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Reviews For After Midnight, Under the Trees

Reviewer: Kitsune Yarisha Anonymous Date: 06/03/07 - 09:53PM Title: After Midnight, Under the Trees

You write a brilliant set of POV's in this. I love all the hints and suggestions and poor Hakkai trying to adapt and control himself in several ways. Gojyo...I can see him needing to experiment to be sure of something sexual or even beyond that to be sure it wasn't some weird fluke. It makes him seem more realistic. Hell, both of the characters are presented that way. The handjob was sexy ~~but it would have been a great fanservice if that would have been Hakkai there~~ and the man giving sounded sexy too, haha. I really liked this. Great job!

Reviewer: Call me Kat Anonymous Date: 03/29/06 - 11:40PM Title: After Midnight, Under the Trees

I'm not sure what I can say about this that zan didn't already put so eloquently. What I've noticed standing out about your writing to me is your endings. They have a note of wistful finality that leaves you wanting to read more but knowing that the story is finished, the chapter over, but that life will continue and there's always more to tell. I hope that makes sense I'm sleepy and it's hard to describe. You're wonderful. Please keep writing. I love, love, LOVE, reading your stuff. Oh yes and because I have to say it, that was some WAY hot man on man action!

Reviewer: zan Signed Date: 06/12/05 - 11:56AM Title: After Midnight, Under the Trees

oh my! you've done it again. well i'm just going to put you in my fave authors list..so i don't run out of space too quick!

the way you have portrayed the gonou/kanan relationship is quite a plausible one...as i've not seen many fics which actually touch on the sexual side of their being together. and again your gonou/hakkai dynamic is just ....do you know ..no words for it! nothing i could fill the blank in would do it justice.
ahaha! and i love the interjection of subtle humour via sanzo(by proxy). just picturing him teaching. brought a smirky kind of smile.
and i love the allegorical castle-in-the-air that hakkai has built and what he has secreted away in the basement. "mixed metaphors" indeed. and if i was hakkai, i wouldn't sleep and breathe so easy either with the picture of barefoot gojyo dappled in sunlight. ^_~. and yes again i agree with you here that learning to be hakkai isn't as easy as it looks.

another wonderful gojyo section. a voyage of discovery "like a road you didn't know but were hell bent to ride down and fast too" and perhaps fast was the only way to go before he changed his mind, before thought and sensibility stepped in. and it says it all in "shit no." whether its to bring girls home, or men for that matter and certainly not to think of hakkai.

and you ended it on such a wonderfully hopeful note...huggles to you! ^___^

Author's Response: I'm glad you liked it! Thanks so much for this feedback. I tend to think it'd take them a while to work out what they wanted from each other - they're both on a voyage of discovery in a way, and really isn't that what the whole of Saiyuki is about? Thanks again:)