Lovely work! Just like with Prison Intimacy, hopefully there is a sequel in the making? Can’t wait!

Your story became one of my favorites. Your crafting of this work is pleasingly literate. I could well imagine the invasion and resulting social and economic conditions of the world just as you've depicted them. Your characters, their growth completely believable and the story well-paced.

Thank you for sharing this.

I have to be up in four hours but i stayed up late beause i was so anxious for these last few chapters and im so happy wilf was happy in the end.. i have so much to say but im so sleep deprived anyways thank you so much for this! a lot of it was heartbreakingly sad but it had sweet moments and despite a lot of problems between everyone you wrote them out to be so real i could easily sympathize at least to a certain degree

One of the best online novels I've read so far. I hardly find any novel this good these days. So thank you for writing this amazing piece of literature.

Thank you so much for sharing this story with us! I really enjoyed it a lot, although some places were truly terrible for me to read. Finally, I mustered some courage to write a review. I still dont understand the necessity of rape in here. Luckily I never encountered any sort of abuse in my life (and hopefully never will), so I couldnt put up with the fact that somebody can do such a thing to his beloved one and this loved one can tolerate this for so long. Hitting, taking advantage of or verbal abuse? Okay. Rape is too much. But such a thing may exist in life, may it not? You just dont see it in such detail in literature though.
Another thing that bothered me was difference between the beginning of the story and its end. Different topics, style, different main heroes. There is some incompleteness there. Interaction with the teacher and Lori for example stopped so abruptly. The worst was Archer of course. I dont know if you wanted to make him the main hero at first and then changed your mind or wanted to confuse the reader from the very beginning. But he was awesome in the beginning, so many layers to the character. And then you just destroyed all your work by leaving him with only one role: Sykes psycho lover. That I would prefer dead. I was so hoping that Wilf just fucking kills them all.
Anyway the story is awesome. Gave me something to think through. How fucked up things can be for exampe haha I loved the pacing and the story is really exciting. You never know what is coming next. And I loved the happy end)) The story is really worth reading!

Thew... I am so glad that the moral is back. Great growth of character!

By the way, I highly doubt he could get horny while being raped. It's just against human nature. Its just fucked up. I liked the first two parts of the story so much. And then you continue to this perversion. Such a shame((

I'm still waiting that this epic secret will be revealed: why does he still rape him? A bad twist of the plot aiming to distress the reader with violence or some psycho decease? I think the former(

Okay that was disgusting
Why would you write something like that

Haha a good Warnung there
As if previous scenes of sex weren’t violent enough))

I've been reading your story non-stop for a day right now. So excited about what is coming next!

Wow I really love the background you created!

I actually posted a small ‘review’ on Goodreads while your story was partially done. (Up to Ch27)
So I’m just going to comment on the last part. Hope this is not entirely gibberish. It would be much easier to convey my thoughts in German but, yeah, I’ll try…
Part 4 was... I don't know, kind of like a great Edem opera. Drama en masse, a whirlwind of violence & betrayal moving at breakneck speed.

I don't know, I envisioned a different ending though. More on the darker side of things. Maybe even an escalation between Sykes and Wilf with one of them dead. Huh.
Definitely not the "happy" family ending. But oh well, it was still epic. But decidedly too rushed towards the end. The months just kept whizzing by. Why the rush? Feels like the first three parts are more solid.

Still, I can't remember a book where so many decisions made by any characters involved felt so real and relatable. I mean, thoughts and conversations neither felt over the top or contrived, nor pathetically shallow.
I'm still in awe of your writing and imagination.

I would love to read more about the Edem. More about Sykes, Archer and Marce fighting the Agol and for their lives.

Regardless, please keep on writing.

Thank you for taking the time and effort and dedication to finishing this story. I really loved reading it, diving into this world and getting to know the characters. It was so well-written, with so much depth and great characters. Wilf and Sykes were both sympathetic, even with Wilf's pathetic self-pitying and Sykes frightening damage. I had to keep reminding myself through most of the story that Wilf was just a kid, and a very confused, hurt one. You wrote him with so much depth, even though he had the shallow personality of a teenager who barely knew what to think from one moment to the next, let alone how to act or feel. And Sykes was beautiful - so scary and controlling, but in the last several chapters, he was fearless in a way that had nothing to do with being a warrior...he was extremely vulnerable, and was so upfront and honest with Wilf. His willingness to give that boy everything, just to keep him near, to have someone he could be himself with, showing his immense fear of being alone, his sadness, it all combined to make him a great character that I'll think about for a long time. This epic story of a shattered young man with inner strength and strong alien man shattered on the inside was woven so well. What path the protagonist could have been had his life been different? He probably wouldn't be with a man. How he came to be in that position was done realistically - start him young, trigger a sexual preference of being submissive with very dominant men, and connect it to protection and safety, and even feelings of love. Keep him surrounded by males, but take away his father at a young, extremely vulnerable age, and then keep him mostly remote from female influence. There are a lot of stories out there where a "straight" man falls in love with another male, and for the most part, they're unrealistic romances that keep the reader from suspending disbelief because it just doesn't strike true. But your story isn't a romance. It's a coming-of-age drama that's mostly sad, as we watch the hero create his own train wreck over and over again. Yet he does slowly mature, with a great deal of help from Sykes. Wilf rejects his love over and over again, but being a rebellious child, he takes the financial support while (mostly) rejecting the affection offered. It was tortuous to watch his inner struggles, but in a wonderful way, because he finally managed to grow. And the way Sykes went from feeling sexually passionate for him, to desperate to be with him so he wouldn't be alone, to actually being in love with a teenage boy, showed that a grown man, a scarred, embittered, orphaned warrior was also capable of growth. It was fun watching Wilf get older, but Sykes' depth and pain and need and loneliness were surprising and heartbreaking. Their relationship was a battleground, which is so typical and so sad because it was unnecessary and caused by immaturity and stubbornness. And it didn't have the "magic ending" that romance stories have, where they just realize that they love each other and therefore live happily ever after. And they never had a giddy, romantic beginning. Nothing was ever easy for them, and they continued to fight themselves and each other. Very realistic! And so much more satisfying. I was happy that the ending put them together, but without the Big Romance Moment. Okay, so maybe the very, very last scene... Now, getting to my big complaint - I wasn't fond of how condensed the last chapter was. Cramming 20 years into the finale was a bit of a letdown. I was hoping there'd be a potential sequel, but now we've got the whole rest of their lives explained in three minutes. I felt a little ripped off, to be honest. I wanted to see Wilf go from this awkward teenage boy to a grown man, and I wanted to see these two struggle, perhaps for a couple more years even. Wilf wanted so badly to be independent, and he never had that. I thought there would be more (mostly self-caused) tragedy in store for him, some travels, and we'd get to see more of these aliens through his eyes. There was so much more that could have been done here! I know you're probably ready to go on with the next story (I understand that feeling!), and I'll definitely be reading it, but the ending was just too crammed, abbreviated, and I think it could have ended that Christmas night. There were some beautiful parts up to that point, with Wilf still being an ass to Sykes, and Sykes still being desperate to get a relationship set in stone. And there would be the possibility of another part. The tacked on "rest of their lives" just moved too rapidly for a story that had such great pacing, and we missed so much of Wilf's growth, of the development of their troubled relationship. I could have easily been wrapped into another ten chapters! All in all, though, this was a beautiful story and I enjoyed it tremendously. Again, thank you for taking the time and being so dedicated to posting!

damn. it all just kind of hit me. bam bam bam. you are always making me tear up. I really enjoyed the scene with his mother and felt like that put some things to rest. time jump had me like what. love absolute sykes last line