I love the story. Please will you write more soon.

PS I just wanted you to have 100 reviews. Hope to read more soon!

I've read your story over these last two days and I absolutely adore it. I love Faye, and she is most definately NOT a Mary-Sue. Erik is actually pretty in-character too. I know it's been a couple of years, but if you just write ONE more chapter, you could finish the story. Please? As a holiday gift?

No, really it wasn't that bad.

Ek! Shivers...Keep it up! It sounds like you have parts of the Erik of the book and the Erik of the play together. Like for instance this Erik's personality is more like the book than the play.

Yeah! Fantastic! Faye is such a great character, she sounds kind of like me a bit I think that's what endears this story even more to me.

I recently stumbled onto this story and I think its awesome. But I notice you haven't updated in a while (2 yrs...) and I was wondering if you're ever going to continue it.

loved it, but are you ever going to finish?

An excellent story all together! I enjoyed it very much. Keep up the good work. :-)

Oh my gosh, she told him she loves him! Wow, I hope you update this story soon, I want to see how the romance turns out and how the opera goes. Please update soon!

please i beg of you to finish! I am completely in love with your story. I love Erik so much, and I love how Faye is written out to be (E/F pairing, hopefully?)

I just want to say that I've loved your story since the first time I ever read it.

Now, I'd like to say something about the so-called "Mary-Sue" incident:

defines fiction as:

A. An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.

B. The act of inventing such a creation or pretense.

A lie.

C. A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact.

D. The category of literature comprising works of this kind, including novels and short stories.

E. Law. Something untrue that is intentionally represented as true by the narrator.

The Phantom of the Opera, though a wonderful story, is fiction. Erik himself was said to have requiems and operas around four or five (see Susan Kay's Phantom). You cannot blame an author for running with the thread of fictions that she has been given. So, in the context of the story, Faye could have been singing operas any time after four.

Also, may I add, that maybe certain individual's teachers haven't allowed them to sing Operas because they aren't prepared for them; talent-wise.

While this is very well written for a mary sue, I have a problem with the character's abilities. Firstly, I have taken singing lessons for over ten years but I have never been able to perform an aria. No singing teacher would make a fifteen year old sing an aria, not in that century and not now. It is also extremely unlikely that she would be an excellent ballet dancer as well as a gifted singer(despite what happens in the Webber musical . Both are far too much work.

Interesting. Very good.

While this is the best Mary Sue I have ever written, I still have some issues with it...

- It is very unlikely that a girl could sing opera at age 15, and even more unlikely that her teacher would let her. Usually at that age one is still doing art songs, and if she asked to do an aria her voice teacher would smack her. There have been exceptions, but usually at that age one is not vocally or even emotionally developed enough to sing a "grown-up" aria. I especially doubt that a young girl would have the vocal power to project like that (remember, opera singers don't use microphones)

- Is she doing ballet as well as her singing role? The singers in an opera do not do the ballet numbers; that is up to the ballerinas

- You mentioned her costume being difficult for her to sing in... Now, I've personally never worn a corsette while singing opera, but I am told that it's easier to sing in one since you have something to push up against. In fact, there are female singers who like to wear push-up bras because it gives them better posture and seems to lift the voice better.

- Erik is remarkably IC, but I still don't buy the romance. I personally think you would be better off without it; it would make this less of a Mary Sue.

Anyway... your writing is very good, and I admire that you made up your own opera (using real ones would have been better, but at least I haven't had to read the lyrics to "Think of Me"!)