The Last Day of Christmas · 8:35am Mar 8th, 2017
Welp, here I am again with my latenight semi-reviews! I still don't know if I want to be too . . . legit about this whole thing. I would like to keep it more lighthearted for now (I am sticking to one-shots for this very reason), but you should look forward to fuller, more in-depth reviews when I tackle a larger story in the future. Currently speaking, I don't really want to put too much time into something that will take me years to complete. But I digress. Let's get to tonight's story!
Summary: Today, I read The Last Day of Christmas, a fluffy one-shot featuring our favorite reformed villain, Sunset Shimmer. The story begins with Sunset leaving school a few days before Christmas feeling maybe just a tad bit down. However, she is determined to not let a sour mood ruin the holidays, so she walks outside and kicks some snow to help her feel better. And then, suddenly, Twilight from Equestria shows up. Sunset is taken by surprise and inquires why Twilight decided to come all this way, and Twilight then proceeded to show her the presents everyone had gotten her. Presents from everyone in the human 6, apparently, and to end it all off, she receives something intensely meaningful: the Equestria Medal of Honor. She was awarded it for her success in spreading friendship and unity into another world, with Celestia engraving encouraging words on the back, and you can imagine this was a very emotional affair. Twilight had originally offered Sunset to come to her castle, but she refused, so Twilight gave a kiss on her cheek after Sunset had cried on her shoulder and left. Twilight would then wake up the next day to Sunset in her castle, and the story ends.
Thoughts: So this story did tug on my emotional strings, I'll give it that, but the story began at a rocky start. It was a little jarring for Twilight to suddenly come out of nowhere, and I felt that a better lead up to this confrontation would have served this story far better. Problems persisted throughout the story, one being the fact that Twilight seemingly gave presents to Sunset from all her human friends, which doesn't make too much sense. Sunset said that Christmas was only a few days away, so why would Equestrian Twilight be giving Sunset all of their presents before Christmas? That seemed to be a weak point in logic. Because of this, it seemed to lessen the climax of the story: Sunset receiving the pendant. It was well played, but it didn't have a strong lead up, so it fell a little short of it's intended aim.
I thought that Sunset showing up on Christmas day, I believe (I don't remember, I'm going to be honest. 
), was pretty odd as well, seeing as she said she was going to spend Christmas on Earth, but seeing as she did technically get all the presents from everyone she knew down there, I guess there was no reason for her to stick around. However, if that's the logic, then it's not good logic either.
I thought it was a sweet story, but that's about it. It needed a little more thought and better execution for it to have been a fantastic story. It probably needed to be twice the length it was, to be honest.
But that's all I have for you. Read the story if you want, but I don't recommend it. It's pretty much what you get on the cover.
Couldn't it be that Sunset was going to see Twilight early that morning? (I don' remember details to this perfectly, since I read it when it came out...) But the review, to me, was spot on; I applaud you for such a captivating review, and if I hadn't already read the work I would be wanting to go read it.
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My memory has gone to shit as of late. I might have to go back because I know I was onto something when I said what I said. Haha.
Thanks! I'm happy you enjoyed this review. I personally cannot remember even the scene u was talking about in the story.