Name: crowsb4bros (Signed) · Date: 02 May 2021 11:09 PM · For: The One With The Green Dress

ahhhhh! 1) I love all smut but 2) THIS SMUT! The "will you let me take care of you" line at the end was pure gold. Magnificent! 

Name: Renacera (Signed) · Date: 31 Jan 2021 01:15 AM · For: The One With The Green Dress

Cassie. I am not okay.

I knew I needed to put off reading this until I could properly appreciate it, and omfg I am so glad I'm now here to do that!!!

First of all...just...the plot. Girl. You were already my favorite Dramione author, as you well know, but now I also know that you can write Dramione smut. I shall never want for Dramione content again. #blessed

Honestly, you had no reason to be nervous about posting this. You did a phenomenal job. Not only did you write a super steamy sex scene, but you fit it into a fantastic overall plot and left me with yet another fluffy Dramione relationship of love and perfection and just...oeiathglkg. You are incredible.

One of my absolute favorite things about your writing is your ability to balance canon characterization with the unique characterization that each of your stories establishes. This one has some of my new favorite iterations of our two darlings. Draco's caring and affection is just precious. And Hermione's insecurity and hopefulness are wonderful. Both of them are so vividly real and fit so perfectly into this story. (And also, we get sly-Ginny on the periphery of this story! I love Good!Friend Ginny who's just like, "We don't have time for your bullshit, Hermione Granger. Just shoot your shot, girl. Maybe he feels the same!" And then he does! :D :D )

Another thing you absolutely excel at is dialogue. Draco has about thirty lines in this that I thought were absolutely amazing. He's in the story for all of 300 words when he says, "Eight times isn't just casual." Like, boy. For real. That might as well be the thesis of the whole story, haha. And Draco just comes out and says it like two minutes after entering the scene. And then he also somehow immediately implies that he's 100% cool with people knowing about them. Which, like, omfg. I just love how this story sets up that he's going to be so freaking proud to call Hermione his own. He's such a dork.

From there, you perfectly set up how Hermione feels about him and about the situation they've found themselves in. When she sees that he looks at her like she holds all the answers to the universe and she has to try to push down her feelings...ugh. And then she admits to herself that "she wanted it always." Like...ugh. As a reader, I was just like, "PLEASE YOU TWO. PLEASE BE IN LOVE. I REQUIRE LOVE, NOT JUST LUST." Especially because they get to Hermione's flat a moment later and Draco fucking tangles their fingers together like a goddamn hero in a romance novel. Jfc, I just can't.

And Cassie. CASSIE. HE HAS DIMPLES. How do you expect me to live on this planet anymore when I know that there's a version of Draco that I can read about who holds hands with the woman he loves and has fucking dimples?! How could you do this to me? All I'm going to want to do from now until I die is reread this and any other stories you write about Dimple-Draco the Romance King. UGH.

AND THEN HE GOES AND SAYS SHIT LIKE, "You're perfect," and "Do you want this, Hermione?" and "Open your eyes for me, Hermione. I need to see — Hermione, look at me." BECAUSE HE IS A TOTAL SAP, even when he's literally having sex with her, he's just like, "BUT I NEED TO MAKE SURE SHE WANTS ME IN THE SAME GOOEY LOVEY-DOVEY OBSESSIVE CUTE-ASS WAY THAT I WANT HER." JFC, CASSIE, WHY DO YOU WRITE SUCH PRECIOUS SHIT? I AM FURIOUS.

Okay.

Okay.

I'm fine.

Probably.

So. The next morning Hermione rightfully freaks out. Because after all that cutesy stuff the night before, how could she not panic and think maybe he didn't mean it when she's totally just as obsessed with him? But like...girl. How can you possibly think he's not totally in love with you after all of that? I know he's a Slytherin, but even Draco Malfoy isn't cunning enough to think that up and act it out convincingly. And then to make sure, he says, "Nothing about this is a game to me." And I'm over here like, please just be in love forever. You two are too much.


     "Because how could I want that?" ... "How could I not, Hermione?"


Hello, 911? I'd like to report a murder. Cassie has killed me with precious writing about my OTP. She straight up stabbed me in the heart and made me want to legit sob. Because he loves her and she loves him and he paid off the press to keep them from reporting on the Dramione Love that's been blooming for two and a half goddamn years.


     "Say that you care for me like I do for you." ... "If this keeps going, that's it for me, Draco."


Jfc. I'm dead. Just kill me for real. I'll never find another story that brings me such joy. How is it possible for someone to write something so sexy and sweet and stunning all at once? Like...how?? Because I've basically been grinning like an idiot since I started reading this, and now I have to actually go on with life, and...?????

Finally, special shout out to the cameo by Free, Paid house-elf Neely and her romantic breakfast spread. What a doll.


Okay, I think that's it from me. I haven't been writing anything coherent for...however long this review is. I just want you to know that this story has the full package: a wonderful plot, flawless characterization, vivid imagery, visceral emotions, and just...perfection.

You've done it again, my dear. Thank you as always. <3 <3 <3

xoxo,
Emily


*for the Fairyland review event*

Name: RonsGirlFriday (Signed) · Date: 25 Jan 2021 10:09 AM · For: The One With The Green Dress

When I tell you I am SHOCKED that nobody has reviewed this yet. o.O

(Also, back again for fairyland reviewing!)

Anyway, v proud of you for summiting the smutty Everest. I like how this fell somewhere in between a love-hate relationship and an established relationship, in this murky grey “What are we doing?” area.

Commenting on smut is so fucking weird, it’s why we need a ranking scale, because sometimes otherwise it feels way tmi, like, “Okay, now let me tell you exactly how much this excited me.” *skull emoji* So instead of that, I usually go in the other direction like, “Cool, good sex, bro.” And that’s the point: Good sex, bro.

BUT ALSO the point is, okay, the emotionally intimate aspect was ah-mazing, I am very much a sucker for that. Like when he asks her “Do you want this?” and then even follows up with “Tell me what you want” because even the yes/no version isn’t ideal, he wants to hear it in her words. And it’s not JUST about wanting to please your partner or asking for consent, even though, yes, v important, but there are other ways to ask for consent that aren’t as clearly emotionally loaded as those questions were in that moment. And it becomes about the deep sexiness of hearing the affirmation from another person that they want you — not just want you bc they’re drunk and need some rando, but actively want *you* and in every way, not just physically.

And the whole “open your eyes” thing, don’t even get me started, okay? SUPER intimate thing, like legit difficult sometimes to do that even with someone you care about because it feels so much more exposing (which is bizarre because, you know, sex is already happening, idk how much more exposed than that you can get). Anyway, all of that is deeply sexy. Unless you just laugh and completely kill the moment. (The point is, god bless my husband for marrying me.)

 

<3 Melanie