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3.84

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Veronica8
The aim of this review is to provide constructive feedback that may help with author's development. Author is welcome to delete this review once it has been read by them. In this review I looked at the summary and the first chapter. The book has promise with an ambitious plot judging by what I've read. Since I didn't go beyond the first chapter, story line is not what this review is about. I felt the basics of construction needed to be the focus here. Looking at the summary. As a reader, what do you really want me to know? What feelings do you want me to be feeling? Right now, I have no idea. This is what I can gather. The story is told from two world perspectives. A human world and magic world. Something happened four years again that involved a girl called Zen and village being kaput in a void. After that, I'm confused. I wanted to move away from the book before opening to the chapter. The summary needs to sum up the book with few words, in a logical order and that will draw out the feelings you want from readers. It also mustn't give away too many spoilers. It has to be a hook to make the reader want to go to the first chapter. Below is example for reference. It's meant to be unrelated to your story. I used emotions "determination" and "power" for the hooks. [Zen woke to an alien world after being held in stasis for six years. She found herself plummeted into the deeps of political games between the overpowering Noa and Tabris families of Magic World. An unwanted alien in a world on the brink of civil war. She must recover more of her memories in order to learn of what happened to her home and how to return to it. Being a stranger amongst the cut throat, diabolical and self-centred Magic World civilians will not make that an easy task. It's difficult to know who to trust. Zen has no choice but to walk the path of a pariah amongst Magic World's seedy underbelly to survive. Lingering in her shadows is an undeclared truth that may threatened the order and sustainability of both worlds.] The first chapter, to be honest, was hard to read. I recommend using markdown language that we use in the forums to represent italic and bold. As you don't need to explain what the symbols mean. https://***.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/ In the first chapter. A girl wakes to the conversation of non-human creatures talking over her. After that, I'm lost. I'll focus more on technical aspects. The grammar in the chapter isn't too bad. The common errors for new writers was present. Mixing tenses and run-on sentences was your culprits here. Below is an example of this. First paragraph. Mix tenses are obvious here. "As I looking..." sentence is present. "I heard..." is past. And the coma break should be a full stop as they are two different conditions. For other areas of the chapter. The pacing was too fast. You need to take some time to introduce your characters and world. If the girl was insignificant as a character at this point. You need to give the talking characters more charm and personality in order for us to understand their importance to the story. More descriptions of the world from the characters eyes was needed here. Use your characters to drive and show the scene to your readers. This is generally the best approach. Finally, every chapter, scene and character action matters to story line. They should always progress the plot to the final end. Even if they are fillers. Fillers are pieces of the same story line, so has to be connected to a main part of the story and support the progression. Sorry if the rating looks harsh, but this is where you start. Writing is like any skill to master. It requires knowing what areas you need to strengthen, reading and exploring more stories to discover other ways of word usage and various methods that will help you hone your own style. Thank you for sharing your story with us. Continue to write, read and growing in the craft. All the best.
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Sighgray
First, I won't sugarcoat this review just like the others. I think what they're doing is not really helping you but harming you instead. Because that way, you won't learn. One thing you need is a VERY SERIOUS EDITING. Words that are needed to be capitalized are not capitalized, like names of the characters for example. There's a lack of proper punctuation marks in some sentences. The tenses are all over the place. If you're going to use present tense in your narration, then use it throughout. Dialogues are weirdly constructed. Your dialogues are like this --> "sentence" - name of character. That's not how a proper dialogue was supposed to be written. If you're going to write it like that, you might as well write it like a script. A proper dialogue is like this --> "Sentence," said [character name]. There are a lot of proper grammar tools out there that you could use. Or better yet, read traditional English published books. Learn on how they're structured. Now for the story, the idea was there. My problem was, I couldn't really get into the story since there's so many grammatical errors that I just couldn't immerse myself into the world you're building. In a story, a good idea is not enough to make up for everything else. Some might reason that 'it's okay, my idea is great, who cares about grammar and proper sentence construction?'. That's just bullsh*t. You're making yourself a disservice if you believe that. That way, you won't ever improve. I can see that English is not your first language. I suggest that you just write this in your own language first. And then slowly translate it into English. I think that would be better. Sorry that I couldn't give this a much higher rating. Best of luck to your writing! đź–’
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kazesenken
The core premise of this novel starts off interesting, but I personally find myself having difficulty reading through the first 5 chapters. One major issue is the grammar and flow of the story. It progress fast, likely to fast for the reader to fully follow. I imagine that the author sees what is going on mentally, but those details are missing on paper. You need to take the time to flush out the character descriptions and visual descriptions of events going on. It feels too much like a movie without the visual imagery to help back it up. While I realize English is not your native language, the writing quality needs significant improvement. Awkward flow and spelling mistakes actually detract from the story's meaning in some cases, and as an English native, I find that it makes it hard to follow moments in your story. One thing that I think the authors does well is the dialogue. The little bits of character that I could understand strongly came from these parts. They could still be improved by writing what the characters are doing as they say the dialogue, instead of using a -*character name* as a sign to denote the speaker. Overall, this could be a promising novel, if the author takes to time to go back and correct mistakes and slow down to describe more of what is going on in the moment. If you re-read the text and cannot visualize what is going on by that alone, then those parts need work.
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ShinSungmi
I don't usually read such genres of novel. However, as far as I have read, the novel started out fine, and I find myself being intrigued as the story progresses. The main leads seem fine to me at this point, and five chapters aren't enough to assure something. Nevertheless, I can see the potential in the story. When it comes to writing style, it is quite easy to read. The vocabulary used was fine, and it would be better if it was slightly advanced. There were couple of grammatical errors— missing commas, uncapitalized first letters, and wrong sentence structures. At places, gaps were left between the punctuation and the letters. Anyway, good job!
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Norah_Koch
Hiya! What an imagination~ I see an action-packed novel. The imagination is awesome. It's a must-try, everyone. The grammar is okay, but I like the story and progression. Looking forward to more~
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ILLYAchan
Prepare for my long honest review XD (since you wanted it for improvement) The story has five chapters as of writing this review. I'll start with the writing quality. Along with the story, the improvement could be seen and I suggest to edit the first chapter which I think has a lot of grammatical errors. The good side is I imagined the scenes while reading the first and second chapters regardless of the grammatical errors but still edit it for greater impact. That's all for the writing quality since it's a given that the author is doing her best. Then the story development, it's going well and interesting. Personally, I like fantasy so I enjoyed reading. That's all since there are only a few chapters and it's too early to say what would happen as it's a new novel. Next is character design. I noticed that the main character, zen that she regained memories easily. The thing is a doctor or someone professional wouldn't risk a person's mental health to regain her memories that fast since it'll overload inside her head. (Info. Overload, something like that) especially if it's someone important although just disregard this if they have a super-advanced technology that prevents a person from experiencing side effects. For other characters, they're well-designed by the author and nothing much to say. (Since its too long to explain, but it's all good char. designs XD) Still small details and hints about the world background but looking forward to how the system works in your story's world. About the stability of updates, I personally didn't criticize this part since I believe that updates shouldn't be rushed so I always give 5 stars here. Overall, a nice story to look forward too. Goodluck, Author!
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Gourmet_DAO
HONEST REVIEW! The beginning is intriguing, like from science fiction novels, something like "Some kind of scientific railgun with Misaka Misaka." But questions immediately arise. I wonder about the cane, what is in this purple ball? Magic cane? The magic staff? What role does color play? Probably worth explaining to the reader? Test tube - homuncle? So is it an "All-Metal Alchemist"? It just causes such associations, maybe the tube should be called otherwise, for example, as a capsule? Glare? Maybe you should look at the tesaruis of emotions? And then write a description of "ferocity." So that the reader can guess that the hero looked at the heroine "fiercely." A new dialogue about the red star, appears from nowhere. What is the red country? Are there any other countries? Dialogues jump from one to the third. To build a beautiful dialogue, understandable, logical, is immediately difficult. If only the old man came out, and then an emergency situation began, why didn’t the old man come back? Usually in laboratories, there are clear instructions on what to do in extreme cases. Nobody will run like in films, everyone knows what they should do. That is, job descriptions, safety instructions, instructions for what to do in emergency situations. The exercises are held. Therefore, the described situation seems strange. Scientists are cooler than the old man? The first chapter caused me many questions, but the story seems fascinating, vampires, scientists, some girl, a laboratory ?! Interestingly, if an emergency occurred, then why didn’t it become known to Noah? Why did they all sit quietly in the conference room? There is something wrong with the building security system. Each scientific laboratory, and especially a closed laboratory, has its own security service, which provides security and monitoring of the situation. Supervisors are immediately notified when a dangerous situation arises. Scientists and magicians ?! Intriguing! Why do worlds lose their balance? It is unclear who is this girl at all? Is she so powerful? Why is she so afraid and still alive? There are no descriptions of magicians, their powers, what colors mean, what a scepter's magician means, the world is not described, the structure of the world is not clear to the reader, what forces are in the world, how is cultivation from the bottom to the top. That is, it turns out that the world in which the heroes live is completely incomprehensible. If it were realism, then by default people know what it is. But the magical world, it is entirely yours, the author, we readers do not know anything about it. Therefore, you need a more detailed description of the world, the nature of the heroes. This is a big minus in the novel. All the names of the heroes should be spelled out in an additional chapter, at the beginning of chapter 1, so that readers have an idea who all these people are? But here you need to be able to find a balance so that there is not too much explanatory text, since it distracts the reader's attention from the novel itself. But the story itself is interesting, it manifests itself from the middle of the second chapter, the story itself begins to be revealed, maybe this is my opinion, not a pro, but maybe it would be worth the second chapter to be made the first? Oh ... and where does the blue kimono? Then wait, what were they all wearing? Kimono? Why not bathrobes? Costumes? Namely a kimono? Do the colors of the rain play a role? What rules do magicians have? Are we talking about them, readers don’t know anything at all? !!!! Oh, dark magicians? !!! Author, why don’t you give a description of the world? Who lives in it? what forces? What kind of magicians? What is their contradiction? Why was an alliance formed and against whom? Wow! What a conference ?! Guests do not respect the owners, the allies attack each other. With such friends and enemies is not necessary! Wind eagle sword? Ohhhh! Then you need to give a description of the types of weapons in each country! What are their characteristics and ranks. Since the name of the weapon is high-profile, they are shocking, but they do not tell the reader anything about the sword itself. Why is it called so and not otherwise? And here again, strange! Previously, magicians called themselves by name, but then suddenly names appeared ?! For what? Does eye color matter to magicians? Why, then, the author did not describe earlier what magicians look like? Many questions. but I don’t see the answers yet. But it’s good that there are questions, then the novel is interesting. Something the conflict very quickly ended ?! Who is Lain? The transition is too unexpected. And the chapter seems too long. I read to the third chapter. What to say? The novel is interesting, the idea is great, there is intrigue, the story unfolds from the second or third chapter. She seems to be fantastically fascinating. However, there are also disadvantages. The world is not described. Characters of heroes are not given. It is necessary to immediately entice the reader from the first chapter, since he can leave without reaching an interesting place, not realizing that the novel is not boring but really has a chance to become popular. General assessment, it is subjective, my personal. For the idea of ​​the novel, I would put 8 stars out of 10 possible, the general text is 7 stars, but the absence of a description of the world is 4 stars. Final rating 4 stars. It’s probably worth rewriting the song chapters. But here is the author’s own business, when I personally began to rewrite 6 chapters, it took me 2 weeks. At this time, I could not update chapters on other novels. Readers began to leave. So this is a moot point about rewriting chapters. To the author of good luck, in general, the novel seemed to me interesting, fascinating. Thanks for your work. Usually when you read a novel for swap reviews, sometimes you regret your time spent, since novels are far from being the most interesting, and sometimes simply boring. But your novel was interesting, not ordinary, not stamping, but with its own plot! For what you as the author a huge respect! I was happy to spend my time reading your novel. I hope you manage to improve it and make it more fun!
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bitterreaderako21
This is my first time reading an all English novel and it really does impact a part of me, wanting to read more and I’m excited in finishing this one 💕
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Cynk_Napp
A magical fantasy romance still in the early part of the story Good interplay of the characters. Easy to read. :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
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luciel_707
Well first time to publish an english story. Sorry for the grammatical errors if you encountered one or more. But i'll do my best to improve my writings. Thanks for the views and reading it, i feel pity to my story tho cause its been stock for years in my notes (4 full notebook) and the worst its in written as my first language in our country so it takes time to translate bcs of my school. For those who reading my story until it updates the schedule for that is: -saturday -sunday Or -monday How many chapters? - 3 chapters- 4-5 chapters if i have a lot of time Again thanks and see yah next week! -luciel 707-
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