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《Via》Hear The Whispers Sing

Reviewer: xFall3nang3lx

Hear The Whispers Sing by shoutouttodiversity

This is a very good story so far shoutouttodiversity, it’s coming along very well, I can’t wait to be able to read more of it.

Cover:
This is such a beautiful cover, did you make it yourself? If you did you are a very talented artist! When I look at your cover, I find it very soothing, I feel relaxed as well, which goes very well with the title of your book, also the colours as well as I think of them as being calming colours.

Description:
It’s very well written, it’s got the essentials that make a blurb: a brief summary of the storyline, a short intro of characters and then a gripping cliffhanger at the end to make the reader think “I want to know what happens next”. A little suggestion from me is that you try implementing ellipsis into the blurb especially in the last part, “But a powerful old friend with a burning goal for revenge and a family of his own to help accomplish it…? Well, that’s on a whole other level.” I feel that this would be effective, as before this you use short sentences which build up a sense of urgency and then finally at that last part with the ellipsis you would finally hit that peak level of urgency which I think is better.

Storyline:
I love how you chose to start of the story with a poem, as usually for me at least whenever I think of a mystery kinda themed story, I would always imagine poems having something to do with it, you should probably become a poet! The pace of the story is very fast, which I think is reasonable seeing as in the story there’s so much action happening and that you literally can’t catch a break, overall this is a really cool concept, I can’t wait to see where the story goes from here!

Characters:
All these characters are unique to one another, each one has so much depth, for example Warsame, for me I get the impression that is pretending to be a fool when really he’s much smarter than he’s been letting on, I must say I’ve never really seen comedic villains in stories before so this was a first for me, however I would like to be able to learn about other characters such as Mwishoni however I’m sure you will later on in the story!

Grammar/Spelling:
So far reading your story, I wasn’t able to find any mistakes of grammar or spelling, I will say that your descriptions are on point, you very clearly paint a picture in the readers’ minds about the setting/ what’s happening at a point in the story.

Engagement of the reader:
Overall, it’s a very good read, I will say that I was a little bit sad to have reached the end of the chapters that have been published. You’ve created a very good book: a beautiful cover, interesting blurb, amazing characters and a unique story plot.