Again, this was so many kinds of awesome. Your details, your characters, your situations and resolutions, the psychology of your events and people are all just so real. You've brought this story to life as tactile and resonating as if it were a world I actually walked into and experienced.
I loved Beverly. I did. I ached for her, I ached for John, but I loved how you kept everything genuine and true to character - for both of them. I liked how you drew the Winchester family as just that little bit *off*, and the boys just that odd bit different. Sam and Dean are both boys, but there's something about them that's just not ... as frivolous as children are supposed to be. And somehow you've drawn them in such a fashion that I can see the beginnings of the men they'll one day be. And again, oh, how I *adore* your John, damaged and sincere and just .... so damn trapped in the mission his life has become.
As for the story itself? Perfect. I purely enjoyed all the tension and thinkiness and sleuthing and clues and the boys being all smart and clever: a team. And then? It just turns out to be a couple idiots messing with powers they don't understand. Somehow that "let-down" just worked, and felt oddly satisfying, more so than if it had crescendoed to some grand, demonic encounter. It wasn't demons. It was just stoopid people. And ghosts and stuff, but you know. ;-)
The past-present stuff was nicely balanced, too, and I loved how Dean freaks out - he does have his odd freakouts, doesn't he? - over Beverly and she's just ... good, and kind, and yet human as any of us. The ending for her, the shock John revealed in his last message to her was excellent.
Yeah. This is like having a really excellent sit-down dinner for the brain. Thank you SO much for sharing this. I would buy this, if it were a tie-in novel.
Brilliantly well done, my dear! Storytelling at its finest. Think I'll have to buy you a drink at EyeCon, for this. ;-) Cheers ~
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Again, this was so many kinds of awesome. Your details, your characters, your situations and resolutions, the psychology of your events and people are all just so real. You've brought this story to life as tactile and resonating as if it were a world I actually walked into and experienced.
I loved Beverly. I did. I ached for her, I ached for John, but I loved how you kept everything genuine and true to character - for both of them. I liked how you drew the Winchester family as just that little bit *off*, and the boys just that odd bit different. Sam and Dean are both boys, but there's something about them that's just not ... as frivolous as children are supposed to be. And somehow you've drawn them in such a fashion that I can see the beginnings of the men they'll one day be. And again, oh, how I *adore* your John, damaged and sincere and just .... so damn trapped in the mission his life has become.
As for the story itself? Perfect. I purely enjoyed all the tension and thinkiness and sleuthing and clues and the boys being all smart and clever: a team. And then? It just turns out to be a couple idiots messing with powers they don't understand. Somehow that "let-down" just worked, and felt oddly satisfying, more so than if it had crescendoed to some grand, demonic encounter. It wasn't demons. It was just stoopid people. And ghosts and stuff, but you know. ;-)
The past-present stuff was nicely balanced, too, and I loved how Dean freaks out - he does have his odd freakouts, doesn't he? - over Beverly and she's just ... good, and kind, and yet human as any of us. The ending for her, the shock John revealed in his last message to her was excellent.
Yeah. This is like having a really excellent sit-down dinner for the brain. Thank you SO much for sharing this. I would buy this, if it were a tie-in novel.
Brilliantly well done, my dear! Storytelling at its finest. Think I'll have to buy you a drink at EyeCon, for this. ;-)
Cheers ~
Erin