In the House of a Witch

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2021

Author

FashionableForestDweller

• Chapter 8: Letter-based Rankings in guilds always seemed ahistorical
  Mar 23, 2021
• Chapter 7: I’m sure it’s a perfectly ordinary ingredient
  Mar 19, 2021
• Chapter 6: Will Smith was Great in those Movies
  Mar 7, 2021
• Chapter 5.5: Snippet from the Mundane World
  Mar 4, 2021
• Chapter 5: Yankee Doodle or Landsknechts
  Mar 1, 2021
• Chapter 4: The Pennsylvania Long-Rifle is the Pinnacle of Colonial Art
  Mar 1, 2021
• Chapter 3.5: Witch's Diary
  Mar 1, 2021
• Chapter 3: It's totally optional, right?
  Feb 28, 2021
• Chapter 2: This Daydreaming will be the Death of Me
  Feb 28, 2021
• Chapter 1: I should have been more careful
  Feb 28, 2021

Reviews

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