Honorable Mention in the 2019 Chaos Awards 7 organized by CreativeChaos and judged by me under the genre Sci Fic.

Book- Evil Lurks Beneath
Genre: Science Fiction/Action/Fantasy
Mature: Yes
LGBTQ: No

Author: Thewerewolfsack

Book Title

The book title does its job by giving an idea of the contents of the book. As an additional comment, I'd say the title hints to more towards a thriller genre rather than a science fiction genre.

Book Cover

The cover consists of a lady lying on the ground surrounded with some flowers, which matches pretty much with the plot. This delivers an ominous feeling of someone's loss, or to be more precise, of death. The font colors and sizes are okay but the top left hand corner of the book cover gets concealed with a sticker of an award that the book achieved. I'd suggest making the sticker size a bit smaller and adding it to a side where the flowers are not present will make the cover look better. The flowers have their own role so I think the author should focus on them too.

Book Description

I find the book description alright but I think there's one question that came to me, why would Adrian want to save Kaya's life without befriending her? I think the author can give little hints about it without unraveling the entire catch. Yet, as I said, this is just something additional.

Plot

Our main characters are college students Adrian and Kaya. It's not a bubbly, cliché young adult love story what readers might think about. The book begins with Adrian having unpleasant dreams about a lady being murdered by another man. The twist arises when we get to know that Adrian knows none of the victim and the accused. Another shock that follows is that Adrian gets these dreams constantly. Such occurrences leave Adrian weak and he vows to save the lady before it gets too late. That is, when Adrian meets Kaya, the lady of his dreams. Now there seems to be a solution, isn't it? No. The author promises: things won't go that smooth.

Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Vocabs

The vocabulary used falls within a mid range of simple and difficult list. I didn't find any errors in spellings and punctuation but there were one or two places where the author missed few words for a sentence to be more specific in the meaning they provided. I've pointed them through my comments and I think they can be fixed any time.

Writing Style, Character Development, Flow and Setting

I loved the writing style of the author which is why the long chapters didn't bother me at all. I felt reading more and more and more. The author definitely did great job with the setting of the book that is accompanied by a range of descriptive words. The main side character is Kaya's best friend Victoria who shone throughout the book equally as Adrian and Kaya did. I also appreciate the way in which the author presents the bond between Kaya and Victoria. The flow is good but references to science and such doesn't appear till chapter 5, which might discourage a few portions of readers.

Creativity and Enjoyment

The author was successful in providing most of the important scenes to the readers clearly. I'd like to extract one such event in chapter five, where the fight scene between Adrian and a stranger was penned, which is an example of one such successful approach. Of course, the book was a good read in my opinion.

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