Summon Slime (an Absurdist Cozy Fantasy) (Episodic Volumes (Mix of Ongoing, Complete, and Stubbed Out))

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Description

Come join Slimantha in the ongoing volume 4 of the absurdist cozy power fantasy Summon Slime. After Slimantha's girlfriend, Latril, accidentally causes a sword-zombie (swordbie) apocalypse (Yay! Zombies!), there is now a sword horror to hunt down. Is a swordbie apocalypse really that bad?

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Summon Slime is a series with episodic volumes, so any volume should double as its own story. Start reading at any volume.

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Volume Index

* Volume 1: Crow-pocalypse volume. Stubbed out. Available on Kindle Unlimited. See profile for link.

* Volume 2: Missing-mayor volume. Complete.

* Volume 3: Sword-dungeon volume. Complete.

* Volume 4: Sword-zombie volume. Ongoing.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2024
Author: JustACatGod

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 3.6/ 5.0
Followers: 115
Views: 34,915

Chapters(105 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

librarysmilesRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
Once upon a time there was a bumbling hero from another world who encounters a bunch of ladies. Except most, if not all of them, are monsters. Also, they aren't damsels that need saving. The hero and his sword needs saving. The hero is acting like he has choices and can make a difference, when his role looks like a side character drifting along or a white elephant gift that is precious but costly for others.
D.J. RintoulRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
I only read to Chapter 7, but I think this series is a sandwich in need of another slice of bread.
I enjoyed the author's writing style quite a bit in the first few chapters. Absurd humor is kind of my jam, and that's the way the author writes pretty much every moment of this story. The main character, Slimantha, is a slime summoner who seems to be able to solve any problem (and some things that really aren't problems) by summoning a slime to make her life more convenient. She talks (and seemingly thinks) in a strange, inhuman, almost childish way. She carries a cheese sandwich in her pocket. At first, these qualities in the main character and the story and writing style are endearing.
The problem is that every chapter after the first one or two feels approximately the same as the previous one. There's no sense of progression, plot, story, structure, etc. There is no sense of past or future to this world. Everything seems to exist in an eternal present. Nothing has stakes, urgency, or meaning.
All of the above could work in an absurdist humor story, if the humor kept surprising me and pulling me in with further interesting scenarios and twists.
But the humor falls off a bit, unfortunately, after those first few chapters. The author doesn't write in the same ironic style, and to the extent that the author's style is used again in later chapters, it feels more repetitive and less effective.
And then the attention is on the story, which is really more or less a non-story (most of the chapters could be summarized as "Slimantha went for a walk with a friend" or "Slimantha had a sandwich while shipping the hero with one of her friends" or something along those lines, i.e. a one line description that includes everything that happened).
The biggest problem I had besides this big story issue is the characters. When the author started writing chapters that didn't include the hero (i.e. the only sane person in this world), I realized that any conversation that didn't include t