Reviews of A Light In Dark Places

EstellaB · 6 May 2006 · Chapter 9: Chapter the Ninth

Oooh! This is really, truly wonderful! Your Diamond is very different from mine-as is your Estella, incidentally-but still, I'm enjoying it so much! Though, I do think that Pippin wouldn't be such a fool after the War, as to pelt his sisters with rotten fruit. Though that is just an opinion.

Grey Wonderer · 29 January 2006 · Chapter 9: Chapter the Ninth

Very entertaining. Pippin is up to tricks and pranks but I wonder if his hiding place or the path leading to it will get him into more trouble than the actual trick. Unless I miss my guess there is more to this than one can see at first glance. Oh, and I would not want Pervinca that mad at me! LOL

Larner · 28 January 2006 · Chapter 9: Chapter the Ninth

A NASTY trick to pull on the lasses. But live the tree ROOTS house! Wonderful hiding place!

Larner · 16 November 2005 · Chapter 8: Chapter the Eighth

Poor Pippin--caught in the midst of a most confusing tweenage state with a dad who's being--as he sees it--cryptic, and being pressed to make a commitment somewhere and relatively soon. And his youth is slipping away from him......

Grey Wonderer · 16 November 2005 · Chapter 8: Chapter the Eighth

Interesting chapter. I think if Paladin would allow Pippin time, he might be more interested in marriage. The first part of the chapter where Pippin is watching other folks get on with their daily lives, he seems a bit interested in the way things continue, but Paladin takes these thoughts right out of him with his serious lecture on the importance of duty and marriage. I wonder if it will cause Pippin to avoid Diamond or if he will talk to her about this? Looking forward to more like always!

Grey Wonderer · 1 November 2005 · Chapter 7: Chapter the Seventh

And now Diamond is testing the waters by telling Pippin something of her visions. I wonder what will happen next? Will Diamond tell Pippin some of her dreams and if she does what will his reaction be? I like the slow way that they are getting to one another in this tale and I love the idea that it is Diamond who sees the future. Eagerly awaiting more and I am so sorry that I missed this when it was first posted. I am enjoying this story so very much!

Grey Wonderer · 1 November 2005 · Chapter 6: Chapter the Sixth

I love it and I have no idea how I missed it before. I must put you on my story alert so that I can know when you post new chapters. I love the very mature way that Diamond approached Pippin. His answer to where he had been was very good also. (“Not all of it – let it suffice that we went away, naïve of where and how long we’d be gone. We were called away – perhaps it was our duty, as it was the duty of many others as well, to go where we had gone, and to not return, as we were lucky enough to do so.”) He was honest but he did not tell all by any means. It was almost as if he was testing her ability to hear it and his own to tell it. This continues to be a lovely story.

Larner · 30 October 2005 · Chapter 7: Chapter the Seventh

Well, I think Pippin just might accept it a bit better than Fosco believes. Diamond needs to trust Pippin a bit, and he needs someone he can trust in return.

Larner · 30 October 2005 · Chapter 6: Chapter the Sixth

Sorry I'm having to catch up. Actually, the Thain before Paladin was Cousin Ferumbras, but that's okay. And it's interesting to see how you show the defining meeting between Pippin and Diamond. I've tried it also, and it's fun to play with. Poor Pervinca--she was foiled at getting Pippin into trouble. Hopefully she won't be disappointed in like manner again, as hopefully they are both growing out of that phase of relationship. As for the foresight, I, too, have seen some hobbits having ESP moments, so that is one device I truly like seeing and exploring, and you are handling it well. Hope that Pippin comes to trust her enough to tell her about it soon.

Larner · 30 October 2005 · Chapter 5: Chapter the Fifth

Okay, after this time Pippin is now still putting frogs in his sister's bed? And Diamond is starting to peep into lads' bedrooms, is she? Interesting! Heh!

ponypetter · 24 September 2005 · Chapter 1: Chapter The First

I like that Diamond has a sense of the bigger world. She's not quite like a 'normal' hobbit (like her mother) in this sense.

Vicki_Turner · 24 September 2005 · Chapter 6: Chapter the Sixth

I really like this story! Please continue writing; i want to know what happens next!

Grey Wonderer · 28 August 2005 · Chapter 5: Chapter the Fifth

I was so pleased to find a new chapter up of this one. I loved Pippin's boredom with the "meeting of the sons" and so far, I like his friendship with Fosco. Can't wait for more news of that frog. I am sure Pervinca's reaction will be less than pleasant. Ruby sounds as if she just might be trouble as well. Wonderful chapter and I will be waiting for more.

Grey Wonderer · 5 August 2005 · Chapter 4: Chapter the Fourth

I like Merry confidence even though he didn't seem to get very far with Estella this time. He did get her to speak to him so that's a start.

Grey Wonderer · 5 August 2005 · Chapter 3: Chapter the Third

Poor Pippin. His sisters are dreadful, or at least Pervinca is. I wondered if he might have been being a bit scarcastic at the end when he said it was good to be home.

Grey Wonderer · 5 August 2005 · Chapter 2: Chapter The Second

So Diamond is a bit of a scholar is she? I like the difference between her and her older sisters and I like her father very much. He seems so fair-minded.

Grey Wonderer · 5 August 2005 · Chapter 1: Chapter The First

I love the beginning of this one. Diamond is so sure of things that she believes to be true without actually having any proof. I like that about her. I also enjoyed you discription of how cut off from all of it Diamond and her family are.

Larner · 5 August 2005 · Chapter 4: Chapter the Fourth

The intuitions are interesting. Beren and Luthien lived at the end of the First Age. Gondor wasn't founded until the end of the Second Age, about three thousand years later, which makes the book Diamond is reading definitely a novel. But it continues to be interesting. Sorry I missed the third chapter--probably was published during one of the breakdowns in my system I knew this year.

Larner · 5 August 2005 · Chapter 3: Chapter the Third

And, so--it is business as usual in the Great Smials. Poor Pippin--no one thinks he might have different priorities after a year doing unknown things elsewhere, while here he must again become the baby brother and Thain in training.

Kriszta · 26 July 2005 · Chapter 3: Chapter the Third

Please, continue, don't abbaddon this story!

Larner · 18 May 2005 · Chapter 2: Chapter The Second

Other than the idea of having an upper story is not particularly hobbitish, I find I like the story, and see Frodo's grandfather has a namesake here in Long Cleeves.

Larner · 18 May 2005 · Chapter 1: Chapter The First

Good beginning. I can see Camellia and her straightening of the books as if she were in my house doing the same.

Kriszta · 27 April 2005 · Chapter 2: Chapter The Second

Intriguing! Please, keep it up!

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