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In the nearly-final draft, I had killed Mom and Giacinta too. Beta-readers were really suffering over that. They worried about both parents being gone after they'd suffered through so much to be together, and they worried about who would tame Gabi's hair. So Mom and Giacinta were saved!

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Thank you for not doing that!

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I cried so much over Dad. Had Mom died too...I don't think I could I've handled that. Not even the she wolves themselves could have.

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I read the last part of the book yesterday, and I still get teary-eyed when I think about Dad dying. I think I would be in full on sob if Mom and Giacinta had died too... Thanks for saving them!!!

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I'm glad Giacinta didn't die, especially after her scare in Torrent. I love her and didn't want her to die. And Mom couldn't die. No. Just no.

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I'm glad I saved them too!

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Hmmm...interesting. I was surprised Mom didn't die - I expected her to and it would have made so much sense to me if she had. I kind of felt it was a little unrealistic that she lived and I was really sad she had to go through losing her husband again.

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That is interesting, Robyn. I felt like no matter who I killed, people would be disappointed! That's why it took so long for me to finish...

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oh my both Parents dying would have killed me and like I just cant. I had wished that instead of Dad dying Mom would have (im sorry please don't hate me)  and Giacinta would have also made me really sad but as you said no matter who it was that died its hard I think you did an amazing job with this book. it had me crying through the whole thing but you did AMAZING

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I think Dad dying was perfect... I mean, it makes sense that he didn't beat Death twice - especially if it was really his time to go the first time around. It was great that he got to spend a few more years with his family and see little Fortino. Man, his crying at the sight of little Fortino was so sweet. I'm glad Mom didn't die... although I wouldn't have been devastated. What got to me the most was Greco's dying.

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I really like their mom because she is so smart and sane. But if both parents had died I don't think Gabi or Lia could've recovered from the loss. On a side note, did anyone else feel really mad at Lia when she was in that depression? I mean I can't blame her at all for the trauma it's just that it made me weirdly angry at her like she was wasting everybody's time? (like her own daughter's!! and lucas?!) when everyone else had recovered mostly. Lia is very sweet and sensitive and almost delicate in my opinion like she's hardly like Gabi for the most part?

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Okay...glad I waited to read this until I had a few days off. The end of an excellent series always makes me more sad than happy at first.

Just a couple of thoughts to share...part of me wanted Adri and Ben to die together. They reminded me so much of my own parents, not because mine were archaeologists, but because they were together all the time. It's been almost 5 years since my dad died (yes, I relived that grief reading Deluge) and part of me wonders how it would have been for them to go together. I would miss them both terribly, but it would be fitting that they left this world in the same way they lived in it: together. Thought the same for Ben and Adri...

Only thing I would have liked written differently is for the Epilogue to be written from Gabi's perspective ~ she and Lia on the castle wall, watching their children and Alessandra's race for the flag. But then again, maybe if it was written that way I would be wanting it like it was written! HAHA...Thank you for your commitment to your fans to finish this series.  

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I would have cried so hard if the Mum died I couldn't put the book down and I got so emotionally attached to the characters that I felt all their pain or loss