Tale of the Malice Princess

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On the eve of his defeat, the Demon King entrusted one last mission to his half-demon daughter, Lusya. She was to sacrifice a pure-hearted mortal at the site of his birth to revive him.

Now, Lusya must transport a young girl named Ariya across the continent in order to complete this task. With muted emotions and little regard for morality or others, Lusya will stop at nothing to fulfill her mission. But the journey will not be easy. Lusya must figure out how to care for Ariya during the journey, lest all her work be for naught. Lusya must overcome those who would seek to stop her. And, maybe, Lusya must learn a little more about herself along the way.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2022
Author: YoreStories

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Rating: 4.6/ 5.0
Followers: 578
Views: 288,922

Chapters(130 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

912theapocalypseishereRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I think that this is a great story, and this review is meant for you to become interested in to reading this book.
The main character, Lusya, whom we mostly follow, is not a hero.
She kills Ariya's whole family in order to get her to follow her.
However, over the course of the story, we get to see her change and do everything Ariya sa-
cough* grow and interact with Ariya.
I would recommend this story if you're looking for a nice read, with meaningful character interactions and growth.
AlathentropyRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a tale as old as time. A demon adopts a child and they form a found family together, following the demon brutally murdering the child's family and taking her along as a sacrifice.
Tales of the Malice Princess is a story I think best suited towards readers willing to tolerate amoral behavior from a protagonist. Lusya, the titular character and daughter of the recently-deceased Demon King, does not begin the story as a caring person. Morality and to a large degree emotions are foreign to her, and she begins with nearly entirely selfish motivations, and behavior such that for a majority of the first volume I'd consider her more of a villain than an antihero. But this is part of what makes it so interesting to see her grow, grow to care for the girl she took in planning to kill her, and grow to understand her own feelings and what it means to care for another.
Ariya, the second main character, is someone who I think the story hinges on just as much as Lusya. She is a precocious but not annoying seven-year-old girl who starts out blissfully unaware Lusya is anything but a good person wanting to help her. Writing realistic child characters is not easy, but I do give the author kudos for how Ariya was written. She's smart for her age and unusually resilient and optimistic, but her unrivaled pure-heartedness is the reason Lusya picked her in the first place. Her behavior never felt off or unbelievable to me, and she's a sweet kid who, for me, it was easy to see why Lusya would come to care for her.
Lusya is the character who does the most growing, but Ariya does her fair share as well, and the addition of a third main character in the second volume does a good job to highlight both how canny she can be and how she and Lusya have changed while still retaining the core of their characters. The second volume was the place where the story really picked up for me personally, and Ander, the new addition, I enjoyed a lot and find further credit to the author being able to wri
WintydunnoRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I read all of the first two books over the last 3 days.
Tale of the Malice Princess is a story that draws you in not with action, but with inaction. This is not to discredit the interesting and well described fight scenes, but how both of the main characters react to the world around them, learning and growing in their own distinct ways due to their different outlooks and experiences.
The heavily perspective-based style stands out and is beautifully well done for both of the main characters. Early on, there is some heavy-handed exposition, but the quality of everything else around it, and the later chapters, more than makes up for it all. Standout.
The story is a rather basic, "cycle of demon king vs hero" kind of setting, spiced up by being told from the perspective of someone actively trying to revive the recently defeated demon king, made more interesting by the point that there is no current demon king, and rather than be presented with the peace that would follow a major victory, we instead see the combined effects of a world recovering from war and the power vacuum left over.
There are a few noticeable grammatical errors but nothing big enough to impede readability.
As noted already, the characters are standout. With two main perspectives, differing drastically by design, but usually viewing the same events, there is a lot of well thought out insight into how they experience everything. Slowly but surely they grow and change, each chapter making me wonder how they will react to the next experience.
I really like this story.
mitzee4Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I absolutely love this story. It essentially has two leads that perfectly complement each other. There is Lusya herself who is a perfect soldier lacking any semblance of morality (Seriously this isn't just a character who claims to be amoral she actually is.). But this time her mission is to bring a young girl across the continent all while keeping her safe and happy.
The child Ariya is the opposite of Lusya. She is actually written as a child, she is innocent and too young to be able to care for herself. Since keeping her innocent is a part of Lusya's mission she is forced to shield her from the horrors of their journey and is often compelled by Ariya to help people.
This is definitely a character-driven story about the journey more so than the destination, and I love this journey.
Grammar isn't perfect but issues are few are far between.
MizarCaphRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I'm going to preface this review by stating I really am enjoying it so far. There's a lot to love so let's get to it:
Characters:
The bulk of the story follows Lusya, a cold hearted demon and Ariya, a child who Lusya has to protect before ultimately sacrifiing her to ressurrect the demon king.
The dynamics between Ariya and Lusya are 10/10 and it's nice to see Lusya slowly easing into her role as a caregiver, softening up slowly as more of Ariya's demands and personality influences her.
Story:
Might be a bit slow for some, but I personally think the pacing is great and makes sense. Our protagonists are going on a long journey and it definitely feels that way in the story. The world is very rich in lore and has a neat description for their magic system which I won't get into detail here. Though speaking of descriptions, I'll have to get to the one big sticking point for me:
Style:
Oof, this one pains me to write. Because there are times when I really like how things are presented and delivered in the story, and other times when it takes me out of the experience completely.
To sum it up, there's a lot of scenes and excerpts that comes off too expositiony for my taste: focusing more on delivering raw information to the reader without contextualizing it enough in the POV of our characters. It's a damn shame because in contrast to this, when we do get dialogue and moments between Lusya and Ariya, it's all very well done and makes my heart melt a bit inside.
Grammar:
To end things off on a high note, grammar is pretty solid, with no issues I can notice.
Conclusion:
So, would I recommend this book? Absolutely, the writing quality is excellent by RoyalRoad standards and the characters and story are good. The only caveat is that some scenes do come off more like a wiki entry rather than something that fits hollistically into the story.
Yet, I still wish the author the best of luck with this story. And I do hope more people check it out!
ObliviareRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I’m having a great time reading this. The story reads a bit like a slice of life. However, I would say the strengths of this story lie in its pacing and characterization. The author has been very creative in thinking about how Lusya and Ariya interact with the world around them, and bonus points for an especially well written child character. As for pacing - I’ve read too many episodic/slice of life stories where certain events or arcs drag on a bit too long or are a bit too quickly. At least for my own personal taste, the author has struck a great balance.
I am extremely invested in the characters now and feel a growing sense of unease as we progress. Not too sure what to do with these feelings as the story is clearly far from over…
ReedDrosSynonymRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
After reading the first 8 chapters I can safely say this story has a lot of potential. The characters are interesting and well written and the world building has hints of interesting things that could be explored. Some ideas might be cliche (like demon kings and heores) but it could develop in a more compelling concepts in the future. In my humble opinion it deserves more recognition. I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops. I will probably write a more in depth review when it has more chapters.
RotenoneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It seems clear to me that the author put effort into making the characters. Ariya has very believable childlike mannerisms and thinking which I appreciate since fantasy authors usually have more simplistic children. The world building is also quite nice and I'm a sucker for nonhuman MCs.
My only warning for future readers is to seriously take note of the anti-hero lead tag, the first chapter (Ariya's family) and the overarching plot of the book can be somewhat distasteful if you are used to heroic stories.
PizzatigerRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
You know how stories with demonic corruption tend to have the victem become more and more twisted and hateful as the corruption progresses? With it starting with tiny compromises to their integrity that tend to be excusable, but said choices are made increasingly often or become part of the routine with the victem not even realizing or even lying to themselves about their change in behavior up till the point that its too late.
What I find truly fascinating about this story and is honestly what drives me to keep reading is that it takes that concept and flips it on it head as a small child slowly but relentlessly corrupts a demon following that same pattern.
Already Luysa has gone from a firm no hand holding stance to allowing handholding for purely practical reasons. It is truely the start of a slippery slope
ArtjomRoyal Road
★ 0.5
I quite liked this till the end of book 2.
Like mentioned in other reviews the interaction between in the half demon and her unknowing kidnap victim are quite sweet. In the 2nd book a character the new character is killed of in such an unsatisfying manner, that it ruined it for me.
Not because the characters death is not impact full, but because it's quite obvious a reaction to a few overblown comments in the chapter before wich kills most of the side plot buildup of that book.
Can't recommend.