Title: What a waste
Review: Interesting if not terribly original idea badly executed.Other people have commented on the larger issues of plot and characterization, so I'll settle for a pet peeve: the writer has NO ear for dialogue. In particular, she doesn't contract "to be" verbs in dialogue. Over and over she wrote things like, "If it is not too much trouble," or "I heard you are a witch." Who talks like that? It's a little thing, but it threw me out of the story every time. That's an amatuerish mistake, and it almost made me wonder if English isn't her first language. Even if that's the case, though, what editor was sleeping on the job?
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