Frozen Heart - ByungHannie

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Frozen Heart by ByungHannie

 

Story Title - 4 out of 5

By reading it I can guess someone has the typical, cold personality that's hard to break. And with the cold personality always comes the bright, shining character that changes him/her... And from what I've read, your story is as I'd expected, except with a bit of a twist (his powers) but what matters is that the title matches and didn't have me going in a different direction of what it should be, so good job. Although if you're looking to pull in readers, or if you're looking for originality, perhaps change it into something else. (If not, it's good by itself, albeit predictable).

Description/Foreword - 4 out of 5

Your description felt choppy, and by that, I mean your sentences are too short and simple-- thus creating that "choppy" feeling. And although it's good to use a few for emphasis, the way you did it... didn't feel right. The entire description felt awkward for me. I suggest revising your sentences, perhaps word things differently or don't make it choppy at all.

Revised: On a road with nothing but painful scars he still walks. Veer away from that road and you'll find his soul still chases after her, collasping his heart like an avalanche. Heart broken is a word he's grown used to, and now, he refuses to fall in love for a second time. Xiu Min doesn't want to be a murderer again.

I've gotten rid of your choppy sentences and tied in a couple instead, moving a few things here and there. I felt if you moved things accordingly it'd be easier to follow along, as I did find some things placed abruptly.

Original: Xiumin tried to move on. But he failed miserably. His heart is still chasing affter her. That person has left him alone on the road with nothing, but painful scars. His heart always collapsed like an avalanche; he has got used to it. Because of the past mistakes that keep haunting him every night, he refuses to falling love for the scond time. Xiu Min doesn't want to be a murderer again.

Now while it did feel awkward, I do like it. Your description is nice and vague, it has you wondering who she is and why Xiu Min murderered her. But it does give the impression that it'll focus on his past girlfriend, rather than Se Kyung. Also I found a couple of grammar mistakes here and there, however I won't explain that until later. Just a note, you want to make sure your description is perfect, because it's what pulls readers in if nothing else works.

Moving on, you put lengthy descriptions for Xiu Min and Se Kung. Especially Xiu Min, it was so long I was almost reluctant to read it. I suggest completely omitting the character desciptions, because from what I could pick up, it's nothing that your story doesn't explain.

No problems with the foreword.

Story Layout - 5 out of 5

No problems here.

Grammar/Spelling - 12 out of 20

Your spelling is fine, and just a note, 'realise' isn't wrong however 'realize' is more preferred as it is encouraged in dictionaries such as Oxford, Cambridge, and Collins. (I did a bit of research on this...)

I'm assuming your first language isn't English, because there were many awkward sentences, a bit too many to point out, actually. Your puncuation didn't have any glaring errors, besides some misuses of the semicolon and hyphen/dash. Perhaps you can do a bit of studying on them, and actually, this website helped me a lot.

I realized you had troubles with your tenses as well, you often used past tense where it should have been present tense, (for example when they were talking) or the latter.

A few things that I caught, on the first chapter, you explained wood as woods. Wood does not have a plural word, and if you use woods, it means your referring to the forest.

Another mistake is when you were referring to Se Kyung's parents. You used Mrs. and Mr. without periods, they are abbrievations, Mrs. being mistress and Mr. being mister. This goes the same for Dr. Ms. etc, and just a note: miss is not an abbrievation so you don't need a period.

Now the reason I've said I'm lax on grammar/spelling is because I cannot explain it. Yes, it's terrible of me as a reviewer, but I cannot help or explain why it's wrong or why it's right. I apologize for that. That's why I'll pick a few sentences so you can compare.

Chapter 5: (I'll explain why I omitted some of your words from your sentences in the Story Plot/Flow/Description, since it ties into that rather than grammar/spelling.)

Original: In instant, the cold air of the dawn gushed into the house which made Se Kyung shivered in that frosty weather.

Revised: In an instance, the dawn's cold air gushed into the house and caused Se Kyung to shiver.

Original:Gazing at Se Kyung’s mother lightly, he answered. “Xiu Min, madam.” Awkwardly, he introduced himself, didn’t get used to talk to anyone else except s before.

Revised: With a g

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snowflake16
#1
Chapter 54: Thank you, tyrhfjd, for the review! Picked up and credited! It's been a half century but it's here now so I'm not going to complain lol.
I'm glad you liked the story and I do agree with your points about the title and the confusion about 'Kris Leone' who in fact is not an OC but a real person in K-rock lol. I wanted to troll the hell out of readers by using 'Kris' xD
Thank you for your review. I enjoyed reading it :D
yuu_sama #2
Chapter 53: Dear, reviewer-nim ^^
Thank you very much for everything you have done. I deeply appreciate it. Actually I have been expecting that you would give this fanfiction very, very low score, but since you gave me higher than my expectation, I need to thank you once again. Well, I believe that reviewing my story was troublesome to you to some extent... I'm aware of how boring and badly-written it actually is, but thank you, you've worked hard to complete your review. And can I say that you point out everything PERFECTLY?? Your review is PERFECT, no doubt about it! I won't go against it either! Can I copy paste your review into my personal note, so I can use it for future revision?

About English, I've been learning it since 2006... and that's when I went to university. I always have the greed to know more and more about English, just because, yeah, I love English. It is like a door that leads me to the real, wide world. And through it, I can learn many things, new things I never know before. English is very helpful and I always encourage myself to learn it seriously, from books, movies, songs, everything! And I realize... "Six Drops to Ecstasy" is my experiment. It's more like the reflection of my will to learn English rather than a literature (hahaha, did I use the correct expression?). That's why, I've been thinking of starting all over again. Rewriting the story. Changing certain aspects of the characters. Simplifying my words. I need to do this, because I grow to love this story now and want to make it "more worthy to read as a literature work". For the sake of my six Sakamaki vampires, I'll never abandon this story... and yeah, because this is a tribute to Diabolik Lovers.

(OMG, sorry for my very bad English)
>//<
KnowRain
#3
Chapter 52: Thanks for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much for pointing out my grammatical errors...I've been extremely lazy and haven't bothered to edit anything since i'm currently busy struggling through the last year of high school, and the one thing about grammar that I often get confused about is tenses so...thanks for that.
Anyway, will credit you right now! xD
suzyelf
#4
Chapter 5: Story Title: I Once Fell in Love
Story Link: http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/912472/i-once-fell-in-love-vixx-ravi-ken-jaehwan-raven-wonjae-raken
Genre(s): slice-of-life, romance
Main Character(s): Ken, Ravi
Brief Summary: Girls should be the ones who make Lee Jaehwan fall in love.
Preferred Reviewer: Rebel
Additional Comment (ie. main focus?): Thanks in advance! ^^
Password (See Description/Foreword if you don't know =D): call me baby - exo
mischievous_akmood
#5
Chapter 51: I saw my review, and thank you for the feedback ^^
EPIONE
#6
Chapter 46: Hello, sorry I'm really late, but thank you so much for doing the review.
Hm. Have you ever heard of the Peter Pan Complex? It does exist in some individuals. It's a complex against growing up. In the shoes of someone who's never struggle with a neuroses, the sentiments must have seemed forced. Ga, this just means I need to work harder on my writing skills to portray the complexes. Thank you for pointing that out. I think maybe I over-generalised the fear of growing up, because I did have that fear to the point that I couldn't sleep at night, and leading to other health problems. Perhaps not everybody is like that, but from personal experience, I didn't think it wasn't an exaggeration. STILL It's a comfort to know that not everybody has to struggle through that haha. Thank you.
Anyway, thank you for a different perspective on the story. It's despairingly interesting. Haha. I will be crediting this shop right now.
Love,
Epione
ByungHannie
#7
Chapter 27: May I just ask who did my review? I found her review very helpful and I want to put her username as a credit in my foreword ;)
snowflake16
#8
Chapter 5: Story Title: My Girlfriend the Cheater
Story Link: http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/921011/
Genre(s): romance, comedy and light angst
Main Character(s): Chanyeol, Kris, Hani
Brief Summary:
Chanyeol is the typical lover. From chocolate boxes, sweet kisses, and flowers; he’s ideal boyfriend material. Willing to do anything for love, and oversensitive when he needn’t be, he always does what he can to indulge Kris.
However, his beloved is a little bit different because in Kris’ picture there exists a Hani. Being close friends can sometimes come with unexpected consequences; there are things going on behind Chanyeol’s back.
How will he cope when Kris’ fidelity is brought into question?
Preferred Reviewer: tyrhfjd
Additional Comment (ie. main focus?): plot, characters, enjoyment, grammar, punctuation; basically the rubrics
Password (See Description/Foreword if you don't know =D): The End - Kris Leone
Thank you :D
queenxb
#9
Story Title: Star-crossed Killers
Story Link: http://www.asianfanfics.com/story/view/921931/
Genre(s): Romance, Angst(?)
Main Character(s): Kai x Kim Haera (OC)
Brief Summary: Kim Haera may look the part, but she’s definitely nothing close to an angel. Bred to have the hands of a killer and be the next heir of the Kim Empire, she stops at nothing to get what she wants. That is, until she meets the equally ruthless Kai, who is next in line to rule the Exo Clan. Feared by many and trained to be an emotionless, heartless killing machine, Kai rules with an iron fist. This is a modern twist on Romeo and Juliet & Mr. & Mrs. Smith where two lovers, born by rivalry fall in love.
Preferred Reviewer: any
Additional Comment (ie. main focus?): Punctuation & grammar
Password (See Description/Foreword if you don't know =D): Angel 2 Me - McKay ft. Jeff Bernat