*helplessly flailing in flaily flailyness*
Oh, oh oh! OH! I need to marry you. Seriously. Right now - draw up the contracts. Yep, pre-nup, the whole thing, anything you want. This fic has SLAIN me!!! SLAIN, I tell you. I was hesitant to try a fic of this size, but OMG I want more. I want you to write MOAR of this universe!
I liked that I was confused alongside Severus. The UST and angst ... well, yeah, was pretty much slain by that. The scene where Severus first drew blood with the book - I cannot even describe how that hurt me. It was visceral, that pain, that stab to the gut, and my heart ached for them both.
I liked that the plot kept on coming and coming, changing and shifting from what I thought I knew to something else entirely, and that I felt the frustration along with Severus at just. not. understanding. wth. happened! There are so many points of brilliance here but I'm being very incoherent in this review, and I'm sorry about that.
The garden! The clues that Severus left himself. Harry and Charlie O.M.G. Just.... no, it's really too big a thing to describe, but I wept and hurt and angsted and USTed and... the whole shebang was incredible. What a tale!