Book: X-Diary by ShivaniUpreti

Judge: Alex

For: Mystic Awards 2018

Overall, I was happy with this, although I was confused with the plot. A lot of people don't understand how important titles, covers, and summaries are but you clearly do. I loved that the setting was in India, as I'm a fan of books about other cultures. However, there was a bit of confusion when the characters would switch to speaking Indian, as there was no translations provided. I like how some things a typical American might not understand were explained. Grammar was great and had only a few minor flaws. The characters were typical college students, but not in a cliche way. One of my favorite things about this book was (unlike almost every other book in this category) the lack of cliches. So my advice is to provide some translations for the Indian words, and hook the reader in a little more. This was a great read. Keep on writing.