Book Name: Stolen Dusk
OS Name: Stolen Dusk

Review:

Title: 6.5/10

A beautiful title, I just love its uniqueness and thought I can feel behind the title...its lovely and am sure hooked but yes, can't be sure of everyone as in other general readers so would cut 1.5 marks just for that.

Relevance to the theme...guess the title is suggesting the last dusk of two people stolen before someone's looming death? Due to a disease maybe, not sure of course! But yes, even as the title is beautiful and I can sure feel the relevance to the theme in the hindset, at first glance it gives more of just the romantic vibes so will cut 2 marks for the theme not being exactly clear.

Cover: 9.5/10
At first glance, can just say, the cover is absolutely gorgeous...something that's sure intriguing enough to make me open the book, right from the template to the font to the contrast between the two scenarios- A snowy winter that separates and an evergreen glowing scenario with mountains and waterfall that depicts Love, I am sure intrigued with the parallels drawn in the cover itself along with the silhouettes of the couple in the story, so am I with the indication of a (letter?) in the story through a portion of the cover, would have given full marks on the catchiness of the cover but yes, the lower picture of the girl has the head cut in a rather weird manner that sure catches my eye though it still doesn't take away anything from the beauty of the cover but still will be cutting 0.5 marks for that.

As the winter with its coldness indicates a separation, so does the lower portion of the cover and of course, the back of a girl and the hand of a guy separating yet not willing to(and infact, is the guy's non-visibility indicative of something?), you have captured the emotions of the work and theme perfectly in that, full marks for theme relevance.

Blurb:10/10
How beautifully can someone write? The 2 line blurb is the best blurb I have read till now, The simple yet subtle way in which you explained the theme is a marvellous job done and the line itself is just...beautiful. The parallel drawn between candle of Love and candle of light is amazing. You have surely got me intrigued with the 'he is death' part and given it is on AbhIya( I love them) I am wondering if Abhay is going to be a Vampire here too? I am sure excited to read knowing this. Full marks on the theme relevance, You have explained it simply yet very efficiently.

About reading ahead, we did had a talk of over it and as I had said, your writing style is sure gonna make me read ahead and so is the curiosity of knowing how 'he is death', full marks on the catchiness too.

Story:22/25
That was an amazing write-up, the serenity that the story emitted was sure intriguing and marvellous and I am crazily impressed with the writing skills, you sure know how to play beautifully with the words and create an atmosphere so beautiful that the person is just transported to the world you created, beautiful.

Coming to uniqueness, the story was sure one of its kind and as I felt it was all but about a dusk two unusual lovers spend together before one of them ends up losing her life, you brought in a plot twist that sure shocked and somewhere almost left me feeling a sadness I can't explain, amazing...full marks on uniqueness.

The theme was beautifully justified, they weren't supposed to meet anyways, they belonged to different worlds but if they could think of daring to, Life just turned cruel for the poor lovers in ways more than bearable, how beautifully done, full marks there.

The story was sure an interesting read, the wordplay, the atmosphere you created, the dialogues...everything was beautiful and enough to keep the reader hooked but I just felt that the initial scene turned a bit too long, something that could just make me wish to reach the real concept of the story fast if I make sense there. Actually, the description even as they made the scene engrossing sure lead to a bit of feeling like reaching the real thing fast to me at a point of time so would cut 1 mark for that.

Flow of the story was natural and smooth but a few things were sure confusing to me, for starters...I actually thought Asher was a lion( Don't kill me), only reading on did I realized something and jumped back to check, I feel if a distinction could be made there, it would be helpful...so was the scene where you changed the scene, The '.' didn't make me realize the scene change, I would prefer to say that you could maybe use some other more visible symbol for explaining the same. Also, I felt many concepts in the story were introduced and given subtle hints of but not explained in-depth like how Abhay saved her life, Why her using his real name was a problem, why exactly didn't he wish to 'turn' her and if he was immortal, why they were talking of him being in 'Hell', why did Piya not grow suspicious of his, an immortal's continuous words that she'll live...I just felt that they could be explained in more depth, not all maybe since I understand some things should be left on the readers' imagination but at least some of them so would be cutting 2 marks for that.

The ending was superb and the serenity it radiated and Abhay's letter sure deserves full marks so yes, full marks there.

Special Highlights: Your writing styles
... It's engrossing and amazing and just transports the reader to the world and vibes you created.
The cute banters of AbhIya, those were Love.
The very vibes of the story, the story literally radiated what it wanted to convey.
Abhay's letter, simple yet marvellously written.
The foreshadowing that he gave her the right for his destruction by giving her his real name and she not daring to speak it in public even as she was dying for even the thought of his destruction wasn't ok to her and of course, what eventually happened. 💔😥
Oh, the foreshadowing at so many places, only after you read the end you realize... it's superb.

Grammar:14/15

The punctuations were literally perfect according to me, full marks there.

Grammer was mostly perfect with a spelling mistakes and minor mistakes here and there, a very basic editing would sure remove those mistake so cutting 0.5 marks there.

Vocabulary was nice, actually brilliant but yes, I felt a few words could sure be replaced by more suitable words since I just felt they didn't fit in would cut 0.5 marks for that.

Overall enjoyment: 4/5

Even as I sure enjoyed the read through and through, I just can't ignore that I felt like knowing some more details those could be shared or more like elaborated on so would cut 1 marks for that.

Blurb, Cover and Title post reading the story: Just one word, perfect...Like all the elements of the story complimented each other beautifully, nicely done. :)

Total:66/75

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