Thank you so much for writing this. The entire thing was excellent, so excellent that I read it all in one sitting. And I cried for at least the last five chapters, from a combination of joy and sorrow, grief and hope. Thank you again for writing this.

I've read so much amazing BOTW fic over this past year, but this one is probably my favorite. I reread it frequently, especially when I'm down and need cheering up (and when I just want to flush out my emotions). Your characterizations of all the characters are spot on and I love seeing them all interact. I also wanted to compliment you and Lyxie on A Princess for Midwinter and A King for Midsummer, which I just finished reading today. I know you guys keep saying that these two stories are just ridiculous, silly indulgences for you, but to me these stories are amazing and keep me on the edge of my seat - tropes or not! I think they're some of the best fanfiction I've sern. I love the way you weave familiar characters into the story and give them their own unique (and fitting) personalities. I find myself coming back to read not just One Last Year, but also A Princess for Midwinter again and again, as well as your and CM's other stories (Grief, Throne of Nothing, Wind, Into the Woods, Chasing Moonlight). They are all incredibly well written with engaging characters, and they make me smile when I'm feeling down. We are incredibly lucky to have writers like you and CM sharing your stories with the world! I can't wait to see what you write next!

Loved that you aknowledge the pain that Zelda and Link must have gone through. The game truly seems to leave a lot of it out. I seriously needed to have a happy-ish ending for them both and to have more of Zelda as a protagonist in the series since she is so important but rarely appears. Thank you for an amazing journey, your writing style is amazing.
Love,
Camila from Perú

This story was beautiful.

I don't really have so many words to describe itjust that one. In your last note, you compared it to the childhood each of us can never really get back, how adulthood brings change and necessity and that maybe Breath of The Wild reminds us of that grief, discovery, and love. For me, I remembered and felt the grief for the childhood I never got to experience. My early days were so consumed in danger and anxiety and being poor and hungry, and yet... I still got to experience some happinesses. Zelda, for one. What a treasure it was for me, to be so small and powerless, and for once get to be the hero of some great story!

But, as always, grief is a part of our lives. And, looking back, those memories are bittersweet in every way. There are those innocent wonders we can't retrieve again, and for me there are the ones I never got to experience too. I have to grieve for both. Breath of The Wild, and your story, as silly as it may sound to some, reminded me of that. Pain has to be felt before it can heal. We have to have courage to face it. Because of One Last Year, I'm a little step closer to recoveryand, as impossible as it can seem, reclaiming a part of childhood wonder again. Thank you for that.

I think our truest selves are a little dented, and broken, and better for it. We just have to have the bravery to dig ourselves out of the rubble and learn to live again. And then, wonderfully, everything is new once more, just like the first time we found it.

Thank you for your story.

This is truly a wonderful story. And thank you for making such a fine piece of art. Thank you

Woah. This is the beat chapter yet

Hot dang, that was amazing. I love your characters (Groose is so great) and your writing flows perfectly. This was exactly the closure I needed after finishing my first playthrough of Breath of the wild.
Thanks for writing!

the best

Hello author I jsut wanted to thank you for this incredible story, I've just finished reading and I gotta say it tugged at every heart string I had. I'm so incredibly glad I found this story and thank you for bringing to life some of my own imaginations that sprang up from playing Breath of the Wild. So again Thank you for this amazing story.

i love how wholesome this chapter was and with rhe phat champion family feels

i adore the hot mess that is the hyrule you present like all these other fics depict hyrule in the same charmingly peaceful way but the way you write it just seems so much more believable and less romanticized yet still magical
also link being a horny bastard is something i can fully relate to

Thank you for sharing your beautiful writing.

Amazing. Simply amazing. You made me cry, made me laugh, made me remember all those feelings I felt when I played the game for the first time.
I’m anxious for BoTW 2, and for a story from you.
Gracias.

Hey ! I've just read your story for... the third time I think ? And there I realize that I had never reviewed it ! How is it even possible?!
Whatever, I have to tell you how much this story means to me. Whenever they are happy and having a great time, so am I. But whenever they are sad, lost, completely destroyed, so am I as well... every time I finish reading it, I just have so much different feelings. See, I'm really glad they are together, but at the same time I realize their losts and how impossible it seems to be to keep going. To move on. But they do it.
This story really fits the game. They have friendship, love, fights and I love reading all of these cheerful moments... and it is even more destroying when everything is gone. Every single person, every single relation they had is gone. And this tragedy is stronger when you know exactly what they lost. The entire story gives me so much strengh (the Order, the champions, the knights), but the last chapters just take it away so easily! And at the end there is only hope left. And the promise with the new generation.
I think I might have been repeating the same thing over and over but hell yeah, this is how I feel right now...

The only thing left to say is: THANK YOU ! I LITERALLY CRIED ALL ALONG ! THANKSSSSS xoxoxo
~Danaud64

Holy dang... Just finished my first playthrough of BotW, and I gotta say: this masterpiece hit all the right buttons for me in terms of story (or rather, the holes that BotW left unfilled, rightly so).