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Reaper's Creek: Daniel The God Slayer
A young boy named Daniel encounters creatures from another world. They take him night after night, into the black void of their reality till he begins asking questions. Why was he chosen? What do they want from him? Does he have to be a victim? Daniel decides to fight and as he wages war on all those who try to harm him, he finds his own adventure. Love, loss & chaos, this is the life of Daniel.
140 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 14, 2018
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Onision
12 books70 followersGregory Jackson (Born November 11, 1985) known on YouTube as Onision is a YouTube personality that has made 3,000+ videos ranging from music videos to comedy sketches. Onision is known primarily for his comedy sketches in which he plays all of the characters himself, though in most videos his friends will make appearances.
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July 22, 2019
Recorded an audiobook of the whole thing. Here’s the link:
https://youtu.be/oFGMBvIJ0iQ
1.5/5, rounding down because he’s a terrible person.
I don’t want to talk about this. The book is “half fiction” and he glamorizes numerous sex scenes between a 14 year old and an 18 year old.
The second half had some potential, but the amount of inconsistencies dragged it to the dirt.
Reading this is mental seppuku. I feel pissed. I feel annoyed. I learned nothing. I want to die.
Fuck all of you
F+
https://youtu.be/oFGMBvIJ0iQ
1.5/5, rounding down because he’s a terrible person.
I don’t want to talk about this. The book is “half fiction” and he glamorizes numerous sex scenes between a 14 year old and an 18 year old.
The second half had some potential, but the amount of inconsistencies dragged it to the dirt.
Reading this is mental seppuku. I feel pissed. I feel annoyed. I learned nothing. I want to die.
Fuck all of you
F+
May 13, 2019
This the one with the child porn? Pass.
April 30, 2019
If Narcissistic Personality Disorder was a book. The main character is basically a mary sue
January 11, 2021
It’s not often that I will refer to a piece of fiction as “disgusting,” yet that’s the only word that comes to mind when I describe Reaper’s Creek. It’s not the gore or the death or the wish fulfillment, no I can deal with all that, it’s the child pornography. I’m going to keep talking about that for most of this review so if that bothers you don’t read.
Yeah, I’m not exaggerating, Onision decided to write a book with an eleven-year-old protagonist who has sex with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend. While that could maybe work in a story about abuse, that’s not how it’s portrayed here. Onision writes sex scenes with graphic detail and in a manner clearly intended for titillation, not to mention that their romance is treated as some sort of great love story rather than a literal pedophile sexually abusing a child under her care.
In December 2020, the owners of Pornhub removed the bulk of the videos on their site since a lot of them were child pornography, content that people didn’t want shared, or just straight up rape. (Don’t praise them, they’ve sat on that shit for years and only got rid of it due to mounting financial pressure.) Reaper’s Creek can’t be removed from the internet, nor can I sue Onion Cyan for emotional distress, nor were any actual children were harmed when he wrote it, so nothing like that will happen here. Yet I’m filled with an unceasing urge to punch him in the balls until my hand breaks. Onision is like Nobuhiro Watsuki, only with none of the talent needed to distract from the fact that he’s an actual fucking pedophile.
I was unsurprised by all of this, I knew what I was getting into before I started reading. Nonetheless, I hated it. No, I won’t go into detail about the plot that resembles a cobweb, the main character who just has the powers of God for no reason, or the part where Greg’s self-insert murders his girlfriend’s father, go to someone else’s review for that.
After reading this I can never have sex again.
Yeah, I’m not exaggerating, Onision decided to write a book with an eleven-year-old protagonist who has sex with his fifteen-year-old girlfriend. While that could maybe work in a story about abuse, that’s not how it’s portrayed here. Onision writes sex scenes with graphic detail and in a manner clearly intended for titillation, not to mention that their romance is treated as some sort of great love story rather than a literal pedophile sexually abusing a child under her care.
In December 2020, the owners of Pornhub removed the bulk of the videos on their site since a lot of them were child pornography, content that people didn’t want shared, or just straight up rape. (Don’t praise them, they’ve sat on that shit for years and only got rid of it due to mounting financial pressure.) Reaper’s Creek can’t be removed from the internet, nor can I sue Onion Cyan for emotional distress, nor were any actual children were harmed when he wrote it, so nothing like that will happen here. Yet I’m filled with an unceasing urge to punch him in the balls until my hand breaks. Onision is like Nobuhiro Watsuki, only with none of the talent needed to distract from the fact that he’s an actual fucking pedophile.
I was unsurprised by all of this, I knew what I was getting into before I started reading. Nonetheless, I hated it. No, I won’t go into detail about the plot that resembles a cobweb, the main character who just has the powers of God for no reason, or the part where Greg’s self-insert murders his girlfriend’s father, go to someone else’s review for that.
After reading this I can never have sex again.
July 14, 2019
Allot of these reviews seen personal to the author. I don't know who he is, but he still deserves the 1* ratings.
I have never in my life read a book so awful as this. Whomever left it in the charity shop must have hated people and wanted to share their suffering.
The main character is completely undeveloped and entirely uncompelling. I wanted him to lose or die (and stay dead). He is irritating and manipulative using his unexplained 'abilities' (where there is no power system in place at all, just "aND tHeN He kIlLeD hIM") to have sex with an underaged girl whilst he himself is (extremely) underaged. It was unpleasant to read and made me so uncomfortable I put down the book for nearly a month. I was disturbed to find the author was a 30+ year old man and not a 13 year old boy.
I honestly finished the book out of pure fascination as to how anything could be so awful. I am also not remotely Christian, but at some point it stops being a social commentary on religion and becomes someone smashing "GOD BAD" over your head like a brick over and over again.
The grammar and spelling is another matter entirely, but as I am dyslexic I cannot talk. However, I would seriously suggest getting an editor if you ever decide to write again.
The author had so many unexplained plot points and glaring plot holes that the book is near nonsensical.
In short, this book should have never been created. It is the most abissmal piece of writing I have ever read. It was not worth the £2 I spent on it, but atleast it went to charity.
I have never in my life read a book so awful as this. Whomever left it in the charity shop must have hated people and wanted to share their suffering.
The main character is completely undeveloped and entirely uncompelling. I wanted him to lose or die (and stay dead). He is irritating and manipulative using his unexplained 'abilities' (where there is no power system in place at all, just "aND tHeN He kIlLeD hIM") to have sex with an underaged girl whilst he himself is (extremely) underaged. It was unpleasant to read and made me so uncomfortable I put down the book for nearly a month. I was disturbed to find the author was a 30+ year old man and not a 13 year old boy.
I honestly finished the book out of pure fascination as to how anything could be so awful. I am also not remotely Christian, but at some point it stops being a social commentary on religion and becomes someone smashing "GOD BAD" over your head like a brick over and over again.
The grammar and spelling is another matter entirely, but as I am dyslexic I cannot talk. However, I would seriously suggest getting an editor if you ever decide to write again.
The author had so many unexplained plot points and glaring plot holes that the book is near nonsensical.
In short, this book should have never been created. It is the most abissmal piece of writing I have ever read. It was not worth the £2 I spent on it, but atleast it went to charity.
August 24, 2019
Please, somebody stop this man.
May 13, 2019
Disgusting book. Features a sex scene between a 11 year old and a 15 year old.
June 3, 2019
There is literal child porn in this novel. There is no reflection, dialogue, critique of the issues, nothing. It is just a CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF SIXTEEN having sex. THERE IS NO REASON FOR IT TO EXIST OTHER THAN GREG WANTING THIS CHILD CHARACTER TO GET LAID. Aside for the statutory rape, there are also over three hundred grammatical/spelling errors. There are more errors than pages.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 13, 2019
So far...the worst book I ever read.
Started out alright, but everything went downhill the moment the MC discovered his 'superpowers' and became perhaps the biggest Gary Sue (Male counterpart to the Mary Sue) in all of published fiction.
How Gary Sue-ish is He?
Spoiler:
The Main Character literally kills God Himself......with little effort or challenge!!
Started out alright, but everything went downhill the moment the MC discovered his 'superpowers' and became perhaps the biggest Gary Sue (Male counterpart to the Mary Sue) in all of published fiction.
How Gary Sue-ish is He?
Spoiler:
The Main Character literally kills God Himself......with little effort or challenge!!
July 11, 2019
I’m dead inside
May 19, 2020
Sweet merciful Christ. I've read books that I didn't like before, but this is on another fucking level. Sure, I may rate a book one star because I personally didn't like it, but usually someone else does. I hated War Storm and Fate of the Tearling but ask around and I'm sure there's a bitch or two on Goodreads who enjoyed those two books. I seriously cannot even contemplate how ANYBODY would enjoy reading this drivel. This story is stupid as shit, boring as shit, and weird as shit. Usually I like weird shit but this creepy, over-sexualized, whiny emo crap is too goddamn much. Even if you were to pick up this book knowing nothing about the author and his child groomer tendencies, you would still think that it was written by 1) A nonce, 2) a sex freak, or 3) BOTH. There's nothing good about this book so I'll just tear it to shreds and be done with it. Much thanks to the dude who provided an audiobook, as well as the lovely Youtuber Gines who did some hilarious dramatic readings of this shite. It's the only thing that kept me sane.
1) The Senseless Story
This book's fucking plot is stupid and pointless. A whiny boy whines about shit. An alien starts bothering whiny boy and makes him do edgy things. Whiny boy freaks out. People die senselessly. Whiny boy is horny. Whiny boy has sex. Whiny boy whines. Whiny boy battles alien. The end. Seriously what the fuck is this? I think Onision shitted out this story simply to pass the time while waiting to see which teenage girl in his DMs would respond to his weiner pics first. Because this story is pointless and it has no reason to exist.
2) The Writing
I've never seen a more un-compelling, awkward, and clunky style of writing than what's in this book. This book reads like a twelve year old hastily crapped it out for a middle school creative writing project. Hell, saying that is an insult to twelve year olds. There are 12 year olds out there who can right better than pedo Onion diaper man. I truly believe the author is a sociopath, because his way of writing is the most clinical, chilling, and bland ass thing in the six dimensions. Seriously. This preteen narrator who is Onion man's self-insert is an emotionless, selfish piece of shit. People die and are hurt in front of him and he's just like "oh, wow, a death." He shows no fucking capacity for empathy or normal human emotions. He's an evil little shit. He's a slimy amoeba in a human flesh suit trying to act normal. But he's not normal. He's fucked. He has no emotions or care for anything other than his weiner. Which brings me to our next point.
3) SEX
Seriously wtf. This book is so goddamned horny and it has no right to be. When we meet a new female character in this crapfest the first thing the narrator describes is her tits. He fucks a girl who is way older and preying on him and acts like he's Sylvester Stallone or some shit. No, Gurg. You were preyed upon. It's not funny and it doesn't make you a player or a stud or whatever the fuck you think you are. Plenty of authors know how to write about hormonal preteens without making their books into creepy nonce fapfests. Onision is not one of them. Hell, I bet hundreds of pedophiles jerk it to this book. Gross. Get me some Jesus water.
4) THE AUTHOR IS A LITERAL PEDOPHILE
In case you were out of the loop, Onision is a literal pedophile. He has a long history of grooming young girls and being up their asses the minute they turn 18. He is a sadistic abuser who forces girls to shave their heads, berates them verbally, and forces them to help him hunt for new hot teen vag when they get too old for his tastes. He's gross and awful and is the reason why the phrase "men are trash" exists. Recently Chris Hansen looked into Onion Boy for his grooming of a teenage girl and him using his wife to lure in queer girls. He sends his wife to go out and present herself as single, so lesbian and bi girls hit her up. When they fly out to see the wife Onision pulls a SURPRISE PENIS! move and forces the girl to date him as well. Do you know what's another term for "surprise penis" moves? Rape. Yes. This fucker has screwed women under all sorts of dubious circumstances. He's a sociopathic predator who bulldozes through young girls' lives without a care for anything in the world except his peen. And you thought this was all he could do? HA. Onion Son gets fucking worse.
He neglects his children. Yes, this mistake of a human reproduced with his crummy unicorn hunter wife. He totally neglects his toddler aged children, refuses to SPEAK with them so their language development is severely stunted, and he let his daughter crawl out of a second story window so she fell and got skull fractures. He also has the IRS going for his jugular because he doesn't pay taxes. And he destroyed a protected wetland habitat for a youtube video. Seriously, can this twat get any worse? He's a real life cartoon villain at this point. He has all the ingredients for the shit sandwich. Pedophilia. Abuse. Child Neglect. Habitat Destruction. At this point all we need to do is throw in some animal cruelty as the cherry on top of the vomit sundae. Wait! I forgot! Onision also abused his dogs and gave them away to other people because he no longer gave a shit about them. He would then buy new dogs and when he got bored of them he would shuffle them off too, and buy the next, new, hot, dog model. Onision goes through his dogs like he goes through his women. He abuses them, and when they age out of being teenagers he kicks them to the curb to find the newest hot model. Rinse and repeat. He big nasty. Also, he cooked his pet turtle alive for no reason and then ate this so-called "beloved pet." That's what Onichan does to the things he loves. He boils them alive and eats them. I'm not even trying to be deep. That is literally what this nasty fucker does.
Final Verdict
This is a nonce book written by a nonce for nonces. I hated it and you will too. Don't give this fucker any of your hard-earned money. If you want to experience the horror look online for bootleg copies or find Gines' dramatic readings on youtube. This shit is gross and Onision is a predator. Never Forget. Duckling Out!
1) The Senseless Story
This book's fucking plot is stupid and pointless. A whiny boy whines about shit. An alien starts bothering whiny boy and makes him do edgy things. Whiny boy freaks out. People die senselessly. Whiny boy is horny. Whiny boy has sex. Whiny boy whines. Whiny boy battles alien. The end. Seriously what the fuck is this? I think Onision shitted out this story simply to pass the time while waiting to see which teenage girl in his DMs would respond to his weiner pics first. Because this story is pointless and it has no reason to exist.
2) The Writing
I've never seen a more un-compelling, awkward, and clunky style of writing than what's in this book. This book reads like a twelve year old hastily crapped it out for a middle school creative writing project. Hell, saying that is an insult to twelve year olds. There are 12 year olds out there who can right better than pedo Onion diaper man. I truly believe the author is a sociopath, because his way of writing is the most clinical, chilling, and bland ass thing in the six dimensions. Seriously. This preteen narrator who is Onion man's self-insert is an emotionless, selfish piece of shit. People die and are hurt in front of him and he's just like "oh, wow, a death." He shows no fucking capacity for empathy or normal human emotions. He's an evil little shit. He's a slimy amoeba in a human flesh suit trying to act normal. But he's not normal. He's fucked. He has no emotions or care for anything other than his weiner. Which brings me to our next point.
3) SEX
Seriously wtf. This book is so goddamned horny and it has no right to be. When we meet a new female character in this crapfest the first thing the narrator describes is her tits. He fucks a girl who is way older and preying on him and acts like he's Sylvester Stallone or some shit. No, Gurg. You were preyed upon. It's not funny and it doesn't make you a player or a stud or whatever the fuck you think you are. Plenty of authors know how to write about hormonal preteens without making their books into creepy nonce fapfests. Onision is not one of them. Hell, I bet hundreds of pedophiles jerk it to this book. Gross. Get me some Jesus water.
4) THE AUTHOR IS A LITERAL PEDOPHILE
In case you were out of the loop, Onision is a literal pedophile. He has a long history of grooming young girls and being up their asses the minute they turn 18. He is a sadistic abuser who forces girls to shave their heads, berates them verbally, and forces them to help him hunt for new hot teen vag when they get too old for his tastes. He's gross and awful and is the reason why the phrase "men are trash" exists. Recently Chris Hansen looked into Onion Boy for his grooming of a teenage girl and him using his wife to lure in queer girls. He sends his wife to go out and present herself as single, so lesbian and bi girls hit her up. When they fly out to see the wife Onision pulls a SURPRISE PENIS! move and forces the girl to date him as well. Do you know what's another term for "surprise penis" moves? Rape. Yes. This fucker has screwed women under all sorts of dubious circumstances. He's a sociopathic predator who bulldozes through young girls' lives without a care for anything in the world except his peen. And you thought this was all he could do? HA. Onion Son gets fucking worse.
He neglects his children. Yes, this mistake of a human reproduced with his crummy unicorn hunter wife. He totally neglects his toddler aged children, refuses to SPEAK with them so their language development is severely stunted, and he let his daughter crawl out of a second story window so she fell and got skull fractures. He also has the IRS going for his jugular because he doesn't pay taxes. And he destroyed a protected wetland habitat for a youtube video. Seriously, can this twat get any worse? He's a real life cartoon villain at this point. He has all the ingredients for the shit sandwich. Pedophilia. Abuse. Child Neglect. Habitat Destruction. At this point all we need to do is throw in some animal cruelty as the cherry on top of the vomit sundae. Wait! I forgot! Onision also abused his dogs and gave them away to other people because he no longer gave a shit about them. He would then buy new dogs and when he got bored of them he would shuffle them off too, and buy the next, new, hot, dog model. Onision goes through his dogs like he goes through his women. He abuses them, and when they age out of being teenagers he kicks them to the curb to find the newest hot model. Rinse and repeat. He big nasty. Also, he cooked his pet turtle alive for no reason and then ate this so-called "beloved pet." That's what Onichan does to the things he loves. He boils them alive and eats them. I'm not even trying to be deep. That is literally what this nasty fucker does.
Final Verdict
This is a nonce book written by a nonce for nonces. I hated it and you will too. Don't give this fucker any of your hard-earned money. If you want to experience the horror look online for bootleg copies or find Gines' dramatic readings on youtube. This shit is gross and Onision is a predator. Never Forget. Duckling Out!
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October 11, 2019????? on god bruh what The Fuck are you talking about
August 7, 2019
*insert video of mother yelling “DISGUSTING!”*
August 9, 2019
Onision writes another self indulgent novel where the protagonist is a shameless self insert who seems to always get his way. The Mc has sex with a sixteen year old girl despite being twelve and he kills god in the finale. We get it Greg, you hate God. I might make a full length rant later but it's really draining.
February 29, 2020
Such vague, boring chaos all happening at once. Profoundly bland. Horrendous. Cancer. This book caused the plague. If you hear the Jumanji theme song, it’s because this book is (unfortunately) nearby you.
August 16, 2019
Help me.
March 25, 2019
The book is straight up awful and you can't change mind
April 5, 2022
I hate the fact I undertook Krimson Rogue's challenge to read all of this man's garbage. I have yet to write my review for This Is Why I Hate You, and I recently read the available chapters for his new erotic novel... it isn't hyperbolic to say that I wanted to die reading the opening chapter.
Nevertheless, I pondered long and hard for a good way to summarize this book, and constantly fell short. Thus, I have settled on informing you that there are multiple sex scenes in this novel.
Between an 11-year-old and a 15-year-old.
There is a time skip to where Daniel-Greg is now 14, and Julia is 18. They are actively still having sex.
Let us discuss the book beyond the fucked up, legally and morally wrong romance between the two main characters. In short, it is trivial, poorly written and riddled with plot holes. I call our main man Daniel-Greg because the author literally messes up at least twice in the book, and calls him Greg when he's supposed to be Daniel. If you weren't convinced that these protagonists were self-inserts, you've got some hard proof now.
As with all of Onision's books, it features an edgy kid with severe daddy issues that waxes philosophically to the reader. Daniel, even at 11, maintains this air of arrogance and narcissism that made me want to punt this motherfucker into the stratosphere. I simply couldn't suspend my disbelief and convince myself it was a kid speaking, and it only worsens as the novel goes on.
Another aspect that gets boring very quickly is Greg's hero complex that shines through in every piece of tripe he shits out. In Reaper's Creek, it's pushed to the extreme where he solves the world's issues and fights God in one of the most boring action sequences I have ever read. Ah, yes, more hatred is directed at religion in this novel too, sorry Christians.
The supporting cast of characters exist to only suck Daniel's dick. Greg literally forgets about one of Daniel's sisters that's how expendable the secondary cast are. For someone who takes note of seemingly benign details (thank you Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas, V.E. Schwab too), it was a rather jarring experience to have plot points introduced, then immediately dropped again. Similarly, characters would be introduced, then completely forgotten about. It got exhausting mentally taking notes only to realise none of it would amount to anything.
I think that was my main problem with this book besides the horrific syntax, grammatical errors and typos, you get no satisfaction from reading this novel. There's no satisfying conclusion because it's all sunshine and rainbows despite not clearing up anything, leaving the reader with only more questions that will never be answered because there is no explanation.
Another issue that really got under my skin was Onision's use of sexual and domestic abuse. Julia's father rapes women (appropriate considering what his daughter turned out like. And the author of this dumpster fire), and this is discovered by Daniel, using his god-like abilities that developed because of a stone in his head, changing the 'coding of the world' and implanting teeth in women's vaginas. I wish I was joking.
Greg then assassinates the step-dad's character from being a seemingly decent person into a drug user who beats their mother. We aren't shown this at any point during the first half of the book, when the step-dad is actually relevant. We are told this in the second half when he has been written out using divorce. Why is that a thing?
He also calls him Papa, which is strange for me, but that was probably because the only thing I could think of was Papa Emeritus from Ghost (sorry Christians). So, even with the character description given, as poor and vague as it was, I imagined the step-dad as Papa Emeritus, and I'm not going to lie, it made reading this slightly more bearable.
God, I still have so much to say, and I don't want to do what I did with Stones to Abbigale and pick this apart bit by bit because I'll be here all night. I can confirm that I hated this far more than the previous ones. My vehement hatred for Reaper's Creek could also be blamed on the fact Onision is trampling on my turf; I write fantasy, all manners of fantasy, and I greatly enjoy sci-fi. The boredom I experienced reading the other two novels could be disregarded due to the fact contemporary style novels aren't my thing. This Is Why I Hate You was unbearable due to the glamorous way Onision presented rape and violence. Arguably, Reaper's Creek does the same thing, yet on a whole other scale.
He introduces a magic system that is entirely plot convenient and develops whenever he needs it to. It's not like Daniel gets a hold of his powers and begins training them to be acute, they simply are. There's also aspects of these abilities that are randomly dropped. By the time I had finished this book, I recalled at least four occasions where I put the book down and muttered my grievances aloud. Now, admittedly, I talk to myself a lot, however it is uncommon for me to even move when I'm reading due to being immersed in the story. Frankly, this book tossed me everywhere but into the setting. While I may have been suffering a nervous breakdown, my sister, with whom I share a room, found my agony amusing. I truly suffer for my art.
In all honesty though, I don't think I could take this book cover to cover and tell you everything that's wrong with it, because this would get so long and tedious. I'll wrap it up with that this is just another of Greg's fantasies pushed to the extreme, and it is genuinely repulsive to read. I felt ill during the explicit parts, and suicidal during the rest. He grossly misuses abuse to 'add flavour' to his work, and this is not suitable for his younger audience (the only audience he has. I don't know who is going to read his new erotica apart from the youtube reviewers and little old me, because we all know the rest of his audience aren't old enough. Apparently he's writing BDSM into this new novel :) I am going to have a blast with that. Spoiler alert, Greg is not a dominant, he's an abuser).
Nevertheless, I pondered long and hard for a good way to summarize this book, and constantly fell short. Thus, I have settled on informing you that there are multiple sex scenes in this novel.
Between an 11-year-old and a 15-year-old.
There is a time skip to where Daniel-Greg is now 14, and Julia is 18. They are actively still having sex.
Let us discuss the book beyond the fucked up, legally and morally wrong romance between the two main characters. In short, it is trivial, poorly written and riddled with plot holes. I call our main man Daniel-Greg because the author literally messes up at least twice in the book, and calls him Greg when he's supposed to be Daniel. If you weren't convinced that these protagonists were self-inserts, you've got some hard proof now.
As with all of Onision's books, it features an edgy kid with severe daddy issues that waxes philosophically to the reader. Daniel, even at 11, maintains this air of arrogance and narcissism that made me want to punt this motherfucker into the stratosphere. I simply couldn't suspend my disbelief and convince myself it was a kid speaking, and it only worsens as the novel goes on.
Another aspect that gets boring very quickly is Greg's hero complex that shines through in every piece of tripe he shits out. In Reaper's Creek, it's pushed to the extreme where he solves the world's issues and fights God in one of the most boring action sequences I have ever read. Ah, yes, more hatred is directed at religion in this novel too, sorry Christians.
The supporting cast of characters exist to only suck Daniel's dick. Greg literally forgets about one of Daniel's sisters that's how expendable the secondary cast are. For someone who takes note of seemingly benign details (thank you Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas, V.E. Schwab too), it was a rather jarring experience to have plot points introduced, then immediately dropped again. Similarly, characters would be introduced, then completely forgotten about. It got exhausting mentally taking notes only to realise none of it would amount to anything.
I think that was my main problem with this book besides the horrific syntax, grammatical errors and typos, you get no satisfaction from reading this novel. There's no satisfying conclusion because it's all sunshine and rainbows despite not clearing up anything, leaving the reader with only more questions that will never be answered because there is no explanation.
Another issue that really got under my skin was Onision's use of sexual and domestic abuse. Julia's father rapes women (appropriate considering what his daughter turned out like. And the author of this dumpster fire), and this is discovered by Daniel, using his god-like abilities that developed because of a stone in his head, changing the 'coding of the world' and implanting teeth in women's vaginas. I wish I was joking.
Greg then assassinates the step-dad's character from being a seemingly decent person into a drug user who beats their mother. We aren't shown this at any point during the first half of the book, when the step-dad is actually relevant. We are told this in the second half when he has been written out using divorce. Why is that a thing?
He also calls him Papa, which is strange for me, but that was probably because the only thing I could think of was Papa Emeritus from Ghost (sorry Christians). So, even with the character description given, as poor and vague as it was, I imagined the step-dad as Papa Emeritus, and I'm not going to lie, it made reading this slightly more bearable.
God, I still have so much to say, and I don't want to do what I did with Stones to Abbigale and pick this apart bit by bit because I'll be here all night. I can confirm that I hated this far more than the previous ones. My vehement hatred for Reaper's Creek could also be blamed on the fact Onision is trampling on my turf; I write fantasy, all manners of fantasy, and I greatly enjoy sci-fi. The boredom I experienced reading the other two novels could be disregarded due to the fact contemporary style novels aren't my thing. This Is Why I Hate You was unbearable due to the glamorous way Onision presented rape and violence. Arguably, Reaper's Creek does the same thing, yet on a whole other scale.
He introduces a magic system that is entirely plot convenient and develops whenever he needs it to. It's not like Daniel gets a hold of his powers and begins training them to be acute, they simply are. There's also aspects of these abilities that are randomly dropped. By the time I had finished this book, I recalled at least four occasions where I put the book down and muttered my grievances aloud. Now, admittedly, I talk to myself a lot, however it is uncommon for me to even move when I'm reading due to being immersed in the story. Frankly, this book tossed me everywhere but into the setting. While I may have been suffering a nervous breakdown, my sister, with whom I share a room, found my agony amusing. I truly suffer for my art.
In all honesty though, I don't think I could take this book cover to cover and tell you everything that's wrong with it, because this would get so long and tedious. I'll wrap it up with that this is just another of Greg's fantasies pushed to the extreme, and it is genuinely repulsive to read. I felt ill during the explicit parts, and suicidal during the rest. He grossly misuses abuse to 'add flavour' to his work, and this is not suitable for his younger audience (the only audience he has. I don't know who is going to read his new erotica apart from the youtube reviewers and little old me, because we all know the rest of his audience aren't old enough. Apparently he's writing BDSM into this new novel :) I am going to have a blast with that. Spoiler alert, Greg is not a dominant, he's an abuser).
May 22, 2019
I didn't know about this person and the controversies surrounding him until after I finished the book and googled him.
Before I get to why I hated it I need to say that I found the idea pretty intriguing and if it had been written better and the issues that one could infer from what he wrote (what would it do to someone to be basically a god, how would it influence their life and the existence of humanity, etc.)
That said a lot about this book bothered me. That starts by what seems to be absolutly no editing and seemingly at least one typo and/or a grammatical mistake in each sentence to the fact that the eleven year old protagonist slept with a 15 year old and apparently kept that up through mental coercion into adulthood which absolutly disgusted me and only morbid fascination let me power through to the end.
I can not recommend enough to not buy/read this book.
Before I get to why I hated it I need to say that I found the idea pretty intriguing and if it had been written better and the issues that one could infer from what he wrote (what would it do to someone to be basically a god, how would it influence their life and the existence of humanity, etc.)
That said a lot about this book bothered me. That starts by what seems to be absolutly no editing and seemingly at least one typo and/or a grammatical mistake in each sentence to the fact that the eleven year old protagonist slept with a 15 year old and apparently kept that up through mental coercion into adulthood which absolutly disgusted me and only morbid fascination let me power through to the end.
I can not recommend enough to not buy/read this book.
May 11, 2019
this is child porn.
August 15, 2019
Not to be rude but I can see why this book has a 1.09 rating at the time I am writing this.
January 3, 2020
(These are old reviews from my blog, so please excuse any formatting errors).
Okay, look. I know. I know. Why do I keep doing this? Well, guess what. This isn't a referendum on my self-destructive streak. You're here to see me shit on Greg, and that's what we're gonna do.
First things first. When you make your main character eleven, you make certain sacrifices. General knowledge, sophistication of language, etc. Greg definitely broke the language rule, but that's not the most important part. He fucking put a sex scene in. I don't even know anymore, you guys. He had a scene where a preteen finger-banged another preteen. He had a scene where a fourteen year old fucked an adult. I honestly feel like I should be on some kind of government watchlist. You just don't do that shit. And if you ABSOLUTELY MUST, you can't glamorize it. You can't. "Lolita" is a book about a pedophile, but it's also a book about how absolutely deranged Humbert Humber's rationalizations and thought processes are, and how disastrous the effects are for Dolores. Greg's book is about statutory rape that is depicted as completely harmless and normal. If that's something that happened to him, I'm genuinely sorry, but he burns away much of my sympathy by continuing the cycle and grooming young girls.
So the book ends with Greg-I mean Daniel-killing God. Sure. Seems a little narcissistic, but so was Milton's Satan. If you know anything about me, you know I love me some His Dark Materials, so that sort of prog-rock, overblown ending isn't immediately disqualifying. Neither are aliens. I'm a lit grad student, but I dig mass-market sci fi and fantasy paperbacks, so aliens? Sign me up. I had high hopes for this book, because it actually had an interesting title, and I thought that after shitting the bed twice, he might have hired a ghostwriter.
Nope.
This was actually worse.
I even handed this off to my mom because of how freaked it made me. She was very confused, but after I bugged her for a month, she agreed to read it.
She's a psychiatrist. She does risk assessments for prisons and some medium/high security psychiatric facilities. I will quote her directly: "This is like...you don't even understand. I could spend my whole career dissecting different aspects of this. I'm not a fucking...Freudian, but...Jesus. This is like, Personality Disorder City. I want that thing out of my house."
She was joking about the last part, but I ditched it anyways. I didn't want the cops finding it if they came looking for me for pirating Chernobyl. I felt like I was listening to a story told by a five year old. "An' then I hit the aliens, an' they all 'sploded! An' then I made out with my girlfriend, an' blew up some bad guys, and-"
I know this is petty, but I HATED how Greg treaded the character of "the special ed boy." I would use his name, but he doesn't have one, which is a sign of the contempt and laziness with which Greg treats him. This kid is vilified as an evil alien because of his tics, and is eventually fucking brutally murdered by Greg-I-mean-Daniel with a fork. Later, with one sentence, we learn that the kid was trying to help Greg-I-mean-Daniel all along. I might be sensitive because I'm autistic, and I got nieces on the spectrum, but I thought it was fucking disgusting that Greg used a disabled child's disability to make him "scary" and justify killing him, without even showing enough respect to give him a name or have his death affect the Mary Sue main character in the slightest. Greg doesn't care about disabled people. He doesn't see them as human. That's made painfully obvious by that character, as well as Greg-I-mean-Daniel's brilliant idea of curing all mental illness and genetic conditions to alleviate human suffering. Don't get me wrong: treat my depression all you want, but don't you fucking touch my autism, or my niece Evadne's autism, or my cousin's Down Syndrome. It's part of what makes us all so awesome.
So. We've already accrued:
1) Child pornography
2) Eugenics / Misc. Nazi shit
We're ready for the third cardinal sin. What is it?
3) Fucking boring as hell!
There's a reason why we like superheroes. Because they're powerful, sure, and because they get shit done. But there's a reason why Superman is boring, and Batman is awesome. If your character is too overpowered, there's no tension. Were you scared when Superman faced off against a bald industrialist? I mean, maybe, because just mentioning Kryptonite is enough to get him to leave, but that's beside the point. Batman is amazing because he's just a guy in a suit, and he has to use his brain to come up with ways to beat the odds. His adventures are tense because there's so much at stake, and he's the underdog. We cheer for Rocky and Rudy for the same reason: there's more tension when the stakes are high and the odds are against the protagonist. Can omnipotent characters be interesting? Sure. See Elizabeth Comstock. But if you're as bad at writing as Greg? No way. It'll come across as wish fulfillment, and it's pathetic. It's like an incel making a fake profile on Reddit to agree with his own points. It's like Jacob Wohl making up tweets about how "coffee shop liberals" secretly love Trump. It's like buying a bunch of Candy-grams to send to yourself so that people will think you have friends. Of all of Greg's books, this brought me the least pleasure. There was no laughter. Only disgust, confusion, and sadness. Sadness for the trees that gave their lives. Sadness for Greg, who is trying so hard and failing so miserably. Sadness for his fans, who have read few enough books to be able to think this is good, and who will be embarrassed later. But mostly sadness for me, for killing my brain cells on this instead of reading a good book or working on my thesis, or jamming rusty screws under my fingernails, or any number of activities more rewarding and enjoyable than reading anything written by Greg.
Okay, look. I know. I know. Why do I keep doing this? Well, guess what. This isn't a referendum on my self-destructive streak. You're here to see me shit on Greg, and that's what we're gonna do.
First things first. When you make your main character eleven, you make certain sacrifices. General knowledge, sophistication of language, etc. Greg definitely broke the language rule, but that's not the most important part. He fucking put a sex scene in. I don't even know anymore, you guys. He had a scene where a preteen finger-banged another preteen. He had a scene where a fourteen year old fucked an adult. I honestly feel like I should be on some kind of government watchlist. You just don't do that shit. And if you ABSOLUTELY MUST, you can't glamorize it. You can't. "Lolita" is a book about a pedophile, but it's also a book about how absolutely deranged Humbert Humber's rationalizations and thought processes are, and how disastrous the effects are for Dolores. Greg's book is about statutory rape that is depicted as completely harmless and normal. If that's something that happened to him, I'm genuinely sorry, but he burns away much of my sympathy by continuing the cycle and grooming young girls.
So the book ends with Greg-I mean Daniel-killing God. Sure. Seems a little narcissistic, but so was Milton's Satan. If you know anything about me, you know I love me some His Dark Materials, so that sort of prog-rock, overblown ending isn't immediately disqualifying. Neither are aliens. I'm a lit grad student, but I dig mass-market sci fi and fantasy paperbacks, so aliens? Sign me up. I had high hopes for this book, because it actually had an interesting title, and I thought that after shitting the bed twice, he might have hired a ghostwriter.
Nope.
This was actually worse.
I even handed this off to my mom because of how freaked it made me. She was very confused, but after I bugged her for a month, she agreed to read it.
She's a psychiatrist. She does risk assessments for prisons and some medium/high security psychiatric facilities. I will quote her directly: "This is like...you don't even understand. I could spend my whole career dissecting different aspects of this. I'm not a fucking...Freudian, but...Jesus. This is like, Personality Disorder City. I want that thing out of my house."
She was joking about the last part, but I ditched it anyways. I didn't want the cops finding it if they came looking for me for pirating Chernobyl. I felt like I was listening to a story told by a five year old. "An' then I hit the aliens, an' they all 'sploded! An' then I made out with my girlfriend, an' blew up some bad guys, and-"
I know this is petty, but I HATED how Greg treaded the character of "the special ed boy." I would use his name, but he doesn't have one, which is a sign of the contempt and laziness with which Greg treats him. This kid is vilified as an evil alien because of his tics, and is eventually fucking brutally murdered by Greg-I-mean-Daniel with a fork. Later, with one sentence, we learn that the kid was trying to help Greg-I-mean-Daniel all along. I might be sensitive because I'm autistic, and I got nieces on the spectrum, but I thought it was fucking disgusting that Greg used a disabled child's disability to make him "scary" and justify killing him, without even showing enough respect to give him a name or have his death affect the Mary Sue main character in the slightest. Greg doesn't care about disabled people. He doesn't see them as human. That's made painfully obvious by that character, as well as Greg-I-mean-Daniel's brilliant idea of curing all mental illness and genetic conditions to alleviate human suffering. Don't get me wrong: treat my depression all you want, but don't you fucking touch my autism, or my niece Evadne's autism, or my cousin's Down Syndrome. It's part of what makes us all so awesome.
So. We've already accrued:
1) Child pornography
2) Eugenics / Misc. Nazi shit
We're ready for the third cardinal sin. What is it?
3) Fucking boring as hell!
There's a reason why we like superheroes. Because they're powerful, sure, and because they get shit done. But there's a reason why Superman is boring, and Batman is awesome. If your character is too overpowered, there's no tension. Were you scared when Superman faced off against a bald industrialist? I mean, maybe, because just mentioning Kryptonite is enough to get him to leave, but that's beside the point. Batman is amazing because he's just a guy in a suit, and he has to use his brain to come up with ways to beat the odds. His adventures are tense because there's so much at stake, and he's the underdog. We cheer for Rocky and Rudy for the same reason: there's more tension when the stakes are high and the odds are against the protagonist. Can omnipotent characters be interesting? Sure. See Elizabeth Comstock. But if you're as bad at writing as Greg? No way. It'll come across as wish fulfillment, and it's pathetic. It's like an incel making a fake profile on Reddit to agree with his own points. It's like Jacob Wohl making up tweets about how "coffee shop liberals" secretly love Trump. It's like buying a bunch of Candy-grams to send to yourself so that people will think you have friends. Of all of Greg's books, this brought me the least pleasure. There was no laughter. Only disgust, confusion, and sadness. Sadness for the trees that gave their lives. Sadness for Greg, who is trying so hard and failing so miserably. Sadness for his fans, who have read few enough books to be able to think this is good, and who will be embarrassed later. But mostly sadness for me, for killing my brain cells on this instead of reading a good book or working on my thesis, or jamming rusty screws under my fingernails, or any number of activities more rewarding and enjoyable than reading anything written by Greg.
August 11, 2019
I uh... what...?
November 29, 2019
Do not read.
This is awful.
Only such writing can come from Onision, as other people have a moral compass.
This is awful.
Only such writing can come from Onision, as other people have a moral compass.
August 14, 2019
it makes no fucking sense. for half of it there's barely any goddamn plot and in the second half he tries to go all philosophical but it straight up doesn't work and still doesn't really make sense. he fucks around in school, a few weird/unintentionally funny things happen, and then he goes full god complex. A team of the world's leading psychoanalysts need to tear this book apart and figure out what's wrong with this man.
August 7, 2020
There's no two ways about it Reaper’s Creek just plain sucks. It sucks in the way most of these bad books suck. It's not because of underage sex or even the Gore. It’s just horribly written by a talentless narcissist.
Is the main character Daniel is just so boring, even after he gets his op powers. Yeah that's one thing you can say about a boy where he curb-stomps a bunch of aliens, Death, and God (respectively) with little effort or tension and it is so very boring. Period. Oh and there are other characters but they are so one note I can’t remember one from another they are that superfluous and unmemorable.
It's reads just that terribly. I know this is me a bit charitable but it might (and that an incredibly big “might”) be an okay first-draft, in need of editing by a mask waring slasher villain with a chain-saw. I know Greggy-Poo likes to say that he does not need an editor. Uh, yeah Greg you do, badly! And apparently your spouse shouldn’t be editing too. You both suck at editing! Hire a professional!
Oh didn’t buy the the book I listened to the Audiobook for free. It isn’t worth any money at all. Do not buy!
And Greggy-Poo I saw the video that compared your self with Steven King. Here’s the difference, Onion. Steven King is actually a damn good writer, even at his lowest can still write circles around someone as incompetent as you! Take a writing class before you try writing a story again. Avoid like the plague!
I would like to thank Jordan Barclay for his audiobook so I didn’t have to suffer through actually reading this tripe: https://youtu.be/oFGMBvIJ0iQ
And KrimsonRogue for getting me interested In this “ book” https://youtu.be/WiJfGq-iyp0
Is the main character Daniel is just so boring, even after he gets his op powers. Yeah that's one thing you can say about a boy where he curb-stomps a bunch of aliens, Death, and God (respectively) with little effort or tension and it is so very boring. Period. Oh and there are other characters but they are so one note I can’t remember one from another they are that superfluous and unmemorable.
It's reads just that terribly. I know this is me a bit charitable but it might (and that an incredibly big “might”) be an okay first-draft, in need of editing by a mask waring slasher villain with a chain-saw. I know Greggy-Poo likes to say that he does not need an editor. Uh, yeah Greg you do, badly! And apparently your spouse shouldn’t be editing too. You both suck at editing! Hire a professional!
Oh didn’t buy the the book I listened to the Audiobook for free. It isn’t worth any money at all. Do not buy!
And Greggy-Poo I saw the video that compared your self with Steven King. Here’s the difference, Onion. Steven King is actually a damn good writer, even at his lowest can still write circles around someone as incompetent as you! Take a writing class before you try writing a story again. Avoid like the plague!
I would like to thank Jordan Barclay for his audiobook so I didn’t have to suffer through actually reading this tripe: https://youtu.be/oFGMBvIJ0iQ
And KrimsonRogue for getting me interested In this “ book” https://youtu.be/WiJfGq-iyp0
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 19, 2020
Given what has been found out about the author in question, I did not buy this book, he does not deserve any money whatsoever, I listened to a Youtuber read it aloud. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFGMB... His name is Jordan Barclay, subscribe to him, he did the world a favor of reading this so you don't have to.
Where do I begin? It's garbage. Straight up garbage. Poorly written prose, with misspelled words and grammatical errors on every page. The "magic system" if you can call it that, lacks any foundation and isn't clearly defined. The main character goes back and forth between calling himself Greg and Daniel. And don't get me started on the glorification of a statutory rape. I wasted 3 hours and 36 minutes listening to a poor Youtuber narrate it. It's incoherent, poorly written, disgusting, and only exists to inflate the ego of a pretentious narcissistic human being trying too hard to be an edgelord.
Where do I begin? It's garbage. Straight up garbage. Poorly written prose, with misspelled words and grammatical errors on every page. The "magic system" if you can call it that, lacks any foundation and isn't clearly defined. The main character goes back and forth between calling himself Greg and Daniel. And don't get me started on the glorification of a statutory rape. I wasted 3 hours and 36 minutes listening to a poor Youtuber narrate it. It's incoherent, poorly written, disgusting, and only exists to inflate the ego of a pretentious narcissistic human being trying too hard to be an edgelord.
June 1, 2019
Terrible book.
July 24, 2020
When there is not a zero star rating choice and so in order to make yourself feel better after reading this book, you question if life is even worth it anymore...
Oh and if Onision ever reads this; 1) I did't know who you were until after I was dared to read all three of your fucking horrible ass books (Did you even pass English in high school?). 2) Don't quit your day job. 3) My friend showed me a video of you being a jerk to your reviews (I don't care if you want to shit on random people but that fact is; your shitting on these random people because they hate your book, and while yes, I'm s shitty person, it takes a special kind of shitty person to not be able to take criticism and if you ever see this and put it in a video, where you're like "This sack of shit paid and read my book, so I'm getting money".... JOKES ON YOU FUCK FACE, I READ THIS ONLINE FOR FREE, EAT MY DICK
Oh and if Onision ever reads this; 1) I did't know who you were until after I was dared to read all three of your fucking horrible ass books (Did you even pass English in high school?). 2) Don't quit your day job. 3) My friend showed me a video of you being a jerk to your reviews (I don't care if you want to shit on random people but that fact is; your shitting on these random people because they hate your book, and while yes, I'm s shitty person, it takes a special kind of shitty person to not be able to take criticism and if you ever see this and put it in a video, where you're like "This sack of shit paid and read my book, so I'm getting money".... JOKES ON YOU FUCK FACE, I READ THIS ONLINE FOR FREE, EAT MY DICK
April 9, 2020
this represents him, he says.
so basically, he got abducted by aliens and got super god powers. absolutely narcissistic, but this book is comical. i think he just got bored after a while and this is the result of mashing a bunch of random shit together.
kull, god's dad, named him god. even though he is a god. honestly this is so nonsensical, i have absolutely no idea what's happening.
so basically, he got abducted by aliens and got super god powers. absolutely narcissistic, but this book is comical. i think he just got bored after a while and this is the result of mashing a bunch of random shit together.
kull, god's dad, named him god. even though he is a god. honestly this is so nonsensical, i have absolutely no idea what's happening.
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