Reviews for The Dream Trilogy Book 3: What Dreams May Come
ellie shellstrop chapter 17 . 9/27/2019
oh, yikes.

i loved the first and second books in this trilogy. after the second one, i was really excited to see sarah and draco returning to their dimension and their harry having to deal with the consequences of his temper tantrum throwing them into an alternate universe. you created such intriguing characters (in building out the potters, expanding on draco's character, and how hard it was for that harry to deal with his body having been basically stolen), that i looked forward to reading more about their development. especially after severus (and og harry) sent those letters with sarah!

but instead, basically *everyone* ended up being flung everywhere and i was so, so disappointed. we got none of the character interaction i was looking forward to (didn't even get the reaction from lily and james to severus' letter!) or really any character interaction at all outside of nonstop action scenes.

and... why all the action? it felt like action scene after action scene after action scene. it got so redundant and it got to the point where i was fast forwarding through chapters and skimming them to try and get to the juicy character interaction bits.

ocs are normally touch and go in fics, but you've previously done a really excellent job of making your ocs loveable. in this case, it felt a bit like we were drowning in them. i think it might have been because there were so many between all of the universes, their development got a bit lost.

i really loved the idea of ron ending up in an american muggle reality. it would have been *amazing* to see him interact with his siblings, knowing about magic with them having no idea. i felt like it would have been so much more interesting than him redoing the sorcerer's stone trials with essentially three ocs. :/ i did feel like the ocs were a bit mary sue - especially abbey and (i hate to say it because i loved her in the first two books) sarah.

the american ron storyline was just so unique - i immediately sat straight up when i was reading it. how different! i even liked the library limbo scenes. how interesting that those versions of harry, hermione, ron, and draco were together! and then sirius ending up there due to the veil! and harry planning on saving him? YESSSS!

...but then we were just nonstop stuck in limbo. or with zombies. or in random salem academy. or just fighting basically every single possible creature or historic figure ever. and there were a million bellatrixs running around and taunting everyone? ahhh! the bellatrixs felt like such overkill. i got so sick of them by the end of it. and i didn't care about any of the battles in limbo anymore.

but then harry saved sirius from the veil and then he died? and then the other harry died? and seamus died AGAIN? and basically every interesting oc (like ric) died?

i don't get why the harrys had to die honestly. it made no sense.

gah, what a depressing mess.

also, this may seem so silly, but i don't really understand why the chapters were broken up the way they were. why have five parts to chapter seven? instead of just individual chapters?

i want to be clear - i think you're a fantastic writer and i really do love books one and two in this trilogy! i love the characters you created and really wanted to dive deeper into them and see how they'd grown, which is why i felt so lost in the action scenes - because we didn't really get to see their lovely interactions and personal developments.
MichelleF chapter 17 . 5/27/2019
I loved most of the trilogy. 1 and 2 were wonderful and the first half of 3 was really good. But, the second half of 3 the Draco fangirl came out in the author and he mysteriously became vastly more heroic than Harry; always saving Harry, being stronger, better, quicker so that he wasn't lame enough to get his body stolen. Don't forget how morally superior he is, setting a power-hungry Harry in his place(never mind that it is totally out of character for Harry). Then the selfish little snot diminishes Harry's sacrifice to save the multiverse by telling everyone that his is just fine in his own world.

You really like to pile on Harry don't you. Either he is dead(twice) and not even able to move on to be with his parents or he is a total douchebag. And of course you have him believing deserves to die, be stuck in Limbo, and never see his dead parents because he had an accident that sent him to another universe. What's next? He deserved his miserable, abused childhood because he had the audacity to perform accidental magic when he couldn't control it?

But Draco, the shining example of goodness and light, gets his happy ending. He doesn't even seem to care that much that Harry is doomed forever. I guess a tiger doesn't change his stripes...
Akorah chapter 17 . 11/4/2018
Some day, when my head doesn't hurt as badly as it does now, or as it did the first time I read this trilogy, I'm going to write a one-shot of Hermione and Universe 1 Terry because dammit if I don't ship the hell out of them. Or maybe I'll brainstorm a way to get Hermione and Universe 2 Terry together. Who knows. All I know is I have a headache, I hate how much I love this story, and I'm so very proud of you for coming up with a multi-dimensional story with something like 6 intersecting plots that actually all make sense.
Guest chapter 17 . 3/13/2018
Really brilliant trilogy ... though I really didn't like the ending. Understood canon Harry dying to maintain the balance but felt the 'main' Harry dying (as well as poor Seamus again) was unnecessary, made the ending a bit of a downer when it didn't need to be.

Felt bad for the displaced Harry and Draco but thought the idea of their alternates being more heroic (in Draco's case) and less 'good' in Harry's interesting I liked the depth of the characters - the the idea they all had potential for good and bad like normal people rather than the characatures they are often portrayed as.

This is one of the best and most involved fanfictions I have ever read. Really interesting concept and well written (though being picky couple of spelling or grammatical errors 'weary' when you meant 'wary' and hoard instead of horde) but this didn't spoil my enjoyment in reading it.
Nyajiou chapter 4 . 10/30/2017
Zombies is kind of a cheap plot point and I'm kind of disappointed... everything else is still as interesting though.
Nyajiou chapter 1 . 10/30/2017
Alright, I'm calling it now: there's no way that prophecy is about Voldemort.
Birds Love Words chapter 17 . 4/13/2016
Wow! I don't even know if I feel happy, or sad, or bittersweet...or sad. I just don't know...I may have reached for a tissue at one point. I think this was a great story. It was well-written, and each character felt very fleshed out, even if I did start mixing up my Hermiones at one point. It wasn't until the very end that I finally understood why you killed off canon-Harry. I'm somewhere between miffed and okay with the fact that you killed off the best (fanfic) Harry as well. I can't really decide. On the one hand, I like the thought of him getting into mayhem and mischief for all of eternity in the crazy world of Limbo. On the other hand, I feel like he is such an integral part of the two main universes that taking him out of them seems to unbalance something in the story. However...I can't help but think back to the start of book two when he's just sitting around waiting for his life to move forward, but he can't because nothing tops his AU life experiences. I feel like it would have been just as much of a letdown if you sent him back home, where the most exciting thing is Potions class with Snape. Once Voldemort was destroyed in Book 2, Harry kind of served no purpose in that world anymore. Ugh. I'm so torn. It's like Fullmetal Alchemist all over again for me.

You have a crazy-active imagination. Limbo was much wilder than I could have expected. I loved the characters of Merlin, Godric Gryffindor, Alex, and, of course, Sir Woofsalot. I liked that you gave Limbo both form and inhabitants. Although I felt a little overwhelmed by it and the story line at times, I think it only added to the zaniness.

I feel like a schmuck saying this, but I still think the first book was the best. Limbo and Salem were vibrant, but I think your world-building was somehow stronger in the first book, if only because that used more of a 'show, don't tell' approach, whereas this one gave 'direct/tell' explanations right at the start (but the explanations were very necessary and I thank you for them because I would have been lost otherwise). This book comes in at a close second in terms of quality. I really liked the dystopian feel of Godric's Hollow and the shifting scenery of Limbo. The American-ness of Salem felt a little forced to me. I'm an American from California, and a Southern accent is my least favorite English-speaking accent of all time, so Abbey seemed overdone to me. However, I still liked her as a character. All of your characters were genuine, and the bad guys were moderately threatening.

I'm having another internal quandary when it comes to the zombies, because I actually liked them! Intellectually, I'm struggling to see the difference between them and the bugs...they both kind of 'ice out' the characters in play (rendering them just useless instead of dead), they both link to hive minds, and they're both easily outrun. I think my acceptance of the zombies is because you added the threat of death - through starvation, exposure, or blood loss/self harm - if they were left to their own devices long enough. This means they pose a genuine threat to people and constitute an evil action on behalf of the Death Eaters. Thus, they're good 'cannon fodder/small scale' bad guys. And they actually got Terry, proving that they're not worthless (more on Terry later). The Death Eaters were moderately threatening, and the Fixers could also really harm people, so they were okay as small scale enemies. I do think the Fixers thing got old after a few solid chapters of them, but because they genuinely hurt two people they redeemed themselves as minor villains.

Oh my gosh, I meant to say this a few chapters ago, (quite a few), but THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TURNING PARVATI INTO A ZOMBIE! And the idiot Harry too. I was like "MWAHAHAHAHAHA! Yes, we've finally gotten rid of them so that we can focus on the good characters now!" I loved how Hermione was the only one going to bat for her, while everyone else was just like, 'Meh...it's only Parvati. I don't really care if she's zombified or not.' Lol! :P My sentiments exactly.

I really liked Terry's character. I was so convinced that the legwarmers were covering up a Dark Mark (which I still think would have been an awesome plot twist) that I barely paid him any attention until it was clear he was a major player in the story. :'( I kind of feel like I did him an injustice. But he really grew on me by the end. He was witty, a little bit hipster, brave, noble, etc. I wish he'd played a bigger part in the first two books now. And that smooch! Wowzer! I know that you left fanfic-Hermione's future intentionally ambiguous, but I like that you hinted at a possibility between them there as well. Great job.

Of course, I have to point out a few small errors. More homophone errors abound in this work. *Sigh* hoard vs. horde *sigh again*. Hoard can be a verb meaning to keep a bunch of unnecessary $hit, or a noun referring to the unnecessary pile of $hit gathered as a result of hoarding. This was the word you used in literally all of the zombie scenes, Limbo actions scenes, and any other scene with a bunch of people congregated together, which is incorrect. The word you really needed for these scenes was horde, which is a group of people. You also used the word breath (noun - air that goes in and out of your mouth) instead of the word breathe (verb - action of breathing) and a couple of other repeated mistakes that I don't remember now. I don't like to nitpick, but errors like these reduce the quality of what is otherwise a stellar piece of work. I know that you put more than a decade of work into these three books, so I think they deserve at least a little bit more attention to polish them up ship-shape (as Alex might say). I just want to see these stories live up to their full potential.

Last, but not least, I just wanted to say thank you for crafting such wonderful pieces of literature. I have enjoyed them immensely, and I spent an indecent amount of time reading them instead of studying for my classes. Thank you for taking the dedication and time to make them so unique, special, and enthralling.
Birds Love Words chapter 3 . 4/8/2016
Sorry, I had to fact-check this because it rang an odd bell in my mind - the first Men in Black movie wasn't released until July 1997, about a year after the events of this story are supposed to take place. Lol! It was still a funny reference though.

Okay, despite the fact that this story has gotten really complicated, I like it a lot so far! A lot of the issues I had with Book 2 don't seem to be present in this book - for example, the characters are actually having reactions like anger and frustration. I also have to give you props for the opening Hermione scene - I could tell it was her before she remembered her own name. The way you used lots of qualifiers like "really", "quite", "very", and "so" fit Hermione's speech patterns perfectly. Your spelling and grammar are much better in this book. There are a few small mistakes, and some odd places where you have random sets of capitalized letters (and a hashtag), but for the most part everything is okay.

I have to admit I wasn't expecting Harry, Ron, and Hermione to be thrown into three different universes. I certainly wasn't expecting Harry to be thrown into canon-Harry's universe! I think it surprised me because I just assumed that fanfic-Harry was canonical. That is, he was canon-Harry until Sirius' capture, at which point the story became its own unique fanfic. I didn't think canon applied anymore. It took me a few minutes to wrap my head around what was happening, but I finally figured it out when the AU originals (or displaced minds, or whatever) materialized. If this story gets more complicated, I may draw myself a map or something to keep up with it...or a timeline...or a tree map with infinite possibilities!

Which reminds me - poor Jia! I didn't really know her character, but I liked her way more than I like Parvati. I'm still kind of hoping Parvati dies in this book - and I'm still pulling for Terry Boot as a secret Death Eater who will now betray them all to Voldemort because he has discovered the secret to AU travelling. I want to see Draco and fanfic-Harry fight the two Voldemorts in an epic battle. I keep picturing them with their backs together, fighting a swirling nemesis of double Voldemorts apparating around them to attack them from every angle. I have no idea how they're going to kill the double Voldemort pieces, get all the other horcruxes, and then get rid of the last soul piece. My poor brain can't keep trying to solve the dimensional paradoxes of this story.

Last but not least, I have to say one more thing. Draco and Sarah get sent to explore the dimensional improbabilities of Limbo, Harry and Hermione get sent to cool universes to find their alter egos (and no doubt fight epic battles), but Ron just gets to be an American Muggle. Hahahahahaha! OMG it's SO typical of Ron. In a way, he has worse luck than Harry. But if Salem is any good, he'll be able to make up for it. Maybe he'll fight some American monsters on the way there in an epic road trip quest. Although, this is Ron we're talking about...poor Ron.
Guest chapter 17 . 1/12/2016
This was an amazing story. I loved your writing, your characters, and the ultimate plausibility of your story within the base universe.
The Seven of Us chapter 4 . 9/30/2015
I really have to admire you and your ability to keep everything straight. I would have gotten so lost writing this that I would have just thrown up my hands and tossed in the towel by now.
Fixit up 123 chapter 5 . 7/10/2015
U are amazing at these type of stories . U need to write one where they get transported to this universe and meet the actors ect ect. Please do that!
Guest chapter 17 . 6/24/2015
Wow. That was a dissapointing ending.

This trilogy was really a mixed bag for me. On the one hand it had some great characters and interpretations of them. It had intrigueing and engaging action/adventure scenes, some interresting twists and turns and overall quite well done done descriptive language.

It was engaging, and yet I absoloutely hated the whole watcher limbo plotline. At first I could just happuily skip the scenes with it and not miss much, but then it became completely intergral to main story.

While did have some compelling moments, on the whole it felt wholy unnescecary and I really do feel that it could have been better just focusing on the normal elments. There was so much potential there. I kept hoping for more interractions with the between the characters. I was just waiting for Ron to spend more time with his au family maybe confornt Ginny (Ginevra) on getting her priorities straight. I was really hoping for Hermione to tell Potters a bit about her Harry's life, and I was highly anticipating the different versions meeting each other, Harry and Harry Drace and Draco Ron and Ron! But instead I kept having to read about the boring OC's. FemBlaise was excellent and awesome! I loved Sarah! and Abigail, Chris and AJ were pretty cool too. But Alex and his compatriots felt wholy unnecescary.

But it's your story and I do respect you finishing it and telling it as you saw it, even if I disagree with some of the paths you took.

Still, Seamus died AGAIN and then Harry was stuck in limbo?! and what about all the other souls stuck there? Why were they not somehow bought back to their universes and allowed to finally see the afterlife?! Those plots were really important and should have been adressed or at least ackknowledged.
FirePhoenix86 chapter 17 . 2/19/2015
Oh….please let there be a happy ending…I really want a happy ending….

There's so little left of the chapter but I keep hoping that the Watcher for the world Harry's body landed in will show and be like, "Hey, so this body fell into the lap of a Healer and they've kept it alive this whole time…it just needs a soul to jump inside…to, you know, be a person again." And Magic will happen and Harry will come back….But that part of me is the childish side that always wants to eat ice cream and cookies and never eat vegetables and drink 8 glasses of water a day.

Rarely do I find a story that ensnares me as thoroughly as this one did. I dreamt about it, I thought about it in the car going to work, I daydreamed about it…and spent days on days spending my free time absorbed in the words on my screen. My life went by in a blur, literally. I only just realized tonight that tomorrow is Friday. It feels like I blinked on a Sunday and woke up on a Thursday. This epic story consumed me…I cannot wrap my mind around how you had so many different plots happening all at the same time. No wonder it took you 13 years to write. Lol, and I thought 5 years was pushing it for my 300K word single story. But the effort showed, definitely. It's probably in my top 5 favorite fan fictions I've ever read. I'm adding a link to it in my Rec list on my profile and I've pitched it on a facebook group too. I think you need a ton of reviews on this baby.

Amazing story. Just so awesome and epic and kick butt.

If you write an original novel, I will be one of the first to snatch up a copy asap. If you put that much time and dedication into an original novel it'll be brilliant! Keep up the amazing quality of work!
FirePhoenix86 chapter 16 . 2/19/2015
Oh my GOD! Wait…who died? The AK hit someone…who'd it hit?

You killed that poor boy again?! You are evil! Poor Alex…

Oh no….. Harry? Really?

That's just…not right….Why would you do that? *bawls*
FirePhoenix86 chapter 15 . 2/19/2015
DRACOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Oh thank Merlin…literally. LOL Oh snap look at that wit!

I'm literally bouncing in my chair thinking "Come on Hermione! You can do it! You are Queen of Magic! YOU GO GIRL! KILL THAT HORCRUX!" Lol

I'm going to make a prediction. Hermione or Sarah knocks over the cauldron and it ends the Zombie Spell. … Maybe that is too easy. But that's what my first thought would be to do.

Oh man…More Fixers?! Crap on a cracker….

Oh my god…I WAS RIGHT! GO HERMIONE AND SARAH! BOOYA BETCHES!

GOOOOOODRRRRRIIIIIIC! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I am enjoying this method of reviewing. I feel like you get more of my reactions this way as they happen while I'm reading. LOL
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