August 13th, 2014 at 01:57am
Hey.
This is so beautifully written. The first chapter was so sad, almost a perfect start. I can really relate to Lee’s feelings. And I really want to know why Talon had to do this to himself (I haven’t read all chapters yet). You really have a way of gripping readers. Great job so far! Keep it up.
Your layout is really pretty too. Amazing work overall.
Leander's thoughts are definitely in the blaming phase of mourning. Everyone mourns in different ways, but they all go through the phases and the fact that he's still in the blaming phase two years later shows that he is probably just as affected by his death still like his parents are, but the only difference is that they are showing it outwards while he's keeping it all inside. Which could spell all sorts of problems in the end.
I like how you've interweaved all four characters together. You've got the guy, the friend who has a crush on the guy, and then the guy's girlfriend, and then the friend and the girlfriend somehow get the wild card involved indirectly with the guy. Even though there's only four chapters so far, and they're all around one school day, you've set the scene for drama to come from all of them, as well as establishing the links between the four characters that make up the perspectives of the story. You don't try and make them complicated, which is a good thing because having one complicated character is bad enough, but four would have just turned me right off the story altogether (and by complicated I don't mean their individual plots or anything like that - it's like where the author intentionally makes them overly, overly complicated just to make them "unique" which ends up failing).
I actually think I was going to read this the other week. When I'm on my phone I tend to look through stories, subscribe to them and then check out the summary when I'm on my laptop. To be honest, at that time the summary didn't appeal to me which is why I unsubscribed. I guess I didn't bother to think through the significance of it, but that's probably because I only glance at summaries and don't often give them any real thought. So that was totally ignorant of me.