Sep 15, 2025
Wow, that was a hell of an ending. It took me a good few months, but I finally managed to finish this. Overall, I'd say you did a good job with tension and worldbuilding, but there were some formatting and grammar issues. That being said, it does look like you fixed most of the ones myself and other readers brought to your attention. Overall, I'd say this was a solid read, though if you ever do decide to go back and edit this further, I'd recommend breaking up the chapters as they are really long. Nothing wrong with long chapters, but considering the word count is over 55,000 and there's only 19 chapters, it might be easier for readers if you break up the chapters into smaller ones so they don't need to set aside a bunch of time just to read a chapter or two. I'd also recommend trimming down the amount of times you constantly remind the reader of Lucy's physical and mental age as it gets really repetitive. Other than that, I'd say this is a very solid novel, but with some room for improvement.