『ᴘᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴄᴀᴋᴇ』
Heyy, Nic! I always love to see your comments and small chats in your comments section. They're either too cute or funny. I love them.
We haven't really had much of a conversation, but I'd love to see you around more.
I tried my best to give you a fair review. I hope you find it satisfactory.
This is for you, Bubba ❤️
A snowflake spirals its way down,
Embraces my tongue to cause a meltdown.
Barriers broken -
Leading way to the hearth.
When spring springs forth,
Puts my heart on a kick-start;
It starts to blossom.
The ice makes me ascertain of the warmth I need
The fire makes me burn with passion
The fall comes with a strong wind
That strikes my cheek
Like a slap, the hair whips against my face
The leaves of different colours
Raining down on me
Reminding me there's more than meets the eye.
The sun is blinding,
Reminds me to close my eyes
Pause. Enjoy. Feel.
Live the moment
It's now or never.
- Mia©2020
Inspired by Seasons by downmixx
TITLE: 5/5
I personally like short but elastic titles. By that I mean, the title could only contain one word, but that one word could offer depth of understanding. So when I hear your title "Seasons" - there's 4 main seasons in a year which blur into the other. There's depth and complexity of potential symbolism there.
In your case, the symbolism of these seasons preludes to the different personalities of the characters involved. Absolutely loved it. One could have a winter-y personality (chill/cool/cold, etc), one could have a spring personality (growth, happiness, carefree, etc). It's almost as if the seasons themselves were personified.
BOOK COVER: 4/5
Choice of template for your cover matters. You choose them right, it works wonders. I think your cover is a good example of that. Each picture grid in your cover represents different seasons, namely, Jungkook takes up the winter feels, while Taehyung portrays a spring/winter look. The placing of these pictures diagonally creates a beautiful juxtaposition. (Note: Juxtaposition is a literary device. It is the fact of two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect.)
Although, I do have a suggestion. When you put only Taehyung and Jungkook on your cover, it kinda almost helps the reader is predicting where and how the story can go. To help in maintaining that mystery, why don't you add a picture of Jimin and Hoseok as well, because they are as well main characters that end up becoming a huge deal in the protagonist's life. The readers will then be curious to see who she would end up with. Besides, even Jimin and Hobi have amazing personalities all on their own, and can fill up the other two slots in your cover. So it can be, Taehyung, Jungkook, Jimin and Hoseok.
I also have to appreciate the added flower stems at the corners of the title header. It gives a spring effect.
The subtitle you added, reads "Choose one and leave the other one", I'd suggest you change that to "Choose one and leave the other", it would fit your space correctly and sound more right to the ears as well. In case you do end up taking my suggestion and add all four members in the cover, you can then change the subtitle to "Choose one and leave the others".
DESCRIPTION: 3/5
I like your description in the sense that it talks about the contrast in personalities. But it seems like it's incomplete and not enough. Your description right now is intriguing, but just not intriguing enough. I honestly feel like you need to give vague but accurate descriptions of the various guy personalities in her life, and somehow hint that all them have had a way to enter into her life and how to take it forth. Obviously, this is just a suggestion.
Nevertheless, I like how you wrote the description, using the same style, just try to add in more points that would make me definitely want to click and read your book.
PLOT: 9/15
Again, as I think I've said in the previous review, school AU is really common and often stories written in this area follow a similar trope. As of right now, your's seems to follow a similar trope. Which is not a problem at all. The only difference and success lies in how you recreate it and reproduce it. It's too early in your book for me to actually comment on the plot of the whole story. But I'm definitely waiting for it to unravel.
There's a splendid thing that I've noticed in your plot however, things that you would expect to normally happen doesn't. For example, at the very start when Taehyung was with the protagonist and she's pretty drunk, I thought that Hoseok/Jungkook would end up fighting with him. It's good when you're also in your own way breaking minor sub-tropes like that.
I also suggest that you proofread your works so that you find minor plot holes which at the start doesn't seem so bad, but repeated ones tend to decrease the enjoyment of the book on the overall.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: 8/15
Your characters all seem versatile, it's not a common thing that we see these days in our books here. There's a catch to this though, no matter how versatile your characters are, unless they are written well to showcase this, readers wouldn't be able to recognize and appreciate it.
Now how can you improve on that? I think people keep forgetting how important it is to have well written internal monologues or thought processes of a character. Apart from dialogues, let actions speak for themselves. As much as dialogues are amazing, a complete domination of the same would leave the story incomplete.
WRITING AND GRAMMAR: 7/15
I personally think the pace is a little slow. It's been. It's been 12 chapters, but I still don't know much of where this is going. Sure, we need to figure out this Nayeon person and also the backstory to Taehyung and Jungkook, but apart from that, I have no idea what else to expect from this story. Maybe you do have something planned, but unless hints of it are thrown in the previous chapters like foreshadowing, it wouldn't be something that committing.
But as for the grammar, I wouldn't want to say much, because our lovely BTS_Diaries helped out in that department. I'd only suggest that spend time in editing and proofreading. It's seriously an important part of writing and publishing.
Also, I can't stress this enough, in how important spending time on writing descriptions is, it makes the reader understand better and feel more involved.
This is not a worry at all, writing can always be improved and I totally believe it's good already, just a little tweaks here and there. It's gonna be a bomb. :3
ENDING: 7/10
All in all, I LOVE your work, it's really engaging and I just love the concept of seasons, you've completely got me there. That's what matters in the end, I wanna see more of this Missy!
OTHER DETAILS:
Let me please talk about the gifs you added in between, man, they were so apt from their expressions to the minutest of their body language. Good choices! Enjoyed those. Although I have to again tell you that dont rely on them for your descriptions.
Like I said before, I absolutely loved your comments section. Some readers are just amazing in their comments and it helps in connecting with the book more.
TOTAL SCORE: 43/70
Good job, Nic!
Amazing.
I hope you're satisfied with my review. Any queries or objections, you can DM me.
Like I said, we can always agree to disagree as long as it's civil and constructive :3
Also, lemme know if you guys think I missed anything out, or if I need to add anything.
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