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7 - Anu - The Plan

Author : angiexvi
Reviewed by : AnuradhaAjit

THE PLAN

➞ COVER : 7/10

The cover is the first impression of your book and its basic purpose is to convey the genre of the book. Your cover doesn't really convey it well at first glance like it can be very easily misunderstood as a billionaire-marriage kind of novel. So work on that, put up a new picture, change the font to either an arty one or a rigid one, you may check covers of other historical novels on the internet for reference.

➞ TITLE : 8/10

The title is good like 'The Plan' Ani makes is what the story is about, but I think it's very flat like maybe you could name it something about Ani as she is the protagonist of your story. Something like, a very basic example is 'Duchess of __' or you can go with a title that has more of a deeper meaning, for example, 'The Bleeding Rose' or something, the examples I'm providing are very basic but you can take that as a reference and work on it. The title 'The Plan' is good but it doesn't give you the feeling of historical fiction, but it does go well with the plot.

➞ BLURB : 9/10

The blurb is perfect, short, and gives the right amount of insight a reader needs to be hooked. It explains the character graph of the protagonist. The only thing that I would probably add is an extract from the book that is a cliffhanger, but the current blurb is good enough even now.

➞ FIRST CHAPTER : 7/10

The first chapter was okay like I think you could have started it in a much better way.

1) Firstly it felt like an information dump.

Like I get it that you need to give the readers the background of what is happening but don't make it a bulky read. It would have been much better if you started from the party and then probably give a flashback or include the information along with the events occurring like when her father enters the hall or greets the guest, give his intro and same for her brother and other characters.

2) Secondly it also gave me the arranged marriage vibe.

But that can be solved if you talk more about the royal setting and life of the royal at the beginning because as far as I understood the plot, it is more about her taking revenge from her father and not exactly about the marriage.

➞ PLOT, FLOW & ORIGINALITY : 15/15

The plot is pretty good and interesting, also I like how it flows as no chapter that I read till now was just a dummy one, every chapter holds its own importance in advancing the plot.