Hey guys, I’ve written my first novel last year and been going through editing and polishing for months. I don’t have any friends or not even any online friends who would read my script and give me an opinion and my family laughs at such things as writing.

I honestly love to have just a few opinions on it besides myself because I’m the only one who’s ever read it and I can’t tell in any way how it really is since nobody has ever read it even a few chapters.

I don’t have much I’m specifically looking for but I would love all feedback about characters, plot twist, the world, writing style etc. I would appreciate any feedback from anyone because I really loved the writing and the novel so much but since nobody ever wants to read it, I can’t tell if it’s only good in my head or if other people see it like that too.

Rotten Seeds is combines psychological depth with themes of memory, guilt, and resilience. It tells the story of a young woman struggling to break free from the darkness of her past and the cruelty of her village.

The blurb: Heyv is a normal girl from the outside who lives in a small, isolated village. But her cruel childhood and the memories of all the things she still cannot speak aloud haunt her present life, because everything that has happened has stained not only her hands but also her essence.

That is, until she meets Shams—the boy from the outside whose eyes reflect a burning fire like the sun. The haunting memories of a childhood they both long to forget, and the loneliness they cannot escape, bind them together in the little garden where they meet in secret and between them, a fragile bond grows.

As she continues to meet with Shams after midnights and carries the guilt of what happened to her sister, Heyv finds herself on a journey of facing her darkness—admitting the sins she has committed and freeing the rotten emotions she has buried for so long inside her.

But the people in her village, long consumed by their own shadows, are always watching, because being different in such a place has the price of her reliving her childhood terrors.

But from the new seed of love that began growing within her, Heyv not only longs to forgive her parents but also believes that even they might learn to love, despite everything that happened with her sister. Only then does she discover that the darkness inside those people is far darker and deeper than she ever imagined.

-> a little background: the story plays in Iraq, in a small village of yezidi people (it’s an extremely small isolated religion)

Trigger warnings ⚠️: since this is a heavy psychological novel, it deals with heavy themes of trauma, violence, sexual abuse, lost memories and traumatic memories, suicide, death, panic attacks.

Though if, I highly encourage to read the first two chapters at first and then decide whether or not you want to put it down.

first two chapters