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Reviews for But I Haven't Seen Barbados

By : therish9
  • From ANON - GeorgiaFareTheeWell on June 18, 2016
    This was a singularly fascinating read! The characters were a surprising pairing but it works--I could actually see it happening. Also I really enjoyed the voice of your writing, It's very approachable. Fingers crossed for a reunion story!
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  • From ANON - Koryu on November 29, 2012
    This was a fantastic story! I was captured by your imagery and detail on each of the scenes you unfolded, even the explicit nature of the sex scenes. You gave them a natural human style flow, and it was well done and tasteful to me as a reader. Great job
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  • From BlueDragon on October 27, 2012
    I've always liked Kensei and very much enjoyed how you developed this story and pairing. It was very well written and read very smoothly. I don't think I saw ANY errors in spelling/grammar/punctuation and that's awesomely refreshing! I'm notoriously snobby about the technicalities because I get easily distracted by mistakes. How nice it was to experience a well told piece of fiction for what it was: a great story.
    Even with your A/N, I have to admit that I got a little mixed up about the timeline. I guess I assumed when you said it was after the exile that it would be around the time involving Ichigo and they would, thus, have already conquered their inner hollows. I caught up much later than I embarrassingly should have. I generally have excellent reading comprehension, but I'm tired and I bet everyone else didn't have an issue with that besides me lol. In fact, I've seriously thought about deleting this portion of my review (lol) but thought it was worth mentioning in case I'm not the only one. Sorry if this was a waste of time to read lol.
    I also wanted to mention that I don't mind long oneshots. AFF used to shut down at ~3am for updates that would take 15 minutes to over an hour to reboot and NOTHING aggravated me more than being glued to my computer screen and being denied the next chapter and complete AFF access for that reason. I haven't seen that since the huge system update, though, and maybe my dislike of shorter chapters and love of long oneshots is no longer necessary.
    Overall, I thought it was a very enjoyable read. I was pretty disappointed at the end that I couldn't further follow their relationship, but the foreshadowing given from the actual manga/anime slightly helps lessen the blow. I hope you are considering a sequel (^_^) because I'd love to see what happens next. Great job and sorry for my lengthy, rambling review.
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  • From Raymy on October 20, 2012
    You're right. It's way too long for a one-shot. Compared to my chapter sizes, I put it somewhere between 9 or 10 chapters. (4-5 for some people who write really nice long chapters) Posting it as a one-shot might actually be a detriment to attracting readers, if they're anything like me. I'm not usually one to read one-shots as I like a longer story, but lately I'm compelled to give anything a chance and I relented to read yours after only a few hesitations. I'm sure there are plenty of readers who prefer the one-shots so maybe its 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other. It's too bad you didn't break it up before you posted, but you could still edit the description to reflect the length. As far as reviews go, leaving only one review for a one-shot can limit the scope to generalizations, whereas, a review for each chapter allows the reader to specifically label the parts most enjoyed.

    Oh, well, I hope you get lots of readers and reviews in spite of that, because I really enjoyed both the story and the writing quality. You've done really well at introducing each step of the journey it took to bring Kensei and Mashiro together as well as the foreshadowing of the danger that would occur. Of course, I had an inkling what was to come from the story code 'rapefic', which incidentally, had me worried I wouldn't like it. I'm starting to really dislike fanfics that show rape as an arousing factor for both parties, even though I know that as far as fantasies go, the reality is irrelavent. But yours is very realistic, especially concerning how consent can change to force, and the aftermath of guilt and so many other emotions. The ending is sad but has hope, and could possibly lead to another story. Well done on this story, I hope to read more from you.
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  • From ANON - Anonymoose on October 20, 2012
    Very, very good story. I was actually more interested in the story than the smut scenes; loved it from start to end.
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