WARNING – HARD BITTEN SPOILERS BELOW.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! 🙂
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The Hard Bitten 12-Step Program
(Created by, and used with permission of, WindyCityVamp, of the Meritverse Forums.)
1. We admitted we were powerless over what happened to Ethan—that CLV needs more Ethan.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves (Author Chloe Neil) could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the reading of CLV series… again.
4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of books. (See the Canon Section of the Board)
5. Admitted to Chloe, to ourselves, and to other forum members the exact nature of our predictions, findings and guesses.
6. Were entirely ready to have Chloe rectify all predictions, findings and guesses.
7. Humbly asked Chole to heal our broken hearts.
8. Made a list of all characters in the book, and became willing to accept what happened to them.
9. Made direct predictions to such characters wherever possible, except when to do so would cause them not to come back to life.
10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we make wrong guesses and promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through re-reading to improve our conscious contact with the plots, looking only for knowledge of Chloe’s will for the characters and the power to carry that out.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to CLV devotees, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.
That has been the only thing to make me feel better about the books… (since my heart was broken) <3
You are too cute! Thanks for summing it up for the rest of us.
Currently on step 9…
I’m currently on step 7. I believe in you Chloe just don’t make me cry again. I never cried so hard reading a book not even When Kristen Died (“For a few demons more” Kim Harrison)
Said it on Meritverse and will say so again here … missing step 13 – Remember to chant the mantra “Chloe says ‘Trust me, trust me …'”
We’ve got to keep the faith … ‘Trust me ….’
(Whilst I trust you Chloe, please don’t make us wait too long for Ethan’s return … dying a little every day til November!!)
Fabulous! I wonder how many times we will need to do the program before November comes! lol
Life’s mountains cannot be appreciated without smashing into an occasional valley ~ I trust Chloe (the unwritten 13th step) and I’m looking forward to Drink Deep in November.
Im still sad about it…but working my way towards Step 3;)
Well…I just accepted step 2 and am having difficulty with step 3.
I only just reached step 2. x.o Still pretty much getting weepy every time I read that one passage from the book. I may believe that I’ll be restored to sanity, but doesn’t make my mind calm down xD I guess I’ll just have to wait for DD. *twitches madly*
I’m glad to see other fellow fans having a hard time with this too. It makes me feel better 🙂 This was worse for me than with what happened to Kisten (RIP). Trust in Chloe…sigh
I’m still in denial
Just finished reading the book last night….still on step one 🙁 in total shock…had to re-read the last 5 chapters. Now I have to wait until Nov for the next book total torture!