I had a conversation with
Mystic shortly after the initial release of the prologue in which I suggested combining the "extra" or "background" content directly into the story. That has been done with this release and I think it is an improvement. I get a good feel for the character by the end of the prologue. Actually, long before. By the end, it felt like 50,000 words to describe a pathetic loser... about 40,000 words too many.
"I am a man of constant sorrow, I've seen trouble all of my days."
R. D. Burnett
MC drinks a lot... no MC goes to bars to
not get served by the genx ditsy barmaid, called a racist by a black racist and verbally abused by a leprechaun. Somehow, though, he comes out of it with a new job. Over the next two weeks he gets to know a model who is really
a banshee, has a lot of really strange dreams and
ultimately meets and makes a pact with the goddess Bastet.
In chapter 1 he
gets told to grow up and learn to watch out for himself by his "protectress" goddess, gets drug across a library and shoved up against a wall at knife point by a dyke blonde and moved to a new apartment for his own protection only to be accosted by the same blonde dyke the first night he's there.
That's as far as I got, Mystic. Sorry. The art, while a little dark in places, is good. The models are hot. The writing is decent but could use some polish. The story may develop into something I could get into but the MC is just not for me. Grow him 4", put 50 pounds on him and, for goddess sake give him a spine! Oh, and get rid of that shirt that went out of style in 1957. Jus' Sayin'