Today's review is Ray of Hope by Midnight. A Ray of Hope is a dystopian novel about beings from hell taking over the world by killing and enslaving humans. To fight back, the Elemental Gods of heaven provided hope by giving their powers to humans capable of fighting against the siege from hell. One hundred and twenty years later, both humans and angels almost cease to exist. The world's last chance of survival is in the form of two young girls. As this story is just in its early stages, I am not able to give a perfect representation of how this story will progress. I am not able to completely discern who the characters are and will be. Despite there only being six episodes so far, the story is very entertaining.

In the first episode, Midnight sets the stage for his story. He effectively enveloped his prologue with tension, and by doing so, he pulled his readers in. Midnight does this by using words that excite readers and make them want to read more. Pulling a reader into a story is one of the most crucial things an author needs to do. If one does not hook their reader into their story from the very beginning, fewer of them will continue reading the story. Though the hook was very well utilized to pull the reader in, every line of narration was spaced from one another. Spacing each line is a common tactic in which writers attempt to add tension to a situation. This tactic not only does not work, but it does not add to the already entertaining hook which Midnight has already written. Other than that, the prologue is very enjoyable.

While this novel was very entertaining, the characters' speech was formatted like a play. (Ex. Name: Words.) This is a prevalent flaw in novel writing, conversations in any form of writing should be descriptive. If speech is written separately from the paragraph, the emotions which the character portrays are not easily understood. Communication is one of the hardest things to compose into a story. An author needs to write what the character is required to say to continue the story, while at the same time, sound realistic. I know, from the excellent writing Midnight has already done, that he can definitely improve on this. If the writing format is changed, this novel could be twice as good as it is now.

When a person is writing a novel, there can be many ideas that they want to put into play, this can both be very beneficial to the writing and very detrimental. This story has many multifaceted ideas that both added and took away from my enjoyment of this story. I like a story with many ideas and thoughts to it, it helps show how intricate the world really is. Overloading a plot with many concepts can make a story feel unprofessional. For A Ray of Hope, the myriad of ideas are like a double-bladed sword. The story was excellently detailed, but in some moments it felt like it was overly packed with ideas. If some of the concepts were included later on in the novel, I would have enjoyed it much more. Overall, while this plot had many ideas, it was a truly fascinating story to read.

In conclusion, A Ray of Hope was a very engaging story. While the story does have several issues, it still managed to grab my attention, and I am very excited to see more of this story's progression. Please go send some support over to Midnight and check out A Ray of Hope.

Link to A Ray of Hope in the description.

P.S. sorry for the short "episode"