Zombie Magus

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2019

Author

g-elliot

• Chapter 13 - Into the Mines
  Dec 3, 2019
• Chapter 12 - Entrance to The Mines Without Blood
  Nov 30, 2019
• Chapter 11 - Powerless but Not For Long
  Nov 28, 2019
• Chapter 10 - A Brief Visit
  Nov 26, 2019
• Chapter 9 - Wolf Hunting
  Nov 24, 2019
• Chapter 8 - A Path South Untread
  Nov 21, 2019
• Chapter 7 - Charting the Path (arc 2)
  Nov 19, 2019
• Chapter 6 - Death or Life, Neither a Choice (Prologue arc end)
  Nov 16, 2019
• Chapter 5 - Fight with the Bandit
  Nov 14, 2019
• Chapter 4 - Plans and Missteps
  Nov 12, 2019
• Chapter 3 - Cry for Help
  Nov 9, 2019
• Chapter 2 - To Hear a Voice
  Nov 7, 2019
• Chapter 1 - Death Defiance (arc 1)
  Nov 6, 2019

Reviews

Community Reviews(5)

• DefectivebyDesignRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This is a breath of fresh air, in comparison to the typical stale writing of other RR novels. The plot actually moves, and even the filler is so good you don't notice. Other writers are so bad that you can skip the entire chapter to read the one important plot sentence and hit next, while this novel has actual readable chapters. Not only that, but the author respects the readers, unlike other authors who write garbage, ban you for making a criticizing comment, then have a meltdown and go on hiatus. Stupid! Just write better, and stop wasting space with filler! Everyone should appreciate this novel for the rare diamond that it is. The only reason why it isn't rated higher is because people are giving bad novels higher scores than they deserve. Stop! Give bad filler novels the rating they deserve, whether or not their author cries about it. Bad writing is a plague that needs quarantined, and reviews are the vaccination! If everyone shuns bad filler novels that take 50 chapters to barely progress, we will start getting better writing. How anyone thought that was ever acceptable is beyond me. Good writing need to be better respected and made a target to strive for.
• ShannifinRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I would give this one 5 stars, but people tend to ignore those. As of Chapter 34, this is a great one! There's a slow buildup to the MC's big reveal, but it does get there. No glaring spelling / grammar issues. The world is developed beyond the scope of the MC, but it IS limited perspective storytelling, so don't expect too many infodumps. There is plenty of room left for expansion of both the cast and the setting. The MC has enough of a unique twist to her that it isn't an issue yet, and the pacing is just fast enough to take advantage of it to build suspense. Good luck, and may the Trending gods be with you!
  Edit: At Chapter 44, and the cast and setting is still up in the air. Still no significant supporting characters and the world is just starting to be sketched out. At this point, the pacing and lack of perspectives is becoming an issue, and instead of explanations via exploration and worldbuilding we are getting fragmented info, almost as an afterthought. For all the action there's no driving goal to the story beyond 'figure out what's happening', and that's leaving the reader (me) confused and losing interest.
• Christopher ContrerasRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Its a well written story, I found very few errors, but I just didn't really feel invested in the story. I know it would be great for some people, just not me.
• naralianRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  First, the positive: this story is coherent, has a strong grasp of pacing and consistent, if somewhat uninteresting, characters.
  The problems all stem from setting up what seem to be interesting ideas that are going somewhere, then not going anywhere with them. Specifics follow and are mildly spoilery:
  The setting is an MMO. I don't mean a fantasy setting where the magic and abilities are systematized, aka litrpg, I mean literally an MMO, including features of MMOs that exist solely as UX features for convenience and to avoid bugs that only result from the physical limitations of computers and networking like combat flagging, aggression tables, leash ranges and intentionally-nerfed AI decision-making. Seems like an interesting idea that's going somewhere... but no, just a thing that sometimes happens that's discarded when convenient.
  There's a convoluted setup of the class system designed to balance power levels that gives some classes advantages in some situations. Neat. Obviously this is going to come up in a puzzle the mc has to solve or shape the combat in some-- oh, no, it never means anything and everyone just violates the rules at will? I'm sure glad I waded through literally dozens of chapters of explanation then.
  The main character was an SS officer for the setting's equivalent of Nazi Germany prior to death, then during her brief bout of amnesia she experienced being a genuinely good protector of humanity with morals and such. Cool, setting up a redemption arc or at least a moral confli-- oh, or she could just immediately go back to being cartoonishly evil, murdering everyone at whim, and unceremoniously drop the moral conflict in favor of a maguffin chase, that's cool too I guess.
  Okay, but zombies have some mechanical problems (rotting) that will require tough choices (eating people) or at least difficulty to overcome, right? Oh, that never comes up because the story just arbitrarily lets her skip it to the point she's never actually a zombie... coooool.
• John Dyr ClassicRoyal Road

  ★★ 2.0

  not sure why the female lead is trying so hard to be this humanitarian it kinda ruins the story a bit, at least in my opinion. I feel like when u make a non human zombie lead u should try not to make them these people bound my morals and goodness