Ah... I love it. This one took me a few days to chew through, but I'm glad I finished it.

I think the best part of your writing style is the realistic depiction of relationships- romance literature so often tends to treat love as a kind of fantasy that has little compromise or difficulty associated with it. I enjoyed the ending- I was waiting for things to fall apart for Will, and I'm thankful that in the end it didn't escalate further. Will is such an oddball sweety. X]

Well thought-out and intricate plot, careful attention to detail (I want to go to Turkey now), and excellent characterisation. Good grammar and structure too- I get annoyed at online authors who forget that a paragraph is more than one sentence.

In short: wonderful! :D

I really love this story so far! Can you please send me the rest? My email is :

oh geez. please don't tell me i stayed up till 4:30 in the morning for this to be the ending. I was completely into this story and was shocked by several things in this chapter alone. I could never tell what was coming next which was really wonderful.

but i don't want it to end this way. The story is too magnificent for this to be the last chapter.

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this stuff is so fucked up. these people just like... do whatever they want. i'm not sure if you're a really fucking awesome writer or a really bad one, but either way this gets an emotional response from me, so i guess that must be a good thing. it just seems like people in real life can't be this... fickle and mean. at least, i don't know anyone like this. i don't know. you write alot of these amongst the same group, and they all date and break up and move on and move around and it's so weird.

Another Will story! I hadn't checked your page in ages...I was kind of afraid Something Bad might've happened. But I'm glad you're posting stories again! And I love Will and I've been dying for a long time now to find out more about how he deals with his past. And from this story I'm assuming he just doesn't deal with it. Which is bad. I hope you show Will getting some help...because even though he's developed some Very Bad anger issues, I still love him and all of your stories centered around him!

Hello again.. I've run out of superlatives for commenting on your stories, it'll just be repeating myself. I got home from my holiday trip to spend a night 2hours delay waiting for my domestic flight, and these last, long-ass chapters saved me. I was pretty much blown away. All that happened with Will - so unexpected, so dramatic and sad and just... guh! Poor Michael, and poor Brett, and poor Ben too though I wanna just grab him by the ears and violently shake some sense into him. And poor Ahmet, not to forget. And Cloudy, he needs to go with Will to keep him running! :o

As for Will, I love him as much as ever even with the shocking (but still making sense) change he went through. It was just... he stabbed Michael! Shy, timid and non-confrontational Will, stabbed! Maybe it was 20 years of pent up emotion needing an out, or maybe it was life in Turkey and depression that made him lose it. He isn't the most stable guy emotionally or mentally, I guess, and now I'm grabbing on to every glimpse of how he's managing, like what was offered in 'Iska'.

Yup, can't really express in new ways how I feel about this story, but I was sitting at half 3 in the morning at the airport, hand clutched over my mouth as I read...

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful writing like this.

Josie/1more_sickpuppy

As much as I absolutely love all of your stories, I'm so devastated about Brett and Michael. Y-Y It must sound silly, but out of all of the characters, I was just so glad that at least they had each other and with all of their flaws they were truly in love. Aw, man...

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There wouldn't be any chance of them getting back together in the future, would there...? .

Wow. I don't think you need me to tell you that your stories are a *lot* more realistic that most of the stuff that gets classified under 'Romance' on FictionPress. Especially most of the m/m stuff!

I don't know how to feel about that sometimes because, like this one, most of your stories see people hurt a lot of the time. Now I'm pretty soft princess max, and your characters' struggles often upset me. But they delight me too and I have to give you serious props for the fact that you can actually *affect* me with what you write.

Also, I'm Aussie on GAP living in Germany and I really liked the culture-clashing of this story. Most Australians are pretty isolated and don't really see Oz from the outside-in. You do it well - not glorifying, not critiquing, just showing it how it is - basically doing what you do best.

You should be proud! and keep writing this universe !

wow. I am completely in shock that Brett and Michael are broken up. I kind of thought that they were permanent even though I guess that was stupid of me. Are you planning to write more from these characters? I feel bad for Brett, and I seriously have a problem with Ben. I don't know why any of them put of with the little jerk. Maybe he'll grow out of it. Where is everyone going to go from here now that just about everyone has broken up? Like I know a few reviewers have said, I'm really concerned with Brett. I hope there will be more soon, if not from this story than from these characters!

? Was that the end? If that was the end there needs to be a sequel or something. :) it was very good, but I really want to know what was making him become violent. NOthing seemed to be the trigger besides him moving, but he was happy. Maybe it was all the little stresses. good job!

Such a long chapter! I wonder where all this is going a little though. So muvh is happening yet at the same time it seems like nothing is. I guess it's because he hasn't spent much time with Ahmet. It seems like they aren't really together and I keep waiting for him to fall in love with someone else and leave Ahmet. :) good job!

omfg! I really thought they would end up together! I guess i am happy that mike and brett are happy with their independence.

But what will now happen with Will? And with his job with the other family? Gawd i really hope you can write a new story soon! hugs! afk

Wow.

I know this was a story written for Will and Ahmet, but I'm more concerned about Brett and Michael. It felt like they were more of the spotlight of this than the main couple.

That's both Damon and Michael who have suddenly just 'fallen out of love' with him. He must be devastated.

Well, if not, I'm devastated. There's a part of me that really hopes that after Ben is eighteen, they try again, but that seems unlikely. Everyone else seems to have closure, Will is satisfied, Michael is satisfied, even Tom is just peachy. And there's Brett, who I've noticed doesn't really have a full story from his point of view, and I really wonder what's going through his head. It's part of reality that most people don't get their happy ending, though, I suppose I understand why it ended this way.

Seriously, I just finished crying my eyes out about half an hour ago trying to compose myself to actually review for once. x).

Everything you write is just so real, and I feel very silly crying over people who aren't real, but it truly feels like they /are/. It's an amazing feat of yours that's becoming extremely rare in the writing world.

I'm not very good at putting my thoughts to words, but I just wanted to thank you for sharing this and all your other stories and characters. Each and everyone has affected me in some way, I think, (As well as gotten me interested in Australia x) And now Turkey) it kind of astounds me.

I absolutely love everything you have here, and I'm hoping this story wasn't the last of it. Because I would definitely look forward to anything you put up in the future.

I think I should end the review here, because I think I'm starting to get all sappy. x).

Just thank you and I hope to see more from you soon. :)

You made me get all teary-eyed from reading the last two chapters. I have this urge to cry now. ;_;

Sadness aside, I'm now very tempted to read the rest of your work in the near future. This was utterly brilliant, even with the sad, sad ending.

Wizard

Wow! Can't come up with anything better

"The center cannot hold; things fall apart"

It might be the other way around. It was like that. Every thing just went from 0 to 60 in 3.5 (this is the only phrase I can think right now and can't place where it is from) The beginning of 11 was nice and quiet and happy and what happened then?

Ever since Will had talked to Mike about going to Turkey, the center tore apart, I knew something was going to happen. For some reasons I believe that this story was not about Will and Ahmet, not really, it was about Mike and Brett, your old characters, the perfect couple giving them closure, or even perhaps about the hands creating the words, giving life closure?

I am not sad, I am relieved. I am glad everybody split up. We are all miserable with each other and we are all connected with each other because we want others to be more miserable than us. And we call it love.

IS THIS THE END OF YOUR WRITING? ALL LOOSE ENDS ARE TIED. PLEASE RESPOND TO THIS!