Humans Don't Make Good Familiars

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Description

Suma, a mage from another world, accidentally summons one of the most powerful familiars her world has ever seen... a normal British teenager. Born with a natural affinity for Chaos Magic that manifested itself once entering her world, Jake becomes a caring friend to the young mage, and a formidable enemy to anyone who may dare hurt her. But Suma's world is plagued by war, and Suma has been drafted.

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Status: Completed
Year: 2022
Author: ArcAngel98

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 1,058
Views: 513,339

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Community Reviews(10)

VelomianRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
LOVE THIS! FOUND IT VIA AGROSQUIRREL. The story is pretty solid, and I like the main character duo. It does at times feel like a beginner's first story, but that isn't a bad thing, just a sign of someone's actual passion for a project. It gets way better as the story progresses, and I love how well the whole thing feels, with extremely solid lore explanations for every little thing.
Combat LibrarianRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is an interesting take on the isekai genre, with a twist I have not seen before. As far as we can tell so far, there is nothing different or special about Jake, the protagonist. Rather, the world in which he finds himself is populated by little bird mages who regularly summon familiars from other planes. He just happens to have been the first human to get snatched, at least for a very long time. The protagonist is a little more unruffled by the whole situation than one might expect, but it seems like a fairly believable aspect of his personality to me. He also gets to go back home to Earth when he doesn't need to be in the other world for the sake of the story. This leads to some amusing shennanigans as he and his summoner figure out the mechanics of that. The bird society is well written, and all in all the story is sometimes vaguely reminiscent of "Gulliver's Travels" oddly enough, but without the heavy satire. I would say it is well worth a read. See for yourself!
ElziadRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I really enjoyed this story, I'm desperate to learn more about what has been teased and foreshadowed. Here's hoping the author is able to come back to it.
EDIT: it looks like the story is now complete rendeing the negaitve hlaf Star from previously moot. I should clarigy that I've not read the final chapters yet but based on the promise of what I have read I'm changing the rating from 4.5/5 to 5/5
BeyogiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This story is about a human who gets summoned by a small magic bird-creature and their experiences in the alien society. The human protagonist is rather overpowered, which is of use but doesn't render the story boring since most of their problems are social in nature.
Trying the standad familiar bond on the protag (which is for animals or monsters), nobles being murderously offended that the protag named the summoner and infringing on their priviliges and people realising that apparently humans managed to raid the planet in the past and decided to kill and eat the magic chickens.
Overall pretty interesting story so far and I'll definitely follow it.
NLinCHRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I loved the story and both the human as well as the bird characters are well written.
Both societies (modern human and fantasy bird) have their norms, prejudices, cultures and science build in a natural way, without everything being forced onto the reader. Instead as the MC gets to know the bird world, we receive more and more of what a diverse but overall coherent society they form.
The only minus for story is, that it is incomplete and doesn’t seem to be continued any time soon, though I would love for it to do so.
By th e wa y I ne e d e d mo r e wo r d s.
Reading it was a worth way to spend most of the free time of my weekend. As such Thank You for creating this story and hopefully you may find the motivation to continue it. No matter had it been double the amount of chapters (which have a perfect length) I would have still read them all.
Also nice to see alternate version of the story which though not continuing, still offers great backstory without feeling pushed.
Once more:
Thx for the story and good luck with it!
Granz TacRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
I just found it today and binge read it it's started interesting until dozen plothole too big enough to jolt that intress...
I'm still wondering why MC willingly step into magical contract without knowing anything then in late chapter I started get feeling why MC is so... So submissive? In first chapter I getting gasp he at last strong willed but why heck he didn't even ask for details and just listen to sob sorry and agree going to war...
And last straw was when MC willingly get collared and then mind read... Even sane without any crime won't even agree...
srkiesser1Royal Road
★★★★ 3.5
Honestly this review will be much wordier than it truly needs to be, since they put a minimum word requirement on reviews. So far, I like the concept, and the sheer OP factor is based entirely on size, and intellect. The fact he just happened to have what made his second visit a snap was a little bit Meh, unless it comes back in future visit where the Summoner asks why he can't just do that again, and he must explain that it wasn't magic, but a mundane tool for killing. Keep going, and perhaps post more frequently at first. Just throw stuff out there, and see what sticks. You can edit when things are pointed out, and in fact, It might make editing easier that way. Readers spot mistakes much better than Authors, because you auto edit in your head, cause you know what's supposed to be there. Readers also point out details that weren't explained, so you can then adjust the chapter to include those details. Keep up the good work, and HAVE FUN with it.
NullFailRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Premise and introduction is interesting. The idea is exotic. Story execution fulfills some of the itch for a creative fantasy story. The protagonist being the summon of a sapient race of birds is quite intriguing.
However, I found myself skipping parts. The character is inconsistent and breaks the story for me. Mc’s skills and familiarity with, are explained off as his preparation to prepare for a fantasy scenario which may have been a one off thing. It could be explained off as something like exam stress or something mental, instead, he takes years to train in modern weaponry and its sport for being transported to another world???
He must have a life and interests outside of the otherworld but to explain his actions solely off of what seems to be one very short event, breaks immersion. This is ok at this point with suspension of disbelief, but the moment mc goes to the otherworld, he seems to have regressed to a highly emotionally unstable and submissive being — I cannot in any way, believe this to be the same person who resisted the mind control so aggressively and reasonably so.
The snippets when the mc is transported back onto Earth are pretty nice, but at this point into the story I don’t see anything about close relations and interactions on Earth. The call he answered when people became worried was from work, what about the others??? Friends, family?? Are they close to him or don't care?
To supplement and solidify who the mc is, detailing more of his relations on Earth through interactions would be great as well.
Mc asks some questions about tech and weaponry, but thats pretty much it, whats mc’s training beforehand even do at this point, fencing and spears, two completely different weapon forms. Just because he knows how to utilize fencing doesn’t mean he can wield every long range melee weapon.
Plot is hard to completely grasp. I do not know which goal is currently being worked on, focus/progression shifts.
telepathy(+others) intricacies, details and experi
luda305Royal Road
★★★ 2.5
This is an interesting idea. Rather than summoning a critter or elemental, Suma (a mage from a race of sapient birds) ends up summoning a human, our protagonist. And unlike most isekai, he can get dismissed to go back home. And so we have a plucky kid ready to explore a fantasy world and magic, and some interesting worldbuilding, especially about what a race of sapient birds might be like. There are some strong HFY vibes.
In terms of what the plot actually is... That's hard to pin down. To begin, the pithiest summary I can think of is where one kid gets drafted for World War 2 and her best friend decides to enlist so that they can fight together. But really that's only about half the story or less, and especially in book 1, there's a lot of slice of life as Jake practices magic, gets armor, and engages in some shenanigans with the locals due to the culture clash.
Then later, there's this new plotline that develops
the chaos dragon, a fearsome enemy from ages past, is trying to return to the world.
This is honestly very confusing though.
One of my major criticisms of the story is that there are relatively frequent plot holes or contrivances (recommended background: ; Most of the time it's something very small, like how one particular little thing happens in a scene, but the issue is that they are pretty frequent.
One example is that Jake and Suma can telepathically communicate with each other, and this seems to be unlimited in distance, it can cross between the two worlds, and there doesn't seem to be any stamina issue. And it is private. I cannot begin to tell you how many times one of them was like, "we need to talk, can you summon me//I summon you?" or "let's step outside so we can talk privately away from others." OMG, my head hurt after like the third time that happened and honestly it probably exceeded two hands.
There is also the occasional big issue. One egregious example is:
Jake ends up being possessed by the chaos dragon at one point for several minutes
IDC-Royal Road
★★ 2.0
Is the story complete?: NO
Did I drop the story?: YES
Is it hard to read?: NO
Did it do something to stand out?: YES
Would I recommend it?: NO
Thoughts:
Very interesting story hurt by the fact that's it's unique premise is wasted on very standard wish fulfillment OP cheat MC powers.
How I format my review, keep in mind they are for the readers not the authors:
- The story starts with 5 stars.
- I remove 1 star if it is not complete.
- I remove 1 star if I dropped the story.
- I remove 1 star if it's hard to read (odd word choice, grammar, etc).
- I remove 1 star if it fails to do something that stands out. (Funny, Unique premise or perspective etc)
- I remove the 1 to 1/2 if I would not recommend it to read regardless of score.
Thought: A summary of my personal take.