The 2018 Talent Awards | ✔️

Action/Adventure Winners

Please PM Jells_  your email so she can send you your stickers. Thank you so much to our judges, without them this awards wouldn't have been possible.  

Judges:

Jells_
lordedarylene
FateofReckoning
WriteDestiny 

In first place is As The Crow Flies by Simply_Hiraeth 
Score: 54/60
Review: I could easily believe that this was a real, published novel. I really felt as if I could've been right in the room. The characterization of Abner is absolutely fantastic, the narrative is strong and the grammar is near impeccable. I loved the way that detail was incorporated into the story without info-dumping. The author should be really proud of this story. ~WriteDestiny

In second place is The Midnight Storm by Dante_Greywolf
Score: 52.5/60
Review: Title - The Midnight Storm

Author - D. Greywolf alias Dante_Greywolf

Title: 5/5. I love this title. It's a strange one even though the words are ordinary ones. It makes me wonder what the significances of both words as a whole and apart mean. Why did it have to be a storm at midnight? It could have been any other point in time but that importance attached to that period makes me curious. I'm also eager to learn what inspired the 'storm' tacked on there. It could be figurative or literal. Perhaps, there would be a terrible event that would change the characters irrevocably or an actual storm that would give the same result. I'm thoroughly intrigued. I don't know if it was intentional but the phrase, 'A New Dawn' is a brilliant play on words. After the storm, comes the light, the dawning of a new day. Once again, time is stressed here and it just makes the title that more likable. There's so much to derive from the title alone. Well done here.

Cover: 5/5. The cover fits the title perfectly. That's a plus for me. Even without looking at the title, the image depicted there gives me a solid idea of what the title could be. It's a raging storm at an hour that certainly isn't early. What's left to add there? It was the perfect picture to use, a simple choice but the correct one. I also like the placement of the words along the bottom to highlight what one would consider important, that is, the rocking ship. That's a great technique employed to draw the readers' eyes to a particular place without adding lurid details that could make the cover a hot mess. Imagine if contrasting colors had been thrown in. Yikes, that would have been horrible! Speaking of colors, I'm happy with the color scheme chosen here. Different shades of blue and white with the touch of brown -I'm assuming the ship is a certain hue of brown. The transition of font color from white to a rich blue and back to white was brilliant. It improved the aesthetic quality of the cover. It's a subtle detail but it made a big difference. You didn't have to work hard to do that; with just that color change, the cover came together. Starting with white on the darker part to blue on the lighter part, then, back to white on the darker part. Bravo. 

The font sizes used were good. The book name had the biggest font size and the phrase along the top was written using a much smaller size. That's how it should be. Usually, the author's name should have the smallest font size but I'll let that slide. I like the way it turned out on this cover. It's bold but not in an excessive manner. The only thing I would tweak is the spacing of the author's name. I think it would be better to spread it out along the bottom or at least, a tad bit so that the words there don't look compacted. All of them are together and capitalized. It seems a little heavy which is why spacing the author's name will be nice. If you don't wish to space it, you could write it along the top so that we can appreciate the title better. Of course that might require a different -darker- font color but it's left for you to decide.