Title: Letters of Love
Author: Viper
Reviewer: Pararae
Site: http://artsyasiancrew.blogspot.com/
Title 3/5 the title contradict the opening of the story where Eun Hee send a hate mail instead to Jaejoong and the start of their relationship unfold there.. But since, this is not a one-shot and still on-going, maybe you haven’t reached the part where love letter came into the scene so I anticipate seeing the outcome. But the letter describes the story in overall and that’s what I like about it.
Forewords 5/10 your forewords are almost complete and full of content, you have, the prologue, characters, author notes and posters. However, you missed a basic detail such genre, background and length. Your forewords also look messy, maybe you should try to organize it a little so it would appear clean and easy to read.
Plot 19/20 I like the plot the most! It does totally tickle one’s funny bone. I just can’t stop laughing about it since I read about the letter and to the end. I see you have a good sense of humor and your plot run along that theme without making it stressfully awkward. The plot is easy and you tend to make most of the scene in coincidence like Eun Hee happen to go to the concert after sending Jaejoong an email and a photo of herself after fate turned the winning trump card when Jaejoong replied to her. This is such an amazing light story with an input of jealousy, love rivalry, and sweet friendship.
Originality 4/5 the story has it own significant quality in it that magnetize the reader to follow the story’s progress with anxiousness and excitement. However, the way Eun Hee and Jaejoong knows each other (by hate mail) is slightly common like how the other pairing in other stories met, by letters, phone messages, wrong phone calls etc but you manage to patch it up by making it so extraordinarily creative! The way you write your story has certain value in it that caught the reader’s attention so keep it up! ^^
Grammar/Spellings/Transitions 7/15 there are a lot of spelling mistakes in your story. Even though it is a minor one but if you tend to repeat it, it will impair your English skill as well as your flexibility in constructing a perfect sentence. Try to take a look at this…
1) “Hi, Eun Hee. I am Kim Jaejoong form TVXQ.” You spelled “form” wrong, it is supposed to be “from” instead.
2) “Let me see!” Junsu grabbed “he” letter out of Yunho’s hands. This is supposed to be “Let me see!” Junsu grabbed “the” letter out of Yunho’s hands.
3) “I “as” so glad to be able “op” come home and relax.” You are supposed to write “I “am” so glad to be able “to” come home and relax.”
4) You spelled the words “out t full day” wrong too in the sentence “tomorrow, it was back to slugging our guts out t full day rehearsals for our oncoming concert”. It is supposed to be “to” instead of “t”.
5) You have a punctuation mistakes in these sentences “Darn it!i wonder if he’ll say anything later, maybe in his next email?” You supposed to give space after ‘!’ And write ‘i’ in capital letter because it’s a start of a new sentence.
There are more of the same mistakes and I won’t list all of them down but you get the point. Try to use spell check if you’re using Microsoft Words because some of it is an actual word but it would be better if you proof-read it manually so you can spot the mistakes more precise.
Flow 9/10 the flow of your story is in fast pace but it fit your story well. It won’t do any good if you write it slow pace for a comedy story so I think your flow is acceptable. And everything looks alright.
Choice of Words/Idioms/Quotes 5/10 you tend to use a simple phrases or words instead of more complex words. Even though difficult words are not important if the readers don’t understand it but try to use some of it to improve your English skill. The flexibility of English words can be used to construct two or more words and try not to repeat the same phrases more than 2 times. Instead, use varieties of words in your story so it will appear colorful.
Details/Settings/Characterization 13/15 the characterization of the main character is more profound than the rest which make it a complete balance since the story move around Eun Hee’s life. She’s funny, open-minded, bubbly and out-going too which makes her character more spontaneous and interesting. Jaejoong, in the other hand is cool, uncertain for his feeling toward Eun Hee even though he already make up his mind to get Eun Hee no matter what and he is also has a normal celebrity’s attitude on wanting to run away from fans while Eun Hee’s ex-boyfriend and his funny guy friend is obviously, funny, out-going, supporting and understanding. The characterization of the most characters in your story is almost complete and the story is still on-going so I’m sure there is more to come. ^^
Enjoyable 9/10 I do enjoy your story and I like how it is going so far. I’m looking forward for the rest of them soon ^^ so try your best to improve and be a good writer okie…
Over All Score 74/100