Author: Jarvis1989

The Review

Cover, Title and Description

I love the cover. The intensity of it can be felt. It's soothing to the eyes as well. The font colour for '3.1' looks fits flawlessly with the background and I very much liked the placing of your watermark in it. Plus, it's nice that you wrote 'reverse chronology' at the top.

The title is nice. Mainly because you write series, I liked it. Considering the genre is mystery, people would like this kind of book naming, ultimately creating a full series. It's interesting and could grab my attention.

I liked how you explained in the first paragraph that what exactly you meant by 'reverse chronology'. It really helped in understanding the concept of the story further. Honestly, the rest of the blurb is not much attention grabbing. It's too plain for my liking. I believe you can do better in the construction of it. Add more suspense into it.

First Chapter

I don't really know how to describe this. It was in reverse so basically the first chapter was the last chapter but I will just write what I felt about it.

It started off with a medical setup. It was all perfectly detailed and then there was another scene where Aditi and Arun were at the Orion base. It was actually the ending of the story so I would say it was a bit abrupt, although I know this is the prequel and there's a sequal to it but this was just too abrupt. It was a bit confusing at first but when I read further, I could understand why you wrote it like that so it's kinda justified.

Character Development

I have no idea what to say *chuckles*. It was like as the story progressed, the characters were going more back in time so I don't know how to write the development. So I'll just say that the characters were nice and quite magnetic. Arun especially had that charm in him. Aditi was the perfect agent and the way she fought in Coimbatore was really cool. The other characters were also nice. It was a bit confusing because of the reverse order but you still managed to get the characters clear.

Plot Development and Storyline

The plot development, was again in reverse so yeah, it was a nice time reading it. Something very refreshing, I have never really read something like this so I kinda liked this whole new concept. The plot developed backwards and every chapter was like a new beginning. But, if I read it from the last to the first chapter, the development was pretty smooth and it all just fit like a jigsaw puzzle.

The storyline was indeed very different. Your ideas are already so different from normal mystery storiesstories that they always fascinate me.

Grammar and Detailing

Grammar was very good. There were almost no typos and your vocabulary was also bewitching. Your writing flow was smooth. Punctuations, articles everything was just on point. I see you have proof read your work a lot of times. Really good!

Detailing is something I have a question about. You detailed the setting very well but again, there were absolutely no details about your characters' physical features. The protagonists personalities can be understood but we can't imagine them. You need to show us how they look, how they walk, how they talk.

Overall Rating

4