Review-                                                                                                                               by natnatfung

Title- Cinnamon: Tears of cicadas

Author- Janie95

Story Link- http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/450906/3/anthology-spice-of-life-minho-kai-oneshotcollection-kris-variousartists-variousgenres

Review:

[2/5]Title- The title was somehow unattractive, and it wasn’t quite related to the story.

[23/25]Character Development- You using the settings to describe Rin as an introvert and emo-ish teen was very successful. As the plot develops, the readers can clearly understand what is going on in Rin’s heart as well as what of a person she has slowly became. After Minho left her, she simply slowly returned to being her original self which was not actually described in detail. Also, Minho as the other main character can be found on a emotional rollercoaster where he was really happy with Rin and started going out with Yejin. But once Yejin dies, he has transformed into a cold and sullen Minho which the old him has left no traces. TH echaracter development is really well done here and it is one of the highlights of this story.

[13/20]Originality/Plot- A cliché love story but zoomed in. The sad ending wasn’t really a major plot twist since the whole thing was quite predictable actually.

[18/20]Grammar/Spelling- Grammar and spelling are fine to me (well I am not a native-English speaker nor am I a grammar nazi)but I did spot out some misuse of punctuation.

[7/10]Description/ Foreword- Since it is  a one-shot collection I have nothing much to day but indeed this story does refer back to the ‘Life’ prompt.

[3.5/5]Appearance- Decent poster and background image. Though the words on the poster are quite unclear to be seen.  The font is actually too small to be read on computer.

[8/10]Flow- Quite a good flow actually. The pacing was good, and places that were to put emphasis on were slowed down.

[4/5]General- An awesome story which was worth reading. Really done a good job on the character development

Total- 78.5/110