Beware of Chicken
Book description
A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming????
Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body.
Arrogant Masters? Heavenly…
Why read it?
3 authors picked Beware of Chicken as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
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.
From Haylock's list on fantasy that leaves you feeling warm and cozy.
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…
From KrazeKode's list on get into Xianxia Cultivation.
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…
From Waldo's list on gamelit that break the mold.
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