He tells her that he is there to find out if she has the skills necessary to attend a prestigious university, Ravenridge College. She decides not to go home and put her family at risk so she leads him on the outer edge of town where she gets the jump on him. One evening after leaving work, Petra found herself being followed by a handsome gargoyle. Her mother suffers from some mental problems steming from attacks she and Petra suffered during a demon invasion. Petra is a 21 year old waitress who lives with her mother and grandmother. I have to say, that I was pleasantly surprised by this story. They were average at best but since the book was free on Kindle, I downloaded the story. Anyway, I decided to check out the reviews.

It was an interesting take on a woman in a wierd dance or contorted stance. I am a sucker for a great book cover and that is what initially drew me to 'Witch Slap.' This was not another cover of a hot woman, dressed in leather with a wicked blade or gun in her hand. Not planning to read the rest of the series. Seriously, if these were real people they’d have zero game. It doesn’t help that the dialogue is quite uninspired. For quite a long while, there is a lot of telling and not very much showing and I felt like I was trying to watch a show when I’d missed the first two seasons.Īnother thing I didn’t like was that the characters could have been so much more, but they were not really developed, so things just kind of fall flat. It reads like a kid’s diary, like those shows where the narrator is a child and they keep getting ahead of themselves and have to backtrack and explain things. I know it sounds somewhat unoriginal, but the setup is actually pretty decent and the characters likable. It has a decent hook - magically talented misfit with dysfunctional family goes to magical school and turns out to be one of their only hopes to save the world. With a really lame, gimmicky cliff-hanger. How can I put it? Just as I was starting to think it may make up for its faults, it ended. As soon as she gets some coffee, that is. And it’s true that the other primals seem to subscribe to the philosophy, “Fight hard.

She can’t help but want to loosen him up a bit.

She’s been fighting them her whole life, and they haunt her nightmares.īut that hot gargoyle that recruited her said that she was pretty much the only hope to save the world. Petra would rather carve the word “primal” into her own stomach than fight those freaking creatures. Those creatures are pouring through a breach in the fabric of the universe right into the college’s library. Her innate magic is uniquely suited to fighting monstrous creatures from another dimension. But she was recruited to this “prestigious mage college” because she’s something called a primal. Petra Brightshade was under the impression that college meant going to, like, classes.

Witch Slap by Val St. Crowe