As a reader, there are things I will judge heavily (and not so heavily) when deciding what to read.
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Any parts in your book that occur before the first chapter
The first chapter is a make it or break it for me...
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COVER:
Overall appearance
First of all, dig the title. My heart kind of wants it to be 'Perfect Imperfections', but that's okay. It doesn't say 'Bad Boy', which is really what matters.
Breakdown
It isn't incredible, isn't shitty. I feel like the wording is in the wrong space though. There's this wide open area at the top, but the wording is on the picture.
The story's main character is a male, yet the picture on the front is clearly of a female, making me feel like there's really no connection between story and cover.
I have a strange issue with words not being capitalized properly in a title. It just makes me feel like there was little thought put into it. Some will site 'style' as the reason, which I guess I will have to accept so long as it isn't 'i' fell in love.... I hate when the word 'i' isn't capitalized. I don't care where it is. It pisses me off. But I won't base the grade on this part.
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Blurb:
Jackson Collins led a carefree life that most people dreamed of. The typical golden boy of town, but that's what everyone thought. Hanging with the wrong crowd or just being recklessly stupid, he got caught with drugs. Shocking his family, they decided to send him off to a school for delinquents for the rest of his senior year.
Too bad, he never thought he would meet the person who set him up there.
Overall appearance
Kudos for not calling your character a 'bad boy' in the blurb. Oddly enough, that is the first thing I noticed. First impression was that it was a little messy, but not overly so. But there isn't a lot to pull me in.
Breakdown
Weak words galore. 'That', 'just', 'got'. There's a few others, but these are the ones that need to be taken out.
