Reviews for The Unbound Soul |
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SalemTheSpeakerOfTruth chapter 1 . 4/21/2018 Elemental bloodlines have always been the most boring ones, in my opinion. |
Diehard gamer chapter 10 . 4/10/2018 Wait so Aoba was taught Yamanaka techniques? |
Diehard gamer chapter 1 . 4/9/2018 I like your stories and I hope you continue it. However I think you have too much dialogue and not enough action. Its still good, I just think it could be improved. |
Motherofthehorde chapter 42 . 3/31/2018 Good story. Thank you for writing. Motherofthehorde |
nyx-p1e chapter 42 . 3/1/2018 Great chapter! I really love your story, it's one of the few I've seen that truly incorporates Harry Potter into the Naruto-universe without losing anything too precious from either fandom. Hope we get to see a bit of Naruto in future chapters though, rather than just mentions! I also love your take on the Otter Summoning Clan, they're great fun (and a good contrast to some of the horrible things that Konoha's shinobi suffer). Looking forward to seeing what your next arc will cover! :D |
Stonecastle chapter 42 . 2/11/2018 Nice job! |
Kalahira11 chapter 42 . 2/10/2018 I absolutely love your stories. I just read all of this one in less than a week. Thank you for sharing this! |
StarGazer2326 chapter 42 . 2/5/2018 I don't care if they're four years apart I ship kojimaru/Harry x Yugito/ Yuri |
gibthegrey chapter 1 . 1/27/2018 love your story keep at it |
Jessica45395 chapter 42 . 1/14/2018 Awesome story can't wait for more! Just reread the whole thing and love it! |
ThomasNealy chapter 3 . 1/9/2018 wouldn't them using the abilities given to them give their location away? |
Guest chapter 42 . 1/9/2018 Just wondering if Tora will ever encounter Naruto, or other people in the Naruto generation or other Bijuu hosts? I know Tora has this big thing against child abuse, will he ever meet Fu, Gaara, Naruto, Lee, etc? |
WhiteDogwood chapter 42 . 1/6/2018 Good! Now we have Kuma angst. He was being to look just a bit too perfect. :). Can’t wait for the next update! |
Peruna chapter 42 . 1/6/2018 Moi moiI love this story, Kosuke is such a little sweetheart/moody teen. No really, I enjoyed reading, since one can easily see how much thought you put into the story and the characters. Your English is pretty neat and refreshingly light on misspellings (which doesn't usually bother me per se, but I do enjoy not facepalming every time I read 'per sayP). Also you always try to take every deatil into consideration, which is both a good thing and a bad thing, a double edged sword really. On one hand, it gives the reader a good overview over what's happening and you always try to take the information the current PoV has into consideration, which is a good step into really fleshing out those shifts of perspective. That really sold me on this story in the early chapters, not the different PoVs but the attention to detail. On the other hand, it gets boring, to put it simply, especially if you repeat something over and over and over again, even more so when you shift the perspective but the new PoV just keeps jammeing on about the same things as the one before did with only minimal differences in wording and personal history. That really did me in the last couple of chapters ever since Yuri was introduced, there were some highlights in those too, but the rest was almost exhausting to read. I almost dropped reading this story like a hot potato, but I didn't since I really want to know how it continues. The problem with the overly detailed description is ... you can't use them well in instances where you want to look at a situation from a lot of different perspectives, whether through extensive, soulsearching dialogue or through shifts of narrator/point of view. That's because it takes all the meaning out of the dialogue, when the reader already knows exactly what the stance of all participants is before the talking even commences, rendering potentially interesing scenes boring or at least without any real flavor. And when planning to write different perspectives to a topic or situation it might be better to limit the characters' perception or at least what we read of their perception to the details that that character would prioritize in order to keep it fresh for the next three to four different takes on the topic. But speaking of dialogue (Heh heh) and perspectives and ... dialogue. I'm not trying to be mean, by the way, I really do like the story in this, but you really need to work on writing dialogue. All characters are speaking all the time (or at least in the overwhelming majority of instances) in the exact same tone as your narration. The obvious problem with that is that the way you talk about something and the way you would describe something in writing is usually very different, and ignoring that sucks the life right out of a dialogue. Now this didn't bother me half the time when I was reading this fanfiction, okay, maybe it didn't bother me quarter the time, but it didn't really take much away from character interaction half the time, because of various reasons. The other half the time though ... Nobody would talk like that! Except for a verbal report maybe but even then it would be structured differently if not less detailed! Ugh, you have no idea how much that annoyed me, especially because it would be easy to curb by cutting a few unnecessary words here and there and ordering the thoughts in a dialogue to be less ... orderly, more train of though, less structure. Maybe you should try reading out loud the dialogues you write to see if that was something a human being would say that way. Just, when you've written everything you wanted in a chapter, go back and read aloud the dialogue. Because the thoughts that the characters have, when saying what they're saying, make sense, those are good, well thoughtout, but the way they're talking is not. The maybe less obvious problem with all characters sounding like the narrator is that all characters also sound exactly the same, which is the death of a good dialogue. And there's not much for me to say to that, because you obviously already understand that, dattebane! You only need a little more practise in writing lively human speechBut something that plays into that has annoyed me a little here and there and that is the use and spread of nicknames. Especially the Shark Bait nickname. Aside from my small annoyance over the inconsistency of language (Shark Bait or Same no Kouji? Do some call him Shark Bait while others call him Same no Kouji? No, both are used rather interchangibly, which makes no sense at all because you don't really do that for other nicknames) my main concern with this was: Why does absolutely everyone use that effing nickname? It's a fun inside joke between Kojimaru and the otters, there is no reason for Inu to be using it so familiarly the second he first hears it, especially when he just comes out of a gruelling fight, during which Kojimaru earned his respect. It would make sense that a few that are in on the joke would adopt it into th |
FearThePuggles chapter 6 . 11/29/2017 Ummmmmm, he should be 4 years old by now. |