Reviewer: versusterminus7 Signed
Date: May 20 2016
Title: Chapter 1: How it all Began
Not gonna lie, I was really nervous this entire week. Your Friday updates have been very exciting for me and something of a treat, and, for the love of God dont let this go to your head, I've been looking forward to this more than Sunday's Game of Thrones or Preacher premier. For perspective, I love GoT the way Jamie loves ceresi.
All that aside, I feel like you've written a great end to this. It's wondrously satisfying to see Alexandra let down her walls- which, in your defense, she had rights to put up, although I am dubious that her walls were caused by hatred from humans directed towards her, and not her alienating people and then them hating- if that made any sort of sense. You touch a tender spot, especially with Emils admission of his love (maybe if just him right now), one that I hope, according to my own preference, is eventually reciprocated by Alex (once she takes him out of her boot, that is). As far as the tone, it's a hopeful one- I don't feel like it's sour or unsatisfactory- in fact, it feel wry hopeful, which I think is what you were trying to convey. I almost feel like Alex is hopeful as well, jaded as she is. The ending, in my opinion, could not have been more sweet and lovely, and it had fit the tale perfectly.
Overall, I feel like you have done extremely well, and this has been my favorite gentle (if not gts in general) story in years. I hope our (Pixis and I) stronger reactions haven't discouraged you in any way- you are a massively talented writer and I hope you continue to post on the community. I cannot wait to see more from you, I truly mean that.
10/10, would get frustrated all over again
Author's Response:
I have to say, I'm genuinely honored you have said that. I'm way too far behind on GoT (I was like 80% through Book 5 before I stopped) but I think I get the comparison. That's pretty wild.
I never expected people to genuinely get invested in this. It started off as one idea that spiralled off into one stupidly lengthy story, one that I tend to nitpick to death at that. Usually I try to avoid long stories because I tend to lose interest, but damn if I didn't stick around for this one. Still, I do have ideas for future stories that might be interesting if I ever actually get around to them, including a possible sequel to this one. Not sure if I'll ever actually do them since 9/10 I prefer shorter one offs, but still.
Also, since you like this story so much you might be interested to know I plan on posting it to DA sometime in the future, with pictures. The pic part is what's been holding me up til now haha.