Needs fleshing out

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Thanks for the chance to read through this excerpt of the book. Right off the bat, I think that the cover could use some work, but more importantly, I think that the concept is there and the foundation for the story is given in the synopsis, but this first bit needs more fleshing out. It jumps so quickly into this situation that you have no time to even begin to care about what's going on. Then we have all these other things going on, the dialogue doesn't seem realistic. My honest suggestion is that the beginning needs to grab the reader's attention while also building up to something. I think that the reader needs just a few passages to get acquainted with the setting, plot, the narrator or main character, before jumping right into a emotional situation like adultery. Otherwise, right now, this seems so frantic and then nothing really happens, and it feels like a creative writing exercise more than anything.