January 24th, 2016 at 08:45am
From the Comment Swap
I don't know what to make of this story. I love the layout, but there was a lot of characters introduced at once, and a lot of their name's start with A's. So bear with me. I like the style of writing for the most part, I definitely think it is difficult to bear emotions to your reader's through a third person narrartion. That being said, I wasn't too fond of this line: "The few minutes left of the car ride were spent in silence, as both Antonio and Nicolette were swimming deeply in their thoughts of each other." while the characters are all very direct in what they sat, your writing style hadn't been so direct until that part in the first chapter. To be honest, it turned me off a bit. I think it ruined the mood of the scene.
I like the chemistry between Avo and Antonio, they have a sweet little bromance going on. The teasing between the family members seems pretty innocent, but their actions make me feel like they all have the same personality. I really hope to see Antonio and Avo break away and show some development.
I immediately decided that I liked Antonio; he seems like the type of guy that any girl could love. I do wish there was a character page, simply because your character names all start with an A and it's a little hard to keep straight which is born first and second and so on. The banter between them after Avo and Nic leave had me busting up laughing.
Now I'm not gonna lie, I had to look up "ard" since I never heard it. Obviously since I don't live in South LA I can't say for 100%, but since it originated and is used in Philly I'd say to make sure any slang used is accurate when you have a definite location. When I read the first chapter I figured Avo liked Nic so it seems lame of Antonio to go after her, but their date was really cute. The fact that they didn't have sex because there wasn't a condom was a nice touch that I rarely seen in fiction online. Smart.
When Nic took off her heels to fight, dang I wasn't expecting that. This scene was written out extremely well, right down to the lack of coordination that a user would have. Hopefully you'll update this soon, because I'm really into it. Sorry my comments are a bit all over the place; I've been reviewing as I read!
Corrections:
- vNic only knew alberto = Alberto (chapter 1)
- "Your takin' Chino's = You're, You are (chapter 1)
- Chapter 1 overall, you could split less paragraphs. Dialogue doesn't need to be a new paragraph if it's the same character twice in a row (:
- Heroine was the most abundant. = Heroin (chapter 2)
- He heard Avp voice called = Avo's voice call (chapter 2)
- aether's clothes off. = each other's clothes off? (chapter 2)
- seen nicolette = Nicolette (chapter 3)