Name: The King in White reviewed Chapter One on Apr 14, 2017 12:41 am

I made it to this chapter before I noped out. You're a good writer, but your stories are so full of tragedy and infidelity and various other negativities that it turns the stomach. Trawling for that one happy ending where they don't die and don't sleep around with other people or don't go insane or ect. is like looking for the diamond in the rough.

It's like millions of words of NTR tragedy. Well written and very artistic, but depressing in larger doses.

Name: TuesdayNovember reviewed Chapter One on Dec 09, 2010 12:28 pm

This story was simply incredible. I started reading it with the intention of breaking it into pieces, but once I'd begun, I couldn't stop. I ended up going to bed rather late, but I don't at all regret it, because this story was incredible.

Perfectly plotted, incredibly well written and very, very addictive.

The scene in the luggage compartment was amazing. I continue to be impressed by it, actually, because in the hands of a lesser writer it would have come off as awkward, stilted and forced. But not with you. It was beautifully written and incredibly touching. (Sorry about the pun. =P)

On a whole, though, this was simply amazing. I maintain that this has to be some of the best work I've read, online and in real books. Pretty much, you're an amazing writer.

I'm going to read Heavenly Creatures as well, because I simply must know what happens. I mourn the fact that it's not completed, and probably never will be, but I still have to read it, even if I end up going mad with not knowing how it ends, it'd be worse if I didn't read it, knowing it was there.

I'll just say it again, this was incredible.

Author's Response: Thank you thank you thank you!! :) Actually, I was pondering an idea the other day... there was a very specific and SHORT plotline that I originally had thought about giving KCOtDT, and what did happen obviously ran away with me completely. (While I do like a lot of the places where it went, it got very out of hand, and that was actually the impetus for writing so much of the content of DDD before I posted it. DDD will end up being every bit as long as KC, but it WILL follow a coherent plotline, and it WILL get finished.) My point (and like Ellen, I do have one), is that *Man In Black*, the planned 3rd fic in the BB and HC trilogy, was supposed to basically have the KC short-version plotline. So I was thinking about redoing HC as a short fic and then writing MiB as a VERY short one (well, for me). In that case, it's not impossible that everything could get done. :)

Name: Boogum reviewed Chapter Four on Nov 15, 2010 11:44 am

Such an intense chapter. I'm feeling extra emotional today, so it was certainly a rollercoaster for me. Really, I should hate you for writing emotion so well. You make it so easy to relate to the characters, which does make the 'do not cry' rule hard to keep.

I found Ron's confession at the end one of the most bitter and touching moments in this chapter. The books portray the characters as so black and white -- you're evil or you're not. And while Ron gets his few faults (jealousy, etc), JKR never really questions the true depth of how far he or the other characters could go. I really felt for Ron when he realised he could actually take that step -- to end a life. One of the most disturbing facts about life is not that you can be terrified of other people, but that you can be frightened of yourself -- of what you have the potential to do. You captured that beautifully. It's a sad, bitter part of life, and I really admire your writing for being able to show not just the surface of the characters, but all the psychological and emotional storms happening underneath.

Name: Boogum reviewed Chapter Two on Nov 11, 2010 11:19 am

I remember the apple scene. That one always made me smile, more for the symbolism of it, I have to admit.

Great chapter, as usual. I really shouldn't be surprised that everything I read from you is brilliant.

Name: Lex reviewed Chapter One on Feb 10, 2010 09:05 pm

I read this for the first time on a different site (I don't even remember which one anymore) several years ago, and I've read it quite a few (at least five) times since then.

There are several pieces of literature that have informed my writing style. The Virgin Suicides, Disgrace, The Poisonwood Bible... The Bat Bogeys Cometh. Really. Really really.

I've always suspected you must be a Booker prize recipient or something in "real life". You blow off steam by writing Draco-Ginny fiction in between various deep literary successes that get favorable review from The New Yorker.

None of that is likely to be the case, but there's something subtle about your writing that suggests it. There are many pieces of writing that seem somehow to be less than the whole of their parts, whereas your writing comes off as many times the whole of its parts. The character interactions are subtle, minuscule reflections of the earthquakes surrounding them. I've very rarely seen someone write the tearing of a soul in a precise, even unmemorable moment, but that is what you write. You turn moments into eternities and eternities into moments. You reflect the truth of the way we are all formed by single, innocuous instances.

Thank you.

Name: KT_Tonguetied reviewed Chapter Three on Sep 02, 2009 06:25 pm

AHH! Your Malfoy is the best Malfoy I've ever read! Though, I couldn't help but notice, toward the end, you called the forest floor "snowy", and it's June...
Other than that, you're honestly my favorite author on here. ^^

Name: CuteElf14 reviewed Chapter Four on Aug 13, 2007 05:45 pm

This chapter, combined with this song, brought me to tears. It's so beautiful and melancholy. I especially love Ron, and the complexity of your characters. Bravo!

Name: seegrim reviewed Chapter One on Aug 12, 2007 11:37 pm

Wow-I cannot believe I'd never read this!  Anyway, I'm glad I did, and I just noticed there's a sequel.  I'm so excited.  Thanks for the great reading!

Name: white_and_red_love reviewed Chapter One on Jun 24, 2007 03:48 pm

Wow, pretty intense, but I liked it. It was an interesting pov from the 5 book, and I liked the part with Snape. Good story.

Name: Flyingwithdragons reviewed Chapter One on Jan 22, 2007 04:09 pm

Gah! Can't wait to read the sequels. Very good. Angsty, sad, but very well-written and well-characterized. I enjoyed the Ginny-Snape confession scene. And despite the foreshadowing, I'm hoping for a happy ending. Hoping for too much, perhaps, but I very much enjoyed this story nonetheless.

Name: Flyingwithdragons reviewed Chapter Two on Jan 22, 2007 01:45 pm

Really enjoying the story so far. Noticed that you repeated yourself at the beginning of this chapter. First part of the first paragraph about Ginny's musings about the end of the DA was in the first chapter too. Looking forward to the rest.

Name: Steph reviewed Chapter Two on Oct 06, 2006 11:03 pm

ooo this story rocks! I can't stop reading!

Name: dawbygirl reviewed Chapter Four on Aug 25, 2006 05:37 pm

oh!! oh!! is there going to be a story explaining a drunken interlude between sirius and ginny?! i hope, i hope! or perhaps it's worked into one of your other stories... i've yet to work my way through all of them!