 MrsHellman 2009-11-02 . chapter 13Hello Worfe,
Okay, I finally got the time to read this story -bangs head against screen- I’ve been so busy with finals, test, homework, work, my own stories, betaing, the Naruto fandom and life in general that I’ve barely had time to do anything fun , but . . . well . . . I’ve been writing on my own fictions of course – as I mentioned – because they’ve been my top priority, hehe xD Anyway! I’m here to leave a review, so that’s what you’re going to get! I hope you like short reviews; don’t know though -_-“ I'm not that good with long reviews, I usually leave long reviews when I find an interesting story, and you'll realise if this is a good story thanks to my review (from my opinion though xP)
There was a lot of things I likes in this story, and I ADORE the fact that it’s about Lily and James as well as Harry and Sirius, I love those characters, and my new obsession is Harry Potter fanfics with Harry’s parents alive. It’s so freaking sad that he doesn’t have his parents in the cannon story, it makes me tear eyed . . . TT_TT Well, well . . . ignore my whining, I’ve got some things to tell you.
First off: I loved reading this story! x3 It contained friendship, romance, love, family and the long, hard, sweaty, painful, opposite-to-enjoyable way for a great relationship story xD I’m a weird person, but I simply loved this story! I’ve got to say that I actually have some critique (I love critique, really, because that means that the readers are taking their time reading my story, and then think about it before reviewing :3) to give you, good, bad and constructive, hmm?? So prepare yourself :3 At least I’m giving you a warning, huh?? xD I’ve got a lot of things to say though and I want you to know that nothing is meant to be felonious ;P Sometimes, I ramble and then all of a sudden, there’s this little sentence that’s not supposed to be there you know . . .-_-“
The beginning of the story was great, with Binns’ lesson and all that, it wasn’t time travel BOOM! and it’s all running, you had an introduction, and it was extremely well-written, which remind me; you’re simply awesome with grammar, spelling, capitalization, details, descriptions, emotions, keeping the characters quite IC, realistic writing and to keep a good length of the chapters as well as for the story itself :D I tend to write too much when writing a story, but when I read this, I realised that I write too little :S
But I’ve got to tell you about the things I didn’t like as much either . . . the Voldemort incident was interesting, but at the same time kind of lame and unrealistic – don’t get me wrong, I love the story – but this one incident made me tilt my head and arch a brow. I like to see fights between Voldemort and Harry but it also depends on how well written they are. In this case, the scene and all that were great, but at the wrong time, the wrong place and just . . . well . . . it was wrong. How did Voldemort get into Hogsmeade, that’s one question, and then another one; what the hell was actually going on? O.o Death Eaters right and left, voila! And there you’ve got Aurors, and then there’s Harry . . . wow . . . anyway! I think ti was the only thing I was a bit sceptic about :]
Now . . . what else to tell you, well, the constructive criticism is left! xP It was a great story in general, but you noticed, from time to time, that things were stressed. This happened during ten days in eleven chapters, and everything happened so fast. It’s an art to be able and write a story at a good pace, I tend to write too fast, so yeah . . . I can’t give you personal advice on how to make things better, sorry -_-“
I DID LIKE ANOTHER THING THOUGH! xD Harry not interrupting the relationship between Lily and James! Well, he kind of did, but he wasn’t the one that made them end up together, he was just there and was a moral support for James :]
All in all, I loved the story, and I’d like to see more from you, thank you for a wonderful story! :D -runs off to read more story where James and Lily are alive and about-
Huggles,
Mi |