I didn’t ask to be the Demon Queen

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Description

After an accident involving a truck, Liz wakes up in a world she once thought existed only a video game, as the Evil Dragon Demon Queen no less. She has no idea what to do, where she is, or what's going on. She's not the brightest, or the bravest, the coolest or the most cunning. But she cares, deeply, truly and powerfully, and she's not stopping until she's done everything she can for everyone who needs it.

Demon Queen is a love letter to fantasy, and a damning indictment of how we don't question a lot of fantasy tropes.

It's also a story about accepting yourself, seeing your flaws for what they are and what they aren't, about vulnerability as a superpower.

It's a story about being trans, about what it means to not know who you are when all you've known is denial and fear.

It's also a story about queer love, about non-traditional relationships, and about expressing your affection to your loved ones without reservation.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: Ela_Maxima

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Rating: 3.9/ 5.0
Followers: 84
Views: 59,841

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Community Reviews(4)

The DevourerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I like this story. I am french speaking and i don't care about the form. What's important, it's fun to read and I can project myself in the universe, even with the barrier language.
I'ts fun
It's a nice story and the fact people switch species add a new form of debate about races and what is humanity.
Genre, species must not be a barrier to imagination and fun.
Please go on and continue to write. What is refreshing are also the emotions the Reincarnated queen has and her perspective of the environnement.
Thank you for this refreshing story.
KleesmilieRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
While the first few chapters might be a bit grating to some readers, the story is constantly evolving. This is probably because the characters are not ‘perfect’ but instead complex. For example the main character isn’t very decisive and while they understand/realise some things, they miss/overlook others. In the beginning they are also a bit naïve/immature, which doesn’t really fit into the story.
A few elements fit some cliches, but the author finds interesting and somewhat unique ways for conflict and resolution of that conflict.
The main character being oblivious of the obvious love interests advances/signals comes to mind.
Another pro is the system of magic in the story, which doesn’t feel like another science to be studied, but simply magical/mystical.
What detracts from the story are some elements which feel just a liiiitle too convenient and the somewhat weak beginning.
Overall the story has potential, wich up to the chapter where I wrote this review, hasn’t been fully realised. In other words: could be better, could be worse.
EvolutionRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
In short, I appreciate the potential of the story, each character, and the author's ability to describe them in detail is quite nice. However, I only managed to get through 9 chapters before I called it quits. Naturally this is my own opinion on the story, so don't believe that what I say is law. However, I personally would thoroughly enjoy a rewrite of the story where the mc is far less of a mental and physical punching bag. This is not to say that the mc should be on the other side of the spectrum, but a balance would make the story quite a bit better IMO.
PROS (the BEST I could find)
1. Spelling and grammar. I appreciate reading English that is actually ENGLISH.
2. Character descriptions and detailing is well-defined and lets the viewers get a relatively easy mental picture.
3. Incorporated abilities are more unique as they actually do what they are intended to do, none of the "I cast the world's strongest heal to barely heal a papercut before it stops working", nor the "I have the easiest spell in the world and have used all my current mana along with any mana I'd have in the future, never to recover it again..... because reasons". (A common trope that has killed many stories for me personally).
4.
The mc being non-human and embracing that fact, none of this "Oh god, I'm not human? Time to become human....."
5. The seemingly diverse pool of entities the mc meets initially. While many stories claim to have "elves and orcs and dragons and blah blah blah", they fall flat by focusing on a single race for far too long. Take this one with a grain of salt as I haven't read past chapter 9.
CONS (the MAJOR faults)
1. The mc has the mentality of a 1 day old abused puppy. All it does is cry and whine. That might be useful for a progression story of character growth, but you make (adult?) mc sound like they were just born. Slight paraphrase from the text: "A stern talking-to puts the mc in tears".
2. The mc talks and acts like a cross between a "cringey 13 year old" and a 4
general schnapsRoyal Road
★ 1.0
Instead of telling you why this story is bad, I believe it is better if I simply show you two "paragraphs" from the first chapter. Just keep in mind this is a story about a man getting reincarnated into the body of a demon queen. This is the first thing we learn about the mc:
[...]“What’s going on?” I wagered. My voice was amazing. There was a timbre to it, an essence of absolute authority with a hint of… It reminded me of actresses from old movies. A playfulness that made you feel like you were being confronted with an apex predator. God, that was a sexy voice.[....]
And one paragraph later we get this
[...]She was pretty, in a dainty kind of way? I tried not to think of women like that, god knows they get objectified enough already, and I’d sworn to myself I wasn’t going to contribute to that. The way I saw it, I might never experience that kind of treatment, but I was certainly going to fight for their right to exist without discrimination or harassment. But she was pretty, short brown pixie cut and all.[..]
I will be frank the mc is unlikeable and just weird. In the first chapter the mc kills someone, revives her, sees her turn into a raven and fly away. And how does the mc respond? By gushing about how sexy that new demon body is ofcouse - like every sane person. I quote, "every guy would want tits to look at whenever, right?"
( compare that with the quote about objectifying women. smh ). Also whoa horns! "That was cool as shit".
It does not stop there in chapter two the MC has to immediately go to a mirror and ogle that sexy demon body again.
Infact each time this happens it feels less like a person describing him/herself and more like a horny autistic 14 year old describing his fanfic oc or waifu.