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Now, the results;

🍌BEFORE THE PAST Maxii19story
Genre: 3/5
Title: 5/5
Blurb: 3/5
First chapter/ Prologue: 6/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 7/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 10/20
Literary devices: 4/10
Plot: 15/30
Character: 5/10
Description: 4/10
Connection: 5/10
Originality: 5/10
Overall Impression: 5/10
TOTAL: 77/155

REVIEW: The draft needs thorough editing. The writing is littered with errors in grammar, spelling and overall language structure. The plot needs a lot of tightening as it has redundancies and a lot of unnecessary information that slows down the development and shifts the reader's attention from the mystery element. And there's a need for depth in characters.

FULL REVIEW by kristoffkerry: The blurb is pretty, I like it, but it read like a plot towards the romance genre. I got the slight mystery aspect when I read the book, but still I felt it leaned more to the other genre. The first chapter didn't do much for me in terms of wanting to read the book, but the information dump was too much for me to process. There were plenty of grammatical errors and the same information stated over and over again. Too many redundancies! The mixed tenses and sentence constructions were what threw me off the most, so get someone who has a good grasp of English to help you out. Punctuation placements also needs work, you kept leaving off the question mark after a question was asked. The spelling wasn't bad though, I realized the words that seemed to be misspelled were actually typos, but the vocabulary needs to be taken to a whole new level. You kept overusing words, like in chapter one I lost count of the amount of times the word darkness was used. It just caused me to lose interest in the book.  I didn't see much literary devices in the beginning chapters, but as I read farther into the story they kept popping up more. Descriptions were not as vivid as I would have liked them to be, they didn't help your story at all. So try and add better descriptions to your work. The plot however, has potential. I really was routing for this story but the delivery made it hard for me to enjoy it and if I had judged it, I would have given it a 42. Now don't feel bad, my review is so you can go back to the drawing board and work on your amazing storyline, because I do believe it has the ability of being wonderful. Good luck!

🍌IN THE STARS StudMuffinStitch judged by kristoffkerry
Genre: 5/5
Title: 3/5
Blurb: 2/5
First Chapter/Prologue: 8/10
Grammar/Punctuation: 14/20
Spelling/Vocabulary: 16/20
Literary Devices: 2/10
Plot: 22/30
Character: 5/10
Description: 2/10
Connection: 4/10
Originality: 7/10
Overall Impression: 5/10
TOTAL: 95/155

REVIEW: First off let me start with the blurb, it didn't give off mystery I felt like it was a setting for a drama/young adult novel. However, while reading the prologue I saw the mystery aspects coming into view. Now the prologue may have been a bit interesting but the lack of descriptive elements and literary devices took away from my enjoyment. Work on character development and the plot so that your story can increase in enjoyment.

🍌RED EmmaSebastianThomas
Genre: 5/5
Title: 3/5
Blurb: 4.5/5
First chapter/ Prologue: 7/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 16/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 17/20
Literary devices: 5/10
Plot: 15/30
Character: 6/10
Description: 5/10
Connection: 5/10
Originality: 7/10
Overall Impression: 6/10
TOTAL: 101.5/155

REVIEW: The narration needs more 'show' than 'tell'. The plot seemed to be confusing. Gang Jian, a forty yr old man, is arrested as a suspect who leaves message 'bullied my mother, death to you'. Yet, in the next chapter, it is revealed that the murderer is his mother who leaves message 'bullied my son, death to you' as she murders the children who bullied her son. Now these murders happened in the present time and her son was bullied years ago, so how can she murder the same kids that bullied her son when he was ten-years-old and how comes the message on dead bodies changed? If she were killing other children then why'd she wait so many years to take out this frustration or anguish of hers? If this is not the case, then there's a need for more explanation.
In the third chapter, it's written that sebastian walked 'down' the slope to reach his home at the 'top' of the hill. Doesn't make sense. Then the criminal Liam keeps addressing Sebastian as 'baby', 'girl'.
Apart from this, the characters need to be worked on. As of now they seem a bit over-smart instead of smart. The readers need to be introduced to pieces of information and facts gradually instead of it being spouted by the characters in an offhand manner. Agreed they are detectives and it's their everyday job, yet it needs to be integrated with the flow in a subtle manner so that the readers don't feel overwhelmed.

🍌FATED AND BOUND cassandracas1
Genre: 3/5
Title: 5/5
Blurb: 4.5/5
First chapter/ Prologue: 8.5/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 16/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 17/20
Literary devices: 7/10
Plot: 22/30
Character: 8/10
Description: 7/10
Connection: 8/10
Originality: 6/10
Overall Impression: 8/10
TOTAL: 120/155

REVIEW: To begin with, the blurb is hooking and the story is no doubt interesting, yet I wouldn't say that the plot is entirely new. Although, the touch of mystery to it is definitely something that makes it interesting. What I felt is that your Prologue makes it more fitting for the young adult genre instead of mystery. However, this improved a bit in the first chapter, yet the plot leaned more towards the other genre. Apart from this, the draft needs editing especially in punctuation and dialogue tags. Your dialogues are framed wonderfully and they read just like actual conversations (good job). What needs work is 'he said' or 'she said'. There's nothing wrong in using those but tags read best when they are action tags and without these. Overall, well done! I'll get back to it soon.

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🎖Congratulations for being Mystery/Suspense's Honorary Mention.

THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY Cadence232

Genre: 5/5
Title: 5/5
Blurb: 3.5/5
First chapter/ Prologue: 10/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 12/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 15/20
Literary devices: 5/10
Plot: 28/30
Character: 9/10
Description: 7/10
Connection: 8/10
Originality: 10/10
Overall Impression: 9/10
TOTAL: 126.5/155

REVIEW: Firstly, this is one gripping plot. One of the best in terms of this genre. However, Exposition and dialogues need work. The dialogues read stiff and more like the info is being relayed. While description has a lot of redundancy, excessive adverb usage and there is tense fluctuation not just between paragraphs but in compound sentences as well. Grammar and punctuations also need to be edited. Try to take readers from 'known to unknown' meaning instead of introducing a chapter in a new character's pov start it either in the pov of an already known character or you can use third person. This reduces the reader's confusion. The plot has a lot of potential and the premise is promising. If polished and edited properly then this story can even be queried with the editors. Good luck, I will finish reading it soon.

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🥉Congratulations to our 3rd place winner

THE GRIM DOSSIER BellOfSilence

Genre: 5/5
Title: 5/5
Blurb: 4.5/5
First chapter/ Prologue: 8.5/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 17.5/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 18/20
Literary devices: 7.5/10
Plot: 25/30
Character: 8/10
Description: 6/10
Connection: 7/10
Originality: 10/10
Overall Impression: 8/10
TOTAL: 130/155

REVIEW: It's hard to come by such stories on Wattpad that is so well presented in almost professional standards with amazing artwork and build-up. Great job on that. The prose style is very impressive at first glance, yet the voice is passive throughout and excessive adverb usage and long descriptions dampen the build-up and sometimes confuses as to where the plot is headed. Especially, considering this genre the exposition should be fast-paced, yet no doubt the writer has a unique style and a promising story at hand. Good luck.

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🥈Congratulations to our 2nd place winner.

TERRIBLE TRUTHS  HeidiCarroll

Genre: 5/5
Title: 4/5
Blurb: 4/5
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irst chapter/ Prologue: 10/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 17/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 16/20
Literary devices: 6/10
Plot: 29/30
Character: 9.5/10
Description: 8/10
Connection: 10/10
Originality: 10/10
Overall Impression: 10/10
TOTAL: 138.5/155

REVIEW: This story is a perfect example of 'don't judge a book by its cover'. Reading the blurb, I wasn't expecting anything extraordinary, but the plot, storyline and characters just grip you and pull you in, leaving you wanting to read more and know what happens next. Kudos, to the writer you made me forget that I was judging and just kept on reading. As for Constructive criticism, I'd say try to maintain a balance between exposition and dialogues. It'll be wonderful if action, description and dialogues go together. Don't go on describing surroundings in separate paragraphs. It can be done while the character is speaking and in the middle of an action, all at once. And edit your draft thoroughly and get rid of glue verbs, adverbs and common grammatical and spelling errors. And this story will for sure be a polished gem. Well done!

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🥇And a big congratulations to our 1st place winner.

BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT  MiniMoxx

Genre: 5/5
Title: 5/5
Blurb: 4.5/5
First chapter/ Prologue: 10/10
Grammar/ punctuation: 18/20
Spelling/ vocabulary: 18/20
Literary devices: 8/10
Plot: 28/30
Character: 9/10
Description: 9/10
Connection: 9/10
Originality: 10/10
Overall Impression: 9.5/10
TOTAL: 143/155

REVIEW: This story is impressively written with a strong plotline that indulges in mystery right from the beginning. The twists are unexpected and keep you hooked. Well done!

FULL REVIEW by kristoffkerry: I was captivated the moment I started your book. Your mellow writing style just gave me a cool and relaxing vibe and I enjoyed the first chapter. It definitely opened my mind and stirred my anticipation of what would happen next. Grammar was nicely executed, punctuations near perfect.  Vocabulary and spelling were great to me also. I just loved everything about the story. I also liked the way you paced information, it didn't seemed rushed or too slow, so great job overall there. You are a great writer and I enjoyed this story to the max. Well done!

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