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| The Last Yule in Halabor by Soledad | 60 Review(s) |
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| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 9 on 12/10/2005 |
| I'm glad Delbaeth made it out of Halabor, with her daughter Thola - but I wish Selyv had too. Delbaeth had had a hard enough time of it already. Not that massacres and justice have much to do with each other. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 8 on 12/8/2005 |
| I like Belegorn! A brave man - and at least his wife survived. Good plan to bring in experienced fighters - and another good plan to get them to marry young widows. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 7 on 12/8/2005 |
| Poor little Edwy. Such a sweet lad. I'm glad he enjoyed his cinnamon apples. Crodergh had had a long life, though. She was lucky to survive the ignorance of the dim-witted peasants in her youth. Witches, indeed. It was clearly not a good thing to be a wise woman in the backwoods. I'm glad Angharad and Godith escaped. I'm sure their skills were needed. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 6 on 12/8/2005 |
| Craban is a tough old man! Seventy-eight - and not only doing well with his eel-fishing, but kind and generous and a survivor. I love seeing other characters twining in with new introductions. Sydnius and Vicana - reminds me of her poor sisters! | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2005 |
| This is a sad look at how hopes and dreams are unmet.... and while some of the wealthy and healthy died, they survived. I hope their life was better in the end. Author Reply: I guess a "better" life is a matter of perspective, isn't it? But I'm quite optimistic about some of them. | |
| Imrahoil | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2005 |
| These stories are heartbreakingly well done. Will come back to your kind offer of looking up the second chapter of "The Shoemaker's daughter", but have only time for skimming at the moment and I want to read it properly. Author Reply: Oh, you have all the time of the world. If the gods of cyberspace allow, it will stay there for a while. :) I'm happy that you like these little "exercises". I was a bit afraid that since all the characters are OCs, that will scare people away. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 5 on 12/5/2005 |
| I'm glad they survived - and hope that they had a happier life. They had a hard enough time keeping body and soul together - and at least it seems as if Selyn and Nista had a chance of being better off in the future. Melyor - what can you say - unwilling to slave for a pittance, she can only come to a bad end! Author Reply: Yes, indeed - in the end, what counts is always what we make of which has been dealt us by life, right? | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/3/2005 |
| When I visited Memphis, in Egypt, we visited the shops of rugmakers there, and I was incredibly impressed by the looms they worked on and how fast their fingers flew in making the rugs. The smaller the fingers, the greater the thread count and the silkier the threads used. They had their patterns taped up as well. A quick child could earn enough for their family by working only a few hours a day plus receive schooling, as part of a child labor practice. It was fascinating. No orcs to destroy them, thankfully. I woudl have been a glove or purse maker last chapter, but I think I would like to sit in this warm bright house where love was in plenty. | |
| Nilmandra | Reviewed Chapter: 3 on 12/3/2005 |
| These two ladies had a much brighter life than the last women we read of. I would have enjoyed stitching gloves or purses, but not tanning leather, either. It is very 'humanizing' to put stories to the names of people who die in a massacre. No longer numbers, they are people with hopes and dreams cut short, people we can identify with. Author Reply: Truth be told, part of the reason was that I've been working on the background for "The Shoemaker's Daughter" for almost two years by now, and would have hated to have done all that work for nothing. When I wrote "Shadows of the Past", which started the whole thing, I wouldn't dream that it will take a life on its own one day. | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 4 on 12/2/2005 |
| These are such interesting people - it seems awful that within such a short time they will all be slaughtered. But then, sometimes surviving that kind of disaster is worse that dying. I wonder how Erth coped with losing all his family like that. | |