Doing God's Work

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2020

Author

Skylark (Dion Sky)

• Final book launches on Amazon
  May 21, 2025
• New story launching on Royal Road
  May 18, 2024
• Amazon Notice
  Sep 12, 2022
• 3. Kidnapping is Bad for Public Relations
  Mar 16, 2020
• 2. Task Manager of the Gods
  Mar 16, 2020
• 1. Putting the Hell in Helpdesk
  Mar 15, 2020

What readers say about Doing God's Work

• “The story has me gripped and I'm finding it hard to put down. Great stuff!”

  Alexis HemsleyRoyal Road5.0 / 5

• “It's too good for me to argue. Okay, I'm not going to do a specific breakdown of the aspects of the story. They're all in the mid to upper tier of professional writing, with no noteworthy flaws and all the platitudes of being clean, easy to follow, and enga…”

  Tana NariRoyal Road5.0 / 5

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• Alexis HemsleyRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story has me gripped and I'm finding it hard to put down. Great stuff!
• Tana NariRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  It's too good for me to argue.
  Okay, I'm not going to do a specific breakdown of the aspects of the story. They're all in the mid to upper tier of professional writing, with no noteworthy flaws and all the platitudes of being clean, easy to follow, and engaging. If you have a problem with this writing, you're a pickier duck than I. And I am one picky duck.
  And the characters, oh the characters. Amusing, affable, even the ones that you're supposed to hate are *fun* to hate, rather than just annoying. Except "Shitface"- he's not annoying or fun, he's goddamn terrifying. Especially since even he is just a cog in a massive machine. I find myself wondering how it's possible for anyone to face what the protagonists are trying to beat.
  So, being who I am, I'll focus on the one thing that I find even the least bit off-putting about this story. I don't know what it is, and I'm not sure it knows what it is.
  Sometimes, it reads like an intense intreague-thriller, with literal world-shattering stakes waiting in the wings.
  Sometimes it reads like a fun and relaxed slice-of-life sitcom. The banter between characters is amongst the strongest I've ever seen, so much so that I read through massive amounts of unimportant dialogue with a smile on my face and feeling completely satisfied that my time was well spent even though a hundred lines of reading had perhaps five lines of plot advancement. AKA: Slice of Life at its best.
  Sometimes it feels like an outright satire with stuff that on the face of it feels silly and illogical to the extreme. Loki and the devil sitting in office cubical complaining about their boss being an asshole sounds like the pilot episode for something on Adult Swim. And it's hilarious.
  This story tries to be a thriller, a mystery, a comedy, and slice of life. It's like someone blended American Gods and Purgatony. And somehow, this seemingly incompatible blend of ideas comes together in a way that highlights rather than distracts.
  In case you couldn't tell, I h
• Vowron PrimeRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I'll start out by saying that Urban Fantasy isn't really my genre of choice... Despite that, I rarely ever come across a story that blends such amazingly real characters with a rich & compelling story, all bundled together with wit and humor and an urban fantasy setting that immediately pulls you in. Making Gods, who are normally static characters, fun and interesting, is something that takes a great deal of skill, and the author accomplishes this in spades. I can't recommend this story highly enough - it's as close to perfection as one can get.
  Story: Rich and compelling, right from the get go. Though it's not an action story, the way it's written keeps you on the edge of your seat, reminiscent of many stories in the action genre.
  Characters: This is really where the book shines. Loki is especially well done... I rarely see this level of perfection wrt characters in any story, on or off this site.
  Grammar: Literally perfect. I haven't spotted a single issue. Not one.
  Style: Another area where this story shines. It's so well researched, yet approachable... it's kinda mind blowing.
  All in all, this is one of the best stories on RR. Read it! You won't be disappointed!
• vladeragRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  It is not a new idea to imagine the heavens as a corporate dystopia.  The idea of angels or devils working a nine to five shift has been explored in many different works and with varying degrees of drudgery.  I, personally, have often found them to be too much mired in the mundanity of corporate culture.
  An angle, after all, should still be an angel even if it has to work at a desk.  Surely, in my mind at least, the humour would come from the justaxposistion of a powerful, glorious being having to fill out paperwork and getting dumped on by their supervisor.
  Doing God's Work takes a less comedic - although that doesn't make it much less funny - route, wherein the various gods at work in Providence aren't as resigned to their fate as serial comedy might have them.  Because make no mistake, although this has comedic elements it is not a comedy.  In fact, it is downright grimdark in places.
  I'll be spoiler free here, but there are some very difficult moments in this fiction.  It will pull on your heartstrings and hard, even though you are following the very cynical and jaded Loki on his day to day mundane work.
  Of course, mundane in this context involves answering prayers to God, so mundane might not really be the right word.
  Either way, this is a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows as you move from drudgery to horror to humour and back again.
  All of the characters, for the most part, are taken from the various gods throughout human history, only slightly updated for their new corporate life.  As a result, they all have interesting characters and relationships almost by default so long as the author is capable, and make no mistake Csuite is very capable.
  You can almost feel the centuries of weight each of these gods is lugging around with them.  The pure exhaustion mixed with the bombastic personalities from their myths.
  It is, without a doubt, a fantastic story that I recomend anyone and everyone read.
• xaimRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Ever wanted to see how Gods deal with office Intrigues? This is you chance.
  Why read this?
  - Fun, morally grey charakters
  - Angels and Demons
  - Mystery, Magic and Murder
  There are no spelling mistakes, grammar is superb and the flow of the story is the cherry on top.
  This story is like having your cake and eating it 😊
• Cocop (Cale Plamann)Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  First of all- this is niche but amazing.
  Don't expect action. The focus is more on humor and exasperation with the banality of even celestial office life while pursuing a mystery/conspiracy.
  The characters are well written and more than anything, the mystery is engaging.  Seriously, I hate mysteries and I'm excited to track this down.
  If you're interested in a character/story driven drama/slice of life read this right now.  It's absolutely top notch.
• CoroRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Good Omens meets American Gods by way of Office Space and espionage. Hundreds of years ago, the christian god and his allies won the war for the universe for real, with all other gods consigned to employment, powerless drudgery, or brutal imprisonment, depending. Now, a depowered god of trickery works at Helpdesk answering prayers with phone calls and a discretionary budget one desk over from their best friend, Lucifer. But things are changing, and revolution is afoot. Soon things will escalate into a labyrinth of prophecy, espionage, magic, and betrayal - pretty rich territory for a god of mischief, powers or no. It's got great character work and intricate plots, and in particular it's meaty and original in a way that goes beyond a lot of what you'd expect from stories on this site.
  This thing is a sleeper hit waiting to happen and it feels much more professional and polished than the vast majority of web serials. Basically, it's doing it's own thing that tilts between intense mythological action, slice-of-life office satire, and dramatic confrontations about the nature of guilt and power way more seamlessly than it should. It feels like it takes a sitcom premise and expands it into an apocalyptic epic without losing any of the charm, which is just remarkable.
  Style: Wonderful. Slides between different genres and tones without losing track of the main character's voice, draws up gorgeous imagery without being overbearing.
  Grammar: Professional quality. I don't recall noticing a single typo in my entire read-through. Clear, unobtrusive prose.
  Story: Intricate, weaving plots, grounded by an extremely strong character voice. If it's not clear what's happening, it's clear why, and the tradeoffs between the two are well-managed and satisfying.
  Characters: A cast of well-developed, sympathetic, and complex characters that each have rich lives and motivations. Absolutely gorgeous. Also, they're gods, for the mythology fans.
• CreatureDukeRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This story fulfils my craving for mythology and intrigue.
  Loki being the main character is fun.
  GIve it a read people, it will consume your life for about 3-ish days as it did mine. Non stop reading.
  Loki does seem slightly underpowered compared to many of the other gods around him but maybe that's just because he ain't that confrontational and is up against some pretty big bois.
• David TyeRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This story is amazing, I was gripped and driven to compulsively read it from the first chapter.
  The story concept is a fresh take on urban fantasy, with a few twists I did not expect but perfectly suit the characters driving the action.
• EligosRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I’m not sure what I expected from the reviews, some sort of smarmy Douglas Adams / Office Space hybrid—but this is really quite a bit better and more complex than the reviews let on. It’s also full of intrigue. There are notes of David Foster Wallace in here, as well as Kafka and a sprinkling of John McCrae. I think the biggest dichotomy between what I was expecting and what I got is there are far more dystopian overtones that are played completely straight than initially expected. Yes, there are elements of parody, and many of the characters are built on framework from existing mythologies, but it’s got a much more legitimate, “what if these characters were real people?” vibe without reaching for the typically glib, “Hurr hurr Zeus can’t keep it in his pants,” typical low hanging fruit.
  It also loves to raise questions, wait for you to raise your hand, then leave you awkwardly standing in the corner. Maybe I just have a personal thing for being casually disregarded but I really do prefer it when stories don’t spoon feed.
  But the best part so far is the specificity of scope. I was kind of expecting this to be one of those floaty, multi-viewpoint affairs, but so far, the story has mostly been about one character and their attempt to navigate their celestially mundane existence. It’s a much stickier POV than you usually see in this sort of story, which results in an incredibly unique read. There are underlying mysteries by the dozen, and questionable motives, and more delectably gray characters than Raymond Chandler could shake an empty bottle at.
  I like it.
  Anyway, I’m a bit hungover right now and want to savor this story, so I’ll come back here to update with an advanced review when I finish.