Reviews for A Merciless Affection |
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![]() ![]() ![]() Aww poor girl her first time was a huge disappointment! Seriously Severus?! You are a major arsehole of the first water! |
![]() ![]() ![]() I’m greatly enjoying this fic! Oh yes. Thank you. BTW, In your author’s notes on a previous chapter you have mentioned some Snape and Sarah pictures, however I can’t find any reference to them on your page. Are they no longer available? |
![]() ![]() ![]() This remains as one my most favorite Severus Snape/OFC fanfiction; and I come back to it more often than I care to admit. Love it, love it! 3 |
![]() ![]() ![]() This has been and will always be my favorite Snape fanfic that I've ever read. |
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![]() ![]() ![]() I loved the other all story, but the ending was indescribably torturous. I wanted Sarah and Harry to finally meet, and for him to realise that she’d been helping him, but instead we just got some underdeveloped side plot stuffed in at the very end about Ginny’s arm disease. The ending was too snappy, and underwhelming, and it honestly felt like a draft. |
![]() ![]() ![]() I know you probably don't read these comments anymore. This is also for those people that are unsure whether to start reading this fic or not. I just wanted to tell you that I really loved this storyuntil Sarah got (spoiler alert) pregnant. Dominant Snape is definitely in-character but what he is doing now is first coercion and now rape. For me, this is a deal breaker. A character that rapes (the love interest or anyone else) is non-redeemable for me. This also reads a lot like rape glorification, especially because it seemingly justifies Snape's actions. This is neither in-character nor something that should be propagated in fiction. I'm really sorry the story took this turn. You are an amazing writer, however. I really hope you continue writing, if elsewhere, and consider the criticism numerous people left considering this plot device. |
![]() ![]() ![]() The sexual tension is OUTRAGEOUS! I hope it lasts! |
![]() ![]() ![]() I read this story as a teenager. I'm 28 and I personally searched for this story in particular because it's just so well-written! Your writing style is spectacular. With that, I love this chapter! |
![]() ![]() ![]() I've been reading HP fanfiction for 15 years and left about as many reviews in all that time. I'm going back to stories I read years ago - including this one - and leaving the reviews I should have left long ago. The fact that I remembered this story, by title, more than a decade after reading it, should be high praise - I mean it that way. You are really an effective writer, with the ability to fully flesh-out a character and describe a scene. In fact, this is the story that, many years ago, convinced me an OFC could work, and gave me the confidence to try my hand at creating one myself. I don't love everything that happens in A Merciless Affection, but I still loved the story and appreciate your craft. Thank you for sharing this with us. |
![]() ![]() I am very much enjoying your characterization of Snape, such a well thought out portrayal of his relationship having come from a damaged background. I am loving the psychology behind it all and the chance to get inside his head. Sarah is a very richly developed character. |
![]() ![]() ![]() I remember on Pottermore that he use to teach Muggle Studies. 1988: He teaches Muggle Studies, 1989: His year off 1990: Quirrell as teacher 1991: Quirrelmort as teacher. |
![]() ![]() ![]() A second review for the previous chapter: This was rape, no two-ways about it. Gosh, it tears me up because you are a great writer and I'm so interested. But this is horrific. The marriage... Snape's behavior since nearly the beginning. Minerva's and Albus' behavior. I left you a very scathing, rude review a couple of years ago about it, and it all still holds true for me. But I will keep going now because maybe this can surprise me. Idk. Maybe I just became more tolerant of the fact that like everything else, 'rape' is a concept whose definition is varied. I'm truly sorry if you ever lived something like what Sarah lived in this chapter. I would call it rape with absolutely no shadow of a doubt; If I were in Sarah's shoes I would murder Snape for it or at least be consumed by such loathing no forgiveness or reconciliation would be possible. I'm so so so angry and this is just dumb fiction. But I suppose that for you, and by consequence Sarah and Severus, this was not rape. So... Again, you're a very good writer, and I'm sorry for being so negative. This just messes me up. I've read extremely dark stories, with rape, murder, and everything in between. I guess what bothers me here is that it goes unacknowledged. Even Sarah isn't sure if she was raped; but she pleaded him to not do it, she said no, he had to immobilize her. And you put no warnings about it, didn't name it as it is in the beginning or end. That's what bothers me. But oh well. If my frustration is too great... I just won't read. Two years ago it was. Now...it's up there, but I might be tempted by the good writing. |
![]() ![]() ![]() what happened to carpe baculum? |
![]() ![]() ![]() "men seldom know their own minds" ain't that the truth! |