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⭐️The Last Faerie Tale: The Search for the Faerie Queen

(***From here on out, I'm putting stars next to the titles I recommend***)

Genre: Fantasy

Rating: PG— PG-13

Chapters Read: 3

Summary:

The Fae, creatures begot of magic, have always existed in a delicate harmony in the folklore of makind. But, by the end of the late Renaissance, this fragile relationship between had grown grim, and war between the world of magic and the world of Man was inevitable.

When the reigning Court of Fae, the Sidhe, was betrayed and destroyed, magic vanished from their world. And with no magic to defend themselves, they now faced extinction.

Once the most loyal soldiers in their kingdom, two Dark Elves are charged with treason after their theft of an invaluable artifact. Long and tumultuous, their journey will test all of their ethical boundaries. However, if they are willing to risk the future of their entire kind,
this artifact may be the key to the salvation of the Fae: a way to find the lost Faerie Queen and restore magic.

Grammar:

Out of all the books I've reviewed, this book has the best grammar. Plenty, PLENTY of descriptions, extremely illustrative vocabulary, and no spelling errors. The author strived to make their work as vivid as possible.

(Because I think this story definitely deserves it, I'm giving extra points.)

5.5/5

Plot:

The summary doesn't leave out anything, really, so I'm not going to explain it.

Okay, here's my problem with the plot. Beautiful grammar, original concept, graphic descriptions and all. Originality is not lacking by any means, so that's not even close to the problem.

But in fact, the overwhelmingly detailed descriptions ARE the issue. Now, I have in fact, gone through something of this sort with my stories. I spend too much time on the description, so much so, that my chapters drag on and it interferes with the plot development.

This also steers away/bores readers.

So, what I'm saying here is that the story is very detailed, and that's good, but don't spend too much of the chapter on explaining one thing. Be descriptive, of course, but don't fill your chapters with up to 3000 words that consist of ONLY descriptions.

I also noticed that the first chapter dragged on for a while because of this, and the first chapter should ALWAYS be among the best/most eye-catching.

I suggest fitting your chapters under 1,000-1,500 words just so you don't make the same mistake again. This ensures that there's a limit on the descriptions, and enough of the plot being developed.

4.5/5

Characters:

The characters were developed beautifully. I felt like there were three people in the book:

•Humans

•Those who hated humans

•Those that accepted/didn't entirely hate humans

Wolfe Scarlet and Sirus fell under the third category, as they fought against humans, but remained steadfast in their morals (which consisted of not killing innocents, human or not.) Their war allies, however, not so much.

Despite their entire court being obliterated, they still didn't have the mentality that all humans were evil. No, they accepted that some were corrupt, and some were innocent. I find that intriguing and admirable.

The hate and contempt felt towards the humans from the Dark Elves is believable and well-captured. Then again, there were also people that just wanted to end the war and stop the conflict with minimal bloodshed (Venstarria.)

5/5

Overall Rating:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Note to @cas940812:

I love everything about your story, save for the excessive descriptions. Keep on doing what you're doing; you don't need to edit anything, really, unless you want to go the extra mile and fix some chapters here and there.

YOUR STORY IS FABULOUS!!!!

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