Sunflower Awards 4.0

Science Fiction Results

Time for the results! Without further ado, here they are for Science Fiction! Thank you, pixelmum, for your hard work on these awards (in not one, but two genres!). Contestants, please check out their shout-out chapters-they have their username in the chapter title-if you haven't done so already. They deserve some appreciation. :)

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Genre Results

🌻Third Place🌻

Username - DiverseLiterati
Book Title - Free Minds
Score - 91/100
Review -

This story is fab from the start! A quick note about the blurb - it's super-vague and reads like every blurb ever e.g. "A girl is having a tough time at school when an incident happens and she is forced to make a choice, and both choices are hard, and by the way, there is a boy who she hates, but actually he's pretty hot". You are way too good a writer to fall into that blurb trap. We really need to know what this story is about specifically, so that we can jump into the amazing world that you have created, and see instantly how different it is from every other high school story on Wattpad. Who is Beth? What's up with Zavlon School? What happens there that sets Beth on her adventure? What obstacles will she face? You don't need to give away the plot points that you don't want to, but come on - give us hungry readers a little hint!

Grammar, syntax and punctuation are polished, with just a few issues that a copy editor would pick out, like run-on sentences and redundant commas scattered around, but I'm scraping the barrel here! I really love your dialogue beats and the fast-paced and witty dialogue too.

I need to say that I absolutely love Beth's Mum. She is hilarious from the start, and that's saying a lot because I adore Beth. She is quietly confident despite all of the stress she has at school, and she is totally honest with herself about why she's a Zavlonian and what sacrifices she is making. I really love her scathing inner voice too. I can almost hear her chatting along with me while I'm reading! There are a lot of other students for the reader to take in, and a fair few teachers for that matter, but that is the nature of being new to a high school, and I am sure that there will be chances to get to know these characters over the coming chapters.

The world-building is seamless and I really like how it fits into the story unobtrusively, with no need to explain the operational details. There is a lot to take in, but not a single sense of info-dump exposition. It would be good to get clarification on when, or maybe where, this story is set, since there are mentions of contemporary people like Tony Stark, Elon Musk and Robert Downey Jr, which makes me wonder where I need to put my brain, temporally speaking.