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《Ananas》Torn (Love and Revenge)

Reviewer: rebecca_batteur

Client: tannyprecious

Title:

I thought the title was imaginative and sounded great. It conveys, in my eyes, the idea of a greattragedy about to play out. The word Torn strikes almost violently and marks the minds as anirremediable division, and it is the same with Love and Revenge. These two words added after, inparentheses, multiply the almost poetic aspect of the title while explaining it. The story is about adilemma between love and revenge, and I find that this title represents it very well, in an effectiveway.

Cover:

In this regard, the cover is very well chosen and filled with deep symbolism. The scale which sitson top of the cover, with the heart below it which clearly indicates the difficulty of the decision,to what extent the break between the two options is important since this heart is torn in two.The choice to mark love on one half of the heart and revenge on the other is also very judiciousand interesting. This once again brings a powerful power of suggestion. Finally, the word Torn,itself divided into two colors, completes this play of colors and division. The cover itself is torn,lacerated, a detail that I find very well thought.

Blurb:

I don't really like this summary, I find it too repetitive, it doesn't grab the reader's attentionenough and it has a few mistakes, such as the absence of s in "parent". A word also seems to bemissing after "accomplishing her". This summary, while repeating itself, manages to not be veryclear and fails, in my opinion, to use the incentive function properly. I suggest, instead, tryingsomething else. I'm going to offer a summary, I don't know what you will say about it but it willalways be something to use and modify as you wish, you are, of course, not obliged to like it:

"Fire took everything away. It burned her life, her home, her parents. It even burned who shewas. Lillian Hepburn was no more. And from her ashes, she rose again, saved by her parents'friends, and came back as someone else, ready to battle with fire again and kill her parents'murderer. Fire burned again, raging through her heart, as she realized that, if she wantedrevenge, she would have to burn her childhood sweetheart, the son of the man who destroyedher life, and throw him away into the pile of ashes. When she sees him again, fire burns anew,but, this time, it doesn't hurt the same. Can she sacrifice her love at the stake of her vengeance?"

Plot:

I'll be quite honest, the plot isn't very interesting to me. I had a lot of trouble with this reviewbecause I couldn't get on with the novel. I wouldn't say it's a useless or horrible piece of work,that's not exactly the case. However, I find it difficult to really feel much interest in the conflictthat is being played out. I wonder what the point of this story is, the message that we shoulddraw from this book and the objective of this writing project. I would say that most of the eventsthat take place lack interest and are often quite predictable. The events I haven't read about yetdon't seem much more appealing to me. So far, the story has relied heavily on a mixture ofcoincidence and also strange stupidity and docility on the part of the characters.

First, initially,you seem to be trying to maintain some doubt around Maddison's identity. It's strange, especiallygiven that the summary you already established reveals the whole truth directly to us. If you wantto maintain doubt, you might as well not tell everything in the summary, otherwise the surpriseeffect is ruined and leaves only misunderstanding. For nearly twenty chapters, Maddison quietlyleads her life without ever talking about her past as Lillian or the goal she has given herself. And Idon't understand that at all. Her parents want to bring her back to Washington, without tellingher why, refuse to let her accept the job she was offered in the company of her dreams, withoutgiving her the slightest justification.