Name: Sonic Broom (Signed) · Date: 07/07/03 - 01:18 pm · For Chapter: Best First

This is probably the best Transformers 'Fanfic' I've ever read. I do like how the author referred to it sas a 'Novella' instead, though. It is amazing in its straight-forward style and familiar characters. It has humor, drama, suspense and intruige. It's perfect. Read this.

Name: glitch (Signed) · Date: 07/04/03 - 07:20 am · For Chapter: Best First

Excellent story and great development. Highly recommended to anyone who likes Transformers

Name: Jazz (Signed) · Date: 27/03/03 - 11:10 pm · For Chapter: Best First

What can I say except that this is the best Transformers story I have ever read. I only hope that any I write can turn out half this good. This is a must read for anyone who has ever even seen a Transformer on TV, on store shelves, or in the comics. This is the height of what Transformers are.

Name: Jiminy Christmas (Signed) · Date: 19/03/03 - 10:20 pm · For Chapter: Best First

You have either inspired me to write my long-contemplated sequel to "Coming Clean," or you've frightened me away from ever writing another Thundercracker story. I haven't decided yet. While I had a couple of extremely minor nitpicky reactions to it, overall, it's an engrossing story and gives a great backstory to my very first Transformer. Thank you for all the work you put into this.

Name: tremor3258 (Signed) · Date: 12/03/03 - 08:01 pm · For Chapter: Best First

It's all here at last... I missed the end of it on ATT. Let's put it this way... a bit of an anaglam from various story lines (comic, toon, G2), but a good one... with a lot of great jokes, superb development, mysteries, and early history. EASILY one of the top five fics written in the last year, and in the top ten overall by any measure. If you're going to read one fanfic this year... strongly consider it to be this one.

Name: onisan (Signed) · Date: 01/03/03 - 12:53 am · For Chapter: Best First

Great story but I found the premise lacking somewhat. These are Transformers - not ancient greeks and therefore would not be swayed by a story-telling.

Name: Anonymous (Signed) · Date: 18/02/03 - 04:47 pm · For Chapter: Best First

Been quite some time since I saw something hit number one that fully deserved the honor. Well, time to reset the counter. ;) It's worthy of its high praise -- nothing overhyped here. From delightful and absorbing wit(with a dash of subtlety for added flavor!), to a grand plotline told in the smallest of ways, this story is blissful; inspiring. It's epic, but... small. That's the difference, and that's what truly puts the 'best first' on Lexicon. ;)

Name: PrincessArtemis (Signed) · Date: 11/02/03 - 04:35 pm · For Chapter: Best First

Unspeakably incredible. Well done, well crafted.

Name: Velvet Glove (Signed) · Date: 27/01/03 - 01:24 pm · For Chapter: Best First

Do yourself a favour and read this more than once--I promise you you'll have missed something the first time. Utterly absorbing and far more intricate than reading from a computer monitor can do justice to, this is one fic that really does deserve its improbable rating. Despite being unfamiliar with many of the characters and the continuity involved here, I enjoyed this story thoroughly. Bravo!

Name: Kevona (Signed) · Date: 21/01/03 - 07:13 am · For Chapter: Best First

This was incredible. This has to be *the* definitive Thundercracker story, and I shall be pointing my friends to it. The background, the metaphor, the backdrop of leadership in transition... all of these were stunning. As was mentioned by others, I shall never be able to look at some of these characters the same way again. Stunning work!

Name: mykle1616 (Signed) · Date: 18/01/03 - 12:52 am · For Chapter: Best First

Wonderful! Entertaining and enlightening!!

Name: squirrel27 (Signed) · Date: 14/01/03 - 06:20 am · For Chapter: Best First

I followed a link to this story from an offsite review which basically said this fic was the best thing since sliced bread. Accordingly, I began reading with some scepticism. I take it back. I take it all back. After years of reading fanfic in one form or another, including those that have earned the status of Timeless Classic, I have to say that this novella is quite possibly the best work of Transformers fan fiction I have ever read. OK, so when scanned with an editorial paranoia turned up till the knobs break off, there are hair-fine stretches in the story's tight warp and weft But to tell the truth, they're at the limit where the language itself starts to blur around the edges, and linguists dance on the point of a needle rather than the head of a pin. Actually, what the hell. Just sit back and savor the plot, the pacing, the characterisation, the sheer concinnity. Very tasty indeed. Thanks, SkyShadow. I have a new standard to strive towards. I even forgive you that Seizer pun in "His Own Two Feet".

Name: Firebird (Signed) · Date: 07/01/03 - 09:45 am · For Chapter: Best First

Awesome!

Name: Merytneith (Signed) · Date: 01/01/03 - 02:02 pm · For Chapter: Best First

What words could be said about this story that would possibly do it justice? To say the very least, this is a story that should not be missed by *any* reader who loves Transformers fanfiction. Certainly anyone who has plumbed the depths of Lexicon knows that the range of quality-- storylines, technicalities of grammar, character portrayals-- varies like the shades of color in light reflecting on a pool of oil. "Best First"-- the foremost encomium to Thundercracker in all existence-- provides a story so engaging that you will be unable to stop reading. It is a story displaying nothing short of the apogee of elocution and execution, a tribute to how obviously and seriously the author conducted his work in producing it. The characters are so well drawn that, if you have the fortune to own the delightful toy object versions that find life within Sky Shadow's prose, I *dare* you to ever look at them the same way again. There are so many fascinatingly delightful details within this story that to list them all-- to even *begin* to list them all-- would be an impossible task. Like so many of Sky Shadow's stories, every single reading produces some small detail that was missed the first (or second, or third) time around. Here is a tale that makes real the metaphor that still waters run deep; beneath the calm waters of crystalline-clear prose lurks a literary leviathan that will consume you until the very last word.