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"The smallest decision can dramatically change the future." - excellingfetus

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I've been thinking for a long time about how exactly to approach this review since your story is an interactive experience. As you might assume by now, I didn't read a ton of books from that genre so that means I have to change the way I review this time because your story doesn't have aspects a usual book does. Don't get me wrong though, I don't mean that negatively! It's a refreshing change!

I decided that instead of reviewing it like a standard book, I'd skip over some categories like the writing style and some others I find fit and give you advice on the categories I can properly review. I think that would be more useful to you and easier for me as well. Points, as I mentioned before, mean nothing to you and are more a guide to myself than anything else. I hope you don't mind that since I seriously don't have other ideas on how I could review The Butterfly Effect and still make it useful to you! So, here goes nothing!

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⍋Primium impressionem (18/20): As for your aesthetics, you got a hang of them so reading through was such a pleasurable experience! Well done, hun, I'm seriously impressed! The cover is immaculate (I mean Jimin, duh) although I'd love to be able to see the detailed text more clearly, I need a large magnifying glass to discern what's written at the bottom of it. Also, maybe choosing and OT7 photo as a base for your cover could be nice since this is a story about all seven of them after all.

I'd also love to know that I'm delving into an interactable experience from your description, give me a little hint on what I can expect once I start reading! Even games have short descriptions so the players can get to decide whether they want to purchase it or not. The fonts you chose for the description and throughout your story are a nice change from the regular Wattpad one, they are grabbing my attention and just making me feel all warm and bubbly inside. All in all, you did a great job!

⍋Et compages grammatica damnationem (17.5/20): Your grammar is damn good! You have a great grasp of it and control your words nicely even though sometimes there are tiny mistakes here and there that are easily fixable (tenses mixing up and some incorrect phrasing, for example) so I won't dwell on them too much. Your sentence structure is versatile as well and it's far from being repetitive which is so nice to see! I can't see much of your writing skills due to the nature of your book, but it's obvious you are one skilled writer!

⍋Influunt (9/10): You flow throughout the chapters like an expert! I don't feel overcrowded with GIF-s and the way you conceptualised every chapter is neat, aesthetic and just so pleasing to look at. I'm not that much of a fan of jumping from bold to italic to normal font style in a single sentence, that can be a bit harsh on the eye but it didn't bother me a lot in the end.

Do watch out for straight vertical lines in your sentences, the ones that divide them. I always think of them as full stops and take a brief pause at them only to realise that there is more to the sentence which ultimately causes me to reread because I have a memory of a literal goldfish. Aesthetics are a nice touch, but there's a thin line between ornaments and kitsch. Baroque, although such a beautiful style, can sometimes be a bit overwhelming and in some instances, your desire to make everything pretty can make your work seem just like it.

⍋Insidias (18/20): I love love love the idea of making me interact with your story as a reader. Wattpad is a great platform to do so, seeing how I can vote, comment and reach out to you so utilising that in this unique way is brave and such an amazing novelty! Thanks to your use of GIF-s and the input from your readers, you can make something different and so interesting to experience! The way you took inspiration from the music videos and put your twist to them is something I haven't stumbled upon that much, so props to you hun!

I'm met with the character stats at the beginning that could tell me a bit more about them and you can, if you want to of course, come up with a more exact way of showing their stats - where's the maximum? I don't know, but I'd love to! Delving into their stories that are intertwined in some ways even though they seem like they aren't at a fist glance is genius! It makes me feel like I'm playing Until Dawn which is a horror game I highly recommend if you're into that! Although I was promised a horror element, I didn't quite get it while reading. Yes, it was angsty as hell, but not once have I got those heebie-jeebies crawling up my spine.

Sometimes I'd get confused with the plotline, but I blame that for my lack of knowledge when it comes to the original background story BTS have in their music videos. I'm not the kind of fan who theorises about them, I just enjoy them and wait for everything to reveal itself to me gradually or if I have the time to go on Reddit and check what people were speculating about. That's why I didn't take any points off and blame myself for being ignorant.

⍋Totalis puncta et summaries: 62.5/70! Hun, I want to apologise to you for not being able to give you a review you might have wanted to get. My lack of experience when it comes to your genre and the way I conceptualised the review categories caused this review to be quite mediocre and unhelpful. I can just say that I enjoyed the experience and that you definitely have a knack for writing interactive stories!

I hope that even one sentence from this quasi-review can help you improve a little bit and once again, I'm so sorry for not knowing how to help you further! Please note that this was me just trying to help you in any way I can and I hope you can find someone who'll be more informed and experienced than I am!

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