Thread:Illusive Dream/@comment-3087943-20130619220602/@comment-3087943-20130620193148

The point of a review, after all, is to enable the author to improve on his or her piece, and critiquing the flaws of any given piece of literature is of paramount importance in doing so. The only way that writers can improve on their work is by accepting the mistakes they have made and going back to the drawing board to correct them.

As you have said, it is also a necessity to point out the strong points of a character. However, it is not a necessity to point out every aspect by which the reviewer is impressed. At the end of the day, the most important tool a writer can possess is confidence in the quality of his or her work. Illusive is, by most standards, a highly capable writer, and I wouldn't be doing her any favors by holding her hand and telling her what a wonderful job she's done. I have said that I find what she's written to be of a fairly good standard - why I found it to be so is for Illusive herself to figure out. If she cannot look at what she's done and think that she's done a good job, then no one else will.