Exhuman

Self-Published

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Description

If superpowers appeared today, what might the future look like?

In a future which has endured nuclear wars, people rarely wake up one day with supernatural powers, transforming an innocent life into a walking apocalypse. Shunned and feared, these Exhumans are often violent, ever misunderstood, and always dangerous.

In this world unfolds the dark story of Athan Ashton, an 18-year old with a football scholarship who wakes up to find himself a lightning-powered Exhuman. Following a failed imprisonment and execution, he is exiled to the wilds, ostracized from all he’s even known.

Like most, Athan never questioned society's view of Exhumans, buying the public line that they are selfish and a danger, fit only to be reported and dispatched. But living on the other side, Athan begins to discover why Exhumans go bad, and begins the impossible task of becoming more than just his powers.

Athan is dedicated to use his Exhumanity only for good, but is that enough to survive in a world where his very existence is a crime?

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Exhuman updates five times weekly:

Exhuman is finished! After 500 chapters, it's come to an end. Thank you for your support through the years that this story ran!

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Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2018
Author: ZoeTrope

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.9/ 5.0
Followers: 670
Views: 1,383,809

Chapters(483 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

SpartanstorytellerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love this story it’s never boring the comedy and the fights are on point and all of the characters are complicated individuals with their own motivations and goals.
Blake__Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Read up to ch. 350 on WP
TLDR- Highly recommended story with great grammar/style/characters held back by the MC’s behavior in the beginning.
This is a scifi superpowers story where all people with powers are extremely discriminated against and usually marked for execution. The MC, Alan, starts his story off in an exclusion zone where he was exiled upon developing his powers and the XPCA being unable to kill or restrain him. There he meets several interesting characters which gets me to my first point.
The characterization and interactions in this are amazing, probably the best on this site. With that said, the characters do tend to deviate quite a bit from normal people. One basically becomes a depressed masochist for a time while another character would happily go on a massive killing spree against humans but is held back by her affection towards Alan. The MC breaks the trend by being a stereotypical shounen MC who loves justice and won’t kill anyone, coming off as naive and stupid in the beginning of the story. This changes as the story goes on as him and the other major characters have to adapt their worldviews to the harsh realities surrounding them.
The grammar and style of writing are all superb and I spotted almost no errors reading. This is a harem story in that Alan is surrounded by girls who all are (madly) in love with him. Despite this he remains surprisingly monogamous throughout with some occasional slip ups. With last 150 or so chapters he was advancing his relationship solely with one girl. Not the best girl unfortunately (cough Tem cough). The action scenes are well done also and some of the set pieces especially in the later chapters were simply thrilling.
All in all this story is at a level to be published although it’s rather large amount of eastern references probably hold it back in this regard.
BullerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Not everyday you get one of these. Good stuff. The guy goes through trauma at the start, becomes universally hated because of something he didn't do because he wanted it to happen, and then gets sent out in the desert to live alone. Great stuff all in all.
Characthers are fine too, with how much focus are on them. Still feel bad for Mage. That girl did not deserve it. 5/5
theyankRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
By RRL standards, this is an easy five for the writing style alone. The author has a great voice, and I never came across anything that jarred me or took me out of the story.
Grammar is perfect as far as I'm aware of.
The story and premise is awesome, reminiscent of stuff like X-men, Worm and other superhero stories, and the author adds a fresh spin to it with some aversions to popular tropes (no overpowered MC... yay!)
As for the characters, I feel that this is the most defining trait of this fiction. You will either love or hate it because of this, and for me I loved it. There were the occasional hiccups, but they were all well-rounded and made human mistakes. The author's writing style only highlights their characters, and I feel that the characterization wouldn't be quite as good without the style to go hand in hand.
Overall, definitely recommended if you like superheroes. Not recommended if you like OP MCs.
Mu'erRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This is great, it isnt too often that I see a novel with the more personal side of characters exposed throughout the entire book. Rather then just in cliche combat narration or blunted and forced conversation. This entire novel so far has less of a focus on combat and more on story, and it works very well to produce a smooth story.
RotaretilboRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I am current on Exhuman as of today, thru Chapter 183. It's certainly been an interesting read. Then again, one does not sprint through a work like this if it weren't interesting. So let's break this into sections.
Tonally, Exhuman can be a very competent hardboiled reconstruction of the superhero genre, and it can be a very competent goofy harem dramedy, but I think it suffers for trying to be both. While the downtime spent on the romance subplots serves a purpose, giving the reader time to breathe between heavier sections of the narrative, I think the story sometimes meanders too long there. The tone shifts are never jarring, but I do think Exhuman is trying a bit too hard to be both rather than letting the lighter tone serve the darker tone. Still, this is only a mild annoyance. As I said, both tones are well written, and the shifts are never jarring.
Narratively, I think Exhuman is fairly strong. The premise is interesting, a reconstruction of the brand of superhero we generally see in stories like X-Men, where the superheroes are oppressed for being dangerous, but more serious in considering how this would affect society rather than as window dressing. I also feel that the story does a fantastic job using foreshadowing to set up both future conflicts and their solutions, ensuring that nothing feels cheap or out of nowhere while simultaneously not making the whole story predictable. I think my main complaint, if I had to nitpick, would be that things generally resolve themselves a bit too cleanly. The protagonist often approaches these problems from a purely idealistic angle without really thinking his position through, and this rarely comes back to bite him in a meaningful way during the heavier sections of the narrative (though it frequently does in the romantic subplots). There is perhaps a little plot armor in play, as far into the story as we are, but I certainly would never claim that none of the main characters do not suffer. So it's just a nitpick.
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StarchillerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
Its amazing. The setting is realist and the story is no pile of ranom stuff.
I would like a warning about the slightly dark and psychological undertones in the tags.
Defenitly worth the read.
Ash DreadRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Author might want to consider an NTR tag, I liked the story through the first book section, but once you hit book 2. Great read but the "rapey" sections made me throw in the towel. Don't know if that was what he was aiming for but if you can handle that it is otherwise a great book. Wish MC would grow a spine sooner.
Translate7Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
Fair warning I stopped reading at chapter 75. This book has really really great potential, it's so neat and focuses on a lot of original things. Instead of focusing on the relationship between a supergenius AI with access to tons of classified data and an info broker, it chooses to spend a silly chapter on boobs. Yes, makes perfect sense. I have machines that can make anything and I'm really interested in making boobs instead of a bed.
Aside from that the book really does have some interesting developments and I'd recommend it.
LaevusRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
I was only able to get 17 chapters in before giving up. It started out promising but quickly turned into a meme. The characters are stagnate and refused to grow. For all the talking about 'humanity' it's nearly non existing in this story. Almost the entire cast is in a looping script instead of being remotely believable. Their actions and rational is so dense it borders on ludicrous.
If I were living in this world i know for a fact I'd make it my mission to incinerate as much of it as I possibly could and give the planet a chance to try again.