{"id":17250,"date":"2021-01-19T22:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/?p=17250"},"modified":"2021-08-21T00:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T05:06:30","slug":"the-finder-witch-and-the-small-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/the-finder-witch-and-the-small-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Finder Witch and the Small Favor, by Kat Zaccard"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"the<\/p>\n

I picked up a copy of Kat Zaccard<\/a>‘s The Finder Witch and the Small Favor<\/a> as an Amazon Freebie. And I would like it noticed that it is January 19th and here I’ve already read a Z-book for my Author Alphabet Challenge. (I try to read a book from an author who’s last name starts with every letter of the alphabet each year.) I’m ridiculously proud of myself. Usually, I get to mid-December and scramble to find a Q, X, and Z book. Well, Z is taken care of early this year!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Natalie can\u2019t catch a break.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

After losing her job and her roommate on the same day, she\u2019d say she was cursed\u2026 if she believed in that sort of thing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Natalie gets a crash course in the paranormal after a first date turns into a magical crime spree. Now she has to find a job, a place to live and\u2026 oh yeah\u2026 convince the cops that she\u2019s not an accomplice to murder.<\/em><\/p>\n

Her luck starts to change when she realizes her knack for finding things may be more than coincidence.<\/em><\/p>\n

Natalie thought she was cursed\u2026 turns out she may be charmed.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Soooo, this just isn’t particularly good. It’s shallow, everyone talks in exclamation points, it needs more editing (especially for homophones), it’s super cheesy at points, and the last chapter throws in a twist that has no relation to the rest of the book at all. But what really killed it for me was the boredom. Here we have a book theoretically about a woman being hunted by a half-demon for her magical potential (should be exciting), but that is about 5% of the book. The rest is meaningless day-to-day activities, internal monologue, and needless magical lessons.<\/p>\n

I’ll grant that the characters are likeable and there is some cute humor. But for the most part this was a fail for me.<\/p>\n

\"the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up a copy of Kat Zaccard‘s The Finder Witch and the Small Favor as an Amazon Freebie. And I would like it noticed that it is January 19th and here I’ve already read a Z-book for my Author Alphabet Challenge. (I try to read a book from an author who’s last name starts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,61,723,93,267,517],"class_list":["post-17250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","tag-book-review","tag-fantasy","tag-kat-zaccard","tag-magic","tag-paranormal","tag-self-published"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17250"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18826,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17250\/revisions\/18826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sadieforsythe.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}