Otherworldly Anarchist - [Book 5 Stubbing April 17th]

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Book 1: Lillith of Endings available on Amazonin print, ebook, and audiobook editions.

Book 2: The Mage of Mourning available on Amazonin print, ebook, and audiobook editions.Book 3: Suffer No Kings on Amazonin print, ebook, and audiobook editions.

Book 4: The Broken Dead on Amazonin print, ebook, and audiobook editions.

After dying of pneumonia, seven-year-old Lillith wakes up, shocking her family. But she is not the same Lillith she was when she died.Flooded with memories of a previous life as a grad student in Chicago, Lillith, or Lily for short, has to cope with two sets of memories and a world that clashes with her ideals. Using her modern expertise and this world's knowledge, she is able to awaken a talent for magic, but it doesn't solve all her problems.Lillith isn't someone who will be controlled, manipulated, or ordered about. Her driving belief in this life will be the same as the last.

No Gods. No Kings. No Masters.

This is an LGBTQIA+ story with a lesbian lead.

Books 1 - 4 released on Amazon and Audible! I will provide links when available.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2023
Author: Dreamer's Riot

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
Followers: 2,219
Views: 159,595

Chapters(47 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

CalibanSpiderRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It’s a very addictive story. Lilith is born to a medieval society run by Taliban types.
Not only are girls and women treated like property but the nobility is very abusive.
Lillth means to burn it all down and make a better world from the ashes. Her first major confrontation with a truly heinous noble just wow!
Ria CorvidivaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The premise of this work is simple: An anarchist from Earth dies and her memories are melded with that of a seven-year old named Lillith, who lives in a a stratified society so totalitarian in its control over the population that even Big Brother would blush with envy. It does not forget that it is an isekai, but instead of the eponymous character trying to rise through the ranks or work to reform the system, instead, Lillith has a single driving goal: To raze both the government and church to the ground.
Style is fine. It's written in first person present tense throughout, which may be a bit disquieting to some, but I had no issues reading it. As the work shifts into the second volume, we start getting more scenes from others' points of view, used to both enhance the worldbuilding and showcase Lillith's actions and how they are perceived by others.
There are a few grammatical errors, but everything is relatively minor. An occasional misspelled word and a few comma splices and run-ons. Nothing that seriously detracts from readability.
The characters are the high point in the story. From royalty and clergy struggling to control the masses to petty nobles clinging to scraps of power to commoners trying to survive to the slaves and other 'undesirables' being swept under the rug, each character is well-developed as the needs of the story allow, seamlessly fitting into the overarching world. Some have fully bought in to the world, hoping to move up, some struggle with the powerlessnesses forced upon them, some try as they might to reform the nation, and some are so broken and beaten that any thoughts of hope for something beyond the immediate have been shattered.
And finally, the story itself. I want to say that the story and world is so caricatured in its cruelties that it defies all sensibilities and therefore diminishes its own themes as a result. But that is merely a reflection of the atrocities that we humans have managed to commit over the millennia even w
Roman00007Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I do not know much about writing for advance review but among few stories I have read. This is lot better and has lot of potential. The story is very different from normal trend on RR and still get better and better through each chapter.
Although the world settings is very dark but it justify our anarchist.
SkarabraeRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Style: The story's style is almost perfect. The word choice helps build the story's feel, which is based around the main character and her perspective. It gives us a very good idea of what sort of person she is, what she thinks, and how she feels. The only flaw is that there's a lack of literary devices.
Story: The story is paced exactly how it needs to be and develops how it needs to. The story itself is quite interesting, about an anarchist being isekaid to a Feudal world where magical power is what matters. The story itself is very character-driven, so the character section will be fairly crucial.
Grammar: I could not find any grammatical errors in the story. If any exist, they aren't distracting.
Character: The characters in the story are all interesting for one reason or another. They range from characters that are very well-crafted to be hated to characters who have interesting personalities. They are all fairly realistic as to what people in their positions could be like. However, I have to bump down the score because very few of the characters are three-dimensional. The main character is an anarchist who barely cares about anything other than achieving her anarchist ideals, not being told what to do, and one member of her family. The only member of her family who might have more than one dimension is her father, but that somewhat remains to be seen. The nobles are, at best, two-dimension. They range from massive jerks to massive jerks who are at polite. This is perfectly fine for this sort of story. It's about revolution that's entirely justified against an entirely evil political class, not a nuanced political situation, but I still have to grade it by Royal Road's criteria. Otherwise, I'd give the character score 5 stars.
SpoonsWithEyesRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There's a lot I'd like to say about this book, but I don't want to ruin any surprises.
I will say that this book has everything I'd hoped for from Atwood's work, only better.
This book is much more satisfying, with characters I genuinely care about, a narrator who doesn't make me want to scratch my eyes out, and there's magic, too!
I cannot wait for the next chapter. And the next. And the next.
TiresiaRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One of the few Isekai/portal fantasy fics I have read that promises a genuinely revolutionary main character, and completely delivers on this premise, in a way that genuinely feels radical and revolutionary, rather than yet another “MC works to reform the system from within” or worse, “MC ends up replacing the previous ruler, but they are a Good Benevolent King, so everything is magically ok now”.
As a protagonist, Lillith is a breath of fresh air from the typical Isekai fare, someone who refuses to compromise her principles in the name of pragmatism, screams her defiance in the face of an unjust world, and sees herself first and foremost not as a heroic savior figure coming in to save the masses, but as one of them, here to help and to fight, not to control.
Additionally, the author did an amazing job using the world building, setting, and magic system to enhance the story’s themes and politics, without making it too heavy-handed. The world the story is set in isn’t just some generic pastiche of medieval Europe, its social structure serves to emphasize the fundamentally unjust nature of hierarchy and the violence inherent in any hierarchical power structure, stripping away the trappings of legitimacy or nobility to reveal the rot underneath. In the first book, the primary antagonist embodies the way that those with power rule and coerce through fear and their monopoly on violence in its most literal form; someone who is magically empowered by fear and domineering others, who use cruelty as a means of control. Similarly, the main religious organization isn’t just your typical corrupt Catholic Church knockoff common in lots of isekais, it takes the way that religion is used to control people’s thinking, and takes this literally.
karidyasRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
A lot of stories focus on the main character coming up in a nobles-and-peasants society, but usually born into nobility, or with the goal of becoming one. Sure there are evil individuals, but the system as a whole is rarely examined past "we should be nicer to each other and the baddies should be punished." Not here. Not with Lillith.
The titular anarchist isn't a zealot by any means, though her beliefs do come up frequently in relation to her motivations. If you think it's just about burning governments you might be surprised, although in this case there is a little destabilisation inherent in righting inequalities, as the ones enforcing them for their benefit don't want to see them go.
Speaking of, this world is filled with inequalities, with mind manipulation and slavery and unfair hereditary power scaling, and historical lack of freedoms for women; but here's someone not afraid to take risks and break things to change it. Not based in anger, or for revenge (though there is plenty of both), but from a deep place of caring which is so refreshing to read.
The character writing and premise are what I keep coming back for. Lillith isn't perfect, she often makes mistakes, but she's smart and resourceful and has a lot of agency. The supporting cast is varied and there's some satisfying character development as the story goes on. Some side character aspects could be delved into a little deeper, but hey I'll forgive it since it keeps the pace up.
Let's see, the rare grammar mistakes are fixed quickly and seem to come from speed or missed proof reading rather than lack of writing skill, which is more than I can say for a lot of stories on here.
The writing style has a clear voice from Lilith's perspective, and the action is written with great pace and imagination. The magic system is much more interesting than your typical element manipulation, and Lilith's subversion of it with otherworld knowledge feels satisfying. The plot has some gut-wrenching climaxes but is also ju
skundimadogRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is too fast paced, as such it is difficult to get invested in the characters and important details are omitted.
For example,
when Lilith first kills someone it comes off as quite strange as she does not really have much of a reaction to it, if it had been mentioned that this was not the first time the scene would have been much less jarring
Additionally I would caution against viewing individuals solely through the basis of class and material interest, though that is ofc important and can often serve as a good analytical tools for large groups, and can be almost universally true if a class self selects for certain traits like a willingness to exploit others.
However with nobility there is no self selection, due to the requirement being entirely based on luck. An individual could be a noble and still think that nobility should behave in a certain way not conformed to by the other nobles, F.E genuinely believing in noblesse oblige. They may even think the entire institution is stupid, rotten or otherwise bad but simply have no idea how things could be different, They might lack initiative or be cowed by peer pressure but may nonetheless be willing to act if pushed or if the opportunity presents itself.
Additionally it is important to remember that even people who exploit and hurt others without much thought can still have redeeming traits, even if they do not make up for that fact. A good villain is not one dimensional unless that is explicitly part of their character like if they are a force of nature or dark lord archetype for example.
Finally the story can come off as a bit self indulgent at times
For example when that noble dude whose throat Lilith bit out (don't remember his name lol) ultimately conceded Lilith's argument was correct and that he was indeed a bit of a worthless piece of shit. People don't generally do that IRL even if they have to manage their cognitive dissonance or retreat into blind dogma to manage that.
Last of all and most important
Crazy2fouRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The author writes banter really well.
On top of that, this is the best story I’ve read that does a ‘realistic’ medieval world. I’m talking about the inequalities, be it wealth, class or sex. Unlike most other stories like this, fighting these inequalities isn’t the main characters entire personality, it is her goal but it isn’t all she ever thinks and talks about, most importantly, not all the male characters are terrible people. 5/5
KaelikRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I love this story very much. I too have been frustrated by many many isekais that constantly just have mondern day people show up and say "well this monarchy is fine, but it needs a little more capitalism" and even when well written and interesting, they are still very frustrating!
This story is so wonderful, as someone showing up and saying "wow monarchy is bad" and then trying to make the world better, but dealing with the fact that it's actually really hard to make the world better!
Just reading the description made me want to read it, but the actual story itself, the writing is superb and I literally couldn't put it down. Finished 50+ chapters in less then 24 hours before I was caught up.