In The Maw Of The Gods

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Lilly Harper was always the type to keep to herself. She struggled to make friendships and so, she simply opted not to. That was why moving to the coastal town of Wilham didn’t bother her. She wasn’t leaving anybody behind and she certainly didn’t expect to be making any friends any time soon. However, when she starts hearing about the school’s “Magic Club”—a group of weirdos who claim that magic is real, she can’t deny that she’s slightly intrigued. Then without warning, she suddenly finds herself wrapped up with them. And what if they aren’t crazy? What if magicisactually real? And what if it’s because of that magic that something more powerful than they could ever conceive of is drawn to Wilham?

I plan to follow a release schedule of Tuesday/Friday.

Average chapter length will be 4,000 to 6,000 words and I will be using multiple POV's quite often.

Also to note, while I am flagging the story with content warnings, I am only doing so because there are specific moments where it will be needed. Overall, the story will be relatively tame and I plan to put extra warnings at the beginning of chapters that it applies to.

Thank you to everybody who decides to give my story a chance and I hope you enjoy it!

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Status: Completed
Year: 2022
Author: GeraldFishburg

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Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 42
Views: 71,568

Chapters(151 total)

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★★★★★ 5.0
Name one kid who hasn’t dreamed of one day casting spells like all the wizards we see in fiction, on TV, or anywhere else. Ain’t no harm in dreaming. But thing is… what if it did happen?
CHARACTERS: Well, if magic was real then one of our main characters would definitely be thrilled by it (he is a little obsessed). We cool with that. Aside from him, up to chapter 5, we’ve been introduced to four more main characters and a good few side characters as well. All in their teenage years and all sounding exactly as teenagers do. Always up to some shenanigans, and not yet dulled by adult life, but slowly accepting things as they are. Through their POV we see their worldview and the bits of that acceptance I mentioned: kids believe in magic, adults know it’s fake. To these guys magic can be many things: actual magic, a fun topic to joke about and explore, and a coping mechanism. Those thoughts will likely change very soon though; ch5 (very aptly named) made sure of that. I really enjoyed their joke-filled conversations and they really felt like long time friends. It was also really good to see some conflicting thoughts. People are contradictory by nature, so seeing that sort of thing makes them feel more real. Loved them!
STORY: The story was still at the beginning up to where I’ve read and was more of a slice of life than anything else. That was good. We needed to be grounded in the world first, understand everyone’s place and their thinking. This is especially true because there’s a big change coming. There’s not a lot of worldbuilding (on Earth) but that was also completely fine, because it’s the same as what we’ve got going on. Why explain the obvious, after all? There were a lot of POV shifts, but because the characters mostly stay together, either as a group, or at least in the same school, it felt more like a continuation than splitting the story in various threads.
STYLE: Easy and simple to read. The chapters are on the lengthy side – but this reader found no issue