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🌻Third Place🌻
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Username - annabellacx Book Title - The Aristocrat's Daughter Score - 90/100 Review -
TITLE
The title draws attention and hints at the genre well. It's also nice to see a title directed at the female character in this genre.
COVER
It's a pretty and clean cover. Everything is in nice balance and works well together. However, the atmosphere of the cover doesn't fully match the story. Nevertheless, I gave full marks because on its own, it's well-made.
BLURB
It's a great blurb. It introduces the main conflict in the first sentence and then offers a little bit more explanation.
ORIGINALITY
There is not something really new in this story, but the genre doesn't call for it. The writer did quite enough for the story to feel fresh and memorable on its own.
GRAMMAR
This is a well-edited story and the writer seems to pay a lot of attention to the grammar. There might be mistakes but I feel they would be in the realm of rigorous nitpicking for which I don't have the appropriate knowledge.
CHARACTER
By the end of the fifth chapter (or rather 5th part of the first chapter), there are two prominent characters, Melanie and Kai. The story is written in first person from Melanie's perspective and the intention of the writer seems to be for us, just like Melanie, not to be able to fully assess Kai's character. For that reason, I'll focus solely on Melanie.
There are traits that are obviously set from the start: she is a driven, ambitious, and sexually liberated woman. However, there are moments when introducing specifics about her feel like they came out of nowhere. I'll use two examples. First is the masturbation scene from the first chapter. While I appreciate putting it at the beginning of the story to clearly state what to expect later, it does come as a bit of a shock. It was probably imagined as a natural culmination of her sexual frustration but since the readers are not privy to that side of her before, it comes quite unexpected. Second is her choice of computer science for her major. Before that point, readers don't have a clue she is interested in computers or that she participated in any contests. Both examples suffer from the same thing and that's lack of build-up. They are not wrongly done as scenes by themself but feel detached from the points before them, especially because it feels like there were opportunities to naturally hint at them.
