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Onyx City Gods

Cover Review

Cover 9/10: Right off the bat, the cover for Onyx City Gods emanates an urban eeriness that draws me in as a potential reader. It appears rather simplistic in comparison to other covers in the Fantasy genre, but if anyone takes a closer look, they can see the eerie, urban themes jumping off the cover and screaming at them. 

The title is bold with a neon-blue aura that emphasizes the city atmosphere. There's graffiti in the background (on a dumpster I believe) in the barren street. It gives off that downtown, nightlife feel. At night, downtown can get dark and gritty quicker than most can prepare for and this cover gets that right across.

Title 10/10: Without the cover, Onyx City Gods has that mysterious flare that beckons readers. Onyx is dark and beautiful, the city is a bustling metropolitan, and Gods could mean anything. Literal entities with divine powers, humans elevated beyond mortal status, or it could be a metaphor for something else. The fact that readers must think about all this before clicking the story makes it intriguing.

Blurb 9/10: (P/N – Personal Note) This may just be the dark humor in me (guilty as charged) but the description for Onyx City Gods got my attention with the first statement and the second paragraph. Now I'm even more curious about the main character, Darius Prince, because he's "an immortal killing machine" but this guy can't afford to pay his rent? That suckered me into the story right there. There's something terribly ironic about being immortal and not being able to afford one's living space. I might feel like the worst person later when I find out more about his predicament, but the irony tickled my sides a bit. (P/N)

This blurb is short and to the point. It doesn't give away any important details, but all the right ones so that readers can go in with a foundation for what sets Onyx City Gods on its course. My only recommendation is to find a better way of wrapping it up. The conclusion isn't as strong as the opening. The opening packs a punch that the conclusion should live up to. It's witty and intriguing but the final sentence feels like that fizzled out by the end. Try sparking it up. ~

Grammar 10/10: There were no grammatical errors!

Spelling 10/10: Spelling was top notch!