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Read Read Read Review Shop (not accepting Requests)Of Kisses and Cries by Shakufye
Review by coolgirlaamy
The Title (5/5)
I think this is a great title for you story. First of all, it is quite a beautiful title. Second, it is actually relevant to your story as it refers to the start and end of the one-shot - kisses is somewhat a connotation to love so it refers to when they were in love and then cries is relevant to the second half when they were no longer together. I think you may have been able to come up with a slightly better title for some reason, but I do really like your title.
Description and Foreword (10/10)
Like you title, I just loved the description. It may have been quite short but I think it was the perfect length for you to briefly summarise your one-shot. I know for a fact that it is sometimes quite difficult to come up with a description for your story, especially to come up with something quite sufficient, but I think you have managed to do this quite successfully. I personally think the length of it was quite perfect - it was short but it was still dramatic and interesting enough for me to want to keep reading on. The description was also relevant to your story so good job!
In terms of your foreword, I think you have done an equally perfect job with it. I love that you have chosen to use a short excerpt from your story. I love it when writers do that and I personally think that it’s the best way to really spark that interest within your readers to want to keep reading. I also think that this was probably the best excerpt that you could have used because it’s also relevant to the description and it makes the description and the foreword work really well with each other. There is a slight grammar error but I will mention that later.
Plot and Originality (30/30)
In terms of the originality of your plot, I’m pretty sure that I’ve never really read a story like this before. I have kind of read something similar but I think yours is quite different from that one. Therefore, I’m not going to mark you down for the originality of the plot because I honestly can’t. I don’t think you deserve that.
I personally really enjoyed the plot of this. It’s a nice change to get away from all of these love stories that I’m always reading and come to something different. This really is an angst story which is good because I struggle to find stories that are actually angst and not just what the writer thinks is angst. In an angst story, the couple isn’t supposed to - as far as I have heard- end up together. This actually happens in your story - they don’t end up together.
I love how Junhyung doesn’t want to be with Hyunseung, he just wants to get away from their relationship because he can’t stand it anymore and it’s killing him, killing both of them. At first, he doesn’t want to tell him but then he does and their relationship ends. Then he feels guilty but when he sees him again, he realizes that he actually wants to be with him once more but Hyunseung has moved on.
I really, really enjoyed this and I still can’t mark you down.
Characterisation (18/20)
I think you have developed your characters quite well. In a oneshot, people sometimes struggle to create realistic and developed characters because you are writing a complete story in only one chapter but I don’t think you could have done it better than you did.
I feel like you captured Junhyung quite well. I mean, he really seemed like a real person to me. A real person would have had changing emotions during and after a break-up, just like Junhyung did. I found myself feeling a lot of sympathy for him at the end when he realized that he shouldn’t have let Hyunseung go and he shouldn’t have broken up with him.
I find it quite ironic that he was the one that wanted to break up yet in the end, he isn’t happy about it and Hyunseung, who didn’t want to break up, is actually quite happy and he is in a new relationship and has moved on.
I don’t really see the point of Doojoon being in the story though. From what I can tell, he is Junhyung’s friend that is in love with him, but what does he really have to do with the plot of the story? I just don’t think he really fits in that well.
Writing Style and Language (22/25)
I like your writing style. You manage to find a good balance between dialogue and description which is something that I like. I also like how there is some imagery here and there and it really helps to make the story more dramatic. However, I do feel that you could have elaborated on you’re the descriptive parts a little. I liked them but I kind of wish that they were a bit longer so that I would have enjoyed your one-shot a little more. But I know myself that your writing style will get even better over time so don’t worry too much about it.
The grammar thank god was completely fine. There were a few random errors here and there which must have been typos but honestly, there was nothing really wrong with it. Spelling was fine too so you don’t have to worry about that either. For someone that doesn’t speak English as a first language, I think you write in English quite well.
There was one error in the excerpt that you put in the foreword where you wrote ‘lifes’ .which I don’t think is actually a word instead of ‘lives’ but I assume it must just be a typo
Flow (10/10)
The oneshot flows at a good speed. It doesn’t drag on too much nor does it go too slow so I think you have done perfectly fine here.
Total (95/100)
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