Review: The Court of Midnight
**This is not the full review. I only read the first ten chapters.
I will rate this 1-5 stars.
Cover 4/5: cover is great. Love how it's a dark like midnight background. The title words are place well, in my opinion. Not too far from each other and not place all over the place. Love the glow effect on the it. Since I have only read 10 chapters, what is the significance of the purple flowers? If they are important to the story, keep them. If they are just random, maybe put something else. What I don't like is, near the corner of her lips, there are white dots. It looks like she has crumbs on her mouth. But overall the cover is well designed.
Summary 4/5: The summary is well written. It didn't give too much information away. It also didn't show too little. However, in the third paragraph you wrote:
'The deeper Maria ventures into the Fae realm, secrets start to come out that may change how she views the closest two people she once trusted.'
The wording and ordering doesn't sound right. Also it's kind of a run on. Instead maybe:
The deeper Maria ventures into the Fae realm, the more secrets Maria discovers about her friends. Which may change how she views the two closest people, who she once trusted.
Grammar 3.5/5: Your grammar isn't bad at all. You used commas very well. You separated clauses/phrases/words with a comma. However, in had seen some sentences that needed them. Use commas after introductory and sentence adverbs. For example:
Thankfully, I packed myself a lunch.
I like ice cream. However, I hate strawberry.
Also conjunctions (and, nor, or, but, yet, so) should be follow a comma.
I love chili, but it gives me stomachaches.
Little things like that. Not the biggest deal. But for the most part you did well in that department.
I saw some dialogue problems. While you had a lot of them correct, there were some here and there that needs to be corrected. With a spoken statement on should use a comma after the tag.
Hadley said, "I love bacon."
Not
Hadley said. "I love bacon."
But this only applies to directly spoken dialogue. If the dialogue is a form of an action, use a period.
"I hate spinach." Sam gagged.
Gagged is an action word and the dialogue should end with a period. I seen you do that throughout the book. Good job.
I seen you use a lot of the word 'said' as a tag for the dialogue. I mean, it isn't incorrect, it's just boring. Add flavor to it by adding adverbs (slowly, angrily) or find something similar to said.
Instead of using said for every dialogues, try these:
"Get away from me," she yelled.
"I am scared," he whispered softly.
I seen some run on sentences. Don't let a whole sentence be a paragraph. Break it down with periods. Use some commas. Maybe even rearranging some words, so it can be readable and not feel like I am reading on forever and ever without a pause.
Very few capitalizations problems. Overall, your grammar is great!
Plot 4/5: Dude, this story. I am on the edge of my seat. Like her friends both being part Faeries, that is so interesting. There is action and danger. Love that there are more magical creatures other than the Faeries. So far I don't know who this master is yet, but that makes me want to read more to find out. You did a good job on that and not giving too much info away right away. It makes me want to know more about the Faery realm. I do like the characters, the protectiveness of Darien, the feistiness of Fallon.
The part I have trouble with is the change from First person to third person. Everything is in Maria's pov. But in one chapter, you wrote in third person for Odile. That's a bit confusing. While there are books with two different povs, they stay in the same structure, either they are in first person or third person.
Conclusion: Love it so far. I think it's very interesting, and it deserves more views. The way you pace with book would make the reader want to read more. It isn't too fast where every single information is at the beginning of the book. Nor, is it too slow of a pace where there is unnecessary plots. Keep up the good work!
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