[Rilbur] Sword of Light

[Cia]

Sword of Light was written by Rilbur for the GA 2011 Novella Contest. An excellent story, you can read it at this LINK and discuss the story in this forum.

 

 

[Nephylim]

I loved this story. It has Rilbur's usual sweeping epic feel, although I have to be honest I didn't see his mark on it this time. Well done for changing your style but not your content or your great storytelling ability.

 

Fantastic blend of reality and fairytale. The end was an amazing twist and if there is a sequel I shall be looking for it eagerly

[Frostina]

Really an enjoyable story.

 

[K.C.]

A really good story. I enjoyed reading it.

[sat8997]

I thought this was really well done. Kept me interested through the whole thing. Good job.

[Dark]

I thought you were robbed, honestly, but it's easy to see how a college fic would win here on GA. *sigh*

 

I thought the history and locale were amazingly believable. There was a real problem that was introduced and solved, and it was awesome how all the clues were dropped in as the story progressed. I loved it very much and I do hope there will be more with these characters. They're too much like Sherlock Holmes to leave idle for long.

[Andrew Q Gordon]

Well done, when I re-read and have time, I'll make sure to leave comments in the review section. I like these types of stories so I like what you did here.

 

Andy

[Rilbur]

I tried to tip toe through the following statement without offending anyone; please forgive me if I failed. I wanted to focus on one aspect of that comment, without drawing attention to the other half of what I tried to say -- which is still implied if you read closely enough at what isn't there.

 

I thought you were robbed, honestly, but it's easy to see how a college fic would win here on GA. *sigh*

Frankly, Bettor to Lose was my vote for first place to begin with. My story might have been competitive, but that was just a great story and I would have been shocked to win out over it. The Ghosthouse was also a great story, and while I thought it suffered from bringing back the cold war (could have been justified if there had been something to firmly ground it in the past, rather than an assumed-present) my only real complaint was the way the author 'betrayed' the story by giving in and making it a love-conquers all thing. Both of those stories deserved their wins.

 

Given that I couldn't read the other two stories (terminal stylistic clashes), I won't comment on them further.