FINISHED REVIEW (FR) : MOONWHITE - VICTORIA FALLS

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TITLE: Victoria Falls

AUTHOR:  MoonWhite

MAIN CHARACTER(S): SNSD Tiffany Hwang & Kim Taeyeon

GENRE(S):  Romance, travel

SYNOPSIS:  Two seemingly unrelated girls, Tiffany and Taeyeon, met as tourist in a foreign land, Zimbabwe, a country that is home to the famed Victoria Falls. Several incidents then brought the girls closer to each other despite their rough beginnings. They later returned separately to their home country, South Korea, to find out that their fates continued to intertwine with one another and their fondness for each other deepens.

STORY STATUS:  Yuri, chaptered fanfic (10 chapters + 1 epilogue), completed

REVIEWED BY: Nixxiom

Title

I didn’t really receive any impression with the title. When I was assigned to work on your story review, I wasn’t anticipating reading and working on it because I was not at all intrigued with how it sounded. It seemed a bit plain and dull from my point of view, until I actually read the story.

‘Victoria Falls’ doesn’t seem to have a relation with the actual plot line. For me, it describes the setting perfectly, but it doesn’t give me any hint as to what the story will actually be about. Your title needs to be relevant with the whole story, not just the setting.

Now, in terms of originality, ‘Victoria Falls’ is a great example. I’ve read that Victoria Falls is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the world and, while being a bit hesitant to read the story, at the same time it kind of intrigued me. And after I read the story, the title became meaningful in its own way, because then I could see how it related to the plot because of how it represented the place where our two main characters met.

Appearance

As for appearance, I can't really say it gave me anything to work with. All I saw were two girls and a waterfall. I knew that the two girls were Tiffany and Taeyeon, and that the waterfall was Victoria Falls, but what else? I was questioning myself because I thought that there was something that I was missing, so I looked over the poster multiple times and I couldn't tell anything else about the plot. Although I absolutely loved the soft colours and detailed background, I didn't really like the poster itself.

Foreword / Description

Unlike the title, the description definitely gave a great preview about what I was about to read in the story. It didn't give me too many details, as to ruin the story, but it gave me just enough information and a good bit of humor to make me want to keep reading. I must say, t