My Girlfriend, the Necromancer

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Description

The power of the Orb cleaves the skies and shatters the earth. It heralds the advent of a new era, one where humanity is no longer at the top of the food chain and we must rise to the challenge when faced with our own extinction as a species.

I could hardly care less. All I ever wanted was to love my Allie, to grow old and wrinkly by her side as I held her hand before taking my last breath on this green earth. To have our love echo through the ages, an ode to the last great love story on the planet, one that would endure the end of humanity, the breaking of the world, and even defy the dread summons of Death itself.

It’s said that when the gods unleash their fury upon mortal kind, they grant their wishes.

Well, crap.

This is a gritty end of the world survival story with modern fantasy/romance/game-like elements in it. The main focus will be character development while stats and menus are there as a fun vehicle to empower the imagination.

This is a work in progress and I deeply appreciate any helpful suggestions, so please don't be shy with input!

Currently posting at least one chapter per week.

Information

Status
Hiatus
Year
2019
Author
chelanite

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.3/ 5.0
Followers
530
Views
135,349

Chapters(36 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

  • AelemRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Love the ideas! I'm excited to see where this goes. Hopefully Kai starts wising up soon, Allie has been doing most of the work so far.
    Here's to their reunion!
  • AnimanRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Reviewed as of chap 14.
    I desperately want more of that skilfully narrated survival dance of two characters, whose dynamic expressed in dialogs has become my recent drug.
    If dark stories with some LitRPG elements and wise, strong-willed characters are your thing, I strongly advise joining this entertaining journey, which probably will leave you wanting more, and more. Just as the best writing should.
    Style:
    Pretty damn good. It was a pleasure to read. Superb choice of words. Awesome dialogs between characters, which correctly show their personalities. Places which should be funny are funny. Places which should be grim are grim.
    Action scenes are well directed (though sometimes I had trouble with comprehending what had happened in which order).
    Grammar:
    Only once a red lamp had lighted in my mind. For that amount of text that's pretty awesome, as far as I'm concerned.
    Characters:
    - Main chars are intelligent and interesting. Especially the woman, Allie. She takes what she wants, and quickly adapts to every situation. The male lead, from whose point we see the story, Kai... well, he stands up to the challenge when a situation requires it. He is likable and relatable.
    Story :
    The beginning (after the prologue) is a bit slow. However, as we proceed further, the story just gets more and more interesting, leaving some tasty unknowns along the road (Especially the weapon shop chapter).
    TL; DR: My girlfriend the necromancers is a well-written story about the survival of two strong-willed, intelligent, and unique characters, that is really worth reading.
  • Endless_calmRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Yeah, having a prologue and then spending 20 chapters on everything needed to reach the prologue can be annoying. I get the feeling the author is trying to be too ambitious and is locking himself into shooting for a 900k word saga/story. That would really be the only way of justifying 20 chapters worth of content as "foundation" for the rest of the novel. Regardless, I think character development is the biggest plus of the novel. The romance is deep and tested by apocalyptic scenarios -- not just sappy banalities. I'm not sure how chelanite is going to grow his novel, but I can't wait.
  • KhalaenasRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I stumbled across this story ages ago, back at like chapter three, and thought it looked very intriguing. Now I've finally manned up and read it, and boy was I missing out.
    This things amazing, and well written. It holds a very special power over words and descriptions, being able to paint an entire scene in just a few words. The characters are fleshed out and meaningful too, and have more personality than a cardboard box(Which is better than a lot of stories can claim...).
    I also chose to write this review because the author said that he/she, was currently in hard times, and I thought that he/she needed some moral support.
    So here it is. If you need to ask for help, or solutions to problems, just tell us, your fans, and we'll gladly take our share of the weight, so long as you let us. So hold on.
    Now with all the nice stuff out of the way.
    ME CAVEMAN! ME WANT MORE CHAPTER, OR ME BONK AUTHAH ON HEAD!
  • LightningShadow7Royal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    I have read the first 4 chaps as that is all that is available right now. This story seems extremely well done even though I generally hate stories that start in the future for the first chapter as it spoils the rest of the story. However, this story somewhat makes it work even though I think it would have been for the better without the spoiling start. I highly suggest you read this story.
  • josh keelyRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    the only reason i cant give you a perfect five out of five is because of your main character i need to be able to understand his thought process better at times i'm like this guy is a patato and other he is the smartest guy in the room he needs to be more consisent otherwise plot armor issues will arise all the other charcter seem really fleshed out and have serious depth mean while mc is walking  around  as skelton with that said i cant stop reading though and i lpove very other detail of this story nvr stop
  • Dylan SandyRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    Gotta say. I love what you did for the first few chapters.
    Can't wait to see their relationship evolve over the course of the story.
    The part I'm anticipating the most is the change (or lack thereof) in the boy's behavior towards his Allie.
  • WayneRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 3.5
    I'm at chapter 14 at the moment and I'm compelled to write a review to point out 3 glaring flaws in this tale so far.
    First of all the prologue, it ruins any sense of suspense or stakes for chapter 1-14 as we all know they'll be fine for a certain period of time. Admittedly most readers expect the MC to be fine due to plot armor, but there's always the potential for a co protagonist to die or a main character switcheroo to happen. With the prologue, the reader knows that all these 'dramatic' tense action sequences are meaningless. Chapter 12 would have been way more intense without the prologue for instance.
    Second of all the title ruins what could be a heart breaking if premature end of a couple in the prologue as we are all now aware of what class she'll choose to 'save' her boyfriend. The only real question that remains with that spoiler is what kind of summon he'll be and what kind of damper it will put on their relationship.
    Third of all the male Main Character displays a tiresome lack of survival instinct, not only is he passive, he seems to want to crawl into a ball and die which while dramatic in an emo kind of way is mind numbingly boring. Admittedly he shows some spine in chapter 12 which is refreshing but he goes back to whining in a couple of chapters about random strangers.
    If the prologue is removed and the title is changed to something a lot less spoilery, my vote for a new title goes for "Hell Hath No Fury" as a reference to the kickass girlfriend & the death games not bringing them down. If the prologue remains, at least change the title and the class options at the end of the prologue so as to provide some kind of mystery about her choice of 'solutions' to the dead/dying bf.
    I think this is a well written story but it would be a hundred times better if at least the first two flaws were corrected.
  • DrAltRoyal Road
    ★★★ 3.0
    The writing quality is high, but the pacing is too slow for me.  I feel like this could be rewritten with a much tighter plotline, or alternatively, the prologue should be a lot later in the story.  Still I understand putting a super great cliffhanger 'in media res' prologue in front for many chapters of boring background is a style choice.  It isn't a style I prefer to read.   I could see myself coming back and reading this later when the prologue is caught up to the actual story, because premise looks good but is drowned 10+ chapters of unimportant background.  This is the type of novel I would skip around in, but that isn't possible with an online presentation like royal road.
  • kjoatmonRoyal Road
    0.5
    If you need that much of a buld to then not give anything to the reader for the next several chapters, the very premise of the writing is flawed. It is llike beating the readers to death with a baseball bat and then saying, "See, now that was a cliffhanger!" No, it was a murder. It absolutley kills the story and makes it a worthless read.