- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 26: All Hail Empress Fardom 3Feb 28, 2021
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 25: All Hail Empress Fardom 2Feb 27, 2021
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 24: All Hail Empress Fardom 1Feb 25, 2021
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 23: When Push Comes to ShoveFeb 17, 2021
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 22: Corollary of ThreatsApr 30, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 21: A Universal EdictApr 12, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 20: The Unrivaled ContraventionApr 3, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 19: The Mark of an Era 3Apr 1, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 18: The Mark of an Era 2Mar 31, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 17: The Mark of an Era 1Mar 26, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 16: The Hints of a QueenMar 20, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 15: The Shrinking CageMar 14, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 14: Rekindled FateFeb 21, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 13: Topazia, the Golden ShieldFeb 4, 2020
- Book 1: Rise of the Fake Demon Lord – Chapter 12: True Lies and a ContractJan 27, 2020
Table of Contents
Updated at Ch15/Ch20
Up front, I hate how the author lists chapters as holding the same number. I feel saying Chapter 14: Title Part A and then Chapter 15: Title Part B makes more sense and fits how this site lists the chapters out. So going by the authors convention, I'm reviewing on Chapter 15 and Chapter 20 by SH standards.
Right then, so I'm updating this since it seems Arc 1 "Rise of the Fake Demon Lord" appears to be coming to an end. Apparently there is a second arc dubbed "Fall of the Fake Demon Lord" so... I assume it will only have two arcs. Considering the description says it was planned out to 50 chapters and Arc 1 is slowly nudging against 25 chapters, the math seems to work out. I left my original review below for those who care and I'll only post what has changed.
The Good:
The Bad:
Still! Things are good. Read it! Love it! Keep it up!
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Written at Ch9
First to be up front, I'm reviewing this at like... chapter 9... which is actually something like chapter 12 since there are a few a, b parts... Which is a freaking lie because the damn chapters are like 7k-15k words per so if you compare it to other web novels on this site, there's already like 30-50 chapters worth of content.
All that was to say, the story is f**king awesome! I only recently finished catching up to the story and I noticed the author is taking time to go back and edit earlier portions of their story and fix grammar issues, typos, and word choices. It's very noticeable as the chapters now read with the first being the most polished and with chapters 3-8 reading like a bell curve as the author slowly figured his sh*t out. That being said, there are still random splashes of words that stand out. 'slowly' catches my eye most as I see it used everywhere in other works on this site, but it seems the author is removing those as he goes since I can't even find it outside of dialog in the first chapter now.
While reading, I've noticed a couple different styles of conversation which are pretty cool.
I particularly enjoyed the conversation interlaced with the teaching duel in chapter 8b.
I noticed a 1 star rating attached to this story and I can only assume that person ignored the tags, or refused to read past the
wonderfully descriptive rape
There is magic, but it's handled differently than I've seen other books try to go about it. I'm not sure if the author made a mistake or if it's part of the story, but there seems to be 3 or 4 ways to cast magic, but those ways never seem to interact. Some hints about a particular groups next destination might reveal more in future chapters. Not a negative, just a weird thing I noticed.
The characters themselves have a form of depth. Hiiro and Lapis are rather thin at the moment, but over the course of 100k+ words, their history and personalities are slowly being revealed, which I found nice. I think Aria is somewhat forced into the scene and it feels like some characters are important, but there's literally nothing supporting that beside maybe two - three sentences that I had to read into.
The story is at 100ish thousand words currently and yet the bulk of the story has remained in a single city/forest. There were obvious hints at the world moving in response to Lapis entering the new world and yet we've heard nothing about them yet, but to be fair, sh*t went down in recent chapters (7-9) and they have to properly handle it.
Overall, the story isn't rushed. The author seems to have planned the chapters out and it shows. I'll probably come back in the future to re-read the chapters I've already read to get the full immersion after the author finishes his edits to the earlier chapters. As I said before, the quality of chapters is a bell curve since he is fixing earlier ones and those fixes are slowly being applied to each chapter while his newer chapters already have the fixes built in. It's somewhat awkward, but will read insanely smooth when he's done.
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