That's it. I'm officially here for the footnotes. :-)

That's a Black family speciality... sounded too much like Sirius Black to me!

Oh my god...a bread knife caused you to write a sequel shaking my head

Your writing puts Meyer to shame. Well done. I love this story

Yeah um so this was amazing.

It was 100% flawless, and I will not be reading the OG twilight books anymore because I just like this version better.

Edward’s not a creep, Bella isn’t some wack airhead, Jacob is marvelous, Charlie is never OOC, Sam is perfect, Embry and Quil are perfect, Emily is my hero, and Jacob and Bella got together as they should have.

So, all in all it was amazing. And now I don’t have to spend money on a copy of Twilight BC I’ll just be reading this.

I hope you become some sort of billionaire, just from the good karma of your writing.

Thank God Sam pressures you into writing a sequel. Anyway, thanks for writing this. -A.B.

I cannot express through words just how much I love this. It fixed our sweet Jacob, it FIXED BELLA (I didn’t think it was even remotely possible for me to like her, but I did, I actually ENJOYED being in her head, this is literally unprecedented), it fixed Twilight and it fixed me. Thank you thank you thank you. I’m going to start reading The Fire of the Sun tomorrow, I can’t wait. I plan on downloading the PDF and putting everything on my Kindle because I don’t want to risk losing this. From now on, I’m going to treat this as canon and ~that~ mess as fanfiction.

Right, so this is my second time (of what will surely be countless times) re-reading this fic. It's far past time to review, but this fic inspires so many thoughts that are quite hard to put into words, so forgive me for my failures a priori, please, if you will.

Based on your author's notes (thank you for including them, author's notes are increasingly rare but they add such extratextual pleasure, at least for me), I figure I fall somewhere between yourself and your fannish friend on the Spectrum of Twi-Love/Hate. It's uncomfortable to find a series to be both compelling and repulsive in turns. While I find the Twilight Saga interesting as an object of particular and peculiar cultural importance (the implications of which are upsetting at best), and reprehensible as story, I still find myself returning to these books over and over throughout the past decade. I believe reading your fic has helped me parse through why.

I'm especially struck by your claim that the books pretty much write themselves-the themes are all there, and the author manages to miss her own point despite herself. Could not see the forest for the trees. Yet I think, perhaps, many of her readers *did* see that forest. Maybe she saw it too, and veered spectacularly off-course to avoid the inevitability she herself had set up (not through talent, but you're right-these themes are EASY. This whole saga was LOW-HANGING FRUIT). There's this sense of frustration, of incompleteness-or even willful refusal-that trails, dragging a ball and chain on a heel cuff, after every characterization betrayal, every self-sabotaging plot reversal, every aborted theme twisted beyond recognition.

After reading your fic, I think it grates so much precisely because of what could have been. After a decade of struggle, I'm just gonna say it: New Moon could have been a good book in the hands of a competent author. In the hands of a gifted author, like yourself, it could have been a *great* book. This fic is that book.

The characters of this saga deserved better, particularly Jacob and Charlie. The setting deserved better. The conflicts deserved better. Edward deserved to be revealed for the being he was (a terrible boyfriend, at best, an abusive predator at worst). And the readers deserved to get a story that is *actually* about living through heartbreak, and growing up, and learning how to love someone without hurting them or yourself.

This story reads like *justice*, like finally scratching an itch that I didn't even understand I had. I really can't thank you enough, or even properly explain my feelings about it. It's an amazing (and confusing!) accomplishment, to be able to take something so flawed and frustrating and work through the tangles one by one until it all comes together into something that makes total sense. And you did it while using Meyer-voice, too!

I hope your friend is convinced that storytelling and prose are meaningfully different after reading this fic. To my eyes, you proved your point thoroughly. You also proved something that every fanfiction enthusiast realizes at one point or another, despite your efforts to bad-ify your prose for the sake of Meyer-voice: technical writing skill simply isn't as important as storycraft. Telling a good story that is honest with itself, its themes, and its characters is the most important thing. Twice-over, then, you've proved that New Moon could have been a good book.

I think I can die satisfied now, no longer reaching for a phantom itch. Thank you again for everything.

I never really got why Bella heard Edwards voice in her head after he was gone. How did she know Jacob and the rest of the Pack was dangerous when they started shaking? Was he actually talking to her or did she literally go insane after he left?

I really hate Edward

Sequel! Sequel! Sequel!

I was a hard-core twilight fan when it came out (I was also in middle school though so.) and reading fanfiction has definitely opened my eyes to just how ick the actual themes of the story were. New Moon especially was the absolute worst.
But I loved your story. You made it wayyy more interesting, realistic, and the deviations in plot were *chef's kiss*. Sorry it gave you a headache lol. But I think your experiment was quite successful
(and I did realize this wasn't gonna get an "ending" about like halfway through? When Jake and Bella were in the woods and they *still* hadn't figured out this imprint thing lol)

You have completed my conversion to a... (Gasp) J/B lover. With certain qualifications story wise but. Seriously this was so so great. That truly is how you set up conflict and *this story* is oof. You have me stressed but I love love love it. Sequel, sequel, sequel!

They're so cute. I love them. I love you for writing this. Gah

I'm screaming. Oof

This. Is INFINITELY more stressful than the book. Like... The danger never seemed as real in the books? Maybe? Idk. Maybe it's just been too long but THIS story?! Has me more than stressed. I am panicking as I'm reading oof