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Don't quite know if you're being sarcastic or not, but I wasn't trying to cheer you up... Also, as I haven't read the Twilight books, I wouldn't know about volturii or whatever else, so obviously all of that background you had arranged for the characters went over my head. Could you change the names of the characters and the volturii (whatever they are) and make the story your own without Stephanie Meyers stamped all over it?
The whole idea of your story doesn't suck, it's just written very poorly. It seems as if you just submitted your work to YWS without even proof reading it. The mistakes I found aren't even all the mistakes within your text. You need to go over your work and read it out loud to find all the glaring errors I found.
If you don't believe my review was fair or even helpful, please go ahead and request a review from Skins, PinkShearwater, RachaelElg, Iceprincess, Shubhi or BondGirl007 (or anyone who you've noticed reviewing other people's work and give clear, honest reviews), all of who can be found here: LINK.
Best of luck for all future endeavours.
- Jai
This is the story how Alec and Jane became vampires, how they got involved with the volturii and so on... this were just something to begin with i was going to explain more later.. or atleast i were supposed to, but after reading this review it pretty much seems like the whole idea sucks.. Thanks for cheering me up!
Hiya Demoness.
Some quick suggestions before I start my review:
1) (this is something I tell many new YWS users) First, when you look at wall of text like that, what do you feel? I know what I feel - intimidated. To eradicate this feeling that would deter many readers, simply add in a few extra paragraph breaks to create a sense of space within your text. I know I'm not the only person who likes to see a well formatted submission on YWS, and surely you've seen other people format their work to make it easier for the reader to view. This formatting allows for readers to enjoy reading the story instead of reading bunched up paragraphs on our computer screens. But that's only my opinion. It's not an official rule on YWS to do this, so I hope that this suggested formatting doesn't deter you from future submissions. A mod has since informed me that adding extra enter spaces is even easier to implement than one would initially think. At the bottom of the post screen when one goes to create a new thread, there is a list of options titled Special Formatting. Selecting the option "Story" automatically add spaces in between paragraphs. So I hope that you use this option in the future.
2) At the moment I see no resemblance to the Twilight Saga, and I honestly think that you should ask a mod to move this to general Fantasy Novels. If you do end up introducing Twilight characters, all I can say is don't. Make up your own characters. Don't use someone else's characters for your own work. Fan fiction is fun, but your story sounds like it could be completely separate from the Twilight canon.
3) Lose the beginning. That plot summary just absolutely deters readers. Think of it this way: did Stephanie Meyers have a huge one paragraph info dump about how Belle's mother and father split etc etc etc? No, she worked it into the story. You can do that too.
4) You don't know how to use paragraphs. I'll talk about this more below.
A preface is a small portion of the story inserted before any other pages. So, for example, "Henry jumped high into the sky and hit a bird." displayed on the very first page when you open a novel. Then, halfway through the book, that exact sentence would be repeated. Or a preface is similar to an Author's Note. Ie, what you have below would actually be chapter one, or a prologue, not a preface.
Fragment consider revising.
For me this dialogue seems very empty and fake. It doesn't sound very realistic at all.
Fragment consider revising.
"He was the most dangerous she had ever seen"?
... it seems as if you're trying to bulk up your story with irrelevant memories. Also, the metric system didn't exist in those times. That means you should be using terms such as "ounces" and "pounds".
The word "mum" was coined far later than the Salem Witch hunts. "Mam" and "mother" are the terms of endearment used in those times.
Info dumping of emotions.
The changing of names is really jarring. If this is from the child's point of view, it shouldn't be "Alexandra cried", but "mother cried".
This is really odd. Why did this character change even come about?
What?
"she still though it was who he was", what?
Please check over your work before you submit it.
I try and try to understand why people create characters that watch their parents/siblings/cousins/best friends/pets die at the hands of some crazy person but don't do a thing about it until it's too late. Really? Would you stand there watching your mother die? Also, surely by now Alec would have been woken by the screams. The neighbours would have heard the screams. Finally, do you know how much force it takes to "snap" someone's neck? 168 Newtons, which is what is required to accelerate a 1kg block at 1 metre per second. ie - that's a lot of force.
Wasn't her father restraining her with his hand on her mouth?
"further up then that she couldn’t come" - what?
... I don't know what you're trying to portray here.
Spat, not spit. Spit is present tense, you're writing in past tense.
So, my thoughts...
Characters
Jane: Weak, stupid
Alec: Deaf
James: Manical
Alexandra: Dead
I think you created a villain just for the sake of creating a villain. Was the above scene vital to the plot? Could James and Alexandra be killed in a tragic carriage accident?
Plot
I have no idea where you're going with this.
Overall, keep writing, fix up the mistakes I picked up on, and always make sure you read your writing out loud. A lot of your sentences didn't make sense or didn't sound right. Most of all, read out your dialogue, as your dialogue and your descriptions are lacking.
Please don't hesitate to reply to this thread with any queries or comments regarding my review.
Cheers, Jai