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Reviews For: Bête Noire

Aloloo 2008-04-13 ch 1,	abuseWow. I know every one used the word beautiful so I'm going to use a different one: magnificent. This was remarkable, the way its written, what it means, wow. My one question is, what's with the title? Foolish Black doesn't make much sense to me. Maybe I didn't read your story clearly enough.
Random Word Artist 2008-03-29 ch 1,	abuseThat was...original...strange...but oddly moving... Good job! Now I have to go and Google one or two of those words...
Mairwen 2008-01-25 ch 1,	abuseBeautiful. Truth in fiction; the most important truth at that. Very well done.
Sarah Allie 2007-10-17 ch 1,	abuseBeautiful, absolutely beautiful! It's so profound, so ... complicated.. and leaves you wondering. Thank you so much for posting this.
freakyAngel 2007-10-05 ch 1,	abuseMy God. It's so intensely profound I can't seem to wrap my useless little brain around it. I mean, basically I know it's a battle of sorts between the Devil and the Lord in a person's (your?) heart or something like that, but the words you used are seirously so technical I can almost hear you screaming "I'm from Bio!" And possibly a geography student too, from the "groundwater" part. But that could just be my imagination. Christian? I can't seem to form a complete conclusion... Or is it just the influence of AH? I know, I know, you mentioned something about a MSN conversation... But still, does the school have any effect on you? By the way, congrats on finishing your Prelims! Work hard for "O"s yeah... Us sec 3s have 3 more days of agony to go through... We'll all suffer at different times I guess. Anyhoo it's the same fate, and God are the papers tough or what? Sorry. I digress too often. Anyways. Great one-shot. A lot of jargon and stuff, but still understandable by the average people who aren't as taken to whatever you're taken to. FINISH TCC! (Whoops... Veering off course again ain't I?)
by His blood 2007-09-17 ch 1,	abuseohfuck. just ... fuck. if i wasn't so numb, so broken, i would cry. i ... this is me. lost. confused. angry. shattered. bleeding. thank you ... for writing this. thank you.
DancingChaChaFruit 2007-08-14 ch 1,	abuseI loved this. This review is probaby going to stink and be unhelpful, but I really could identify with this. Sin is hard to turn away from, and temptation is powerful. The way you pictured the narrator's struggle ("you," I guess) seemed perfect.
andrea 2007-08-07 ch 1, anon.	abusevery, very descriptive and spiritual. wonderful.
Lady DreamWriter 2007-06-29 ch 1,	abuseI absolutely loved the imagery and the emotional depth of this piece; there were times that my heart was really pounding. Although I’m of a different faith (a Goddess-worshipper), I’m glad that the person in the story had the courage to follow her heat and do what she felt was right even though she had doubts about her own worthiness and self-worth, both in her own eyes as well as in the eyes of the power she had chosen to serve. I also loved how you described what was going on in a realistic fashion. You did a great job with this piece and I hope to read more from you very soon.
Crewger 2007-06-25 ch 1,	abusewow.. so gothic and seemly religious. there's a word, cochlea... it didn't fit too well with the overall story. that'll all and kudos!
Anon. 2007-06-21 ch 1, anon.	abuseI felt this story deserved a review; the tone was pensive and I liked the way you set a mysterious, yet probing theme to the piece. I felt that it was eloquently written and while I don't agree with parts of the story - for personal reasons - I still felt drawn to the piece as I read; it piqued my interest and to be honest, kept me captivated. I think that you wrote this with a passion because, clearly from your author's note, you have been contemplating this issue for some time now. I would like to congratulate you for writing a piece of fiction with such power and I suggest you continue writing like this - not necessarily the same tone and subject, just with the same maturity and passion that, quite frankly, I do not see in your other pieces of work. I have been following TCC for quite some time now and although I enjoyed the first few chapters immensely, I felt that recently the story has been dragging and that there is a forced feeling of humor. 'Bete Noire' proved to me that you are a great writer and I think you should concentrate this channel of writing into producing similar works. - Nonetheless, I will continue to read TCC and I sincerely hope that you capture the humor and passion that you hold for this fiction in TCC.
Venus Smurf1 2007-06-20 ch 1,	abuseWow. Very, very powerful. You certainly have a way with words! I'm impressed all over again by your skill.
Ravene 2007-06-20 ch 1,	abuseI like this piece. It brings to mind a deep study of emotions and fear, and tugs at your questioning of beliefs and morality. And the imagery and descriptions employed are fantastic. A very vivid depiction of temptation :)
lnly n lv 2007-06-20 ch 1, anon.	abuseit was different. i've never read anything like it and it really fits into what i'm doing right now in my own life. the struggle between the ultimate life and sin is incredibly hard and most spend there lifetime battling it out. it reminded me of Hind's Feet on High Places. indirectly related but it is the story of a girl making her spiritual journey (overly symbolic) to Jesus and spiritual perfection. it was a difficult book to read, cause at the time i wasn't interested, but now i find myself refering back to it all the time. you might like it if you haven't read it before. loved it. two thumbs up from me.

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