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Forgive me for saying so but that was an abrupt and very lame ending. For all your previous wonderful writing of this story, the end was.... wtf? Highly disappointing ending. 

Forgive me for saying so but that was an abrupt and very lame ending. For all your previous wonderful writing of this story, the end was.... wtf? Highly disappointing ending. 

I always love your stories. I have been following you for a couple of years now, reading each story I can get my greedy hands on. I love the worlds you share, how you write, the language used, the history/mythology and the development of each of the characters, just everything. I always re-read the stories whenever I have free time. I just... am so enamored of your stories and wanted you to know. *grin*

Going to read Partner for my fourth time.
Just thanks for sharing all of your worlds and characters with us.

I think Partners was my least favorite out of your stories. It seems that other people quite loved it, though...which made me question my viewpoint, but at the same time I can't change what I think....
First I liked the general premise, it was interesting. I felt like I was there watching the scenes happening before me (although sometimes its hard for me to picture what they look like instead their faces are just blurries). After the mesas get born...I was a bit bored...I also felt the sex scenes were getting boring and repetitive (although after finishing I am glad they got to do it so much cause Mik has to go so long without after). I also had a hard time relating to Mik...at. all. In fact at the end of this I am not sure if I like Mik at all. Although I love Paw/Auhi/Whisper to death. I could not empathize with Mike, I could not even feel sorry for Mik, in fact I felt worse for Rel after Mik was shot than I felt for Mik for being shot...not sure why since I am sure that was not the point, but whatever right.

Oh what to say, what to say. This book is very good. I don't agree with it, or even particularly like it, but it's powerful, hits you in the gut and made me cry. What's more, I've recommended this book to several people. Which is all an author can ask for, really. I have a few technical issues with the book, the communal mind meld is confusing, though it does state that Mik can't separate himself, it makes scene nearly impossible to read for me. And the handing of the loads and loads and loads of information about gods that essentially didn't play a role in the story except to be motivations for characters. I suggest dumbing down the data dump into a legend, told at the start or near the start of the story, in either stanza or rhyming format that could be referenced through out. The other technical problem I have is with the punctuation of the novel. If. I. See. This. Anymore. I'll. Go nuts. People don't talk like that, and if they do, it can be written by saying "he spat through his teeth." It gets the point across without breaking the reader's flow of reading.

What I love about this book is that it makes me think. It makes me angry, and it makes me think. First of all, they're humans. You can deny it any which way you want, but in the end the similarities are so vast that pretending they aren't humans is silly. It quacks, it waddles, it eats crackers, just cause it's on another planet doesn't mean it's not a duck. So let's talk about these not-humans, and the main character in particular. His name is Mik, and he's this story's version of Jake from Avatar, or Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves. Feeling betrayed by the country he lives in, he latches onto the program as a way of mentally distancing himself from his own race or what he hates about himself. How, essentially, he had to let his brother die. But now, in this story, he can let so many other people die because it's his choice. And it legitimizes his choice with his brother because the sidhe would have murdered his brother for his weak genes in a heartbeat. Strangely, he never thinks about this. If my sick brother can't survive, then by god, let's kill *all* the sick people in the world.

I also don't understand why, after the whole interview thing in which Paw CHEWS A FREAKING TV CAMERA and points at the next one, basically saying you're next that the government doesn't simply gun them all down in a hail of bullets, when they condone the removal of the arms of a pedo-tendency guy who isn't going to get anywhere with Lil. Honestly, the people in this book are sheep. They accept the threats and harm by a predator species that can, will and *do* intend to kill every one of the people. But it's okay, we don't mean you Mik, patpatpats on head. Good boy. Give him a cookie. Also, at the end, this line puts the whole book into perspective: "The first winter, the amalgamated tribe/people lost thirteen members. All people. But it united them as a group, as one people. The people learned from the Sidhe and the Sidhe learned to find uses for the people." It's okay that thirteen people died. They're useful now. We'll miss them. Like you miss a dog. Mik is an idiot. The humans are idiots. And if I had some human eating mind melding barbarian offer me hot sex in exchange for being his play thing after the end of the world? No thanks. I'd rather die.

I had started reading this a long time ago and somehow never finished. Picked it up a few days ago, remembered it, remembered liking it and read it all the way through. And I do like it, but... Well you lost me somewhere around chapter 180. I only have the foggiest understanding of the end. The parts where the gods and the rligious structure are explained are very much info-dumps, for the most part, and it's hard to keep everything straight. It would be ok if you had stuck to one or two gods, but with over five, plus reincarnations, plus their complicated stories... When Una woke up, I had no idea why he had done so, I had the barest grasp on who he was and frankly, i found it really hard to care, at that point. I was interested in Paw and Mik and the tribe and then suddenly there's this random dude who was kind of explained several chapters back and now he's awake and this means something important... But Mik has just been shot. And that's a lot more interesting and involving than wtf this random guy is suddenly doing in the story. And I still have no clue what Mm/Mwa/Muan's deal was. I would have much rathered seeing more story on him and Rel and their interactions and integration with the tribe than long explanations about why this goddess does one thing and this mythological figure should be important. It's almost like you got so caught up in the world building, at the end, that you forgot to tell the story. Which is sad because it's a really great story and I really enjoyed the beginning and the parts from the end that I understood.

So long story short, it was a great story, but trying to run the dual storylines of the gods and the tribe at the same time just made things more confusing than anything else.

omg i cant believe its ended, i really enjoyed reading your story, thank you so much for posting, i was really sad a few chapters back when i thought mik hadnt survived but was so pleased wen it all fell into place. love the messa's name very nice. i admire how u manage to come up with everything you put into this story and love your imagination :D
cant wait to read more of your work 5* :D :D :D

really enjoying ure story so far, finding it really hard to read as its all in one paragraph but struggling on lol , i will read more, on chapter 30 atm :D

liking i so far :) but as I am sure you're ware the story loses paragraph seperations.

I would really love to continue reading this story because the story line is interesting and I really love the characters, but there are only so many chapters I can read with formatting issues before I get a headache. I would really appreciate it if you could fix the formatting so I can keep reading!