25. Blood Type R
The blurb of this book really drew me in, as it seemed like a very well thought-out story, and immediately caught my attention despite my lack of affinity for werewolf books. So, I would firstly like to congratulate the author on that. Good blurbs are hard to come by these days.
One of the first things I noticed in chapter 1 was that there ware quite a few things at the beginning of it that could have been put in an introductory page. A disclaimer and the credit for the cover do not belong in the first chapter.
However, the start that the first chapter got off to after that was pretty good. The part about Dalmatians set the right tone for the book, and I was pretty impressed. The characters were also quite interesting, and I applaud the author for that. Most of the descriptions were also quite good.
Nevertheless, I do have a few suggestions and comments.
1) The first chapter was more of an info dump than a chapter, and had more of a background to the story than any action. I suggest that this be avoided as, like I have said many times, the first chapter is what draws the reader in. It needs to be interesting. If you check out the books of the two authors I interviewed, you will see that their first chapters do just that.
2) There was a very odd description in the book that was something along the lines of 'The feeling of one's chest being sick from crying', which is just really odd and not very descriptive. Instead of that, try 'All the time she had spent crying had made it as though there was a great weight on her chest, making her feel sick'
3) The scene involving the flashback is far too quick into the story. Instead of that, a paragraph describing how the MC got to where she was would have been better. I love a good flashback, but only after the readers get to love the characters and get involved in the story. I would be happy to give you a reference whom you can consult about flashbacks.
Overall, great effort. Keep writing!
Final rating: 7/10
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