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flickering 's review for:
The Incandescent
by Emily Tesh
adventurous
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Reader: I loved following a magical school book from the perspective of a professor and getting to see some of the administrative/behind the scenes parts of a magical school. It also was nice to see people actually caring for and trying to help the students in a magic school. As well Walden was fun to read from because she was so into her job that it made you as the reader into her job as well.
Writer: I liked that we had mature characters and their problems were accurately reflecting their maturity. Walden didn’t want to give up her job so she had to have a romance that was in her vicinity and maturely dealt with that. She was stressed out from her job but not from her love life because she is an adult and the story recognized she was an adult and had her make adult decisions.
As for my own writing I think it’s important to structure the book from my MC’s age. Certain problems read immature for an older person to be dealing with so it’s important to think about how to make a problem read as something an adult might deal with and how they would deal with it as opposed to how a teen or a kid would deal with the same problem. I think a way to check this for myself is to write down how I think different age groups would approach certain problems and then see where my MC falls. If it seems like they are actually more mature or immature then make sense I can then either give reasoning or tweak it from there.
Writer: I liked that we had mature characters and their problems were accurately reflecting their maturity. Walden didn’t want to give up her job so she had to have a romance that was in her vicinity and maturely dealt with that. She was stressed out from her job but not from her love life because she is an adult and the story recognized she was an adult and had her make adult decisions.
As for my own writing I think it’s important to structure the book from my MC’s age. Certain problems read immature for an older person to be dealing with so it’s important to think about how to make a problem read as something an adult might deal with and how they would deal with it as opposed to how a teen or a kid would deal with the same problem. I think a way to check this for myself is to write down how I think different age groups would approach certain problems and then see where my MC falls. If it seems like they are actually more mature or immature then make sense I can then either give reasoning or tweak it from there.