Do Not Go Gentle

by SenLinYu

It was subtle at first. For the first several months, she assumed it was merely the stress of the war; for the next several months, she assumed it was the stress of the trials; then when winter approached, she assumed it was stress from school.

She kept assuming it was stress until she was walking to the cabinet to retrieve her supplies for Potions class and the walls began closing in, wobbling and swallowing her up.

When she woke again, she was in the Hogwarts hospital ward.

Severus Snape stood at her bedside, staring down at her with an expression of profound irritation.

Genres: Fan Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Enemies To Lovers, Romantasy, Forced Proximity, Dark

288 pages, ebook

First published March 1, 2020

About the author

SenLinYu grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied classical liberal arts and culture. They started writing in the Notes app of their phone during their baby’s nap time. Their collected online works have garnered over twenty million individual downloads and have been translated into twenty-three languages. They live in Portland with their family. ALCHEMISED is their first novel.

Reviews

[Peppa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Y’all this destroyed me in the best way possible 😭🫶🏻

Hermione survived the war, but Bellatrix’s cursed blade left her with a death sentence: one year to live. Rather than fade away at St. Mungo’s, she returns to Hogwarts to finish her education.

Snape… broody, brilliant and never one to back down from a challenge. He offers to help her find a cure and what follows is a raw, gripping, and intensely intimate journey between two fiercely intelligent, deeply wounded souls.

This a story about fighting to live when hope feels lost. Hermione’s struggle with chronic pain, experimental treatments and fading optimism is portrayed so vividly it’ll shatter your heart over and over. You feel every moment of her pain, her fear, her small flickers of courage. And Snape? He’s still sarcastic and sharp, but there’s a protective, almost tender side to him here that completely reeled me in.

I've read a few Snape/Hermione fics before, but this one? It's an absolute GEM and easily one of the best l've come across. The age gap, the tension, the intellectual equals reluctantly baring their souls-IT WORKED. And yes, there's smut. Beautiful, emotional, meaningful smut.

this is a post-war, slow-burn, forced-proximity, emotional and deliciously tense vibes we love.

[Anita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I wish this story was so much longer!

[Amber · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting premise! Glad I gave it a try. Probably not for me, though ;)

[ani · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 ⭐️ written ok, just hard for me to get over the characters involved lol, struggled to find any good plot in the fic

[Pau Valdez · Rating 3 out of 5]

a lil palette cleanser before i jump into a court of wings and ruin lol :3 well-written considering the short page count, but the story didn’t really stick with me.

[Daniela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Eu tento fingir que não estou a ler fics, mas depois há algumas que não estão no Goodreads e sou obrigada a pôr estes Fanfiction Placeholders, para elas entrarem para o meu reading goal🥴👌🏼
I’m just embracing it, at this point. Caguei🤷🏻‍♀️

Só li esta fic porque era pequena e pareceu-me interessante, e mais importante, porque vim na fé de que a Hermione e o Snape iam ter uma relação próxima de MENTOR-APRENDIZ e não de LOVERS!
Fui trouxa….
This felt so illegal…..
….
Mas imma be honest, foi interessante ver a relação deles a desenvolver-se. Principalmente tendo em conta que a Hermione estava a morrer.
Não shippo tho. Não quero ler mais sobre esta trope. Não agora, pelo menos.

[Sebastian Vega · Rating 4 out of 5]

why isn't this fanfiction that popular? I know it's not Manacled and it's not that super complicated story, but trust me, THIS IS AWESOME.
This is so easy to get into. Everything is completely amazing. The plot is so incredible that the love and intimacy are also so good. I like this book so much.
Short and good♡

[Ana · Rating 5 out of 5]

Snape x Hermione omgggg 😭 this was all I needed

"She hadn't known it was possible to already be so sick of dying and just want to be dead."

[Danielle Patterson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Binged this on a plane and at first I was like nope but SenLinYu does a fabulous job of creating a situation that is objectively horrible and making the characters complicated and loveable. I love how it ended

[Sunfyre · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a love hate relationship with senlinyu, her writing is very good but she lingers on every single plot point so agonizingly long. It making finishing her books kind of frustrating, but I realize it is fanfiction so I acknowledge I’m being a slight hater. Love you tho girl.

[Charlotte · Rating 5 out of 5]

yep you didn’t see this…
this did it for me

[Ciara Traughber · Rating 4 out of 5]

Referred from a friend :) She said it was short, and good! So I gave it a shot! I was shocked when I found out it was a Snape and Hermonie ship, but was told to keep reading 😂 I gave it a shot, and like her, I had to remember that Hermonie is 20 years old and just survived a war. All she wants is to just graduate Hogwarts. She is definitely more mature than your typical young witch preparing to take her NEWTS, she has seen war, been tortured and barely survived. When her curse from Bellatrix becomes unpredictable and difficult to heal, Snape steps up to find the cure. The comfort they find in each other is enjoyable, once again a little too heavy on the spice for me 😂 I feel like if Snape looked like Adam Driver I would completely understand why Hermonie would fall for her potions professor. 💚

[Audio Athena · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Not dying is not the same as being alive."

This little novella packs a punch. I've often told myself that if I knew a child dying of cancer, I would give them Harry Potter to read. Ultimately, the Harry Potter series boils down to accepting and facing death rather than running from it. Do Not Go Gentle takes it a step further and shows just how exhausting and unheroic that choice can feel.
She gets it. She really gets it. The scenario Hermione and Snape are put into feels realistic and within their characters' true ranges. To me, this is the only plausible circumstance that could lead to them being paired up and it works well thanks to senlinyu's writing and storytelling.

[Mish · Rating 5 out of 5]

SenLinYu did it again- angst with a happy ending indeed.
I was in the mood for a change of pace after the multitude of Dramione fanfics I've been reading, and this did not disappoint.
I will admit to being woefully unprepared (even with the tags) for that second to last chapter. I breezed into the book, thinking I could handle it- it's only 10 chapters after all. Crashing out reading chapter 9 was not in my bingo card, but here we are. Wrecked once again by SenLinYu.

[Azul · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kids had their fun already (dramione), now it's adults turn (snamione)
Mi primer fic! Y es de un ship que hasta ayer no sabía que existia. Quedé emocionalmente desvatada por un fanfic, ya complete la verdadera experiencia lectora.
Me da gracia todas las justificaciones que se hicieron para que podamos ver a Snape como un interés amoroso, pero compreee. Recomiendo si quieren leer un romance con el profesor, es un libro cortito pero el slowburn 10/10.
Ahora me siento preparada para leer Alchemised, voy a extrañar a Severus :(
Pd: Lo raro de la experiencia fue que yo no lei ningún libro de hp, asi que ni idea que si estaba en los libros y que no, pero me hizo odiar a todos los amigos de Hermione, amigos falluta 🤬 no hay que confiar en hombres (excepto snape 🥰)

[Brieanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5. The book brought interesting characters together but the overall plot and underlying story were minimal. However, I do enjoy that this writer provides more Harry Potter stories to build off of. As someone who very much enjoys Harry Potter, it’s definitely worth reading these additional stories for interesting alternatives. I will continue reading more by this author.

[Xinyan Chen · Rating 5 out of 5]

i rewatched the entire harry potter series during break w the fam. as a result, the decade-old wizardry brainrot is coming back, and i need to CONSUME more content before i even THINK about the megaliths that are on the spring sem. lit hum syllabus.

(also, i might start writing fic again :')

[H.L. Spurgin · Rating 5 out of 5]

They capture chronic illness in such a visceral way. Highly recommend if you have someone in your life that's ill. It can give you a glimpse into what it's like, the thought processes that try to avoid imposing on anyone. Pride is a common battle for many.

[Bobbi Lawson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this to get over Manacled. It was a nice little pallet cleanser. The dynamic was interesting but well written.

[Marci Mac · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5

[Süße Hexe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it. Had no idea what to expect but gave it a shot. Amazing! 🤩

[Emily Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lotta crying…




The best quote: “He was so precise and exacting. If he wanted to do something pleasurable to someone, he would probably make a point of making it mind-blowing. ”

[Vienna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although I’m not a fan of Hermione x Snape. I have to admit this made me cry a little and think about life and death and all that towards the end.

[Amanda Perry · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think I’m def more dramoine. Interesting pairing though

[April · Rating 1 out of 5]

Snape was an asshole the entire time. Said horrible things to hermoine. This book was so childish. Don’t recommend. A waste of time.

[Kanika Talwar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yes I started read Snape x Hermoine because of this. And what of it 😶‍🌫️

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

couldn't stop reading it. so good

[Addison Griffith]

where can i buy this book?!

[Claire Corkill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ooft

[malak_readzz · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn’t like, not for me