User: sparklet11
Genre: short story
Chapters: 2 (and an author's note)

Beginning thoughts

Not sure if it's intentional or not, but I kind of like the use of the word "solace" as it reminds me of the Winter Solstice. I thought it was clever.

Blurb

The blurb was short and sweet and tells us what it will be about.

Story

It is such a beautiful, emotional and heartwarming story as the MC speaks his feelings and thoughts to a lifeless snowman. There wasn't a lot to it, but it definitely delivered in what you were trying to achieve with this story.

Writing

I thought the writing was beautiful. It does come across as flowery at times with the metaphors and descriptors which do come heavy handed at times. I did mention a couple of words that needed fixing, but if I'm being honest it was good.

Another thing I would say would be to italicise any of the character's thoughts, just because your story is not in first person, so putting the mc's thoughts in italics would help the reader.

Characters

There aren't many characters in this, so I'll focus on the main character (I think Bernard? Names I can never remember and I'm on the app so going back to check is a bit of a pain).

We do not get much out of his character except that he loves his grandkids, can play pretend, is very lonely and prefers his rest.

I would like to know a bit more about him like his interests and maybe what he did as a job or just something more to get more feel of him.

Setting

I definitely got the feel of the setting with your descriptors. Good job.

Overall

It was a great read and would have loved to have more, because what I got was just *chef's kiss*

Be proud of yourself.