Reviewed by: Anusara12
Book Title: Regret of a Girl
Author's Name: @rewanashi
Cover: 4/10
The Cover of your book is good but I feel like it isn't neat or attractive enough to draw the readers in. I love the background image you used, but you could play with fonts. The font used and the genre don't really match. The font used for subtitles is suitable more for fantasy than poetry. For poetry any simple font will be great. So, I suggest you change the cover that will attract more people to your story. If you face any difficulty in cover, there are a lot of graphic shops out there in wattpad.
Title: 8/10
The title 'regret of a girl' is very apt for the poems written in the book. But 'regret' is an overused word. Maybe you can play with words for a much better title.
Blurb/Description: 5/10
Your blurb is great but I don't think the way you've put it is enough to attract the readers. Instead of starting off with greeting the readers you could've added a small poem or extract of your poem or a quote or song lyrics which might be suitable for the book. After which you could have written about the book. It would have been perfect, neat and attracted more readers.
Creativity and originality : 7/10
First of all, I liked the way you chose to portray regret and guilt as the main emotion rather than going with the common ones like anxiety, depression and fake friends. Secondly the way you've written is great too. It feels like I'm reading a story. It's new and great to see the character develop. I loved how well they were connected but still they stood out from each other.
It would be great if you arrange the poems as the story flows and the poems that don't relate either at the beginning or at the end of the story parts. Also make sure you give a proper title for the second poem which is currently titled as *I hope you all will love it*.
Plot and Flow: 14/20
As I said I loved how your poem was different from each other but still connected. They portray the feelings very well but then It would be even better if you arrange them better. The feelings depicted only should escalate with the poem and not diminish with the poem. Also the arrangement of poems could've been better.
For instance, the poem titled '*I hope you all will love it*' doesn't actually relate with the dungeon poem. It's totally different. So you could either add it at the end or at the beginning, so the flow for the readers would be better.
Character Development: 8/10
I loved the character development in your poems. It didn't just portray the feelings. It brought out a character alive, her sufferings and pain was beautifully written. The way she embraced it, the way she learned from her mistakes and her growth was clearly written.
Writing style, Grammar, spellings, etc.: 7/10
Your writing style is great. I loved it. As I said earlier, the poems could have been arranged better. Poetry is the only form of literature that doesn't have many rules and you have the freedom to write it as you wish. But make sure you don't make any mistakes in the spelling and grammar rules if you implement them.
For example, I noticed that you used ellipsis. Ellipses are always three dots. Unless and until the previous sentence was grammatically complete and it has a period of its own, which would make it look like it has four dots. So I would suggest you read through the poem and check for any such mistakes.
Genre relevance: 10/10
It was definitely a poetry book and one of the best at that.
Reader enjoyment and Communication with the readers: 9/10
I loved your poems and the readers were able to relate with the poem. they need some rearranging and editing other than that they are great. Really sorry for the late review. Keep writing amazing poems! All the best!
Overall: 72/100