Date: October 15 2026 10:33 PM Title: Part 1: Love as Possession | Chapter 1
I noticed that the language you created resembles old Turkic languages. It is pretty cool that you used a unique language for your story
Author's Response:
Yeah, I wanted it to seem as it could be part of the Turkic language family at a glance, but less agglutinating than Turkish itself, as I thought that would make it easier for people to recognise and pick out the meanings of individual words (such as "I" and "you")
In fact, I directly stole some features from Turkish itself, such as [-ler/-lar] for plurals, [-de/-te] for the locative case, the word "Hatun" and a few other things (probably very obvious to you based on your username :p). The phonology itself is heavily derived from the Turkish language, which sound quite strong and unique to my ears as a non-native speaker.
Date: August 28 2026 1:05 AM Title: Part 1: Love as Possession | Chapter 1
This is a wonderful book. I love it, and I hope you aren't done yet!
Also...it can be very annoying sometimes when they speak that language of theirs and I understand nothing.
But that's not necessarily a bad thing, anyway. I hope for more!
Author's Response:
Thanks for the review! I'm glad you like it - no, I'm not finished yet, I just prefer to write and publish it in parts (5-7 chapters at a time), since I feel like the story flows better if I update it in mini arcs.
The language was an experimental choice, and I thought it might help to make the world feel more foreign and create a deeper sense of alienation and vulnerability (feel a bit more vulnerable when people are talking about you and you have no idea what they're saying). I don't know if the experiment was a success, but that was the idea behind it anyway. I've tried to limit its usage to a maximum of 4% of any chapter text (and 2% average across the entire story), but if general consensus is that it's a bit annoying, I'll scale it back in future.