Little witch in the woods Through its narrative, whiz-taste in a way that has no real impact on the reader. Its all attempts to build environments and characters are told, and as a result, the story is robbed of any major conspiracy or drama. I certainly don’t like the story, but it makes me wish there was more substantial stuff in its passages.
The story is divided into two halves. The first one has a young heroine Misha who goes to the mansion to save her father, while the second one is with Knight Geord, who is with a foreign country. The second half is more emotional than the first and allows Misha to explore the forest, the beach, and flash back her past in a chapter. At least on a technical level, things should move in such a way.
With its main character Misha, a classic young man, driven away by the call of adventure, there is certainly a lot of room to make it a space for growth and maturity. I mean, nothing forces you to take responsibility and become an adult, but to be forced to heal when your father is on the verge of death. The problem here is that all these themes are kept in the background and never fully appeared. The rhythm Little WitchThe incident was too anxious and there were too many prose to develop its world. Some sequences even feel that they were developed on the spot. We didn’t know Misha’s father’s name until after his character was introduced. Even mentioning a war that takes place in the first act of the novel, we never really see how it affects the psychology of the characters. It mentions only a few times and that’s it. You have nothing to lock in.
Therefore, the character feels very thin. Misha is burdened by the tasks that force her to grow up, although none of these events seems to have had much impact on her personality. She just floated over a page, so did the soft shadows. The story decides to kill Misha’s mother very early, which seems a bit forced (instant drama! Just join the death of parents!), and only slightly affects Misha’s personality. The moments of loneliness appear from time to time, suggesting personality, but not enough time for Misha to correctly reflect on her trauma.
My thoughts draw blanks when describing minor characters. I can only really describe What They are: Misha’s mother, Leyas, a capable pharmacist, father, Deel, a wounded nobleman, and Knight Geord provides Misha with a suitable and protected guardian. But who are they a tough guy. Some of their backstory are through occasional messages that occasionally get stuck and do not further develop their personality. Some characters even exit the story as quickly as they enter. The problem I have with these types of stories is that, in general, they confuse interesting knowledge with characters with interesting personalities. For example, a character who starts with amnesia and is later revealed as a noble person may bring an interesting past, but not enough to make the character feel like a real person in the present moment.
This is not to say there are no memorable moments Little Witch. I love slices of life, which means I do like part of Misha and Geord traveling through the seaside town. To die by any real action, it is probably the strongest part of the book, and its prose is here descriptive enough to evoke the scenery of the sun-grilled village in the ocean. Plus, Misha and Geord’s ideas settled for a moment after so much adventure and drama, which made the story lightly slow down. I also like knowledge about the people of Misha Forest and their healing abilities. A passage shows that their abilities are widely sought, but not taken for granted, and those who soon learn their own ways in many ways. The last chapter of the book caught interest, involving a ritual of a vanishing youth and the Marine Dragon God, even if its ending is a bit boring.
There are many Little Witch I can appreciate it, but only in a conceptual theoretical sense. All the work to make a fascinating story is there, but it doesn’t have narrative tools to put them together.
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