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"Finally, the winners are announced and so are methods to improve!"
The long awaited results for the short stories genre is here! Firstly, a huge round of applause and a namaste to the judges, sj_shaw and mustarrd- and for spending their valuable time to judge the entries! Thank you! Secondly, Ilakshi and I would like to thank all the participants who took part!
Please respect the decisions and reviews of the judges! Do NOT blame them and bully them. If news of such irresponsible behavior reaches our ears, you will be reported without a second thought.
Your cover totally matches the genre of your book, and I find the title to stand out very much. However, I think everything's rather dark, and the background is a bit blurry.
Title: 2/5
The title is, if I'm honest, basic. A more adventurous title would definitely be more efficient and bring more attention to your book
Blurb: 3/5 The blurb is good, but could be even better. For example, why does Joseph need to time travel(as in, what's the point of gaining a Signet)? What was underneath the valley? How does Joseph time travel? I think more details should be added in the blurb
Creativity: 3/5 I’ll be honest, I’ve seen these types of stories before. The plot is fairly common, and although your story has a bit of a twist, it still isn’t very creative.
Chapters: 7/10
First of all, to split this in two, I’d say that my enjoyment was a ⅗. Simply because I found the paragraphs to mostly be long, something that I know for a fact doesn’t settle nicely with readers. However, the punctuation I’ll have to give a ⅘. I found practically no errors in this area, and really, I would have scored you a 5/5 if it weren’t for the lengths of the paragraphs
Grammar: 5/5
Rarely found any grammar errors at all, which is impressive. The 5/5 doesn’t mean that there are no spelling errors, it just means that I barely found any.
Preciseness: 3/3
This book is an adventure all right, and you stuck to that, so very well done :)
Character Development: 2/2
Can I say there was character development? Not really. So I based this mark on how fleshed out your characters were. I love how you give each character their own personality, and how we get a little hindsight into Joseph's past.
