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Reviewer: ScoobyDawn Anonymous [Report This]
Date: 01/07/2013 - 08:13 am Title: English Summer Rain

I wish he hadn't done the cliche multiple girls on tour, that felt like a backwards slide at the wrong point to me. It was also a little confusing as it said a couple at most and then talked as if there had been multiple - 'she was like all the other girls', 'usually because the guys would egg him on to do it' (huge urrrgh there btw) 'they were nice girls', 'they all came to his bed knowing they wouldn’t see him again', 'he knew most of them came just to say they’d shagged a guy in a band', 'at first he'd longed for one of them to be more meaningful... sometimes it came close', 'he'd tried to feel something with these girls', 'this would be the last girl' - he sounds like a womanising slut, not someone sleeping with a couple of people and I expected a bit more from him than this extreme level of tack at this point after he didn't go there with harmony, just a couple would have worked better imo. Oh well.

Author's Response:

That's a fair point, I do see your view and I am sorry. This is probably my cynical side but I just find that when some people try to move on and realise they can't it doesn't happen over night or even after a few fish in the sea, it takes some people A LOT longer to come to their senses about love especially if they have emotional or psychological issues like Spike has. I didn't intentionally make Spike out to be a slut! Sorry! I just wanted to make him pathetic, and that he was stooping to new lows because he was struggling so much to find happiness with anyone who wasn't Buffy, but in his heart felt Buffy would reject him and so he had no choice but to carry on trying. He is meant to be in a downwards spiral until obviously this moment where he realises he would rather be lonely that carry on with what he is doing. In that scene you aren't meant to like what he is doing because in that moment he is also there, realising the bad FINALLY.

However I disagree the Harmony thing can be used to confuse things, the encounter with Harmony is completely different., but perhaps that is me not making it clear so I'll explain what I was going for. My intention in that Chapter was to show Spike in a moment of emotional breakdown because he WANTS to move on and can't do this physically, on tour he finally makes the step to move on physically and it is this that makes him realise that that is in fact not what he wants because his heart and mind still want Buffy. In a way the Harmony thing was trying to get Buffy out of his system, and the girls on tour was a confused state where he didn't know whether he wanted to meet a girl and settle down or play at being a normal healthy guy not wanting commitment and enjoying casual sex, neither state entered his head during the Harmony thing.

Also sorry for the guys egging him on, don't know exactly why you didn't like this bit! I just thought that was typical lad behaviour when a mate breaks up with someone, but sorry if it made anyone cringe.

Reviewer: cordykitten Signed [Report This]
Date: 03/29/2010 - 07:54 pm Title: English Summer Rain

At last it's good to see Spike still wants Buffy even if his actions don't show that a lot (he's fine without her). Good too Spike saw a counselor.
were committing incest - and maybe people need a reminder both aren't blood related.

Good too to see you updating again.

Author's Response: Yeah, its something thats obviously going to come up again, but at the end of the day they aren't breaking any laws or doing anything unnatural, they've always known they weren't related, and they just happened to fall in love so although it'll come up it'll only be clarified that they aren't doing anything wrong...with the counselor I was trying to show Spike's admitting he has problems with himself and dealing with them, so he's taking steps to be better...so I'm glad you liked that addition :)

Reviewer: txjmfan Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/28/2010 - 11:01 pm Title: English Summer Rain

I read this one all that was up of this one in one sitting. Awesome story! Love the original story line. The writing is excellent. I'm looking forward to the reunion.

Author's Response: Thankyou so much, being so nice you'll make me blush lol! Reunion is being written as we speak!

Reviewer: yumimum Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/28/2010 - 07:09 pm Title: English Summer Rain

Yay. Sad chapter but looking forward to the reunion.

Reviewer: Sam Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/28/2010 - 06:46 pm Title: English Summer Rain

Still here, still reading and now waiting for more. x

Reviewer: sanityfair Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/27/2010 - 04:56 pm Title: English Summer Rain

I'm still here. Thanks for the update. I'm looking forrward to your next.

Reviewer: albie Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/27/2010 - 03:39 pm Title: English Summer Rain

Still here! And still enjoying. I liked Spike's internal examination here and I look forward to them talking finally when he gets back. I do wonder the Buffy he'll find :) Glad to see you back!

Author's Response: Thankyou, thats the exact feeling I wanted from readers, to wonder about Buffy as much as Spike was :)

Reviewer: Amaya Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/27/2010 - 02:46 pm Title: English Summer Rain

Please update as soon as you can. There will be a happy end for our favorite couple, right?

Author's Response: I'm hoping so!

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