i started reading Dusty earlier and am on chapter 16.  Ugh!  It's such a slow burn.  If I skip like, 12 chapters, will i miss any substance?  Bella's 15 now and while I like angst I need more than a promise of what will happen once she's 18.  Any hope?

I was going to read it, but after all the comments I'm reading, it will be put on the back burner.  I can handle angst, but it is not my normal choice.  I'm more into humor.  So angst without an HEA, yeah, not really my cup of tea. Or coffee....depending on the time of day 

Lol, there is any HEA but it depends on what you consider and HEA 

I'm not a Bella/Jasper fan. I have a hard time reading non canon couples, it's the southern drawl that I feel a lot of authors get wrong and it bugs me  I'm all about Edward and Bella.

Off topic, I just finished Reflected in You and I'm totes cranky that I need to wait until May/13 for the next book 

Please add me as well. Still not able to access site

Hey there pretty ladies..(that's meant to be a said in southern accent a la Jasper)  I'm back, having survived the monster that is Dusty. I hadn't read it since it was on chapter 19 ( 6 months ago) so I went back and started it again at the beginning. All I can say is, thank god I've start my Christmas holiday...it took me 24 solid hours, and I read really fast, to make my way through it and that was because I had to step away from my iPad on numerous occasion and take a chill pill. While catching up on the thread I noticed a few questions about the story and HEAs etc so I have posted the review I wrote on Goodread below which I stuck under spoilers because it is monster long! But I wanted to say on here, as you ladies will understand me being fellow Twific addicts  in some form or another, that with Dusty it's not about HEA or Non HEA, that isn't why you should or shouldn't read it. Personally I think you should read it because Dusty epitomises all that is great about this crazy Twific genre and why we spend so much time here, Dusty is the very best of what Twifics is about. I will say, that it is scary, there will be times when you will want to FLOUNCE *shouty capitals*  and, as I said in my review, hit someone, really, really hard, but keep at it, no one will appreciate this fic as much as you ladies, the fact that we meet here so regularly tells me that. You will be doing yourself a great disservice if you don't. In 10 years time, when The Twilight Saga has gone the way of the Dodo and someone says "Oh! Do you remember/read Twifics?" Did you ever read Dusty will be the follow-up question. We've all read a lot of Twishite, but Dusty? Whether you love it or hate it, it is a story you will never forget, it won't blend, you will never confuse it with some other fic. Quite frankly I don't know how I'm going to move on from it, what to read next that will compare; how to go back to dark haired, pixie, slightly psychotic Alice, after falling, head over heels in Twific girl-crush, with blond, tomboy, skater-girl Alice. In fact, I think, the only person who YellowBella didn't physically alter is Edward (apart from his eye colour) Jesus! Even Jacob Black got a make-over! Which brings me to my next point YellowBella's writing? It is superb. I have no idea who these two women are in RL but they put Meyers (and a whole world of "successful" publish authors) to shame with their writing, it clenches you in a fist and hold on vice-like until they are through with you, there is no spoon feeding, no bowing to mass preconceptions, no swaying from where they want the story to go; they stay true to their vision (however long it takes  ).  I loved it! Every heart-wrenching, ugly crying, laugh snort moment of it. Oh! As for the ending? It is whatever you want it to be, I think I read some one earlier saying the ending is "hope"; yeah, it is hope, and as such? It is perfect

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Me too! I have to laugh now when I remember us ranting about "when is Dusty going to update!!" now that it's over I'd go back to that in a New york minute 

I was late to the party, too.  All the books were already out and the first movies were out and on DVD.  I watched the first movie before I even started the books and sometimes I'm surprised I still decided to try the books after seeing the first movie.  I think it was because I was asking my daughter questions about the movie and she told me that I would understand more about what was going on if I read the books since the target audience would be fans of the books.  So off I went to figure what had my daughter so enthralled.  About that time she "outgrew" the whole thing and I was caught in its web!

Both of these fics set the bar. Really. They are both angsty to beat all but are so different. I guess I compare the writing. I found Dusty to be poetic and the endgame was different. Wide Awake wasn't my fave. EP still owns my ass and always will but Dusty *sighs*

I actually kept the names. Gideon Cross is so effing yummy I can't wait for the next book. I was also disappointed to read that the Crossfire books are the new Fifty  uh, just no. These books are far superior and a way better read. At least Tarasueme published/publishing her series. So much better and a way better storyline and growth of characters.

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I know! I may need to go back and read some of TeamBella's stuff. Closer was phenomenal. That was the fist of her stories I read. It was so long ago *scratches head* I think 2 years or so.

I'm actually reading real books atm, so we'll see