This is fantastic. Amazingly hot, really angsty. I cried. Well done!

WHAT?!? NO! WHY WOULD YOU?! Okay seriously though, are you planning on finishing the sequel? Because this is the BEST HG/SS I've ever read. You have a brilliant style and are so in-tune with the characters' voices and I can't bear this ending. I just can't. You've broken me!

Please tell me there was a sequel, that there's a happy ending!!! Arghhh!!! I love this, I want more!

Read this.. yep.. AGAIN (for the zillionth time). Love it!
I really NEED to know how it all turns out!!!

I don't often leave reviews but then there have been few stories that have captured me like this one did! Once I started I couldn't stop...I had to know how it ended. I felt invested lol. I laughed, cried, sighed in exasperation and experienced just about every other emotion.

I know this story was written awhile ago (I just stumbled across it....yesterday lol) and was scrambling through you stories to find the sequel and didn't see one!! Are you still planning on writing it? I sure do hope so because I'm literally sitting on the edge of my seat and biting my nails waiting to find out what happens!!!

Thank you for the wonderful story.  SO glad to read that you plan a sequel! 

So, yeah. In reading the sequel, I realized I needed to reread Caramel. I'm SO glad I did. It is an AWESOME story. You had me in tears -- TEARS!!! -- at times. *phew* But now I feel like I have a better grip of the storyline. TOTALLY worth the re-read. Thanks for all of your hard work. 

Albus hoped—no, he believed—that it would come right. He was fairly certain Severus had begun to fall back in line.

Fall back in line, indeed. I love to hate Dumbledore. And your Dumbles is so very canon - after some of the things he said in The Prince's Tale, this thought is completely in character.

*sigh* The angst in this story is so delicious - that feeling, as if they were star-crossed lovers, that the world is simply against them. This definitely makes an appropriate ending to the story, although it's also lovely to know that the sequel is coming, and is already posting!

I've revisited the song (such a beautiful, haunting song!), and am amazed at how well you crafted your story around it.

It won't do to dream of caramel
to think of cinnamon
and long for you
It won't do to stir a deep desire
to fan a hidden fire
that can never burn true

I know your name
I know your skin
I know the way these things begin
and I don't know
how I would live with myself
what I'd fogive of myself
if you don't go

So goodbye sweet appetite
no single bite could satisfy

I have to admit, I love how it turned out! There's such a perfect mix of joy, wonder, and fear as they each discover their attraction is mutual. *sighs happily*

OMG, rereading this chapter, actually the last couple, have absolutely devastated me! Knowing Hermione's actions were quite different from what she thought they would be, knowing what she was doing was so wrong, but feeling, understanding the desire that led her to them, and then feeling with her the horror at being discovered. I was fighting back tears of shame and humiliation right along with her, only to be surprised by the miraculous joy that she was desired in return.

Wow... feeling pretty wrung out. This doesn't feel so much an evil cliffie as a needed pause to catch my breath! Spectacularly emotive writing! :D

I don't normally leave reviews but I just had to tell you that this is a brilliant story.  I love finally reading a story without a perfect happy ending.  I actually teared up, but it was exactly how the story needed to end.  It fit perfectly with Severus's canon characterization to do so.  I can't wait for updates on the sequel!

C-pie, I admit that I missed updated for this story for reasons I cannot phanthom. But they all seem like a well-placed Obliviate. This was painful and necessary. Terrifying in its finality. But I hope till the sequel is here that the four antidote vials will be enough. Excellent prose.

Where is the sequel? Pleeeaaaaaaaseeeee! I'm going mad! Will they have a happy end? Pretty please? :-D

I actually found myself angry when I read the author's notes, because I had no idea this was going to happen. I am quite frustrated with you, madam :P I have since calmed, haha, but I don't think I will be satisfied until I see the beginning of the next story. I really hope you plan to do it. Let me know if you need a beta ;)

This was such a cool story, hot and well crafted. Ending here, I'm forced to believe that Severus dies in the shack, and Hermione marries Ron never realizing she'd lost her love.
It's beautifully tragic this way, but surely you had something else in mind, missy.

Was there ever a sequal written, this is a terrible ending.  It's an amazing brilliant story but it need so much more.

awesome chapter.

I never write reviews, but felt I must write something as I read all 36 chapters in one night. It's that good! Absolutely hands down one of the best SS/HG fics I've ever read. Having said that, I just came to the realization that I've been reading ss/hg for nine or ten years(!) now. Your story is a prime example of why I just can't seem to quit this pairing and I only wish I had read it sooner.

Anxiously awaiting the sequel. I believe good things come to those who wait. :)

First, thank you for pointing me to some very WONDERFUL music.  That alone was worth the price of admission.

I loved the character development.  I loved them together in this.  And although I'm a bit disappointed in the ending, I understand it.  You did a wonderful job of sticking to canon up to this point (and I'm truly hoping you DON'T do that so much for the sequel!!!  hint, hint!!!)

And granted I didn't see the end coming until after she actually drank the damn tea!

Anxiously awaiting the sequel...

GAH!  Now I'm depressed.  I seriously hope you're still working on the sequel, since I hate sad endings and avoid them whenever possible.  Anyway, very engaging story.

Gahhhhhhh, no! ;_; angst!

What a wonderful story. Brilliant plot, believable characters and vivid, beautiful descriptions. I just adored the whole wild ride. Thank you.

Loving this story so far, but it was your funny AN that got me to review this chapter. I really chuckled at the comment about Severus being in more PWP than Jenna Jamenon. :)

I thorougly enjoyed this.  Thank you for sharing and I can't wait to read the sequel.

It's staying fun for me!

Lots of fun!

I'll come back to it soon.

(((hugs)))

It's likt the time I found my Mom's copy of Joy of Sex...

fumagate that bag, Hermione!