Magicians have summoned demons for centuries to serve as powerful familiars or grant wishes. When one demon learns of a recent human innovation, the wall-sized mirror, he gets an idea that could shift the balance of power.

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AnehaliaRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

Overall this was an interesting story that pulled me in from the start and I read through to the end in one sitting.
The style wasn't anything fancy but was very easy to read and understand what was going on. Descriptions of characters were given in a paragraph and then sometimes referred to in other parts of the story. I would call the style simplistic. It lent itself well to telling the story at a good pace and not bogging down the reader with details. I took off a half-star for some small parts of the story where I didn't have an image of the scene in my mind (I would still recommend reading the story as none of these were detrimental to the overall story).
In story, I docked a star for some things I felt were minor plot holes. These are spoilers, so go read this story before reading my spoilers.
1) What happened to the summoner who became a demon at the beginning? Why does he not show up again.
2) The demon girl in the last chapter says that not everyone was terrible to her, and they let some people go, but then her decision is\ "no other humans tried to save me, so they can all be summoned and tortured by demons." If that was going to be her decision no matter what, why did she go and run her little experiment in the first place? I was really confused by her logic right there at the end of the story.
I didn't notice any grammar issues.
I scored character based on how some of the characters who were introduced felt a little shallow, but this is a short story and often characters in short stories don't get much time to be given more depth. I would say the main demon had good characterization and it was only the side characters I had any questions about.

Devin RussellRoyal Road

★★★★★ 5.0

An enticing story of a demon who turns the tables on humans by developing a method to summon them. Includes some political conflict between other demons and enough mystery to keep the reader guessing.
The main character seems to be the demon who researched the summoning method. He appears to be a bit sympathetic to humans who haven't harmed demons and intelligent enough to make him a schemer that the reader can empathize with and relate to.
7 chapters in so far, and eagerly awaiting more

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