Hi I'm new to RR and I'm looking for some feedback. I give honest reviews with feedback for you to improve upon.

Here us my story 

He Who Flew Too Close

On the night that a mysterious siren's song awakens him from a dream, Lorelei is lured to the scene of a crime where he finds his church's beloved leader's severed head with the words "your God is a liar" written in blood upon the wall. As it turns out, Helioist church has been victim to numerous hate-crimes and a werewolf with a particular taste for holy men and women is loose. Fabled to be the prophet of his God Apollo due to his natrual ability to create light, Lorelei makes it mission to capture the killer. One day, he will lead the church and blood cannot be allowed to tarnish it on his watch. However, communicating to him through dreams, it seems Apollo has plans for Lorelei -- plans that have him questioning his faith and everything he thought he knew about his God. In the church relationships are forbidden, however it seems like his God himself is trying to seduce him and lead his soul itself astray.

This is the story of the vampire who fell for the sun.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62586/he-who-flew-too-close

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I'm interested in exchanging reviews with you! Let me know if you feel the same way!

Story in my signature.

Seems moderation only occurs when I include text and GIFs.

Hi sounds good, Im happy to read your story, is just one chapter for now fine

x_luminous-x Wrote: Hi sounds good, Im happy to read your story, is just one chapter for now fine

Awesome.

One chapter for what? Like review only one chapter? We can do that, but I don't know why you would want that when we can swap all of what we have so far. Reviews less than 10,000 have to be *cough* basic reviews anyway hahaha.

I read Vampire I'm in. I would like to have reviewed The Girl who could taste Time
If you're up to it.

Is a 10K review, right? 

okay, we can do more, but ill just be doing one tonight, the rest i will do tomorrow. I'm new here so sorry if I've misunderstood the way this works and excuse the bad grammar, a lot of my keys are broken

also the review iss for he who flew too close, its in my sig

@-mason- Before I begin I just wanted to ask, is there a certain number of words I need to meet for the review. Im a little bit lost at the difference between a review and a basic review

x_luminous-x Wrote: @-mason- Before I begin I just wanted to ask, is there a certain number of words I need to meet for the review. Im a little bit lost at the difference between a review and a basic review

I mean technically you need to read all 10,000+ words available before reviewing.

Then the advanced review has to be 500 words

x_luminous-x Wrote: okay, we can do more, but ill just be doing one tonight, the rest i will do tomorrow. I'm new here so sorry if I've misunderstood the way this works and excuse the bad grammar, a lot of my keys are broken

We call it to review swaps, and by rule is 10K or more each. We don't expect it to be done day by night. Or is it night-by-day?
Anyway, before yours, I have another one waiting, so you have time.

Review swaps are awesome to:
- Have constructive feedback from other authors.
- The reviews are very clean to readers on what to expect from the novel.
- And mostly, it helps your rating and to climb the ranks.

My favourite is having a good look if I'm doing right to my story. Are you getting the plot? Is this scene causing the proper reaction? etc

larareispoetry Wrote: I read Vampire I'm in. I would like to have reviewed The Girl who could taste Time
If you're up to it.

Is a 10K review, right? 

Thank you so much for explaining everything! How many chapters of yours do i need to read to hit then 10k. Just so I know what Im getting into.

3 chapters for me.

-Mason- Wrote: 3 chapters for me.

Okay, I'm going to get started tomorrow

larareispoetry Wrote:

x_luminous-x Wrote: okay, we can do more, but ill just be doing one tonight, the rest i will do tomorrow. I'm new here so sorry if I've misunderstood the way this works and excuse the bad grammar, a lot of my keys are broken

We call it to review swaps, and by rule is 10K or more each. We don't expect it to be done day by night. Or is it night-by-day?
Anyway, before yours, I have another one waiting, so you have time.

Review swaps are awesome to:
- Have constructive feedback from other authors.
- The reviews are very clean to readers on what to expect from the novel.
- And mostly, it helps your rating and to climb the ranks.

My favourite is having a good look if I'm doing right to my story. Are you getting the plot? Is this scene causing the proper reaction? etc

Hey! If you're still up for review swapping please let me know how many chapters I need to do and I'll get started. I just wanted to add though, that my feedback is very honest. Will that be okay?

x_luminous-x Wrote:

larareispoetry Wrote:

x_luminous-x Wrote: okay, we can do more, but ill just be doing one tonight, the rest i will do tomorrow. I'm new here so sorry if I've misunderstood the way this works and excuse the bad grammar, a lot of my keys are broken

We call it to review swaps, and by rule is 10K or more each. We don't expect it to be done day by night. Or is it night-by-day?
Anyway, before yours, I have another one waiting, so you have time.

Review swaps are awesome to:
- Have constructive feedback from other authors.
- The reviews are very clean to readers on what to expect from the novel.
- And mostly, it helps your rating and to climb the ranks.

My favourite is having a good look if I'm doing right to my story. Are you getting the plot? Is this scene causing the proper reaction? etc

Hey! If you're still up for review swapping please let me know how many chapters I need to do and I'll get started. I just wanted to add though, that my feedback is very honest. Will that be okay?

Yes of course! The one I'm interested is my second novel The Girl who could taste time.
The 10K mark is chapter seven

Which one is yours?

larareispoetry Wrote:

x_luminous-x Wrote:

larareispoetry Wrote:

x_luminous-x Wrote: okay, we can do more, but ill just be doing one tonight, the rest i will do tomorrow. I'm new here so sorry if I've misunderstood the way this works and excuse the bad grammar, a lot of my keys are broken

We call it to review swaps, and by rule is 10K or more each. We don't expect it to be done day by night. Or is it night-by-day?
Anyway, before yours, I have another one waiting, so you have time.

Review swaps are awesome to:
- Have constructive feedback from other authors.
- The reviews are very clean to readers on what to expect from the novel.
- And mostly, it helps your rating and to climb the ranks.

My favourite is having a good look if I'm doing right to my story. Are you getting the plot? Is this scene causing the proper reaction? etc

Hey! If you're still up for review swapping please let me know how many chapters I need to do and I'll get started. I just wanted to add though, that my feedback is very honest. Will that be okay?

Yes of course! The one I'm interested is my second novel The Girl who could taste time.
The 10K mark is chapter seven

Which one is yours?

It's called He Who Flew Too Close, thank you!

x_luminous-x Wrote: @-mason- Before I begin I just wanted to ask, is there a certain number of words I need to meet for the review. Im a little bit lost at the difference between a review and a basic review

Here are the rules for Review Swaps:

https://www.royalroad.com/support/knowledgebase/73#review-swap-rules

Quote:

• Review swaps are allowed on Royal Road. In fact, you can request them in our Reviews forum. However, rating and review swaps promising high scores is prohibited. If you agree to a review swap, we expect you to actually read the other person's fiction and to write a thoughtful review with a rating that matches your opinion of the story
• The review swap must be an advanced review.
• Both users must read at least 10,000 words (approximately 36 pages) of the other person's fiction before writing the review, unless the story in question is a completed short story. 
• The review must justify the rating. Agreeing to give high ratings beforehand is considered vote manipulation and is against the rules.
• If an author abuses the review swap system for a rating manipulation attempt, all reviews received by the author, and written by the author will be removed, and the reviews by the other participating users will be subjected to scrutiny as well

10k words is a minimum for each person. You can't agree to a specific rating, but a lot of people will ask that you DM them if you don't think it deserves 4 stars, rather than proceeding with the review swap.

I've only had that happen once, and when it did, I just agreed to review another one of their stories instead. I do see a lot of people rate stories 5 down the board, but they usually do that of their own volition, or maybe they just rate on a boolean scale.

An Advanced Review is one where you grade each of the categories. It needs a longer wordcount, since you have to describe each of the categories of Story, Style, Grammar, and Character.


All that aside, I'd be down to do a review swap as well, for my story "That One Isekai", in my signature.

10k words is through Chapter 7, but I feel like you'll get more of a full experience if you read to Chapter 14, since that's about where the style sort of metastasizes.

Thanks!

I am always game for doing a review swap.

My story is the Iron Forge.