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《Via》Be My Dreamcatcher

Reviewer: xFall3nang3lx

Be My Dreamcatcher by doTheDarkRaysExist

Thank you doTheDarkRaysExist for asking me to review your book, I thought that the story would be a complete romance story and didn’t expect it to take a twist, because of the title, but I still enjoyed reading it either way.

Cover:
I love your choice of colours for your cover as they are representing the pride flag and this is funny to me because I like how the cover is also a reference to your username, as the cover has a rainbow ray in the darkness on it, I think the cover is beautiful, I love your use of different fonts for the title, I really appreciate the simplicity of it, it’s not over the top with the design and not too empty either, I really like it a lot.

Description:
You managed to get the storyline across without exposing too much of it, I also like how in your blurb you also used the structure of a list as well. Reading your description, I found it really interesting and wanted to find out more about the plot, such as what drove Lydia to commit suicide and who was she cheating on Evelyn with.

Storyline:
A brief summary of the storyline is that Charlene has a crush on her boss named Eva whose wife Lydia has sadly passed away 3 months ago due to suicide, however she never got to know what resulted her to do this, until one night she finds out Lydia was having a affair with a unknown man and asks Charlene to help her find out who it was. This was a really interesting storyline, I like how your story is written as realistic as it will probably be easier for the reader to relate to, reading this story, I felt so many different emotions, I felt such sympathy for Eva and a immense anger towards Benjamin. I thought this was a good story!

Characters:
Charlene is the employee of Eva who also has a disorder called Alexithymia which is when a person has difficulty recognising and expressing emotions, whilst she calls herself socially dumb, that isn’t true at all. Eva is Charley’s boss who obviously loved her wife Lydia a lot and to find out that she was having a affair and that she killed herself as well, Eva kept on blaming herself for her death, which goes to show how much she loved her, despite these two being quite different in personality, they still contrast well together, good job on creating two amazing main characters!!

Grammar/Spelling:
Reading through, I couldn’t find any spelling mistakes or grammar mistakes, I love how descriptive your sentences are that you obviously show to the reader what emotion a character is feeling. You did a really good job in this area, well done!!

Engagement of the reader:
So much has happened in this story that it’s always kept me on the edge of my seat, I was thrilled that these two got a happy ending, I noticed that there was a hint of a sequel, I hope you do write one!