Oh this collection of stories, honestly reads too cut and dry.
The lack of detail, especially on little things like the character's surroundings, clothing and such fails to set the scene in each and every vignette.
Each story reads dry like a film script as if actions are being directed at the characters instead of description being given about their movements.
At times the dialouge between characters is also very dry, a tad boring too, with arguments or discussions tossed back and forth without flow or direction. The lack of identification or implied identification of who says what is also disorientating.
This is before touching on the spelling or the punctuation, which is only distracting in the frequency of words that are mispelled and or 'spaced out' like this re build instead of rebuild. The lack of fullstops on the end of sentences to close and or finish them off is distracting too.
The oneshots here read fine at times, but it seems that more description is given to those parts that depict physical intimacy between Kagome and Sesshoumaru etc being the male or male characters that are around. The story tends to fall flat until these parts emerge, appearing as if the intimacy is all that holds each and every one of the stories alone together. Before the intimate parts the stories are again too cut and dry, more about positioning the characters accordingly to get to the raunchy bits instead of giving the reading some kind of incentive, i.e a reason to actually read the story itself, purely for its own merits.
The formatting of some of the oneshots too is distracting. You tend to bold some text in some oneshots in this collection and leave others unbolded in format. I would suggest just using plain text without bolding it i.e. doing this: text. Just leave as normal like this: text.
You are a good writer. You have a good foundation in terms of being able to format, use paragraphs, punctuation, and even grammar well. Proof-reading would help here and there, a beta would too, but how and the scope of that of course is entirely up to you as an author.
Constructive critism (Chapter 1) - Sun 01 Mar 2015
Well this was unexpected. The first few paragraphs have many spelling and grammar errors you may want to revise.
Nice chapters, keep it coming. Happy Belated Valentine's Day
I enjoyed the chapters but you need a beta. Many times the flow of the story was interrupted due to misspelled words. Also, in A Love Without End, naming Kagome's servant Sarah interrupted the story every time I had to read her name. As a reader immersion is very important and nothing about that name says immersion in Feudal Era Japan.
I wish there was more story to The Price of Memories like there was to Love without End. =)
Caera (Chapter 9) - Thu 20 Feb 2014
You need to get a beta or proof reader for your story because there are some mispelled words (sole instead of soul,etc.) it distracts the flow.
Don't take long to update the next chapters. keep it coming. Happy Easter Sunday!
I sooo luved this story. Sesshomaru needed to do that to all the other irritating jackasses in the world aka Bush or Inuyasha
This was great, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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