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| Jong_Kahn | 2016.04.10 - 10:07PM | 5: In the Cave Again. | Signed |
| Don't you dare worry about a story of yours possibly "being too dark for Ashwinder". Just offer up your stories and let us read them! Author's Response: Thank you! But you're the one (the main one) always flying at me because the taint is too dark ,and because I'm too hard on the characters! Which I'm not, by the way. It's simply the way the story takes me. Thanks! | |||
| DawnEB | 2016.04.05 - 03:34AM | 5: In the Cave Again. | Signed |
| I've sat and read from 1-5 in one go. I just want to say that, for all the darkness, this story doesn't wallow in the detail of it. A tale of the stripping away of ideals into what needs to be done to survive and leave a mark. It shows how they come (or fail) to be what they need to be as individuals, yet still recognise the cohesion of the unit and its goals - including acceptance of the necessity of sacrifice of individual parts.
Yet all the way through there are glimmers of courage, dedication, hope and love in various forms that prevent it all falling into a nightmare. It makes for enough of a balance, and kept me reading through the grimmer parts.
And even Snape proved to be more than he thought he could be. Author's Response: Thank you for the in-depth analysis! To my mind though, the ideals don't "strip away", but the students learn the hard way that to stay true to your ideals the path is not always "a white horse galloping into the sunrise"... And finding the strength to keep "courage, dedication, hope and love " is their mark of heroism as is Snape's last (or not last, you'll see in the Epilogue) sacrifice to give H. back the love of her parents... Thanks! | |||
| Karline | 2016.04.04 - 05:48PM | 5: In the Cave Again. | Signed |
| I am not such a fan of the dark stories, but you found a good balance between the needed darkness and the flow to get things forward. I fear you understood very good how strategic decisions in battles and fights against some dark enemy have to be taken. Gone allies are a danger... and getting emotional is sometimes a good driver and sometimes a bad partner.
I am just happy that I did not see the story when it was not at least to this end... I am looking forward for something to follow as being stuck with the own fantasy here is scary enough. Author's Response: Thanks a lot for reading and reviewing. The Epilogue somehow didnt' post so it's not technically "finished", but... I pray not to understand too much of these decisions, because they ARE bleak... | |||
| maraina | 2016.04.01 - 06:25AM | 5: In the Cave Again. | Signed |
| Fabulous tale you've got here...but how will it end? Can't wait for you to resolve this. Thank you for the grimly, gothically romantic read! Author's Response: Thank you. I've been procratinating with the answer because it WILL contain spoilers. So... I'll post the epilogue and answer you seriously afterwards. What I can say though (and ask your opinion), is I've been thinking about a sequel (and got some adamant PMs years after it was first published) but I'm afraid, seeing the low number of reviews here, that this is too dark for ASH. Thanks! | |||
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