Spineless - Comments

Annnnd, What is this about Lynnett? Sequel? ?!?!?!?

Ahh after soo long, it's finally done. I loved it. All of it. All the drama, sex, drama, love, sex... and sex. Damn. SOOOO GOOD and I'm so glad I stuck through all those hiatuses . More importantly, I'm so glad you finished it. With Jimmy. Love <3

Brynn stop being a whore ugh JIMMY WHAT ABOUT JIMMY

*don't have time to read anything else right now, but I will. You're a fantastic writer, please keep it up (:

*don't have time to read anything else right now, but I will. You're a fantastic writer, please keep it up (:

I've spent several hours reading this. This is THE best story I've read. Fan fic or not. It felt so real, I felt real emotions while I was reading this. I actually want to thank you because my mind had been officially blown. I doubt have

Only read three chapters and I'm hooked. ugh, this could be the start of something beautiful

THIS FUCKING STORY RUINED MY LIFE OH MY GOD

awesome excellent ending

Oh, Shyla. I don’t even know where to start with these last two chapters. I suppose I first should tell you how sorry I am that I wasn’t able to get this comment up earlier. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I’ll begin my real comment. Be warned, however; it might be a bit longer than the other comments that I’ve left.

I remember the day I found this story. It feels like almost a year, though I’m not sure if that’s how long it’s actually been. It caught my attention because of the title, though when I clicked on it I was apprehensive to read the whole thing because I wasn’t sure I wanted to read another story like yours. Thankfully, I chose to read it and I’m glad I did because Spineless is not, in fact, like any other story on Mibba. It’s not like the other Avenged Sevenfold ‘sex slave’ stories. It’s not typical in any sense of the word. It’s not just another carbon copy of some story that’s been written ten thousand times before on any number of sites. No, Shy, Spineless is absolutely unique and amazingly so. It’s beautiful and emotional and wholly astounding.

At first, when reading this story, I was all for Team Matt because I always root for the underdog in a story and for me, he was definitely the underdog in my opinion. I felt very sympathetic for his character, what with how Val cheated on him with someone who’d been his best friend, and the way she’d treated him. It was a very saddening story to me—and the way you wrote the dynamic of their relationship prior to the breakup and afterwards was astoundingly incredible. I think that that was one of the factors that truly made Spineless one of the most amazing stories to ever be published on Mibba, in my not-so-humble opinion.

But that wasn’t the only reason I felt drawn to Matt. Perhaps it was because when I first started reading Spineless, I was still rather sore over Jimmy’s death and was still torn up about it. Of course, I still am, but reading your story has helped heal the pain a little bit for me, but I’ll digress from that topic that’s for another story sometime. Back to the matter at hand, shall we? Another of the reasons I felt drawn to Matt was because of how complex you made his character. He was so damn 3D it was almost as though I was sitting in front of this story, watching it all play out two feet in front of me in real life rather than in fanfictional universe on a computer screen.

I just felt his pain, I guess. I’ve never been hurt quite the way he was, but I was definitely betrayed by some very close people and I guess I really related to that. I could relate to the way he closed himself off; the way he made himself a total jackass to guard his emotions and his heart. I could understand all of that because I’ve been through it, whereas Jimmy was (seemingly, to my reader’s eye) a happy-go-lucky kind of guy who didn’t really have a lot to worry about like Matt did. I realize, of course, that his character also had his demons. But I related more to Matt’s because it almost seemed like you’d pulled parts of my past and took creative license and put them into his story…though of course, I am aware that you didn’t do that.

And then there’s Jimmy. Oh, the way you created Jimmy. He was absolutely incredible in this story, perhaps more in this one than any other story that I’ve ever read on Mibba. He was so…alive in this story, like he’d never died. So three dimensional. So very…true to his real self. It was emotional for me to read the Jimmy parts because it just reminded me that he isn’t here anymore, and that was hard. But once I got past that, I absolutely fell in love with his character.

He was definitely there for Brynn. He was definitely someone she could rely on, which is overall why I really transitioned from Team Matt to Team Jimmy. I really feel as though he was the solid backing that she needed; the person who could be there to protect her when Matt went all crazy and tried to hurt her. He protected her from the nightmarish personality that Matt sometimes had; the devil that she drew in all of those pictures.

But these last few chapters…My god, they were absolutely incredible, Shyla. They were beautiful and intense and just…heartbreakingly emotional. I can’t even describe how many tears I shed for Matt out of sadness for his situation. I mean, he finally, finally fell in love again after Val and then he realized he couldn’t leave her. And then he revised her tattoo to let her go and just…



I just really wanted to hug him and make him feel better…but I couldn’t, because he’s not really the Matt he is in Spineless. That’s how real you made this for me, and for all the other readers, Shyla. You made these characters real. You brought them to life. You made me want to cry for them, protect them…maybe punch them a few times. But you made them real. That’s what counts. You did something few authors can really even dream of accomplishing.

I can’t even wrap my head around the fact that it’s all over now. I just…it’s a good feeling, because I know that all of them are happy or, in Matt’s case, going to attempt to find happiness. But on the other hand, I feel a little bit empty because this story has been such a huge part of my life for the last year or so since I’ve started reading it. I’ve nearly broken my foot over this story, I nearly dropped my computer once or maybe twice because of how much anticipation I felt for the newest update at the time. I just love this story so much and I know that I’m going to read it again and again. I think this may have just become my favorite story of all time, published or not. And with that, I bid thee a happy end to this comment.

That was the perfect ending!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG I loved it!!! You are such a good writer!!!!!!

Awesome story.

This was such a great story. You are an amazing author and you write with such passion. I'm so happy she picked Jimmy over Matt because h honestly deserved her love over Matt. I think the idea of a Matt and Lynette story would be bloody brilliant, but it not, that's okay. Hahha. I really enjoy your style of writing, and I think I'll go check out your other stories now. [:

I don't know what to say. I...Maybe I can never find word to speak ever again, or at least that's how I feel right now. It took me a few days to read all this, but I fell in love with the story at the very fucking beginning. You are SUCH a brilliant writer. I just wanna start with your writing. It is so detailed and interesting, it just really lets the reader get caught up in the story, almost lost. Well, honestly...I don't know, but this story did get to me pretty bad. All the while, I was always very torn up between Jimmy and Matt..at the beginning I really was glad that she had Jimmy, because what Matt had done to her was terrible. But going further into the story, I was more and more for Matt. For this reason: I kind of felt like Matt and her were more..real? It seemed to me like she had fallen for Jimmy way too quickly, just over his kindness when Matt had been brutal with her - and that with Matt, she had to forgive him first to really let herself get emotional with him...and I mean, it was all pretty fucked up, of course it wouldn't be as easy as that. During the story, you kept surprising me all the time. I was never bored! I liked how the other characters fit into the story and I loved how the chaos just went on and on between the three lovers. Now, maybe I had a feeling she would end up with Jimmy, but I was not expecting that ending. I would have never guessed that Matt would do that..but I always felt a lot of hope for his good side, even though he was being a jackass basically all the time...I do want to mention that this story made me teary, made me squeak, made me laugh...it left no emotion untouched...I am so incredibly in love with this. Your work is just amazing!

Nice story. I miss Matt though. But Jimmy is awesome so happy ending :D

Amazing <3

Omg!!! It's actually over??? I've enjoyed this story so much and you are such a good writer!

interesting ending. i hope you know that since the beginning this has been one of my favrotie stories and i just know youll become a famous author.

Um hey, just started the fic. on chapter 7 :) I love it so far, I feel sorry for Matt. And though I have a feeling it won't happen, because well- this fic is complete. But I wish that Brynn would give Matt more of a chance. But I love the Rev (obviously) Because he makes me 'aww' at his lovely attitude towards Brynn :) I love this I really do. x

Fucking amazing ending. Utterly perfect.