The Zombie Knight Saga

Frost's back and has brought my single favourite online story to RR.
Hector(the main character) is incredibly well written, and Frost has the chops to sell not only his reactions to the sudden life changes that occur fom his meeting with the grim reaper, but his ongoing depression and how being revived into undeath and gaining super powers still doesn't cure wonky brain chemistry, and realistically portray it as a part of his normal tought processes, instead of the ridiculous over the top, absurdly overwrought emotional maelstrom that authors on this site tend to potray it as.

the story as a whole maintains the quality that goes into the character writing, with believable cultures and factions, and integrates the fantasy elements amazingly well.

there's a six year backlog of story that i assume will be coming here, and with the benefit of not having to wait through various hiatus', should make for easy amazingly high quality reading 

The other reviews already say almost everything, this story is going right towards the top and rightfully so. It has a well balanced feeling, it covers dark themes and situations but also gets plenty of laughs out of me. 

The characters grow and develop personally and not everything can work out well or be fixed. Tons of banter and conversations engaging enough that it is hard to put down. 

It gets lots of things right, the powers and setting are well developed and thought out with consistency in power and growth. There are lots of varied characters with depth and motivations.

This story is highly contagious and I foresee a major outbreak in new fans.

Without spoiling much, Hector is a young boy that follows on his suicidal intents only to find out that death isn't the end. He meets with one of the entities that govern over the souls and is offered a simple choice, to live on as a Servant or to carry on to the afterlife. 

Style 5/5

The story is set in a modern world riddled with political and background agenda strife which is enjoyable to uncover and pretty much up the alley of anyone who enjoys such stories without being overbearing on the other who prefer a light fun read.

Story 5/5 

If I had to take points in anything, it would be the story department. the story telling is stellar, that is quite evident as you read, but the pacing does leave something to be desired between the events, this lasts across the first couple of arcs for me, at least. 

Grammar 5/5 

A finely written story and amongest the worthy few on RoyalRoad.

Characters 5/5

There is certainly something endearing with the characters in the story, their interactions with their significant undead overlords and the others of their ilk. 

TL:DR

Enjoy the magnificent read.

This is one of my favorite (if not favorite, simply) web serials. Not only does it have 1900+ pages ready to be posted here for avid reader consumption, but it possesses the advantage of being a fantastic series.

I like grammar. Grammar maintains the intelligibility of external expression of thoughts. Further, I'm one of those who cringes when reviewers spell it "grammer" while critiquing an author's grammar. While I won't claim this work is flawless in grammar, any mistakes it does possess did not detract from my reading of the story (and I am not claiming it has any mistakes... nut about grammar I might be, but I can still be immersed in a story).

The characters have real depth and also develop realistically. Garovel and Hector have a growing relationship that is relatable (obviously with the caveats of the reaper-servant suspension of disbelief) and this plays out into the whole story in a genuine fashion.

The style always fits the voice of the POV. I'm rather impressed in this regard. Despite the variety of personalities in his characters, Frost wonderfully maintains each's individuality.

The story has recognizable arcs with appropriate pacing. He does introduce new arcs via new POVs without much introduction. Still, nothing is extraneous, and his execution is great. There are never points where you feel like he is just meandering around his ideas in order to give readers filler while he thinks up the next arc. It is clearly planned. Given its genre, he keeps the arcs properly obscure, not giving the reader too much information but enough.

I could say more, but I already drifting into some rants.

Bottom line: this is a story to read. You won't regret it. If you do, it would be akin to my dislike of tomatoes... there's nothing wrong with tomatoes in themselves, but a defect in my sense of taste.

The Zombie Knight Saga is an excellent story with a great magic system.

The premise of the story is that a young man with severe social anxiety dies and is resurrected by a reaper to save lives. Being a 'servant' of a reaper means that he has certain powers, some of which are common among servants and some of which are unique to each servant. The story follows Hector's journey and adventures as he does his best to help people and become stronger.

The Zombie Knight Saga does a lot of things really well, with its magic system, fight sequences and characters being its strongest points but all other aspects still being solid.

The magic system in this story is excellent. It is detailed and complex, but well-fleshed out and clear to the reader. It opens up a myriad of interesting and unique possibilities for development and combat which are effectively realized and explored. Watching the MC and other side characters progress with their power has been a definite high point of this story.

The characters in this story are well-defined and complex individuals with interesting and realistic motivations, though that may not always be clear when we first meet some of them. The MC has been very well-handled, with his social anxiety being consistently portrated throughout the story and leading to some great humor. The relationship and banter between the MC and his reaper is another high point of the story, and is highly entertaining.

The worldbuilding has been done quite well, with the world, its history, and its politics being developed and expanded upon as the story progresses.

The story has been interesting and satisfying to read overall, but some arcs could have benefited from slightly better pacing.

The story is well-edited and has generally maintained a solid release rate over the 6 years since it began on its main site, though the author has taken a few extended breaks. 

I would strongly recommend this story.

(Review as of Chapter 197)

This is it. This is the webnovel that started it all for me. I had always been a reader to some degree, rarely going more than a few months without digesting some book or another. As I got further and further into adulthood though, I tended to read less and less. I hated having to go to a library to find a book to read that I might not even like. Having to settle on something that is terrible just because you want to read something is unfun to the extreme. So around 2015 to 2016 I set out to find something to read that was posted to the internet. I absolutely knew there was something out there that people had posted that didn't fall into the category of horrible fanfiction; it would be a massive waste of this incredible resource in the internet otherwise.

After a while of searching, I was met with this story, and while I wasn't expecting much, this story delivered such greatness that most professional printed books can't even hope to achieve. While I won't say this story is perfect, it is perfect for me, and by every right, deserves a 5/5 stars for every metric. This is the story that opened the world of webnovels to me that eventually culminated in my delving into everything from Japanese and Chinese translated fic to Royalroad. It has been quite the journey, but I still vividly remember most of the characters and places from this story, while many of the webnovels I've read in the interim I have completely forgotten. It is truly a marvelous story, and I am immensely glad that George has seen fit to bring his masterpiece here.

This is the story I cannot wait everyday to read. It has everything you want to love in a webnovel.
The characters are perfectly fleshed out and represent a good part of the awesomness of the serie, the dialogues also add to the freshnesh of every interaction.
The story itself is one with the best magic/power system I have ever read, and it keeps getting better as the story progresses.

There are no grammar mistakes, and the story flows very well. 

I can't recommend this story enough. The only problem is that you may binge it too quickly.

This is one of my favorite web novels of all time. I discovered it years ago on amazon were several ebooks are available containing three story arcs apiece and have been in love with it ever since. TZK was actually my gateway drug into web novels! The characters are fantastic, the plot fascinating, the magic system totally unique and well defined, and the world similar and yet comlpetely alien to our own. Read this story if you want to read a one of the best web novels around.

Now let me just preface this by saying I'm pretty much a fanboy of this novel. That said, I'm a fanboy for good reason.

The story is written in multiple PoVs, each in first person. This is sometimes what people find hard to do as they try to build the world while not doing exposition in a 1st person telling of a story. This author does it right... really right. The PoV is always someone who can give the most of the relevant feeling the arc wants to portray.

The story is just awesome. The world is intriguing yet still familiar and it's well constructed for something told through first person. The relations make sense and the world actually reacts to the changes the MC and others bring about, even in the small things like a news segment. Now while all the reactions aren't immediately visible they usually prove themselves worth the wait. The story does have a bit of a slow start while the focus is on building the characters and the world but since the story's progression is built a lot on the characters and how they want the world to be, I say it's worth it.

The grammar is impecable for the most part and there is rarely any mistakes and practically never any bad grammar. The syntax is well done and the dialogues are well punctuated and written.

Now the characters are where I feel this story really shines and the author knew it and build the other aspects of his story telling around them. Hector's (MC) character progression is very visible and yet still sneaks up on you because Hector rarely sees himself as he truly so even if the reader can see it in the dialouge and other PoVs Hector is sometimes slow on the uptake and needs Garovel to show him the way, it's adorable even. The other characters are also great for the most part, some are minimal but they all feel alive and even the more bland ones have presence.

TLDR: Read it... NOW!

Hector is dead, or at least, he was dead. Now he finds himself the servant, partner and friend of a grim reaper. This is an old novel that is new to royal road. Filled with action, intrigue and characters just trying to find their way through undeath after life. The grammar is smooth and flows well. The characters are imaginative and sensible. The story will have you reading it all in a sitting. Pick up the book, you won't regret it.