Date: 01/18/18 10:51 am Title: Waiting for you
I can’t believe this happened again, I’m really sorry GermanOoOGirl but because of internet connection issues your review has been deleted :( Fortunately I had copied it! So here it is along with my answer:
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Date: 01/18/18 09:44 am Title: Waiting for you
To be honest, I wished I havent read this ...
And also to be honest, I didnt really read this. I read (because of the sequel) Friday the 13th and liked it, and than wanted to read the sequel, but your authorsnote let me skip to the end, because I hate bad/sad ends and I didnt read the warnings ... I should learn from this ...
I skipped most of the sequel, just read a few passages ... because it was so sad. Because I already had from those few sentences to cry so hard.
These both knew another almost there whole life - they loved each other for years, also if it was at the beginning an other love.
I cant imagine getting ever happy again, when you lost a person that you loved so much and you knew so many years.
I ... I'm so sorry for your friend. Also also If I didnt really understood if you were on this concert too or not, I'm also so sorry for you. I'm from germany, so what happened was all over the news here.
Things like this, or what happened in las vegas and in norway are just pure nightmares for me. I cant imagine being there when just ... crazy peolple thing they could play god nd decide who has to die today, When they just ... are there and kill randomly people, killing years of life, years of memories, years of love and so many feelings.
And people who are there and dont die are probably traumaticed for their whole life. They will never forget ...
It's just curel.
I'm author myself, and as there was once the topic 'ending' a reader said to me: I dont like bad or sad endings. In realife the life has too much bad and sad endings. So at least when I read I want a good ending. I could absolut agree ...
But in this story its difficult ... I would say: lt the ending be but also write a good ending how it could have been, but ... that sad ending would still be there.
As I said, I'm sorry. I really am.
Now write many happy endings to make the world a bit more happy :)
Author's Response:
I have no words to tell you how grateful I am for your message. It's been more than two years since that terrible day and still reading you brought the tears back in my eyes. I wasn't at the show, as you asked. I learnt about what was going on on the radio around 11pm and I didn't even know at the time that my friend was there. I got to know the next morning while checking up all the people I knew to make sure there were alright :/
Actually you got my intention all right about "Friday the 13th"! What you said about killing lives, memories and loves... That's why I wrote two distinct stories and not one. "Friday" is the part of this dramatic event that has been the hardest for me to overpass, seeing Hugo every day at school while knowing his life and expectations had been ruined, for nothing, and thinking of Caroline whose life had been cut off while she had so much left to do... But eventually Hugo started to smile again, when we thought it was impossible that he ever did. And that's why I ended "Waiting for you" with a glimmer of hope. Actually part of what Tom thinks on the grave one year after Billl's death are Hugo's words. I felt like I had to make them part of it, because it was so true.
Ok sorry about all this, I feel pretty bad myself right now but still thank you so much for your words and taking time to right this even though you obviously don't speak english very well. That meant the world to me right now. I'm gonna think of your suggestion about an alternative happy ending but for this one I'm not sur I can do that, I might feel like betraying them and it would still be so sad to imagine what could have been if Bill had survived or if they hadn’t been to that show since... you know, Tom probably did that many times before accepting to move on. So, I did choose to write a second part to "Do you remember" but I probably won't for this one. We'll see :)
I promise more happy endings in the future, life is indeed to depressive itself sometimes and I also as a reader prefer much more happy endings. So be it!
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