Before || VB Score: 11
- clear, direct, and serious writing style apt for a mystery crime thriller
- easy to follow, imaginable character actions and settings
- jumps right onto a crime case with tight pacing
- delves into mature and sensitive topics with care
- numerous cast of characters all with different backgrounds
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Dead to You (BxB)|| VB Score: 12
- vivid imagery and descriptive language
- appropriate, fluid turns of tone and mood for settings
- complex, differentiated main male characters with a twisted antagonist
- unexpected take on zombies and angels
- tight story with minimal lack of filler and constant pacing and action
- gradual romantic relationship
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Rise || VB Score: 11
- engaging turns of phrasing and language with clean, easy to read style
- fluid shifts in tone with appropriate tension
- balanced introduction of characters and magic abilities in action
- well crafted characters with believable sentiments and reactions
- stable, imaginable settings and clear transitions with well-paced world building
- vivid action scenes and believable, connected world and character growth
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Memories Like a Dagger || VB Score: 9
- varied, often poetic, language and thoughtful writing style
- unique fantasy setting with winged people and theme of freedom and flight
- unexpected turns from carefree and easygoing to violent and dramatic action
- diverse, believable character interactions and reactions
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Lucifer’s horrors circus || VB Score: 11
- dramatic, dark history and trauma right from the beginning
- main character is an imperfect, mistreated child back from the dead
- unusual, unique take on the devil and circus entrance to the underworld
- introspective narration with atypical settings, plot, and character design
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Where the Dragons Went: Book 1 – No Peace Without Violence || VB Score: 14
- unique, well-differentiated cast of characters with depth and individuality
- well-balanced, understandable fantasy world and magic system with various classes and races
- handles multiple lead characters viewpoints smoothly and distinctly
- strategic, engaging action scenes with unexpected endings
- slowly building, strong, character-driven story
- diverse, well written style, vivid language, and robust voice
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Nearly There Nicely || VB Score: 9
- main character is a forgotten son of a noble family kidnapped into another world
- interesting take on life, death, memories and being reborn
- easy to read, deliberate pacing with occasional slice of life undertones in a fantasy setting
- slow romantic burn between two distinctly different people
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The Angel Rallies Round || VB Score: 11
- straightforward reading and writing style
- fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery and crime mingled together
- main character is a psychic detective
- easy to grasp action and characters despite being the second book in a series
- varied dialogue largely driving story events
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God Of Immortals || VB Score: 9
- xianxia type world and designations
- detailed world building and cultivation
- neat and full writing style appropriate for eastern fantasy
- engaging, interesting turns of language and introspection
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Individuality Book 1 – The Burning Rose || VB Score: 11
- bold, rebellious, ambitious, and rascally main lead
- strong characterization of varied cast
- imaginable scenes, action, and places
- engaging, easy to read writing style with fluid, in-chapter transitions
- unique take on magic in an atypical, tense school setting
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When The Moon Rises || VB Score: 9
- instant understanding and clear introduction to story and plot
- varied, engaging, realistic dialogue
- switches from fluff and slice of life to a dark and tense crime mystery
- different take on vampires and werewolves as part of a prophecy
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An ‘Ordinary’ Adventure || VB Score: 11
- detailed description and varied language
- strong world building and imagery
- somewhat quirky and funny main character with frequent inner thoughts
- atypical isekai where main character experiences unfortunate and sometimes comedic events
- imaginable scenes and character actions and fluid transitions with steady, slow pacing
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