Reviewer: Eloeide

Book: Love at Dawn by LiebeKlara

Genre: Historical Fiction
Subgenres: Romance, Mystery
Chapters read: 10 out of 40.
Rating: ★★★★☆

The eye-catching elements of this story were beautiful, but raw. Its cover has beautiful art and the fonts used are congruent with the design. The title is attractive and appropriate for the genre. The blurb contains two interesting premises, but still a bit confusing, since they seem to be introducing two different books rather than just one.

Now with the prologue and first chapter, both were outstanding in buying a reader's attention. I felt intrigued and fell in love immediately with the narration style. It also gives out a scene full of mysteries behind it, fulfilling the job of engaging the reader from the very start. The prologue was, in one word, elegant. The first chapter, I personally think it was even better than the prologue since it gave space to answer some previous questions while also not revealing too much and making curiosity grow.

Our main characters, Edith and Andre, seem to have met at a very young age with a quite unsettling age gap. Edith, always free-spirited, also seems very mature no matter what her age. Andre is a charming mystery. The first arc of the story, when they both meet and develop a friendship formed from mutual admiration, has perhaps quite a fast paced storytelling. The plot is promising though, and I would love to venture more into their world.

Moving onto the language elements, we have an appropriate diction, an almost perfect flow, a gorgeous writing style, and an excellent grammar. In regards to the diction, we have the use of language, which is very appropriate for the time of the epoch the story is set in. Flow is nice. We have descriptions, we have dialogues, we have good breaks between chapters and complete sentences and paragraphs. Some of them end with prepositions, and I would recommend avoiding that. I can see the effort put into the writing style, and I really appreciate its grace.

And finally, about the grammar, I have no complaints. I only noticed some mishaps like a missed spacing after a quotation between dialogues, but a refining should fix those minimal faults.

Summarizing it all, Love at Dawn was a path to enjoy, with historically accurate events, and a lovely story that unfolds mysteries and growing feelings as you delve deeper by chapter. It may not be considered perfect, but it is to me perfect enough to give it a spot in my library and also in my heart. I'd love to read further to see each of my questions answered and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to get lost in a romantic scenery of war, thoughts, mysteries and a pure kind of love.

Scorecard:

The eye-catching elements (Cover, Title, Blurb): 12/15

The first chapter/prologue (Did you buy me as a reader with it?): 20/20

Arcs, Main plot, Characters (Do they feel like magic?): 31/35

The language elements (Dcition, Flow, Writing style, Grammar): 28.5/30

Overall: 91.5/100