These Hallowed Bones - [Monster Evolution, Dark Fantasy, Heroic Undead]

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These Hallowed Bones - [Monster Evolution, Dark Fantasy, Heroic Undead]https://geni.us/TheseHallowBones

The dead remember duty longest.

Beyond Haven’s walls, twilight smothers corrupted realms. Yet in the Field of Broken Banners, where the last great army fell, something older than despair takes root,Purpose.Forgotten oaths stir in blood-soaked soil as bones rise from hallowed ground. Not a lone hero reborn, but a guardian forged of countless warriors’ final breaths. A silent champion shackled to the last desperate command that ended an age,Hold the line. Protect them all.

It bears no name. Needs no flesh. Fears no death. Only the dead remember how to stand guard. Some promises outlast even death.

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Status: Ongoing
Year: 2024
Author: drewkelly

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Rating: 4.5/ 5.0
Followers: 2,767
Views: 139,906

Chapters(33 total)

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Community Reviews(10)

VisorRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
It's a pretty good monster mc story. The protagonist is silent, only drawing out messages on the occasions he communicates with humans, his evolutions actually make him more monstrous and not less, and he's a properly heroic protagonist who values his duty to protect humanity and destroy monsters over anything else. Currently, his goal is to just singlehandedly kill everyone from demon duke to demon lord to demon king while protecting and guiding refugees to Haven, the last refuge for humanity.
The protagonist definitely feels like an revenant hellbent on saving people and destroying demons, rather than a modern dude minus the flesh.
There's not much to the side characters though, they're basically one-note characters meant to give him something to help rather than characters I'd be interested in on their own. Just something to consider for the author in the future.
VolstokRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
If the game series dark souls had a literary child this would be it.
Firstly, I usually never write reviews and this may very well be the first. This book has an extremely unique style and charm to it. The author should feel proud.
It is very rare for me to come across a concept that I have not seen before. I am a voracious reader and in the month of December 2024 I ready over 32 books. I say this to clarify that this book is unique and should be treated as such.
If you come into this books with ideas od tropes, generic drivel, or otherwise standard fair you will be disappointed. There are no real tropes here. This is a tale of a dying wish given oppertunity to manifest. This reads extremely edgy at times simply due to the nature of the story but it dances on the delicate line of edgy or simply justified by its setting.
With that said, this books has an appropriate amount of trauma, introspection, contemplation, duty, and grit to fully realize its setting and plot. It is wonderful of the author to live up to this as usually dark settings do not have the appropriate levels of brokeness to them both in the physicality of the setting and the mentality of the characters.
Excellent. A tour de force in writing.
Lucksinia GrimholdRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Well, there's a beast of a story, and here's a... something. This is litRPG... With some statuses, once, in a blue moon.This is also a heroic epic... Without heroes. This is an action packed adventure... Without much of the action. This is a...
For Aeternus sake, the main character does not have a name... yet!
Oh, I know! This is a Character Development story. With very meaty description of such development... Even if, there's no meat on those old bones...
Only Duty.
Amused TurtleRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
This novel, has some of the best prose, tone and atmosphere than any other novel on RR. I came for the cool skelly warrior, but stayed for the flowery writing making me feel like I'm in a grimdark epic fantasy.
The power, and abilities are a bit confusing initially. The author opted for LitRPG elements than shifted to something a bit more dark souls like. An imporvement honestly.
BiSeannRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
There are good stories that are moderately well-written. There are moderately-good stories that are very well written. Then there are stories like this, which are both moving and beautifully written. If you don't usually go in for monster MC stories - like myself - I'd recommend you give this one a shot. You'd be surprised.
nox001Royal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
Loving this story. There is just something moving about the concept behind it. The story is great. It has a great concept and is well executed. The dead rise up to protect the living. I can not wait to see where this story goes. Keep up the good work author and know I will be along for the ride.
zerohRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
The story's greatest strength is its style, worldbuilding, and prose. Each sentence flows like a river, and the battle scenes read like a song. The main character's perspective is distinctly inhuman, but is so clearly derived from the humans and the beings it assimilates into itself. That could make the main character seem one-dimensional, but the author keeps coming up with new, interesting scenarios to challenge the protagonist; reinforcing and refining its single core motivation.
The only reason why I'm giving the story a 4.5/5 is because the story is far from over. I can only imagine what the author can cook up in the future.
RaddddRoyal Road
★★★★★ 4.5
I was drawn in immediately by the blurb. It paints an excellent picture, but the prose makes this story extremely difficult to parse. There's an intention by the author to write in only short sentences, and I can appreciate the character voice it's trying to create, but without any longer sentences to break things up it becomes exhausting to read. It just doesn't work imo. yvmv
I found myself unable to immerse - to let the words disappear and see the story behind it. Instead it felt like I was listening to some kind of monk chant. I raise my arm. I swing my sword. My opponent falls. The world is quiet. This continues. Darkness looms.
The conflict is a little lacking too, with the main character defeating all obstacles... well... like an undead super weapon. Unfeeling. Invincible. Inevitable. It's not even bad, necessarily, but it's a character voice I didn't latch onto. The skeleton MC is inherently kind of incurious. He has a single goal and walks straight at it.
Idk. It's all very interesting and worth checking out, but it wasn't for me. I hope whoever reads this review gives it a go and feels differently than I did :D
Lynix2341Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Well worth the read. The story has some points that are easy to gloss over, but it remains on its theme and doesn't go too far, nor too long.
The fantasy elements remain consistent, and the more you read, the more likeable the main character becomes.
Quite well done, and after finishing book three, I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys fantasy.
Sharp_Claw111Royal Road
★★ 2.0
I wish this story was better, the world is very interesting and the concept behind the MC could be so cool it just falls short. Between the constant repetition of a few select phrases and the MCs personality having nothing beyond protect, kill, defend I can't get into the story.
If I had to suggest some corrections add a party member to the skeleton, a mortal who can add an infinite amount more personality to the story that or give our "MC" a main personality that is affected by the memories of other warriors of the past instead of made up of only fragmented memories. The only other change is to double check past chapters to make sure you aren't repeating phrases as quick as you are it makes the story unreadable.
The style and story are what really tries to carry it and it just can't get over the character and repeating words. Besides that particular problem the grammar is actually pretty good.
What the style does right is undying defender of the living that it almost leans to hard into. It is such a an interesting concept and is part of why I read as long as I did.