A Girl and Her Food

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Description

When a lost girl wakes up without a name, she quickly finds herself alone in a way that people around her can’t fix.

Without a real plan and desperate to find what’s wrong with her, she thrashes and bites to stay alive.

But human beings are weak things, that band together for strength, no matter who we are. Now if only she could work up the courage to ask one question...

It’s normal to get stronger when you drink the blood of monsters. Right?

Things to expect:

- A powerful but kinda neurotic and emotional protagonist, with some degree of weak to strong. Or maybe strong to stronger, honestly. She's pretty rational and practical about things but won't always make the best decisions, so be warned if you super-dislike characters doing dumb stuff for emotional reasons sometimes.

- Lots of dialogue and characterization, especially as we get more into it. It's focused on a single POV, but theremightbe some sections of other POVs later on, I'm not sure right now.

- Magic is on the softer side, but I'll try to keep things fleshed out enough to avoid any obvious "well-established magic could have seemingly instantly solved this problem" moments.

- I didn't add the mystery tag because I feel like it implies that this is a detective novel or something, but the story is absolutely incredibly opaque at times. So you'll have the most fun if you go into it trying to puzzle out the nature of events before they're explicitly explained!😇

- Also, I added the genre for completion, but it's gonna take a while to get to the romance. Please wait warmly and have some tea.

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: RavenTears

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Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
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Community Reviews(5)

BladeBriarRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A great start for a fantasy story with a non-human MC!
I would compare this to Vigor Mortis (character setup), The Calamitus Bob (character personality), and Siphon Touch of Power (character ability and setting)
Time will tell how this story stacks up, but let's hurry up and get this to trending so there are more eyes on it. :D
CosmicChaosRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Her past a mystery, her abilities even stranger, the amnesiac Idelle explores the world drinking the blood of monsters, finding friendship and biting off more trouble than she can chew.
While stronger than the average soldier her abnormal strength means little against master warriors and talented mages. After all, what use is skull splitting strength if one cannot land a blow?
And so Idelle will have to learn the sword, tame magic and embrace her own voracious nature to defeat her foes and achieve her goals.
justsomedragonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is really quite excellent. The writing has excellent weight and detail to it, and it pairs weol with the story that doesn't just give everything tp you like most works on this site would. Characters are 10/10 on their interactions and designs, they're conflicted and weird, and its great.
luda305Royal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Updated: 12/6/21 to flesh out some things and bring current and make advanced
This is the story of an ordinary looking little girl with a monstrous appetite. What she, is she actually human, the source of her powers... all this forms the basis of a finding yourself mystery. And, insomuch as she seems to have popped out of nowhere, she doesn't know anything about the world either. And so she has this secret identity as something potentially monstrous and certain bloodthirsty, while trying to make her way through the world.
The characters are fairly well-fleshed out, and are kept distinct from each other. The portrayal of the protagonist actually evolves the most as we start from a different POV, then move to her POV and stay there, and her own viewpoint changes are she comes to more thoroughly grasp the language. In short, there are no obvious flaws in the characters, but they're hardly sophisticated.
Some of the chapters have a slightly odd style with a flashback from the far future to the near future to begin, and then the rest of the chapter is at present. After that, the story has a straightforward style and we mostly stay locked on our monstrously hungry protagonist. Again, no flaws really, but not sophisticated.
Tonally and plot-wise, it's a little unclear what the story is aiming for. The first few chapters have some horror elements. Then the next several are monster hiding in plain sight. Then around ch. 8 or so, the protagonist meets a significant character and it sounds too good to be true, and that becomes a thing. Then significant time is spent in that city and making connections before moving on.
That said, throughout, there is a strong mystery element as the protagonist doesn't know who or what she is. And even now through ch 32, it really seems like it's going for an explore-the-world-secret-identity-find-yourself-as-some-unique-being thing. That actually seems to sync up pretty well with both the protagonist's personality and the overall pr
BloetuuRoyal Road
★★★★ 3.5
First off. I think this is a good story. I think the vast majority of readers would probably get on fine with no major complaints. And as I said I do want to like it more.
The good: the plot moves along at a fairly good pace. The main character is well developed with a lot of time devoted to her thinking. There are a few interesting mysteries around the MC that she attempts to uncover. There is some pretty good Acton scenes near yhe beginning.
The bad: The story seems to change tone several times. Starting as something more like horror survival then moving onto soldier life with minor court politics. Many of the characters outside of the MC struggle to feel more than 2 dimensional. Only being given very short sections of dialogue to develope. There author seems to tunnel vision at times, having people act in ways that seem poorly explained.
The nit-picky: this is neither good nor bad but is very personal to me as a complaint. The period tonally and the language don't seem to match up at times. Not that I'm expecting a bunch of thee and thous. It's more people talk in a 21st century style fairly often or use words that don't seem to fit the period and it just breaks my immersion every time. It feels very jarring at times.
All that said I do feel this is worth a go from anyone looking for a decent read. And the author seems to be producing chapters at a prodigous pace. I just don't rhink it's for me personally.