I always hate leaving reviews before I finish reading, but now that I know for sure that this is in Oregon, I'd like to commend you on your taste in states. It's always thrown out as a setting in favor of Washington, but it deserves some love :]

One of my favorite stories, ever, seriously! I think I'm in lurve! :D

I'm usually pretty crap about writing reviews because I just don't know what to say other than a stupid "I loved this fic", but I did. A lot. I spent all day reading it and yeah. I'm gonna read through the rest of your KH fic. :D

I just don't even.

The word count says 181,224. That's longer than most novels I've read lately, and I was talking to Pouikee yesterday, saying, "I've decided to treat myself, I've finally started reading Boys!"

And I sort of.

I stopped to SLEEP, and that was it. I think I got to chapter 18 by 6am this morning, slept, woke up, and read the rest.

And I just.

I want to leave "a well-rounded critique," as suggest below, but really, all my brain wants to do is make keysmashy noises and my fingers, the same.

It's just WONDERFULLY in character, wonderfully written, poignant and heartbreaking and I actually got Nevermind to listen to JUST BECAUSE YOU SAID SO (and thank you for that, I didn't know how GOOD that album actually was) and.

And.

181,224 words, and I still want more, despite the great ending. Despite the great STORY. Haha!

But yes. It was inCREDIBLE, and I.

NCIPSBJDV[IASOJHVNPSQIBVDJH[B!

Yeah.

:)

my first response is OMG! this story made me cry and laugh and cry again, and it was so touching. i love the pairings and have only just really started getting into kingdom hearts, never played the game, but have read the manga, and i wish that this story was the whole concept of kingdom hearts itself. but it is not... sigh.

on that note, i absolutely loved this story, and am sad that it is over. ;(

Gaah the end! I just wanted to say I loved the development between Sora and Riku from the start to the finish. Sora really is a kind person despite his 'gang' background, I like that because that's really in-character. :)

That's one of the best fanfics ever, if not the best *-*
Really, you made everyone act like real people, it's fun to read and I got the feeling that I was there, in the 90's, with them (well, maybe the 90's part can't work with me, I was a baby at that time), but...
I'm just here to say how great everything was.
Well, sorry for my bad english, and please keep up with the great work!

~Panda

Okay, so a few days ago I decided to read Boys again, just because it's awesome like that.

I was reading the first half of this chapter at school today during lunch period, Nevermind playing through my iPod, and lemme just say, "WTF." I friggen started crying when it got to the part when Kurt Cobain died. Seriously. In school. I always get emotional when it has to do with my favorite characters, or Kurt, so naturally I was sad. But it also just brought back a lot of sad memories. It made me remember when I was a little kid, seeing my mom sitting in a corner, crying over his death like the rest of the world.

Okay, I'll cut the emo-ness down. I know I've already left you an epic review when you completed this, but I just wanted to re-tell you how amazing Boys is, and how fucking insanely fantastic this chapter is. Most heartfelt of them all. I cried a lot. So yeah.

Gahh this fis remains one of the best I've ever read in my entire fucking LIFE!

I love you, dude.
-Savvy ♥

Have I told you how wonderful the length of these chapters is? It's wonderful.

I'm worried for the growing pile of stuff behind Sora's mental couch. It doesn't seem like a good place to keep things...

Does "that Bush song" happen to be "Chemicals Between Us"? ^-^ I love Bush. They're pretty much epic. And Riku's family is wonderful, lol. Ode to meatball, hahaha. That was great. The dorm room bit was cute--I really want to know what happened between Roxas and Riku. Every time I form a theory, I get another tidbit, and I don't know at all anymore, lol. Ugh, this story is fantastic, and I want to sleep, but not more than I want to read, so I will sacrifice another half hour of sleep to read one more chapter, which will turn into three :D

Roxas snores like a kitten ^-^ I love how they're both annoyed to death of each other, but Roxas interprets it completely differently. He liked being annoyed. That parallels in that segment were awesome, haha. Dan and Jimbo, hahaha. I did not know that male ladybugs were red... I don't think I've ever seen a not red ladybug... That scene was adorable :D. So, Roxas was kicked out because he's dating (presumably) Axel? And the last bit... Hahaha. Poor Sora.

Roxas makes me very happy ^-^ So, did Riku do this to Roxas, too? Or something like this, I suppose. Probably not exactly. Or was it someone else entirely? I suppose I shall find out. The relationship development thus far is awesome. And I can't believe I didn't come back to your page to find this sooner. Because I love everything else that you've written, too. Well, better late than never, I suppose ^-^

That was epic. Hahaha. The glom of fagirls, and the confetti, and the sliding down the banister... I loved it. Of course, Riku is all for throwing it back in their faces. I love how they're both ready to fight, in completely different ways. And Riku's reaction to Mr. R-O-X. Can't wait to find out what's going on there :D The poor, unsuspecting world has ended on a Monday.

...
I know for one thing, dear, dear friend, that stories are meant to make you feel so many things that it gets confusing, and that your heart is supposed to beat in yuor chest so hard that it hurts when the character you're reading about has encountered a problem, and i know, most of all, that you have to read a story again and again, though not straight after each time, because you can never get the full meaning of something so ... so ... great and complex in one single go.

Ths story has pulled at my heart strings for ages, now, and now i'm showing you my appreciation, because this story has done everything that i've stated. EVERYTHING.

You have now earned yourself a fan girl.


Oh my freaking god i LOVE this story!! It's not even a fan fiction! It's, like, well the characters are so real. I've fallen in love with SoraxRiku even more and i didn't even think that it was possible for me to ever say that, but here i am saying it!! It is abundantly official, girl, that i love this story.

L.O.V.E.

And i wasn't a major fan of AxelXRoxas, you know, but then i read this and it's like, omigodilovethispairingnearlyasmuchasSoraandRiku! But i love Sora and Riku more. That's never gonna change.


Well, you keep writing, kay?? I see you have many, MANY fans out there so we'll be all very dissapointed if you stopped.

I'm waiting for another heart-string puller.

Yeps.

Regards,
Keuraki-SoraxRiku

This is possibly one of the greatest stories I have ever read on this site. That is all I can really say without completely freaking out, here. You completely changed the way I look at life, and... wow. I wish I could leave a longer review, but I'm sort of speechless. What you described in this story cannot be properly expressed in something as limited as a review. It is a FEELING, rather than a certain amount of words. This story is a work of art. If you didn't use the characters from Kingdom Hearts this could have been EASILY published.

i gotta say, that out of all the hundreds of fics i've ever read, this has to be my all time favorite one. Seriously. This was just amazing, and although i am sad that it ended (because let's face it, who doesnt love those guys?), i am in love with this fic. Thanks for writing this!