etienne02 's review for:

The Black Eyed Witch by Rowan Staeffler
3.0

Reading this book made me realize a lot of things that made the difference between a good self-publish/indi book and a good or even great novel. This book has some potential, it is well enough written, has good action, and a story worth your time. But that was the little things, but the accumulation of them, that make me loose interest in it. The writing is good but here and there there was bad word choice of idea (at some point the characters say the armor of someone he see «is» solid, how can he knows, it can «look» solid, but he can know if it is...). Same thing for the overall plot, not bad at all, but the lack of originality and being easy to see coming from start to finish make it loose some points... The characters and world building was, again, good, but the lack of details, of depth and morality issues make it... So I finish it thinking the author have potential but need more experience and maybe a better/harder editing staff behind him to see those littles things here and there and correct them before publishing.