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Reviews For A Year Like None Other
i loved it when snape decked aren - i found it such a movie thing, kinda cliche, and it made me laugh i love severitus fics and yours is one of my favourites it took me a while to find, but i now have it on my computer courtesey of ecac1 - so thank you! the charactersare portrayed wonderfully too - though some of snapes vocabulary does flummox me!
But, this, this one is just plain magnificent. *This* is my sixth book. I don't even know where to begin with how wonderful this is. It is so believable, so well-written and I have read it straight through at least four times. The whole thing is just so well thought out and so deftly done. Harry's thoughts and feelings are delved into and shown brilliantly. No detail is omitted and I found myself, in later chapters, quite a few times, saying to myself 'oh, *that's* where that was leading to'. The whole thing is filled with so many amazing lines and moments that I can't even begin to name them all. But, at the end of Chapter Eight:"Even" with the little exchange between Harry and Snape that ends with Snape saying "Somebody was around", my breath literally caught. For some reason, to me, that line was beautiful and was when I first realized that this story was going to be amazing. I'm not really a Draco fan, but the whole gradually building trust and realtionship between him and Harry was just so right. Of course, the story is the relationship between Snape and Harry. I don't know what else to say about it except it's perfection. I only wish that this is what Rowling could have given us in her books. Just, *so* well done. It's a joy to read. Author's Response: It's very good to hear that you enjoyed it so much! I don't know if you'll check back and see this, but I wanted to let you know that this story has a couple of sequels -- one finished, one still in progress. If you Google for "A Summer Like None Other Aspen in the Sunlight" you can find a link to skyehawke, where the sequels are. You might not like the Summer one, though -- it's very Dracocentric. The next story in the series, "A Family Like None Other" returns to a Harry POV. Aspen
Sorry for being picky, I have a habit of being a perfectionist on stories I truly love and this is my all time favorite - just thought you might like to straighten out the only kinks in this chapter. Author's Response:
Hmm. I don't mind people being picky with language -- I tend to be that way myself -- but in these cases I would stick with my original wording. Snape has potions to tend; that's a valid usage. Making him have potions to tend TO would be an alternate way of wording it, but less British in my opinion, as then you' d end the sentence with a preposition. I don't think that's a deal-killer, per se, but is is less idiomatically British. As for striding straight away, that just lends more emphasis to the action. He was striding in a forceful manner, I meant to say. I know that "straight away" has another meaning (ie, right away) but I'm not using it in that manner in this sentence, obviously. I'm really happy you' re loving the story enough to comment -- we just don't see eye to eye on my linguistic choices, but I think that's all right.
Thanks, Aspen
Great job!
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