Snowcakie

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Title: Outweigh Your Heart
Author: Snowcakie
Reviewer: Deedee_Zelo90
Date Reviewed: 31.08.2017
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First Thoughts:
 - Title: Title for the storyis very accurate. You can tell it by summary and after first chapter. At first I was a little skeptic thinking that story is about something else but after I read summary and first chapter it fits perfectly! What is more important title is not too long.
 - Description: The description isn't too stuffed or mouthfull. I haven't gathered any grammar mistakes in it, so you did good job in this section. 
 - Poster: Poster is good. But, I feel like he should have represent your story. I'm not saying that poster looks bad, I just feel like poster should be a picture of author's story. It is of course second thing that reader notices. But all in all, poster looks pretty.

Plot: The plot of story have of course interest me, because not many authors actually really dare to write about such hard subjects such as bullying, self harm. Your plot may be cliche, but you managed to add some of your own vibe into it. 

 

Grammar: I will be fairly honest here. English is not my first language and I fotenly make some minor mistakes while writing my own stories (nobody is perfect really). While reading your story. I haven't encountered any mistakes. Punctuation, wording and everything seems fine to me and it was easy for me to follow the story.

 

Style: You choose to write story in 'You' POV, and its okay, not many authors on here can't really manage to write. And the way you did it I like it very much. Even in this POV, you managed to be descriptive and to convey your story to readers. 

 

Characters: Your character potrayance is very good. You tried to develop every each of your character, and to add your own spice. I love how you add a little of your own twist in developing Kai's character. You did very good here. However, you need to focus more on developing relationship between main characters(couple). Since you told me that I need to focus on character flow, I will be honest: your characters do not have a flaw, while reading your story I couldn't find any flaw that would made me go 'Um'. So you did very well in this section. I love every your character, you made them totally realistic.

 

Flow and Pace: The flow and pace of the story are great, they are neither slow or fast, but very good. 

 

Overall Enjoyment: I enjoyed NO, I adored reading your story. I love to read nicely written angst story and you did just that. I read this story in just a day. And I can say that it was as if I was watching a movie. You made me cry totally. I wish you all best with your story and keep working on it.

Tips: There's nothing for me to add here. I honestly have no complains other then try to be active with updates of your story. Other then that everything is great!
Thank you for requesting. I apologize terribly if review is a little rushed but I did my best really! If you want any more help, feel free to message me privately!
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KangminBread
#1
Hey dear, I decided to start a challenge would you mind advertising it in your shop?
https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1296550
Rsamara
#2
story name+link: The Disillusions of a Survivor
https://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/1265754/the-disillusions-of-a-survivor-action-angst-mystery-psychological-romance-exo-got7

It has 12 chapters so far.

genre: action, mystery, romance

focus point: The plot line, characters and grammar.

other comments: I would like to know if my story is aconplishing to invoke emotions and questions or not. Also is it fitting into the genre it is or not. If it's too rushed or too detailed or any other negative points, I would like to know. Basically, I want to know what I should work on. Also knowing what my strong points are would help.

rushed?: Absolutely not. ^.^

orchid award?: Sure, that'd be amazing. :)

Thanks a lot though <33
Snowcakie
#3
Chapter 45: Picked up! I will credit later on tonight! Thabk you so much for the review, and I will certainly keep your comments in mind.
KangminBread
#4
hi i just noticed my name is not on the status list, just want to confirm it's being done ^^
ali060903
#5
Chapter 44: Actually, the poster I want you to review is the BubbleGum Graphicshop one, the orange, colorful one to be exact. ^^ Taht one screams fluffy and cuteness, but no wizard haha! You can tell your opinions in the comment then! And thank you so much for such a positive feedback! I didn't expect kind compliments like that! Thanks a lot for your review. ^^ I'll make sure to fix some grammatical errors and apply your tips. ^^
shesamytheu
#6
Chapter 43: Hello! I'm here for the pick-up. Firstly, thank you very much for taking some time to review my story. I know how much effort and time that takes and I'm really grateful to receive a review from you.

I've put the Taeyeon lyrics and italicized lines to the foreword! I don't see much difference but I guess it'd be great to follow your advice hahahahaha.

Maybe I should put teenage drama instead? Honestly, I'm not sure how I should tag the story. Like, I tagged it with "comedy" once but somebody said that the story wasn't funny lmao. So I removed the tag and put slice of life instead when the story has these nonsensical scenes... Do you have any suggestion on what tags I'm supposed to use for this story? I'm basing this fic on an anime and it's quite evident that the scenes are mostly following the romcom anime formula hahaha.

Yes, Kyungsoo is very flat. I'm struggling with fleshing out his character but I think that I'm getting a hang of how he's supposed to behave. Well, I hope.

I strongly agree with the flow & pacing. I do feel like nothing much happens and the scenes keep repeating themselves. This is one of the reasons why I wanted to discontinue the story lmao.

Thank you very much for the tips! I think that they're very on-point and they can definitely help me with my struggles.
KissDromedaGirl
#7
Story Name: Twinkling Lights for the Sinners

Story Link: http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/966878/

Genre: Tragedy, Romance, Slice of Life, Mature

Focus Point: The ending; how it flows altogether.

Other comments: This has trigger warnings, and it literally took me coming out of a dark place to complete it, which I find ironic. It's a three-shot in a way, so it's not too long. But I'd like to know if it all connects together, because sometimes I go off without noticing.

Rushed: No. Take your time, please! ^^

Would you like to be included in the orchard award? Sure?