Yeah, well... me too. Apparently we were both wrong.

I've gotten a number of pieces of criticism about the last two chapters of Yankee. They boil down to two main points:

1) I didn't like the ending

2) The ending was weakly written

#1 is something to be coped with -- the plot's not going to change. #2, though... unfortunately that second point is a lot more valid than I wanted it to be. The ending of Yankee could have been really strong, but intsead it had Rob kind of wussing out and squeaking away very mouse-like. It just lacked any sort of impact, and it could have had a good one. Not sure I'm up to another chapter with the intensity of chapter 8, but the characters certainly deserve more than what they got.

Yeah, this means the ending's getting rewritten. It'll probably be a little while, but it'll get done, possibly interspersed with chapters of the sequel. No promises on exactly when it'll get done -- I've a half-done piece I want to finish first, and a romance novel I have to write for work -- but it will happen.