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| Just Desserts by Lindelea | 6 Review(s) |
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| Tari | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 6/8/2007 |
| Well, I can finally relax and take a breath. Gwillam will LIVE and be restored to good healh, I hope. You really had me sweating this one. His hanging was horrible to read. I can't help but hope that Pippin will be alright too. Tari Author Reply: Well, as you've read A Healer's Tale you know that Pippin was healed of his lung damage in the time between All that Glisters and Just Desserts. (I couldn't have inflicted such awful circumstances on him if I hadn't had the idea of his healing, early on in the cycle of stories...) I'm quite fond of Jack (Gwill) and his boys, and glad there was a good resolution to this story. I'm hooked on happy endings. | |
| Pearl Took | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 11/13/2005 |
| Ah . . . another worry a worry no longer :) Thank you! Author Reply: Whew. We're getting there. Thanks! | |
| Larner | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 11/11/2005 |
| Hooray! Fed Hobbits, sleeping Gwill, and a moment of privacy for the couple when Gwillam awakens at last. And realization he was right followed by compassion and the resuming of a truer love than what had been there before. Again, Lucky Bodkin--winning this prize! Author Reply: Nice summation! I do love this part of a story, the part where the tangled threads begin to fall into place and we begin to... what was it my mother called it. Knit off? Don't quite remember, I just remember being fascinated watching her needles work, and the amazing patterns she turned out with that gorgeous Irish wool. Fisherknit sweaters, she called them. Each a different pattern. Rather grim story behind them--I guess they sometimes identified drowned sailors by the patterns of the sweater they wore. Bodkin is *very* lucky indeed. The Muse is not always quite so obliging. Sometimes she goes to Hawaii for weeks at a time, with nary a word, not even a postcard. Thanks! | |
| harrowcat | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 11/11/2005 |
| I have a tune from Phantom of the Opera running through my head 'Love, love conquers everything'. Isn't that truly a theme that runs through all this and the main story too! Author Reply: You know, I am going to have to see that one of these days. "Les Mis" is our favourite stage production, since seeing it more than a decade ago. But I keep hearing good things about "Phantom". Truly, especially where hobbits are involved, love seems to save the day. | |
| Dreamflower | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 11/11/2005 |
| Diamond began to sing softly, and the other hobbits joined in, a soothing song, a hopeful song, of the sun returning from her winter sojourn to warm the earth once more, the seeds bursting from their sleep to send forth shoots, to bud and bloom. *sigh* That sounds like a lovely and hobbity song. You should write it for us sometime. I'm so glad "Gwillam" woke, and knew his wife, and that Seledrith was able to see in herself what had made him fear losing her. I'm very glad that she was able to quickly overcome her initial anger, and reassure her husband. The last little bit was very sweet and poignant. Author Reply: Thank you. I just couldn't let Seledrith stay angry at him for long, poor fellow. He's been through enough already. (Funny thing. The dc were singing "Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow" while I was writing that description above. Don't know how closely it fits... *g*) | |
| Bodkin | Reviewed Chapter: 28 on 11/11/2005 |
| I'm glad that Seledrith and Will were able to have their reunion in apparent privacy. I think she needed that. And to know that he didn't keep secrets from her because he didn't trust her - but because he loved her so much that he was afraid to lose her. And his eventual recovery seems fairly assured now. He has his marbles. He knows Seledrith, he knows what happened, he can speak (even if not a lot). Fingers crossed he is now getting well. I love the hobbits singing to them - such a reassuring sound, I would think, in a silent and clean Houses of Healing. Now, what is happening with Haldoron? And what's the feeling on the streets? It's all action in Annuminas! Author Reply: Yes, we're on the downhill side now, coasting down to the finish. At least I think we are. What is happening with Haldoron? Your least wish is my greatest desire, as my good friends amongst the Shire-folk would say. | |