srry for nt submittin a review before but now dat i have finished reading your story...... its the BESTTTTTT fanfic i have ever ever read......
u are an exeptional writer and the whole concept and the way it is potrayed is so beautiful dat i dint want this fic to ever end......ur amazin
and u have just got to write another HrTom fic.....plzzzzzzz...

If they couldn't be together in life, they could at least be together in death.
I 'm very glad I found this story and read it through. You are an exceptional author, and I hope that if you ever decide - somewhere down the line - to write another fic featuring Tom and Hermione, I will be exceptionally happy.

I kind of saw the ending coming, but I still couldn't stop reading. The plot was amazing and the Hermione/Tom relationship was so original. I hope that you keep on writing stories this powerful, 'cause I'll definitly read them. :)

So, this is my review in exchange for the banner that you made me. (It's truly beautiful, thank you!)

This story is also beautiful and quite brilliant. The originality of the plot is refreshing; I loved the irony of Hermione's love creating the monster. Your writing was really lovely in places, especially description, but also the narration; you were often very profound. I liked these lines a lot, in particular: “To put it simply, Tom Riddle exhibited Napoleon’s ambition, Einstein’s intelligence, Adonis’s features, and the Devil’s own charisma […] In other words, there was no stopping the boy.” The switching of “The Beginning” and “The End” was also very clever.

However, there were some clichéd parts that I didn't like all that much. For instance, the Masquerade Ball. It didn't seem to fit well with the rest of the story and is used often in other fics. There were other parts that I was dissatisfied with for this reason, but that was the biggest one.

I enjoyed your characterization of Tom, as you made him undeniably attractive. ;) You make him feel in as plausible way as there’s ever going to be, though after HBP it’s hard to empathize with Tom. There were some romantic gestures that almost became oxymoronic for me, because he is such a calculating individual, no matter how much he loved Hermione. The black rose was one of those gestures, and I can’t say that I liked that part of the story very much. I understand that this was written Pre-HBP, though, so I can forgive some of these discrepancies.

Hermione’s characterization was good, though I was surprised by her lack of grief at Ron and Harry’s death. I understand that she was off-balance because she was in a different time period, but she seemed to settle in relatively quickly, allowing her to be able to grieve, and yet she didn’t. Basically, I felt that that was a weak point to the story, but it didn’t drag it down too much. You did an overall good job at making her a strong heroine.

This is a compelling, original story, and I enjoyed it. Again, thank you!

Author's Response: Thank you for this in-depth and insightful review. It means a lot to me that you paid so much attention to my story while reading it. :) Looking back on the story now, I'm not actually very fond of some of the ways I characterized Hermione. It isn't so much the lack of grief about Ron and Harry's death that bothers me, but her lack of a personality in general. I could have done so much more with her, looking back, although I'm generally happy with the way I wrote Tom. As for the cliches, I'm a big defender of cliches in writing; I believe it's useless to avoid them all just because they're labeled 'cliche.' That's just a strange little quirk of mine, though, and I'm sure others agree with you profusely. ;) Thank you again for this lovely review; it'a more than enough compensation for the banner I made.

*cries* I love this story!!! This is probably the most thought-provoking and tear-wrenching and heartbreaking story I have read! I love it!

And thanks a TON for the banner!

What a beautiful story! I nearly shed a tear at the end. It was the perfect ending though; dark, but perfect.


Your writing style is wonderful; it just drew me in. This story sounds like it would never happen in a million years, but the way you tell it makes it perfectly believable.


Once again, you did an amazing job with this story, and I hope that you write more stories in the future!

wow! i loved this is honestly brought a tear to my eye. . .i never expected to like a HG/TR story but you did this wonderfully =]

I love, love, love this story! It's probably my favorite. I even printed it out because it was so good!

oh wow thats so sad!! i love it
i know this is my fourth review, but i love it !!

now im so curious to no what gave you the idea for this plot?

Author's Response: hehe alright then... I was lying on my bed one afternoon, listening to 'The Leaving Song Part II' by AFI (the lyrics are referenced at the beginning of some chapters), drifting off to sleep. The ending came to me first... the very last part of the very last scene. And I worked backward fromt there. ;)

ok i love this story , so well written. It is stories like this that make be belive that i cant write one nearly as good. Brilliant! Just Brilliant!