Basingstoke - Rough Edges-Series
Fandom: SherlockBBC/Black Books
Author: Basingstoke
Title: Rough Edges-Series (Padding, Pillow, Eggcrate, Cartilage). First two parts are Black Books crossover
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Rating: Author did not specify, approx PG13.
Genre: Author did not specify.
Word Count: 16,394
Author summary: Part one Sherlock Holmes and Bernard Black: cousins. The rest of the family: terrifying.
Part two Fran, Manny, and Bernard stop by Baker Street to apologise.
Part three John Watson, meet the Holmes family. Holmes family, meet John Watson. No bloodshed please. Let's have a nice dinner.
Part four Characters are horrible to each other, including accusations of rape and murder and threats of suicide.
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Unfortunately the author did not warn for “Badfic”, because this is surely what was intended. I sincerely hope the author wasn't intending this to be taken seriously by a reader.
'Padding' and 'Pillow', the first two instalments are a crossover with Black Books. The first part sees Sherlock and John go to a bookshop where they buy some books. That's it really. Humour ensues, except it doesn't.
The second part has Fran, Manny and Bernard visiting Baker Street to apologise. Fran and John randomly go upstairs to have sex. Sherlock tortures Bernard with a taser for being drunk.
In the third part John meets Sherlock's family for a family meal. The reader learns that Sherlock's family are some sort of genetic experiment. None of the family members are at all believable.
Part four is where 221B has a visit from Sherlock's baby sister, Easter. She joins them on a case and then a visit to a museum.
The writing is bland, the characters more so. The characters from the show (either of them) are not even close to being in character, you will not recognise them at all. The ocs are flat and uninteresting. Sherlock's younger sister, Easter, who appears in part four is probably the most badly written character I've ever come across and there have been many. 'Mummy' is a “buxom” (author's description) Texan and Elliston, one of Sherlock's brothers was a member of the IRA. Of course it is possible to be Irish and not be a member of the IRA. If this was intended to be humorous or dark, it was neither.
The storyline for any of the parts was, well, I'm not even sure if there was one. Each part has the story jumping from one scene to another for no reason and the dialogue is often pointless.
Although the author claims this was Brit picked it was in fact littered with American usage so I can only assume that the author did not bother to alter it or needs a new Brit picker!
Please, do yourself a favour and don't invest any time in this.
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