Help! I've been reincarnated as a rock!
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Description
A former denizen of Earth wakes up in a new world as a rock, with limited memories of who and what they used to be, placed without consent onto a path that leads to godhood- or to oblivion. They face powers greater than any they've ever known on Earth, while trying- and sometimes failing- to come to terms with everything they have lost. Will they manage to find a way back home to Earth? Will they make peace with their new home, and gain power and respect? Or will they succumb to their inadvertent feud with the god of Death, to bad luck, or to despair?
This story gently covers some potentially sensitive issues including implied infertility, stillbirth and suicide. There is swearing, but this tends towards Shakespearean eloquence. The main protagonist favours compassion over violence, but becomes capable of killing with only a thought. An irregular posting schedule, roughly once every other day with pauses for building work on the house.
Information
- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2024
- Author
- Taillefer
Royal Road Stats
- Rating
- 4.3/ 5.0
- Followers
- 20
- Views
- 4,154
Chapters(11 total)
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Community Reviews(1)
- MechalichRoyal Road★★★★ 4.0So, this is the story of a character who's been reincarnated into the role of a minor god in a fairly generic seeming fantasy world, with a system and the potential to gain power via, essentially, founding a religion based on himself. It's a functional premise, and the writing is good, with significantly superior readability and flow compared to many stories on RR. The story is still in very early stages and it's unclear where things are headed, but there are hints of grand possibilities.
Unfortunately, the story is something of a mess in a couple of areas. One is formatting the LitRPG elements, which is not very serious but does make things feel kind of amateurish. More significant is that there's a lot of tonal variation. Chapters whipsaw from comic to serious very quickly, which drains away impact. Notably, the signature conflict with the god? of death goes and goes with a bizarre brevity that made me confused as to what the overall intent was. This doesn't make the story a bad read by any means, but it feels like it would be better served to focus more consistently on either comedy or drama.