Whoa! Okay people...I have a simple request. If you're gonna ask me a question in a review, please don't post the review anonymously or with a tag that I can't respond to. This has been starting to happen a bit frequently as of late. With that said:
To the person who signed their review as Twilight/The Host Lover, no I did not stop reading The Host at page 40. If you read a little further into my story, Bella picks the book back up and actually says that once you get passed a certain point, it's really interesting. The Host happens to be one of my favorite stories and I re-read it frequently, only I skip to the part where Mel/Wanda gets to Jeb's cave system. I don't care much for the beginning part of the story, but aside from that it's a great read and I recommend it frequently to people I talk to. But thank you for calling me a dumbass LMAO. Just as you said, try reading past chapter 2 before you jump to conclusions okay? Thanks ^_^
To the person who signed their review as Twilighter4life13, I didn't have a specific inspiration for this story. Most of what I write is either a true or exaggerated version of something that has occured in my life. The idea for TOF just happened to come to me when I was thinking of things I'd done during summers while growing up or on vacations...like water tubing, wake boarding, snorkeling, fishing etc etc. I thought it would be fun to write a story where the 6 of them could enjoy times like that and fall in love at the same time.
When I started writing this story, a great deal of people thought my inspiration was the movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise. As embarrassing as this is to admit, I hadn't ever seen the movie at that point, but ended up renting it just to see what they were talking about. I actually cracked up watching it, because aside from Edward being a bartender (among other things at the resort) and the story being set on a tropical island, there wasn't much else that was similar between the two. Edward's not a poetry reciting, bottle twirling and juggling bartender trying to raise enough money to open his own bar with a womanizing best friend, and there's not going to be a pregnant Bella fleeing after finding him walking off with some strange woman only for him to chase after her later on LOL. Sorry folks...had that movie been my inspiration, it might have played out a bit closer to that story line.
Anyways, to everyone else, I don't mind anonymous reviews as long as you aren't asking something that you expect a response to. If you ever want to ask me a question, but don't want to leave a signed review, my profile lists alternate ways to get a hold of me. I'm always more than happy to answer questions, as long as you're not asking me to spoil some upcoming event lol, or just shoot the crap with my readers at any time.
Please do not review this author's note as the next chapter will be taking it's place hopefully sometime next week. Thanks so much! ~Jersey~