GEMS BOOK AWARDS- JANUARY EDITION(JUDGING)

ROMANCE

So this genre went through three judges. Those entries that are unavailable were not brought in by the respective Judges.

Congratulations to the Romance winners!

Winners and participants please contact us for the your stickers and prizes.

Winner

DAUGHTER OF TWILIGHT by JessicaPowell481

Title 4

Cover. 5

Blurb 9

Grammar 14

Plot 14

Characters 9

Writing style 9

Originality or creativity 9

Overall enjoyment 9

Total 82

REVIEW. You did a good job with your title and cover. Your blurb is intriguing. I like your descriptions

and use of imagery. You managed to build a fine measure of suspense and mystery in the few chapters I

read and this made me want to read more and more. Aside from slight grammatical errors which actually

did nothing to mar the beauty of the book, I have nothing else to fault.

First runner up

ROAD NOT TAKEN by SylRose18

Title 4

Cover 5

Blurb 7

Grammar 14

Plot 13

Characters 9

Writing styles

Originality or creativity 8

Overall enjoyment 9

Total 77

Review. The title and cover are nice. The praises took up much of the blurb and the summary you gave us

wasn't enough to entice me to read your book. You did a good job with your characters and I felt empathy

for Tessa. However, I felt like you did a lot of telling in areas where you could have shown. Nonetheless,

l enjoyed your book. The subtle descriptions were enough to paint a good picture with out being

overwhelming. Keep writing.

Second Runner up

Paint me saved - wanderedwriter

Title/Cover: 7/10
The cover is beautiful quite alright but I don't see any relevance to the contents of the book. It's not showing exactly what the book is about. Though it draws people in, it still doesn't seem correlating with the book.
The title too, Paint me saved, it has this hook to it but I don't see it's relevance to the book.

Blurb/Prologue: 9/10
The blurb is splendid. The hook is there, has relevance to the story and the excerpt just makes it a whole lot better. The Prologue, not so much. I feel what was the Prologue was meant to be a teaser or sneak peek into the story. Since the story started from sometime earlier before the Prologue. But it still worked anyway.

Language/grammar: 13/15
The grammar was topnotch. No typographical errors but a few, beautiful description and imagery, marvelous choice of words and all. But the descriptions were a bit too much and your choice of vocabulary a little bit too intense, simple words should be used to give the readers easy reading. Not every reader might be able to comprehend such words without wasting a bit of time. Nonetheless, the choice of words, language and grammar was on point.