I love this story. i have read it a dozen or so times and i still like it. its sweet and true to the charactors. keep up the good work.

Lovely really lovely. It was the perfect length, had a great through line, and was really really smooth, this may sound weird but the story reminds me of carving, a little rough (violence in it, some of the confusion of Xan and the reader), but in the end all you see is how smooth and wonderful it is.

Well I read the uncensored version and I can't figure out how/didn't want to try to comment their so I'll comment here.

I love this story. I'm a big fan of SpikexXander, but this is an especially good story. The story line is excellent. It's just the right length for this plot and over all it is amazing. Keep up the good work.

i liked this a lot, but you should have made it into a chapter story. Anyway good work :)

I dig the carving. I'm a metal girl myself but there is nothing so fulfiling as a piece of material waiting to be bent to your will. So primal, so sexy.

The part with the slayer coming back seemed a little rushed but perhaps that was Xan being out of it

Here's the working link for BLOODCLAIM: community./bloodclaim/

Here's the link to BLOODCLAIM (spander fanfiction livejournal) that should work:

community./bloodclaim/

Have you considered posting The Woodshed on Bloodclaim? I think it would be much appreciated!

community./bloodclaim/

I wanted to email you this, but when I tried clicking on the email function I was unable to do so because I don't have a login on .

Nice use of details.

I'm sorry this won't be a "well rounded critique" but I read this story and fell in love with it. Thank you very much for sharing it.

I liked the angst but also Xander's strength that came through in the end.

I would have prefered to have a paragraph more of Xander's turning point. Showing a little more the time it takes him in the shed. It came a little too sudden for me. Just a teeny tiny bit. A sentence more to make the transition easier...? I don't know. Though it's good the way it is.

And I would have liked to have a better or deeper? explanation on why his scar is a scooby taboo.

I really like the your writing style. It's smooth and insightful and I'm not really good with this. :D

This was my try to give a "well rounded critique". It is only possible with really great stories because then I can see the thumbnail difference to my reader's version of perfection. All other stories are too far away from it to even contemplate a review. :D

That is supposed to mean: I really love your story, I hope you write much more like it and my criticism is very subjective and is a show of my appreciation even if most ppl don't see it like that. :D

This was pretty damn cool - and I think I might have to go and check out the slashier version later on too. :D

thanks for sharing,

Marns

~pN

That was an absolutely amazing one shot fic. Well written and nicely balanced - most one shots leave you feeling like there should be more but the writer can't figure out what or can't be bothered to finish what should be a longer fic - but this one makes a perfect little circle of its own. All the characters voices flow well and no one is oc, which isn't always an easy trap to avoid, especially in this fandom!

I usually try to give con crit in any review but for once I just can't find anything to crit and I even have to admit to re-reading it on your LJ after I finished it here so I could get the full version.

Nicely done and thanks for sharing!

Fairy T