First read: 09.06.10

9000 words. Not really a story, mostly the main character is introduced and has a slightly revealing and predictable experience (groupies don't make good girlfriends!). It feels like the first part of a longer story but doesn't really go anywhere on its own.

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First read: 04.06.2010

Gosh. Was this hard to get my hands on! I had like, adventures, trying to find it in London. That said, it was totally worth the trouble. I liked this better than the first book, "The Demon's Lexicon", but I realised that reading this as opposed to listening to it makes a huge difference on my appreciation of the style, which ( Read more... )

First read: 26.05.10

2000 words. *spoilers* The fact that Cinderella is a boy doesn't really change much. Except for the whole thing about the princess sneaking out to give out the invites to her own party so as to get a real look at the candidates, which was smart, ok, but still, plot?

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"Get Some" by hackthis
First read: 09.02.2010

35.000 words. I was in daze after I finished this. Nate and Brad are apparently real life marines that did some stuff that got put into a show called "Generation Kill" so whether this is RPF, original fiction or fanfic is debatible. I read it as original slash, a high-school romance with lots of twist and awesome ( Read more... )

First read: 25.01.2010

4000 words. So the story isn't particularly sweet, it's about Alan raising Nick, and how he could infuse him with some human traits but couldn't really change who Nick was and that isn't anything cute and babyish but that doesn't detract from Alan loving him or Nick, with his flawed understanding of humanity, from loving him ( Read more... )

I slash because the stories I want, I can't have. I can't have a story where Kirk and Spock touch hands without the glass between them at the end of Wrath of Khan. I can't have a story where Merlin and Arthur fall in love on NBC prime time and the world doesn't end.

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First read: 14.01.2010

8000 words. So Araminta is the rebellious daughter who has to be sent away to marry because she has too much of a reputation at home. She goes, she doesn't like her family much and she thinks marriage might afford her more freedom, anyway. But her ship is attacked by pirates and Araminta, instead of cowering and hiding ( Read more... )

First read: 26-12-2009
Comments: 26.000 words. Humour, social commentary, (gay) teenagers and their angst (romantic, familial and otherwise), what one can expect from Scoradh. Loved it, and it's emminently quotable. The ending came a bit suddenly to me but it's probably me. Will re-read for sure.

Quotes:

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First read: 29.06.2009

Comments (SPOILERY): SRB asks (one of) the most question of speculative fiction: What does it mean to be human? to be a person? As the first volume of the trilogy it only starts to answer it but it makes a lot of good points along the way: being capable of love doens't make you a good person and being unable to understand it ( Read more... )

First read: 04.06.2009
Comments: I decided to read this because I found some Tharkay slash and I needed to know who he was to read it. Shallow of me, I know. I can't imagine I would get through a historical adventure of any kind if I hadn't someone reading it to me and I could just zone out without losing track of the tale (mostly). There are many ( Read more... )