Beware of Chicken

It's heartwarming af

I am not being hyperbolic when I say that discovering this fiction changed the course of my life. I found it during a dark time, and the impact it had might be the reason I’m so addicted to reading and writing cozy fantasy. Upon finishing it, I wasn’t ready to leave the world behind, so I fired up the audio and started again. 

This novel is a place of reprieve. A warm hearth I can return to when life gets difficult. And I can’t recommend it enough.

Where Cradle is a homage to cultivation, Beware of Chicken is a subversion that still keeps true to the roots. The story has a hilarious concept where the main character wakes up one day in a cultivator’s body and immediately nopes out of the battle and conflict-riddled world to go farm instead.

It has a lot of puns, humor, and we get to see the main character build a home and life for himself in a new world; and there are a lot of spirit animals around him that become intelligent and keep him company as his strange abilities get… show more.

At first I picked up the book because I thought it’d be a good laugh. I mean, with a title like “Beware of Chicken” how could it not be?

Turns out I was right but it was so much more than that.

As I read I found myself in a slice of life tale about farming. Which normally is not my jam at all. I love action and comedy. Slice of life stuff is just too slow for me. But the story picks up fairly quickly.

You know the cultivation/xianxia trope where some martial artist wants to grow to ultimate… show more.