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Reviewer: emokitten Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/11/2012 - 02:09 am Title: Loss

man, this chapter made me cry, i feel so bad for Buffy. She lost Spike and she's numb bcuz of it. GREAT job, i love this story already i hope you finish the story soon.

Author's Response: Glad you're enjoying. This one is very difficult for me to write for some reason. The words aren't cooperating, so updates will be slow.

Reviewer: Acajou Amarth Signed Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/04/2012 - 09:08 pm Title: Loss

Always interesting to see post-'Chosen' stories. Everyone does them differently.

I like yours a lot so far; Buffy's introspection, the way she just seems to shut down. I love the little scene with Wood and especially the heartbreaking goodbye from Giles. He said exactly what I always felt he should and it hurts my soul to see them reduced to a handshake.

I don't agree that Buffy loved Spike at the ending. I think she tried, she wanted to, she found him worthy of her love, but she couldn't give it and that's why Spike didn't believe her, because he can always see through her. But hey, it's not like I don't wish she had meant it... So I'll just accept that as author's freedom and enjoy the story from that point on.

I absolutely loved your line of thought about Spike being somewhat exalted in his last moments and had therefore reached a state of consciousness where Buffy's meager admission of love couldn't stop him from closing the Hellmouth.

Personally, I don't get why you didn't publish this in two chapters so far, seeing as it was clearly divided in two seperate from each other. Then again, I get if you just can't wait to publish it as far as you have written it. I have my problems with that kind of patience, too. :P

I don't know if I will give a review for every chapter, seeing as I prefer to review when I have something to say, but I will definitely keep reading and am looking forward to finding out where you're taking this story.

Thank you for sharing it with us! :)

Author's Response: Hi Acajou,

My take on it: This is a Spuffy story. Therefore, she loves him. I think it took her a long time to LET herself love him and that he couldn't believe the admission once she finally got past her hangups and actually said it.

Second, there are only 3000 words in this first chapter and if I'd split it up then at least one of them would have been too short to satisfy, and possibly too short for the submission rules on some of the sites I post to. Plus I plan for this story to be shorter than Distress Signals and am trying to pare down in such a way that each chapter moves the story forward.

Thanks for reading, as always.

Reviewer: Melly Anonymous Liked [Report This]
Date: 03/04/2012 - 12:27 am Title: Loss

Buffy's mourning over Spike is really heartbreaking. While I'm pleased that Giles had the guts to apologize to her I'm still aggravated with that handshake – he couldn’t initiate a good-bye hug? What would Spike call him? Would “wanker” be an appropriate comment from Spike in this situation? I’m loving this fic – more soon please!

Author's Response: I tried to think of it more in terms of Giles respecting her boundaries. She's not in a hugging frame of mind right now - heck, she can barely be bothered to maintain eye contact with people for more than a couple seconds. And he had betrayed her trust - it's going to take a lot of effort from both of them to rebuild that relationship.

Glad you're enjoying!

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