this book.
Maybe I read too many of these books. I know if I didn't read as many as I did, I would have probably enjoyed this and ignored all the faults.
2/5 Stars
This book could have been great if the author didn't try to integrate stats in his story. Why do you have to call out your attack before you do it? Why do you have to hit an exact number of times to "refresh" an ability?
I have a quarter of this book remaining, when I am finished, I don't think I will be continuing with the author or the series. The author tried to make it too gameplay like as possible.
The power-ups our protagonist had rushed upon him near the end doesn't help matters with me liking this book.
Maybe I read too many of these books. I know if I didn't read as many as I did, I would have probably enjoyed this and ignored all the faults.
2/5 Stars
March 21, 2020
Not the standard litrpg, "wakes up in the game" or "cannot log off", not that they are bad. A king dies and 2 deities give him a chance a revenge against those who murdered him, his wife and new born son. He is reborn in a different body with a slim chance at surviving.
I rate a book as good if I end up tired in the morning from listening to it past my bed time. This definitely made the list.
This is a good book that I enjoyed listening to and look forward to book 2.
I rate a book as good if I end up tired in the morning from listening to it past my bed time. This definitely made the list.
This is a good book that I enjoyed listening to and look forward to book 2.
April 26, 2020
From the very beginning I could not believe a word said in this book. Nothing the MC said sounded heartfelt. Every description, every interaction, every dialogue sounded fake and flat. And there was so much telling and so little showing so early in the story that I started getting angry.
But the camel's back finally broke when the MC met Rust. The whole story just stopped making any kind of logical, situational or even spatio-temporal sense, and I just... couldn't.
Not for me.
But the camel's back finally broke when the MC met Rust. The whole story just stopped making any kind of logical, situational or even spatio-temporal sense, and I just... couldn't.
Not for me.
January 9, 2020
Interesting Start
I overall enjoyed this read. Good setup to tug those heart string, rational goal of revenge, bitchy goddesses twisting the MC to do their bidding. English is not the author’s first language so I didn’t let the few errors bother me. I’d definitely read the sequel when it is released.
I overall enjoyed this read. Good setup to tug those heart string, rational goal of revenge, bitchy goddesses twisting the MC to do their bidding. English is not the author’s first language so I didn’t let the few errors bother me. I’d definitely read the sequel when it is released.
March 21, 2020
Great first book
The plot is a great revenge in the making scenario (which i dig). Everything flows very nicely and is set up for future books. Character interactions are good and relationships between them looks promising. The few editing/typo errors i found didnt detract from the story. Overall a good read and I cant wait for the next book.
The plot is a great revenge in the making scenario (which i dig). Everything flows very nicely and is set up for future books. Character interactions are good and relationships between them looks promising. The few editing/typo errors i found didnt detract from the story. Overall a good read and I cant wait for the next book.
May 5, 2020
the pacing is a little strange and the character progression seems a little fast for my taste but it makes sense in the context. Overall I enjoyed this and would try the next book. If I could I would give this a 3.75-3.8 as I think it would be a more accurate rating, but I rounded-up here.
March 28, 2021
A slightly botched litrpg.
Most of the premise is interesting, at first. But the development of the hero ends up not very interesting, and the entire thing feels like half a train wreck at the end. Busted revenge and unearned power mix making it very unsatisfying.
Most of the premise is interesting, at first. But the development of the hero ends up not very interesting, and the entire thing feels like half a train wreck at the end. Busted revenge and unearned power mix making it very unsatisfying.
January 16, 2020
Great Read
From reading the summary the author posted I wasn't very sure this would be good, however I'm glad I have it a chance, I really enjoyed and look forward to book 2.
From reading the summary the author posted I wasn't very sure this would be good, however I'm glad I have it a chance, I really enjoyed and look forward to book 2.
April 8, 2020
Really different than other books out there. If you like dark characters this is a great one. Can't wait for the next one.
August 3, 2020
Interesting
A good start the evil creature trying to be the hero while humanity are the monsters and it also seems like it might eventually turn the opposite
A good start the evil creature trying to be the hero while humanity are the monsters and it also seems like it might eventually turn the opposite
January 27, 2020
Really a 3.5, but overall a reasonably solid fantasy/RPG book, though there seemed to be a change in writing style half-way through, and the editing was noticeably different too. Not sure if I'm going to follow this series (assuming sequels) but that's mainly since the MC didn't really grab me.
December 1, 2021
I listened to an audio book not currently listed on Goodreads.com so I am placing my review here.
I did not finish this book. The author tells a fairly straight forward story of a king betrayed, killed and reincarnated in a prisoner's body. The prisoner, unlike the king, had his "breakthrough" (I forget the term the book actually used) so that he could level up. The king, with three helpers (the prisoner's "mate", an ogre and an orc princess) escapes only to wash up on a shore amongst some hostile fish people. This brings me to the reason I quit reading. The MC jumps into the middle of a group of 3 or 4 fish people, hits one and observes that that one hit took off 10% of the fish person's health, proceeds to finish off that fish person before turning to the next one. I had ignored the author's poor writing of combat up to this point but this scene was so bad that I cannot believe this author could possibly be worth the read. Just think about it: The other fish people just stood and watched their buddy get beaten to death, and not with just one or two blows but for nine blows!
Bottom line: This author is so bad at writing combat that it undermines anything else of worth in this book.
I did not finish this book. The author tells a fairly straight forward story of a king betrayed, killed and reincarnated in a prisoner's body. The prisoner, unlike the king, had his "breakthrough" (I forget the term the book actually used) so that he could level up. The king, with three helpers (the prisoner's "mate", an ogre and an orc princess) escapes only to wash up on a shore amongst some hostile fish people. This brings me to the reason I quit reading. The MC jumps into the middle of a group of 3 or 4 fish people, hits one and observes that that one hit took off 10% of the fish person's health, proceeds to finish off that fish person before turning to the next one. I had ignored the author's poor writing of combat up to this point but this scene was so bad that I cannot believe this author could possibly be worth the read. Just think about it: The other fish people just stood and watched their buddy get beaten to death, and not with just one or two blows but for nine blows!
Bottom line: This author is so bad at writing combat that it undermines anything else of worth in this book.
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