Soul to Soul (Small Universe Book 2) by Christopher M. Daniels

I’m on a streak of reading self-published stuff, and sometimes being pleasantly surprised.

The first book in the Small Universe series was okay.  I saw some potential there in the writing, and some good ideas.  I was hoping the second book would build on that through practice of the craft, but I was disappointed.

I’m not a writer, I’ve never written a book, I don’t have the skills developed to meet my own standards of “good” writing.  But there’s a certain something that makes the difference between a well-woven tale and a “bunch of stuff that happened” as Homer would say.

I can’t put my finger on why I feel like I knew Arthur Dent or Ford Prefect, but don’t know Gilbert or Jon from these novels.  The actions they did were similar, the plots not markedly of different quality, but something is missing.

I suppose if I knew what it was, I’d be writing these myself.