September 9th, 2010 at 11:36pm
PART II xD By now I'm at chapter 21 I think and I thought I'd leave you another superlong comment :p
I'm glad that you let us know about Natalie's situation (need of money, no parents, ...) in a natural way. You let her pick up her brother and come 'home' en the reader figures it out for him/herself. I hate it when people just make their main charachter think 'I've lost my parents and in life in a crappy home with an evil aunt' in stead of using real situations. It also makes your story more realistic. That is a strong point for this story, it's not too fast, but step by step. Only the morning after Nat slept at Justin's house was a bit unrealistic because his mum would've put more effort into contacting her parents and getting her home in real life.
It's really good that you have both Justin and Nat's POV. This way we can know what’s going on in both their heads! Especially because they are the main characters. As I read the first chapters I was really glad this wasn't a typical jb fanfiction. A lot of writers make Justin fall head over heals when he first sees the girl (she the most beautiful girl I had ever seen blablabla) or they make the girl throw herself at Justin's feet. But you didn't do that and I love you for it! It created great tensions between the two of them, first anger that is now slowly turning into love.
Just so you know this is also one of the first jb fanfictions were I started to like the girl more than Justin himself :p Nat is a very good charachter. You describe her very well! We get to know a lot about her and in some kind of way I really liked her after a few chapters. I personnally think you do have one big weakniss: there are a lot of typo mistakes in your story. That's a pitty because the story itself is really good but some people might get annoyed by all those little mistakes. Maybe reread a new chapter before posting it or pay more attention when you're reading. But besides that this story is awesome and I'm already thinking about reading the sequel too! =)
I have finally finished reading this story and will certainly be reading the sequal!
First I have to say the piano/singing together scene was a perfect breaking point where they'd go from teasing to something more serious. You chose a nice, creative way by letting them sing together. It just really fitted both Justin and Nat, because them both have a love for music. By not making them kiss, you made that moment even more special in my opinion.
Since there's a sequal I thought Nat would eventually go to the audition. But I'm glad you made her have a hard time chosing wether to do it or not. It again made your story more realistic by making her worry about her brother. Any real sister wouldn't just leave her little brother for some guy. And letting her friend take care of him was a good solution to make her be able to go on tour anyways.
Now that I have read the whole story, I have to say my favourite chapter was the one near the end with the swings where justin learns to 'caress'. They had such great tension but that part was absolutely amazing. You wrote it in such a way I could really feel the tension, I even had the 'butterflies in stumach' feeling for a moment xD
You did a great job on this story and I'm glad you liked my comments. It was a win win situation I guess ;)