The Divine Gambit

Self-Published

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Description

One crazy night massively changes a man's life and impacts the entire world's fate. Follow James as his simple college student lifestyle is overturned when he discovers that magic is real. He must forget his old ways and rapidly acclimate to his new reality, or everything he's ever known and everyone he's ever cared for will be destroyed.

Currently uploading one ~10,000 word chapter on the first of every month of the first arc of the story.

Information

Status: Ongoing
Year: 2022
Author: Kemmers

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Rating: 4.3/ 5.0
Followers: 143
Views: 36,787

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Community Reviews(4)

LilleneRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
James is a good man. He may even be too good for his own health ... at least, if he didn't happen to be more powerful than is reasonable. Not that he knows that when this starts; as far as he knows, he's just an ordinary college student getting close to graduation.
Now ... he will probably never graduate, at least not unless you count everything he's going to have to learn about dealing with high-power people in a hidden world. He's going to need to make his own position in the world and I have the feeling it's not going to be exactly what the current powers would prefer.
Good grammar, enjoyable style and a story that looks like it's going places with distinct, mostly likable characters - it's hard to beat that.
The only real caution at the moment is not one I'd take off a star for, but it is something to be aware of: the release pace is once a month. The chapters are a good length and well-polished when they do come out.
MagicalwinnerRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I liked the story . The text flows nicely.
I did not see gramatical errors. My only criticpoint is how explizit the sexscenes are . For rr this was for me to explizit
All in all if you dont dislike explizit sex .
this is a rant against the 50 words diktaktur . Why really i have to artifiacialy lenghten my review with gramatacial errors i dislike this. Also since when . When is was young this was not here .
Go for it
pantlessbanditRoyal Road
★★★ 2.5
It's not bad but it's hard to suspend disbelief as the MC just acts oddly and is so self righteous it hurts. He upends his entire life in like two sentences and is constantly having moral dilemmas throughout most of the story. I started skim skipping to try and get to the "adventure" part but it's non-existent up to the epilogue when I tapped out. The general idea is interesting and I don't mind the sex but the relationship+sexual dynamics seem to be 80% of the story.
Overall, this is a romantic smut story wrapped as a supernatural mythos story. It gets tiresome reading about the MC and his relationships. Also, again, it's hard to suspend disbelief in any of it.
strikerjsRoyal Road
★ 1.0
I really wanted to love this story. It has some amazing concepts and a dynamic and mysterious magic system that isn't a boring grindy linear progression snoozefest like many other stories are. We're promised a very strong/powerful MMC. It also promises a harem with a good amount of sex. All of this is totally up my alley and I was quite excited when I started reading this story.
Unfortunately the story doesn't ever really seem to progress and nothing interesting or exciting ever seems to happen. I wasn't expecting melodrama (I despise pointless and/or excessive melodrama), but some fun and exciting things to happen to MMC along with some personal/skill/power/material growth. Him earning/winning/discovering some treasure/artifacts/magic items would be great as well. Definitely some new and exciting relationships in addition to growth/increased intimacy for existing ones.
Of all these things pretty much all that happens (to any significant extent) is some growth in relationships. But most enjoyment we would expect to gain from that are heavily offset by MMC's mental/emotional issues and weakness of character. Much of the story seems to be from a PoV stuck inside MMC's head and we are subjected to his seemingly endless mental diarrhea which consist of his perpetual delusional ruminations. It's a vicious cycle (or circle if you prefer) of self-recrimination and insecurity which reinforce his low self-esteem and lead to impulsive/irrational thoughts and actions that hurt himself and those around him. He has everything (some of my wildest fantasies) given to him on a silver platter and he's stuck pissing and moaning (sometimes even literally crying!) about how much of a victim he is and how he never wanted any of it. He needs someone to give him a swift kick in the ass until he finally pulls his head out and sees how incredibly lucky and gifted he is and realize he should be grateful rather than bring down everyone around him (and the story along with it).
So, between MMC