Reviewer: Ralgar Signed
Date: January 30 2022
Title: Chapter 26: Chapter 26
Ok well first off congratz when u said this was a game changer, it really was, it takes it being a small number of bad things to a world wide disaster, and honestly every one of them deserves to burn, I mean the families and the daughters, the PRincess ( i do love them as villain's, but damn i dont thing there is any redemption for them any more, i was foolishly hoping there would be, but yea that isnt a thing i think anymore for me.)
U took this story in a very interesting direction that u did very litely hint at with the mother being so difficult to find info on.
OK so shrunken are having children ( that is in my opionion highly stupid and irrisponsble of the shrunken, u do not want to perpeatuate this damn disease ( which i now am beginngin to think was manufactured just like in a another story)).
Ok so i am going to try not to ramble with this but i probably will.
This story has just grown well past any boundaries i thought u might have had. So I was thinking there would be the bad end where she imprints on the girls. the not as bad end where she at least maintains her humanity. The end where she gets back to her Big family. THe end where she actually ends up with some one who can properly love her and take care of her. That is now in doubt.
As i said earlier I was hoping that the 4 would in time be revealed to not be complete monsters and that there was hope for them, I see that now from this chapter and the previous 5 chapters that this is not a thing beyond the fact that for the first time in there lives they have someone they are actually caring about. Like u said it is so toxic. Now don't get me wrong i love the 4 as villain's ( and I love a good redemption story) but yea they need to die.
So now the resistance, they are interesting and i look forward to seeing more about them. I will admit that it took me alot longer to figure out what was happening than it should have, I honestly thought it was either annabell hallucenating or losing her damn mind from the massacre. Then things happened and i was blown away. I disagree with the guy about not killing every one, they had them uncouncious they shoudl have killed them. It really doesn't take much to kill us bigs and they could have doced their weapons with poison to kill every one their. ( but this isn't a complaint against u)
OK Annabell number one priority now is to get the imprinting stopped and kill poppy, because she is now a threat to the resistance and maybe a threat to normal shrunken beyond her precious Goddesses. I dont know how to interpret agent x saying she killed all the shrunken at the former massacre (plz dont let that be true). Poppy is to damn dangerous, but at that same time info can be kept from her, hmmmm she doesnt neccesarily know all that annebell knows ( zoey), so maybe annabell could learn to keep info from her. BUt yea Anna needs to really get this therapy going. Also I now retact my preivous statement that she needs to stay with the 4. She needs to get away from them and stay gone, but i get why she stayed.
Now i have a statement here and i hope no one takes offense to this ( i understand if u do) I view something like the HDD (the disease, not the people) as an existential threat to humaninty , and so while i would not take the extreme measures exterminating all who have it, i would ban all from having kids, and there would be massive penalties for those that did. Including death. I would take no pleasure in it like these monsters, but this disease would need to be wiped out. I would also push for massive funding in elimanting the disease viah cure. I also dont believe for one second any of them actually believe that clap trap about saving the world except maybe Leah ( Naomi flat out told her she didnt.)
So about her mother i thought she was going to be estranged from a family that was actively fighting the big bads and she just wanted peace, but now i dont know. I do think beth is the commander ( i really hope so or that she is alive at least).
Honestly i thought this chapter was going to deal with Oliver and the friends, not what this turned out to be. I loved this chapter, for the first time i actually believe Annabelle actually has a chance to escape and find a refuge, and maybe have a good life ( if scarred).
I have no idea what to think of this whole blessed blood thing, personally aside from the imprinting thing it sounds like a good deal, really tired of the trope where just because u can heal your a freak. U have hinted that those who come in contact with type 0s imprint on said type 0, and at first that's what I thought had happened with byte, (once I realized that there was something going on).
SO this turned into a big review, in addition to my other reviews, hope u don't that i have reviewed alot lately and will probably continue to do so i keep having thoughts. Like I said this is the best story on this site and honestly i think u could get this published, ( u would need to do some editing and stuff but its that good).
SO this was a pretty small scope story that just got blown with open and I am very here for it. I cant wait to find out where this goes.
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Author's Response: I'm really glad you are liking the expansion of the story. That's what I was most worried about. I know a lot of people like the FF and want more of a focus on them (and they will remain an essential part of the story) but in order to go where the story needs to go, I had to open up the world. I did hint at how different this world is in the "Beginning" but I haven't really touched on it in a while.
Ralgar, I really like your comments! They help me write this story! It's always great to refresh and see that someone else has reviewed--it reminds me that people are still reading this insanely long thing.
I can't say too much about everything you've written (spoilers) but I can say that Oliver and Company (ha) will be returning.