Name: WriteYourHeartOut (Signed) · Date: 01 Jan 2024 08:38 AM · For: Chapter 1

Wellllllll this was just adorable! I am a big WolfStar shipper (although I tend to gravitate more towards the angsty side, as I imagine you do as well based on your author's note), but this was so cute and funny and sweet and innocent and lovely that I was smiling from start to finish! I can't believe this was a collab either! I don't know how this story was split or decided upon by the two author's, but whatever you did worked! This story is so fluid, it's hard to believe it had multiple contributors!

 

The Room of Requirement was like a third character here, playing games, setting traps, possibly digging a little deeper into their brains than what they were actually requesting. And just what did Remus find in that drawer, hmm? Cheeky, cheeky room. Was so funny watching them struggle to get it right, only to have the last option be the worst of all! Not sure how Remus didn't take one look at that third and final room with the heart shaped pillow and rose petals and whatever was in the drawer and think 'clearly this is a sign', but alas, our little Remus always did struggle to accept love and attention.

 

Sirius having no cool is hilarious. He is Mister Cool, but I would melt around Remus, too, under a shared cloak and in a honeymoon suite. Cool Sirius would have licked the chocolate right off his face. hahaha Anyway, I think Sirius has both those sides to him, and it was adorable witnessing this one.

 

Not thrilled with the ending but ONLY because I WANTED MORE! Who is actually rolling over and going to sleep in that situation? Are you two Marauder's or not? Seize the day, damnit! Create that mischief! Anyway, it was a lovely story, I thoroughly enjoyed myself, I just wish it would have continued a bit more, but in a very selfish way. hahaha Well done!

Name: CheekyTorah-Lex (Signed) · Date: 27 Jun 2020 03:54 AM · For: Chapter 1

It's no secret that I enjoy Kayla and Emma's writing. Especially when it comes to anything wolfstar, sign me up, I'm here for it. 

This piece did not disappoint! The structure and technical side of the writing were brilliant as always. Kayla and Emma always make sure they have a fluid piece that is well-edited/beta and strong.

The combination of these two writers is just phenomenal! Kayla and Emma wrote seamlessly together creating a funny, sweet story that is so utterly endearing. The characterizations were spot on, the descriptions beautiful and dialogue was not overpowering or lacking. The light banter between them and the raw emotions both expressed in their inner thoughts gave us the reader a way to connect with the characters and stories.  The descriptions brought the room, the tension, the moments between Sirius and Remus to life in a way that made me feel like I was right there in the RoR. 

Over all an excellent piece! Thank for entering my challenge and sorry for taking so long to get to this!

Name: justawillowtree (Signed) · Date: 23 Jun 2020 07:59 PM · For: Chapter 1

I would like to begin this review by appreciating the absolutely DELIGHTFUL punniness of the title! What an excellent title!!! I genuinely have been giggling at it for the past few minutes and have thought of nothing else besides how PERFECT it is.

For two writers who pen such heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, stomach-twisting angst all the time, this humorous piece comes across so naturally?? It’s such a testament to your versatility! If you had shoved this fic into my face at random, I would come away from it confidently proclaiming, “Aha! These authors are fluff writers through and through!” Which we know is not at all true, from all the tear-stained tissues that have met my trash can over the years. :’)

I honestly really love how the There’s Only One Bed trope came about in this story! So I’m a BIG fan of this trope, but in other stories that involve sharing a bed, I’d always just sorta suspend disbelief as the story’s universe oriented itself to force these particular characters into a singular bed -- yet you guys made this part very believable?? I mean, the Room of Requirement gives you what you really want, so if you’re secretly harboring Very Intense Feelings for your best friend, perhaps feeling so intense that you wanna share a bed with them, deep in your subconscious, then the room’s gotta help you out! I’m so pleased with this part of the plot, you have no idea. :D Also...what was in that drawer? Condoms? :P

Remus had two VERY quality lines in this fic. One is: [[“Ah.”]] The other is: [[“I take it you did not mean for this to happen.”]] Both instances, I chortled like mad. An honorary mention goes to his internal monologue: [[“that tone that meant ‘Sirius is going to shut his canopy and have a breakdown’...”]]

HOGGING THE DUVET. IS THAT NOT THE MOST COUPLE-Y THING. I love how self-conscious both of them are about not being Too Obvious ! I love them. This is the most fabulous fic ever!! <3

Love,

 

Eva

Name: maraudertimes (Signed) · Date: 27 Apr 2020 03:35 AM · For: Chapter 1

Hello friends! I have come because this seemed cute. I was right.

 

Alright, let's start with Sirius and his noticing of Remus's chocolate icing and refusing to talk about it. Obviously understandable, super cute, but come on! Why would that be suspicious? Although perhaps I don't understand the Gay Panic so I'll let it slide (because of how it sets everything else up). But that first part was amazing, with Sirius's little gay panic about being so close to his best friend and it making him *hot*. I liked how they had to use the cloak because of course that forces them together, and why wouldn't the Fat Lady be gone on the one night they're trapped out together? Great coincidence, love it! And I loved how you guys referenced earlier times they heard or seen her so it wasn't just a "where could she be" moment with nothing behind it.

 

And then such a cute moment where he was embarassed about not thinking about Professor Sinistra! And of course the breath on his neck - because who doesn't feel a little wobbly-knee'd when the person you're crushing on is right. there. Of course, with the summary of this story I wasn't at all suprised when the room gave them only one bed, and I really liked the added detail about the food and how Sirius always asks the room for snacks - and never gets them.

 

And then Remus, poor Remus. I love how they both dance around each other so much, it's so cute. The bathroom was a great detail, and I'm pretty sure even though he was very insistent on two beds, the Room gives you what you ask for and Remus was subconsciously loving that one bed idea. And then the third room was the best. I was curious as to why it would be so romantic - especially considering I've always pictured Remus as the more romantic of the two - and the dorm with more pillow things kind of explained it. I guess.

 

And then the real explanation. How utterly adorable. I love this Room, it's like a little matchmaker! And of course it wouldn't give them pyjamas, because then Sirius wouldn't be that cold without the duvet. I am wondering why Remus would be hogging it so much if he thought Sirius was asleep. Is he just constantly cold? Or did he subconsciously want Sirius to come closer?

 

And then the chocolate icing moment! And the embarassment! And the GAY PANIC!!! Side note: I really loved the Very Gay, and Heterosexual Explanation. They really just added to the whole Gay Panic. But back to his admission, and then the kiss! My little heart melted, it was the cutest thing ever. I loved how Remus pulled away and then Sirius pressed further, it was so lovely and really reminiscent of "Oh, I shouldn't have done that" moment followed immediately be "Nope, you definitely should have."

 

It was so cute, and the fact that he pinched himself was adorable, and when Remus yawned again he was so adament that they sleep - this entire story is just a cuteness overload and I don't know if I can handle it! But you guys, this was so lovely, your writing styles are amazing together, this whole story was beautiful, and I really truly did love it.

 

Thanks so much for writing this so that I could read it!

Lo <3

 

P.S. Sorry for deleting and reuploading this review - I had some typos

Name: RonsGirlFriday (Signed) · Date: 20 Mar 2020 04:37 AM · For: Chapter 1

Hey guys! I've wanted to review this ever since I read the first draft. It is SO good. Whatever, I know you enjoy torturing people, but you can't hide from the fact that you're actually brilliant at humor. You know, Wolfstar was never my ship -- I don't not enjoy it, I just never had one feeling or another about it -- but this story, along with your many others that are so good, could convert me.

 

Frankly, I think once the characters are in the bed, that's the easy(-ish) part. The hard part is getting them there in a way that makes sense and is entertaining, which you accomplished perfectly. The whole scenario is entirely believable, and you make an otherwise fairly unexciting/undramatic situation (going to the Room of Requirement just to sleep) super engaging in the way you play the characters' inner thoughts off one another. I was giggling idiotically throughout. And it didn't get any less funny on the third read-through. I could feel their abject horror every time the Room gave them what they, in fact, secretly wanted. Meanwile they're both just looking at each other like, "Pfft, would you get a load of this crazy Room? Thing's obviously broken..."

 

Remus and his unintentionally funny understated reactions were some of my favorite moments. Never did I think the word "Ah" would be quite so hilarious. Also the calm, "I take it you did not mean for this to happen," while inside he is just screaming. Also his "what actually happened to my quill?" look? I love that it says volumes about his personality.

 

Also I like how obvious it is that they genuinely care about each other. It's not just fluffy, funny sexual tension, even though there's plenty of that and it's perfect -- but also, Sirius wants Remus to have somewhere comfortable to sleep, and Remus doesn't want Sirius to be having a mental breakdown -- ugh! (Pfft, I saw you right there getting real tempted to make this into some psychological angst with Sirius on the verge of a breakdown -- abort, abort! -- must have fluff -- but actually, it worked really nicely? Because it felt like real life.)

 

"Godric Gryffindor wingmanning from beyond the grave." -- Who was responsible for this, again? Because it was the most perfect quote and the most perfect thing that could have happened here. Remus just decides he's going to address the issue by making an executive decision and it's like a prime example of a Gryffie trait at work in ordinary life.

 

I love, love, love this so much. <3

 

Melanie