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Review:forsakenphoenix says:
Shame on you for making my cry on my birthday. I went into this, reading the first few paragraphs, thinking about how I'd finally write you the review you deserved. How I would talk about each part and how much I loved it and how absolutely gorgeous your prose is and it would be the best review you ever received. Then I kept reading and I felt my words slowly leave me until I'm left as nothing more than a sniffly mess and an aching heart.

I've never read a story about Benjy, but I can imagine him exactly as you write him. I love the idea that he joined the Order because he lost a loved one, a beautiful girl who brought life and love into his life but left him with nothing more than loneliness and a bitterness against a war that stole life from him.

There were so many lines throughout that just really stood out to me and made me go, 'wow.' I am so incredibly jealous of how naturally you write something so tragic and beautiful.

This line, especially hit me hard: he gave his life so that others wouldn’t have to. It just seems like the perfect description for someone who sacrificed so much so that people wouldn't die unknown.

I loved your descriptions of Grace from Benjy's perspective. All I could imagine was this ethereal person who couldn't possibly be real. But she was real to Benjy and he was the one who made her beautiful.

The obituary piece killed me too. How he got four more lines than Grace did. It made me think about why he had joined the Order - so that no one had to die unknown again - but based on Marlene's reaction to his apartment...the Order members didn't really know Benjy and well, doesn't that make him a victim of the very cause he was fighting for?

I especially adored the phoenix flower and how it was continually brought back into the story as a reminder that life goes on. Despite the war and the deaths, there are people living and growing and moving on. It's a beautiful metaphor.

I really really loved this piece and your writing is phenomenal. I wish I could keep reading your words and never stop. :)

forsakenphoenix (Ravenclaw)

Author's Response: I've been putting off answering this cos I don't really know where to start. But how about HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY! :) -hands you tissues- And I'm awfully sorry about making you cry. Except not totally, because I'm glad you had a reaction to it? if that makes sense? :P Oof, I feel horrible.

But you're far, far too kind to me. It really means a lot to me, coming from an author like you.

Tragedy is definitely much easier for me to write. What that says about me, I'm not sure... :P

Benjy definitely was, unfortunately, a victim of the cause he was fighting for. It's always been sort of sad for me, skimming over the obits in the newspaper, and seeing how they managed to summarize a whole life in a paragraph. There's so much behind each person, yet there's so much that is never recognized. We go through life, but how often do we get to really know a person?

Glad you liked the phoenix flower... I was reminded of the fact that life is everchanging, always moving, and that life really does keep going on.

Again, thank you so much for everything you've said, it means so much to me. This review has really brightened my day - no, week :) Thanks! ♥

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