Sword, Staff, and Crown

Information

Status

Completed

Year

2019

Author

officialleehadan

• Broken Chain
  Nov 6, 2019
• UnSpun
  Oct 31, 2019
• Circle Challenged
  Oct 21, 2019
• The Queen's Hall
  Oct 17, 2019
• Ancient Alliance
  Oct 7, 2019
• Burning Oil
  Sep 29, 2019
• Herbs and String
  Sep 22, 2019
• Dizzy Spell
  Sep 16, 2019
• History Past
  Sep 13, 2019
• Girl Talk
  Sep 7, 2019
• Tea and History
  Aug 29, 2019
• Stronger Together
  Aug 25, 2019
• Spinning Wheel
  Aug 22, 2019
• Mistaken Step
  Aug 19, 2019
• Round and Round Again
  Aug 18, 2019

Reviews

Community Reviews(1)

• TealiciousTeaRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  I enjoyed Sword, staff and crown. It is a high fantasy tale that focuses on the troubles of a humble healer as she becomes entangled with three magic-using heroic humans. Heroic in the sense that each is beyond human abilities.
  The story is well written with a focus on plot and character and minimal description. The grammar is sufficient. The characters are engaging and interact with each other dynamically. The plot is cohesive, exciting with a target audience to romance/fantasy readers. The story reads episodically per chapters, and I think the story would likely benefit by reading in a binge rather than by chapter release as I read it, so the reader's attention is on the overall flow of the narrative which is the strength of the author's storytelling. The plot design just doesn't fit the web fiction format as well as say the more common book or ebook format.
  The story effectively follows the character interactions with a budding romance between the humble healer heroine and hero. I think the plot, per se, is fixed as good enough. However, more complexity in terms of characters, politics and story is needed to enhance the storytelling. That is there is too thick, too much plot (events) with too thin, too little characterisation, politics and thus story to create the fictional space. My rather suggestion is to increase the latter to match the plot that way you get to write what you want while also servicing the readers. There is the flip more difficult choice to decrease the plot through extensive and ruthless rewriting and editing to concentrate plot, character, world-building (politics), setting into a powerful short story.
  The characterisation was sufficient in terms of psychological construction. They are likeable and believable for the genre. I do feel like the characters exist parallel to their environment. This is a consequence of the minimal if sufficient time spent on the characters just living in their everyday existence. The fantasy world itself is sparse