Conjuring Quantico The Federal Witch Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) T S Paul Francis Alais All Chaos Press Books
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How do you cope with magic that goes its own way?
As a second year FBI academy witch, Agatha Blackmore has a certain reputation. After nearly blowing up the school, an untended mid-air incident involving the FBI director, and declaring war with the US Marines, she has to wonder if she will even see graduation.
But when a rash of mysterious disappearances catches the attention of local authorities Agatha finds herself asked to lend a hand to the investigation. Determined to offer protection where it is needed the most, Agatha and her quirky roommate Cat, along with her mini-unicorn familiar Fergus, attempt to unravel the mysteries of the four distinctly magical disappearances before time runs out.
Does Agatha have what it takes to be an agent? Or will everyone that crosses her end up eating chicken feed for the rest of their lives?
Conjuring Quantico is the first book in a brand new urban Fantasy by T. S. Paul.
As a direct sequel to Born a Witch...Drafted by the FBI, T. S. Paul returns with the first book of the Federal Witch Series!
Conjuring Quantico The Federal Witch Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) T S Paul Francis Alais All Chaos Press Books
I really enjoyed the story and the characters, but the writing was terrible. If I hadn't been looking for something light I probably wouldn't have finished it. There were lots of small problems like mixing up 1st and 3rd person, those kinds of things I can ignore. The biggest problem I had was how one-dimensional and unrealistic the villains were. The most flagrant was the higher up FBI agent who shot at her in a room full of FBI agents and claimed he could get away with whatever he wanted. All of the bad guys, and there were a lot of them, were about the same. I wish someone had edited this mess and allowed it become something good.Product details
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Conjuring Quantico The Federal Witch Book 1 (Audible Audio Edition) T S Paul Francis Alais All Chaos Press Books Reviews
The concept made me buy this book, but the writing had me delete it from my kindle before I finished. This is therefor an unfinished review, and probably won't hold much water to those that finished it.
In all honestly, as far as I read, it seemed written very much like a fanfiction, and not a good one either. The writing itself was probably the weakest side of this book. It seems more presentation than a story, and though there were humor that tickled, it falls short when compared to many other authors. The characters seemed to me, that they were flat. This may change later in the book, but it was the impression I was left with. It didn't help that the side characters was intentionally made to be disliked and unfair towards the main characters to the point of absurdity.
In all honestly, I cannot recommend picking this book up, before it's been reworked and looked over by someone. The concept itself draws attention, but to make it enjoyable it needs work.
Young adult paranormal is how I would categorize this book. Some great ideas at play. I liked the characters who will hopefully develop more in the following books. Would have liked to have mre of a connection with them. The book improved over the second half.
I did a review of Book 0, and a lot of what I wrote before applies – “weak writing style, weak on grammar and sentence structure, a lot of “telling” instead of showing. But, the idea is still interesting. A good author could really make is shine.”
It is “ok.”
Others have summarized the story, so I am going to skip that. I like the humor, and the idea. But, there are parts that really bother me.
First, the Main Character - Agatha, a prodigy witch, from one of the most powerful magical families, with a unicorn familiar, lots of magic backup/gear, best friends with an uber-rare Female Were-Cat Alpha (although the author seems to flip between her being a wolf and a cat at one point), on a first name basis with powerful/influencial FBI Members, is trained in Martial Arts, trained to shoot, fluent in Russian, German, Old Norse, and is now training to be an FBI Agent at Quantico - and is 17 years old. She has a magical 'defect' - being magically lopsided (what this means is never properly explained), but that really only comes in to play for humor. It doesn't actually hold her back - she smashes other magic users down, throws around cars, bounces bullets of her shields, etc. I don't know about others, but to me she is a bit of a Mary Sue.
The magic 'failures' are funny, and the humor of the books is one of the things I really like. But....
There seems to be a complete lack of any brains on the behalf of any other character.
Example – and spoiler alert.
Agatha is to do a 90 minute 'lecture’ on the history of the Paranormal World. I read the entire ‘lecture’ in about 10 minutes. I have done speeches, and know that when you’re stressed you speak even faster. There was no way that that history lesson would fill 90 minutes. But that is a minor point, among several.
So, after she finishes her brief lecture, a sinister FBI Agent pulls a gun out and gets up to arrest her. Apparently he did not want her to have any positive influence on the audience, or telling anyone the ‘true’ history – so he waited until AFTER she had finished to confront her. He did not stop her, or interrupt until AFTER all the she finished her “history lesson.” And, he did it in front an auditorium full of Military, FBI and government people. Even if they had some responsibility to him, that is too many loose cannons for a smart villain to allow.
A smarter man would have stopped her BEFORE she spilled the truth. A better written character would have found a way to discredit her and make it a challenge for her to present her 'history' lesson.
It looks to me like the tone is supposed to be 'light,' and not focus on the dark side of things, which is again, one of the things I LIKE about the series. (But, when you get to the case later on, that is pretty "dark" - so maybe not.)
But, really, you don't get high up in the FBI by being that stupid. A really well written villain would have at least thought about gas, bombs, snipers, all the sorts of things an FBI Agent could actually have easily available. The villain had months to investigate her. The Director and the FBI Staffers have video of her shields bouncing bullets. So, why did he think his pistol would work, especially if he warns her!
And, the last line line from his cohorts.. The bad buy could not enter the back room due to her magic warding. His cohorts tried to enter the room and get her, but could not enter either. Then, as they run away they shout - "you haven't heard the last of this." What, really?
It really looked to me like the author needed the "exposition" to set the world history, and then hit the ‘proceed with the action’ button.
Then, after the character was arrested, Agatha herself predicted that he might escape. So, then he escaped and the video records of him disappeared. A smarter FBI might have made copies of the videos, and put a better watch on him, but obviously only Agatha has brains, and I am guessing that the ‘villain’ is being introduced here so that he can be used for a later story. So, "of course' he escaped, and the records disappeared. And, no one treated it like it was really important! The FBI loses a prisoner, but oh well, not a big deal...
I don't believe the FBI works the way the author seems to think it does.
Again – this not a bad book, just not great. The issues with the Were Cat were interesting, and the pack structure was smart and solid. And the spell creation was clever - use a synonym in a spell and you change the whole result. And, the outcomes were right in line with the mistakes she made. If that is her "lopsided" magic, then I don't understand. It looks more like lack of training, or honest mistakes, not a curse.
But... writing and telling it to us instead of ‘showing a scene’ where is matters is, well, just not great writing. Looking at Chapter six, there are two paragraphs telling us that Cat's Father took some bad news "rather well." And, next that "Cat had a good cry." I was disappointed - that could have been two great scenes. The section right before that had her father talking to Agatha, and being impressed by her grandmother. That conversation was actually given to us. I think it was because it focused on how impressive a character Agatha is - he recognized her grand-mother and apologized for questioning her. The other conversations would not have made her look so "cool," so apparently they were not worth expanding upon.
Hopefully, the author grows as the series progresses. This IS an improvement from some of his other works. So, if there is another book in this series, I will likely get it. I just won't get my hopes up too much.
I really enjoyed this story that reveals an alternate universe setting where witches, were-beasts, vampires, Fae and others are a secret part of what we non-magical individuals (mundanes) understand of our history and operate without our knowledge. The characters are all well developed and evolve in this story of Agatha Blackmore (a 17 year old witch) entering Quantico for training in the FBI to become an agent investigating magical crimes. It occurs in current time but from the magical side of history. Agatha also has Fergus, a very small (pocket size) unicorn, as a familiar and sometimes troublesome sidekick. All magical beings are believable and consistent with each other as the author introduces them. I rated this book as Five Stars, which is my rating for a book that I want to re-read and re-read (which I immediately have done) and ordered the successor books.
This was a fun book with engaging characters and decent crime solving. What was lacking was any real emotional feelings from or for the characters.
And while I believe the author did send the book to editors as he wrote each chapter (as stated in the afterword), if he was paying them for their services he was robbed. Too many instances of incorrect word usage, nonsense sentences and incorrect apostrophes kept throwing one out of the story.
This book started off entertainingly enough. There's a lot of humor. However, it never really moves on from the bumbling, humorous "everyone is out to get me". It was fun and funny the first few times, but by the time she's clearing things almost every page I just wanted to get to the main plot. By the time we actually reached the main plot I just didn't care anymore. I did enjoy the fae-ness of dealing with the Russian witches - you better spell out exactly what you want or you won't get what you thought you were going to. But our main character's constant ability to do, well, everything got annoying quickly as well. Overall the book felt more YA that adult. Not for me.
I really enjoyed the story and the characters, but the writing was terrible. If I hadn't been looking for something light I probably wouldn't have finished it. There were lots of small problems like mixing up 1st and 3rd person, those kinds of things I can ignore. The biggest problem I had was how one-dimensional and unrealistic the villains were. The most flagrant was the higher up FBI agent who shot at her in a room full of FBI agents and claimed he could get away with whatever he wanted. All of the bad guys, and there were a lot of them, were about the same. I wish someone had edited this mess and allowed it become something good.
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