The Scourge Wars: A Monster Evolution Story
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A politician assassinated. A monster reincarnated. A Scourge unleashed upon the galaxy.
Victor Slate, former Marine infantry officer and the Governor of Texas, has just won his bid for the presidency over the United Nations of America. When an assassin's bullet takes his life during his victory speech, his consciousness is conscripted by one of the Great Devourers, Famivus.Slate is thrust into the alien world of Somna where he has been reincarnated into the body of a parasite and given one mission: evolve or die.
If he can channel the monster inside and utilize his military and political experience to establish Famivus' personal army in the galaxy, the Scourge, he might have a chance to evolve before the forces of life find him and send him to a permanent death.
This is a rewrite of my bestselling series by the same name. I'm editing it to bring it into the same universe as the Apex Archives, as well as correct the poor editing that was present in its initial release. Returning readers can expect different characters, a different world, and a sci-fi bent. However, in its essence, this book is still a monster evolution story where the main character is a villain, and the whole universe his victim.
You've been warned.
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- Status
- Hiatus
- Year
- 2023
- Author
- D.W. Belfield
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- Rating
- 4.7/ 5.0
- Followers
- 52
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- 5,116
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Community Reviews(4)
- BarokRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0I have already read the books, all 3 of them, and from the beginning I was hooked by the story. I am really surprised by the rewrite, because I thought the book was pretty good already, but I am looking forward to reading it again and to find out what has changed. So here we gooooo!!!!
- RandMantearRoyal Road★★★★★ 5.0Seems like am overall improvement to the orginal story so far. Gallowing the original general story with more relevant detail and "show don't tell " of how the psychopath politician really would perceive the world. of My favorite lizard elf monster is here bring realpolitik once again.
- Brainballer12Royal Road★★★★★ 4.5I originally read this book back when it first came on royal road. Then i read book two somewhere (book 2 was my favorite). Didn't read it on amazon.It was good then and its looking even better now. The imagery of how he looks is hard to grasp right now but it should shape up soon.The future of this rewrite based on what i've seen so far is looking to be more in depth but a lot more descriptive than before.
- Evelyn AdelbergRoyal Road★★★ 3.0Hey there, first time reader here. (I feel the need to clarify since all the other reviews are from people who've read the first version of this).
I think this story might have potential, but the grammar/flow and the way the MC was written were very off-putting to me.
First, I think the language and sentence structure needs to be simplified. It comes off as using synonyms for simple words in places where they feel just ever so slightly muddled (just like my use of the word 'muddled' there). It all makes sense, and perhaps is even correct, but it doesn't feel, or flow, very well.
Second, there were a few instances of sentence that didn't mean anything.
The President-elect was just out of sight behind an unassuming press partition situated in front of the capitol building steps
This example doesn't have a verb. We can guess the meaning easily enough, but it does break the flow.
The MC didn't feel like the kind of character he was meant to be. Since he was also the narrator, the way he talked about himself was not how a politician or ex-millitary would. And it's not about word choices, or the feelings/actions described, but how they're presented to us.
> Victor was used to this response after many speeches on the campaign trail.
If he's used to it, then why does he register it? Why does he react? Or, if he likes that kind of big crowd, why doesn't his smile widen as he moves on?
This tells us that he's used to the response.
> Any damage he left in his wake was merely the cost of doing business.
Once again, if he doesn't act like that's the case. If he truly believed it, he wouldn't have monologues about it in his head.
TLDR: I think this story has it's audience (as shown by the half-full of loyal readers who've followe it since it's first version). I think both issues that I've brought up can be classified as personal style at some point in an author's career. So if those things don't bother you, then definitely give this one a shot!
🍎 [2/100]