The Many Gifts of Malia

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Once the terrifying God of Death, Charax has retired and just wants to spend his final decades in peace as he fades away. His idyllic existence gets disrupted, however, when his ex leaves a Chosen One on his doorstep. Now with a child to raise, Charax has found his world turned upside down, and it's all he can do to find a moment's peace.

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Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: GreenSkyDragon

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Rating: 4.2/ 5.0
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RavensaursrexRoyal Road
★★★★ 4.0
So I was a bit iffy on this after reading some of the reviews, however the subject matter and the promise of a sort of mythology from a god's point of view was just too tempting to pass up. I am quite glad I listened to myself.
This story starts with out main god on his deathbed, at his most dispondant and willing to just give up on everything. With the invasion of a child to break up his slow decline, his relationship with this child growing stronger. Then we get our titled goddess. Malia. She is a schemer, a prankster and a goddess of war. She freely manipulates and pulls at our my guy until he rises from his funk to realize he does indeed have more to live for. His boy chief reason among several. I think some of the subtlty of their relationship. It's not a fight or a back and forth. It's a dance, one they have done for millennia. They sharpen each other and make each other better and in spite of all their history she truly wants him at his best.
Not at all what I expected but I found their dynamic rather refreshing and new, even if it may at surface level resemble something rather toxic.
The characters in general are pretty interesting remixes of various god concepts with some Greco-Roman feels to them, but bent and twisted in some very interesting directions. I admit I struggle at times to remember all the various gods and so on but the story reads like a classic mythology.
In general I would recomend this to most readers. It is a more down to earth take on gods and goddesses but the stakes and setting is flexible enough to take in the ever evolving context of these gods.
josh065Royal Road
★★★ 3.0
It just feels like the mc is in an abusive relationship where his partner makes his life miserable, seemingly uses him and betrays him to then not even care about him but also stop him committing suicide to keep hold of him. Does this change? Like many readers I put myself in the Mcs shoes and I'm not a masochist
It's well written and put together really well. The characters are interesting at first but the above reason kills all enjoyment a person could ever get
SubmersedMushroomRoyal Road
★★ 1.5
This novel, if you can even call it that, is the epitome of cliche garbage. Not an original thought has been put into its digital pages, every story beat has been done a thousand times, and done a thousand times better. You have it all, old mega powerful guy goes into retirement, old fling draws him back in, stupidity ensues. Except this one decides to make the ex an abusive half-wit, her plans are so terrible and contradict essentially everything we've been told about the MC that it hurts to read.
Why must this novel be so completely cliche in every way possible, every damn way. The MC is the grumpy old veteran trope, the ex is the quirky annoying manipulator that, if she were real, would be the girl you date who everyone tells is a complete psycho. The "son" is the typical shite "hero" that will be "so completely surprising" in every damn thing he does. Why can't we just have a story that doesn't involve someones retirement getting screwed by a bunch of annoying a-holes. Why can't this literall god damn GOD, resist the basic level of manipulation that his ex throws at him. It is so tiring that this trope that "uhhh... welllll it works cause he like, actually never wanted to retire" he's a damn god, why the hell would he retire if he didn't want it. If he wasn't a god one could say it was because of his progressing age, but because he is a god that doesn't fucking work.
Author, you can write pretty well, if you would just drop the fucking cliches you could actually write something good. Hells bells man, you don't even have to drop the cliches just do something interesting with them. I would completely prefer a novel full of the worst grammar and garbage writing to this... cliche. Everything is so predictable that I can literally write the damn story before I even read it, this is not good my guy. You can do better, so perhaps put an even slight effort in avoiding these garbage, overused tripe cliches.