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Welcome to the Borderverse Awards! We are here to get some undiscovered authors some much needed love!
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First of all, I would like to say congratulations to every single one of the participants. Putting yourself out there is not easy, and I commend you for it. I would also like to give one last shoutout to scrabblepost and fortune_Mitch for their incredible work. I genuinely cannot thank them enough.
Now, the moment you've been waiting for.
Here's how this is going to go.
I am posting everyone's breakdown (averaged from the two judges). The top three books are going to get a review, which can also be PM'd to the author upon request. Winners, please PM me your email so I can send the stickers over. Judges, please follow the winner of your genre.
And now, it is my privilege to announce the results for sci-fi for Season 1 of the Borderverse Awards.
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4. An Expedition of Love @GwenThames Cover - 7.5/10 Blurb - 4/5 Grammar - 17/20 Plot - 19/20 Characters - 17/20 Descriptions - 18/20 Personal - 5/5 Total - 87.5/100
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3. The Stolen Ground by @DrakeRTodd Cover - 9.5/10 Blurb - 4/5 Grammar - 15.5/20 Plot - 18.5/20 Characters - 19/20 Descriptions - 18/20 Personal - 4.5/5 Total - 89/100
Review:
The cover gives a little end of the world type of vibe, it suits the theme, but it looks more ancient than modern. Blurb is a little confusing. Readers don't know what floors mean in this context. There's a little mistake in the blurb. Ex: After a strange incident gives teenage Mille... It should be: A strange incident gives the teenage Mille... Some sentences are confusing. Ex: Government only believed that tower would hold. Hold what? Ex: ...if she didn't rush then making back to the floor she and her sister lived on took an insane amount of time. I think you messed up here. You have used too many exclamation marks. Now, there is no rule stating it shouldn't be used that much, but when you use way too many exclamations it just loses its shock value. The descriptions are not up to mark. How big are the floors? Are the passageways crowded? Do they have neighbors? Is it an American only tower? Then what?
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2. The Viacom Project: Extinction by sirensfury4626 Cover - 8.5/10 Blurb - 4/5 Grammar - 17/20 Plot - 19.5/20 Characters - 18/20 Descriptions - 19.5/20 Personal - 5/5 Total - 91.5/100
Review:
Graphics are perfect for the theme of the book. The blurb works. It pretty much sums up the entire novel. There are a few typos you might wanna look into. Don't capitalize the dialogue tags. Ex: "...We need to head up the mountains," He then adds. Don't capitalize "He" here. The plot is a little confusing at times. Why isn't machinery used to track the dinos? It's so ahead in future. Technology should be well developed and no human should be required. Six character introductions in the first chapter, is a bit difficult to keep up with. Introducing characters in small portions will be easy to understand. Descriptions are beautiful, but they are all done in the opening chapter itself. It becomes tough to absorb that much information at once.It's not like any other end of the world book. It is different. I can easily see it turning into a movie. The amount of effort the author has put in the detailing is uncanny.
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1. The Leveler King by LynaForge Cover - 9/10 Blurb - 5/5 Grammar - 20/20 Plot - 19.5/20 Characters - 20/20 Descriptions - 19.5/20 Personal - 4/5 Total - 97/100
The graphics are beautiful. Two aliens standing at a distance and trying to meet; perfectly sums up the theme. Blurb is short, crisp and sets the theme of the story. Your grammar is always perfect, so I won't comment on that, but there's a plot hole. Nala never mentioned her name. It cuts to Indel knowing her name directly. The characters are amazing. The arrogant King and a commoner trying to keep him alive; they are believable as well. The information is laid out so beautifully. Ex: Her twin hearts nearly beat out sync.. Amazing way to let readers know about her anatomy. But, sometimes it's a little confusing. Ex: The tail twitching part. I don't think kids would understand it, but my brain went in an adult direction. Personally, I have never read a story like this, it's new to me, but my goodness, things turned on pretty fast. You know what I mean.
