In the House of a Witch

Self-Published

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Description

While hiking during an extended weekend from grad school, the slightly airheaded Rose Snyder slips through a gap between worlds and encounters a witch.. With no way to return, she must adapt to the strange world of magic and danger, and find her place in a land where those who lose their grasp on reality fall.

Shared Universe with my other story, https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/41575/the-archivists-petty-revenge

Also posted on Scribblehub.

Based on the description of traumatizing content, it's worth noting that this series normalizes tax evasion and other such crimes.

Also is vaguely GirlsLove-ish.

Short Hiatus while the author does research.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2021
Author: FashionableForestDweller

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.4/ 5.0
Followers: 91
Views: 36,039

Chapters(50 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

SoldieratarmsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
As I said, it's a solid work. Nothing about it is super revolutionary, but it's enjoyable, with interesting characters that don't feel like cardboard cutouts, and decent world building, though there isn't much of it yet. I will say that the mc losing her focus on her surroundings is kinda annoying, though they are kept short, and I hope it is just a sign of her shock, and not something that lasts forever. A good read overall.
PhoenixFlareRoyal Road
★★ 2.0
So, I'd been interested in an Isekai story with a decently minded character. I'd read the summary for this one and thought 'hey, why not?' As of this review, I've read it through Chapter 21.
So far, it's...well, it's honestly kind of dry, despite the setup. The writing style is very flat, and through the narration it's very rote, kind of like an after action report. Makes sense considering the MC is supposedly a Marine, but it doesn't really make for gripping prose. The grammar is largely good, though it occasionally misses or puts a comma where it probably shouldn't. On the whole, though, easily readable.
Where the rubber veers off the road, IMO, is the characterization, which honestly just baffles me outright. This girl is supposed to be an ex-Marine, and has stated that she's gone through boot camp- MARINE boot camp, known for being exceedingly difficult and intense even compared to normal Army boot camp. They keep bringing up that she was essentially a pencil pusher, but that doesn't excuse nor explain her constant wandering mind- she'd have been pilloried and PTed to death in the Marines for that kind of lose of focus, regardless of what role she'd have settled into. It's a character trait that, by sheer dint of her background, SHOULD NOT BE THERE. Imagine what an individual like Rose's behavior might affect her in a battlefield, or just a plain fight. Or, if you want to keep it to non-combat scenarios, say a meeting with a high-ranking officer, politican or businessman. She'd be an embarrassment to the uniform if she was caught staring out into space. It's completely incongruious with what a Marine should be and more smacks of a debilitating issue that might've forced her to be retired from active duty. That doesn't SEEM to have been the case, but otherwise it seems to be a forced character trait to allow the author to do random infodumps.
And the infodumps. Honestly, 90% of the time they're entirely unnecessary and completely just there to allow the author to