User blog comment:Hyzenthlay of Redwall/Late Feelings for Laterose/@comment-1421927-20091126192453

I did cry when she died, and when rereading the book, I cried again. I also cried in the Nelvana version. I can agree that I sometimes don't cry when people die (Especially when rereading a book), but I was angry at Nelvana for having Martin and Rose kiss and stuff. I was yelling at youtube... :T I didn't cry hysterically, but I cried for a good while while reading. But, while saying that, I am a very sensitive person and cries easily; Just because you didn't cry at a fictional character dying doesn't mean your weird or anything.

I'm not a big romantic, but maybe like, an ounce more romance would be acceptable. I think what really made the book "cry-able" was the fact that Martin took it so hard; he loved her, and it was just barely evident in the book. Nelvana, in my opinion, made it waaay to ooey-gooey. And yes, the long, painful deaths do really affect you, because they have the time to pur out their "real feelings" and talk about how they'll be fine. This one was rather abrupt, and a shocker in my opinion, but BJ seems to like you to be surprised (Atleast in MtW and Loamhedge) by who dies, so the abrupt deaths just make you go "WHAT?! Waaaah!!!!", and sometimes to long, prolonged deaths can be too prolonged and boring.

But, not crying over this is nothing to be ashamed of. It's just the people who do cry are usually more sensitive, like me. Not to generalize, though, there are people who cry at book stuff that do not strike me as "sensitive", though.