I think I should write real reviews instead of just telling you I like your fics while commenting other posts. So here...
As hard as you say it was, you seem to have done a great job writing Joe's POV. When I read Joe feels completely hopeless and useless and lost, because if he and Nick aren't understanding each other that's scary—that never happens and it means something's really not right, it just feels perfect because...well, if I suddenly wasn't able to understand my sister anymore, it would be like...the end of the world. And I could totally write "I always know what Nicky means, always, even when she's not making much sense" (as you can see, I don't even have to change the name to make the sentence apply to us lol).
After that, of course, I have to stop making comparisons. But it's still great, precisely because they make comparisons and it scares them and of course it does because it's really, really perturbing and... I just want to hug them both and try to reassure them.
I like the last scene a lot, too. It makes a nice ending.
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Date: 2009-05-02 05:04 pm (UTC)As hard as you say it was, you seem to have done a great job writing Joe's POV. When I read Joe feels completely hopeless and useless and lost, because if he and Nick aren't understanding each other that's scary—that never happens and it means something's really not right, it just feels perfect because...well, if I suddenly wasn't able to understand my sister anymore, it would be like...the end of the world. And I could totally write "I always know what Nicky means, always, even when she's not making much sense" (as you can see, I don't even have to change the name to make the sentence apply to us lol).
After that, of course, I have to stop making comparisons. But it's still great, precisely because they make comparisons and it scares them and of course it does because it's really, really perturbing and... I just want to hug them both and try to reassure them.
I like the last scene a lot, too. It makes a nice ending.