Jimmy Roosevelt Sutton is dead. And apparently he's the solution for a problem that a deity isn't permitted to name. So he gets to live again in a world of magic as a divine champion with no mission to fulfill, spending all his time as he chooses. He even gets to pick his own divine boon. But there is a catch...
I make zero claims to know what I'm doing. And things go VERY poorly for Jimmy for the first while (starting in chapter 3, very abruptly). Written in first person present tense, so... heads up, and do check the tags.
TL;DR - First 40 or so chapters are fun. Character development and plot are replaced with p*rn from about chapter 40 to chapter 65. I do not expect plot to come back. No plot = no fun for me. Dropped story.
The good:
I was absolutely certain I would enjoy this story. Chapter 7 had a one-liner in it that made me laugh out loud. And I was right... for a while.
The bad:
But around chapter 40, the story switches from 90% plot to about 20% plot. (the rest is s*xual innuendo and outright porn). I need plot and character development to enjoy a story. The only characters developing at this point are the pregnancies.
Here is a quote from the first chapter: "I'm as far above you as you are above an ant, as are my brothers and sisters. Dad though... he's farther above us than I am above an ant." This is believable. What's not believable is that the main character is later transformed into one of the gods with no apparent change in personality or intelligence.
The gods are displayed as managers with very little personal power. In fact, the god of life has to massively abuse her abilities and endanger the entire planet just to power herself up enough to act like the kind of deity we normally expect in stories like this. Sorry to everyone that I spoiled part of the plot. But I needed to mention this because:
#3 is in direct opposition to #1 and #2.
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