Oh, they are nothing alike, believe me. Zero concerns over their abilities being anything alike. The only thing I would say is you both are reigning rulers of angst, bloodiness, and traumatic writing. King and Queen respectively, and even the writing style and delivery there are completely different. 🤣
Oh, I did, believe me. 😅 I just haven't sat down and said what I thought yet. I think The Black Aura was the last one I was able to binge a while back.
The moment I started reading this one, I immediately thought of @Rambling Robin's Prophylaxis (which if you haven't read I highly, highly recommend). Not because anything of this is close at all to that story, but because the MC happens to have psionic abilities. As a matter of fact, how uniquely and creatively you depicted this MC's abilities and life was so impressive to me. I really liked it.
Of course I followed this one after The Boy in the Porch. I didn't want to sympathize with those awful parents, but it was still interesting to see how it all began and how misery loves company. Worse yet, how much damage two twisted individuals can dole out, let alone a third.
OK, so when I read this one, I remember not knowing where this was going at all. I was not expecting an enlightened race of beings. I was expecting the descriptions of those beings even less. But, by that point I was just glad they were all okay. 😆
I like to comment as I am reading because whenever I read something in one or two sittings, I feel guilty for not having said anything (especially if I'm binging things in one go). This was one of the ones I read through so fast because of the wild drama and incredible characters. Your writing style is...how should I describe this? Like you are reading the juiciest gossip column that also happens to be a newspaper article that also happens to be a crime time documentary. 🤔It's graphic and bloody and angsty and traumatic balanced by heartfelt bonds and moments of sheer triumph and love. But most of all it has an addictive pacing that isn't too rushed or too slow, it wavers, but it's in this goldilock zone of perfection.
OMG @wildone, if @Lee Wilson had a 700k + story by itself I would weep for an entire day and it would take me months to years to finish reading (oh sh*t, did I just admit I've been secretly reading his work without commenting? Lemme go hide.)
WHAT? But I was so looking forward to reading yours!! 😱 Maybe you can save what you had planned for another event? Or just post it whenever you finish anyway!! Then, let me know so I can read.
And then there are people like me, trying to write something that should probably have been a novella and compressing it until it's as short as humanly possible.
I'd get creative. I'd hollow out one of those round soup breads and make an upside down Hobbit home. @Headstall That pic you posted has me drooling. I forgot prosciutto rolls existed.🤤