Book name: SHAADI
Author: Uditasree
Genre: Short story
No. of chapters: 3
Mature?: No

➵ First impression: Cover - could have been better. Title - slightly overused.

➵ Cover: The cover gave me a major throw off. I couldn't even read the text "ADI". Your username/name isn't much visible. I would suggest you go to a graphic shop. Just pm me if you have any trouble finding a nice shop.

➵ Title: Two meanings of the title, right? 1) Their ship name. 2) Wedding. And interestingly, both match the plot. But it's not something that would catch my eyes or make me read the book. So, a new title is needed.

➵ Blurb: I wasn't that excited to read the book after reading the blurb. Maybe you should try adding some more suspense to it rather than just saying that her grandfather goes missing.

➵ Flow & pace: As it's a short story, the flow and pace are justified. I still feel that you should have given a little more time to each scene, like the proposal. Things happened so quickly that I couldn't even get to know what the person in the point of view was feeling at a certain point.

➵ The plot of the book: It's different yet not that different. What do I mean by this?

Yeah, it's different from the usual bride and groom running away from the wedding stories. But the plot doesn't feel that exciting and interesting. I could guess the several reasons for her grandfather from the blurb itself.

➵ Grammar: I didn't found a single grammatical mistake. The proofreading and editing are done well!

There's one piece of advice, instead of adding the YouTube ad link, you should have explained the advertisement.

➵ Character development: As it's just a 3 chapter short story, there wasn't much space for character development.

But there are some things which bothered me:

Adi's sudden proposal. Like okay, he wanted to say this before wedding rituals, but if the proposal was after they found her grandfather, it would look good. She was scared for her Dada and there he was proposing to her. This is just me, you don’t have to do any changes.

As for Shanti, I can't say much. There weren't many descriptions of her feelings in any chapter so it's difficult to talk about her.

➵ Overall impression: It was an average read for me. If there were more descriptions, I think the book would be a great humour read.

➵ Suggestions:

- Change the cover.

- Change the title.

- Spice up the blurb a little.

- A little more descriptions would make this book amazing! I'm sure you can edit the book to give it a nice touch!

[Reviewer's note: Extremely sorry for such a vague review, but there wasn't much content to review.]