Yuletide recs, part 2
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springgreenMore Yuletide recs! This is a more random assortment; I may have not kept good track of all the ones that I liked.
I'm also not reccing anything I beta'd before the reveal, just because... I dunno. Just because. But rest assured, they will be fully recced afterward, because I love them muchly.
Into the Black (Heroes) - It's been odd reading Heroes fic, because I'm still figuring out the voice of the show. But I liked this one a lot. Nathan Petrelli can and can't fly.
In a Dark Wood - a retelling of Beauty and the Beast with zoology and movies. Some parts are a little too close to Robin McKinley's Beauty, but there are enough original details to make me fall in love with the same story again. And I adore the last line.
Cucumbers and Country Casuals (Bridget Jones' Diary) - *snorfle* awesome Bridget-voice. I haven't seen the second movie, so I can't say how it fits in movie canon, but the Bridget-voice really sounds like it's been taken straight from Helen Fielding's notebooks.
Rift of Touaoc (CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books) - very long, but oh so satisfying. It's on Morgaine and Vanye's relationship, but as slow and delicate and quiet as it is in the book (with much less of the confusing plot bits). The narrative voice and the character voices sound just like Cherryh, and I can't decide if I like the author's Morgaine or his/her Vanye more. They are both wonderful.
The Taste of Honey (Sandman) - I usually don't like reading Sandman fic because it's so hard to live up to Gaiman's standard, but this fic does. At one point, it's a little too close to "The Sound of Her Wings" for comfort, but then... oh, the ending.
And the prose, oh, the prose.
By the time they cross the creek (Dream over the arched bridge, Death over the skipping stones) she has acquired a packet of pralines in newspaper, a cats' eye marble, a gift certificate for six free violin lessons, and a balloon shaped like a dripping thing with too many legs.
I'm also not reccing anything I beta'd before the reveal, just because... I dunno. Just because. But rest assured, they will be fully recced afterward, because I love them muchly.
Into the Black (Heroes) - It's been odd reading Heroes fic, because I'm still figuring out the voice of the show. But I liked this one a lot. Nathan Petrelli can and can't fly.
In a Dark Wood - a retelling of Beauty and the Beast with zoology and movies. Some parts are a little too close to Robin McKinley's Beauty, but there are enough original details to make me fall in love with the same story again. And I adore the last line.
Cucumbers and Country Casuals (Bridget Jones' Diary) - *snorfle* awesome Bridget-voice. I haven't seen the second movie, so I can't say how it fits in movie canon, but the Bridget-voice really sounds like it's been taken straight from Helen Fielding's notebooks.
Rift of Touaoc (CJ Cherryh's Morgaine books) - very long, but oh so satisfying. It's on Morgaine and Vanye's relationship, but as slow and delicate and quiet as it is in the book (with much less of the confusing plot bits). The narrative voice and the character voices sound just like Cherryh, and I can't decide if I like the author's Morgaine or his/her Vanye more. They are both wonderful.
Compared to making his way into the control room, it should have been near far more complicated a business entering the archive house. But Heaven smiled on him --
do not mind me, Vanye thought severely at whatever angels might be guarding him, my lady has far more need of you
-- and the guard they had posted at the far side of the archive house was no better than any uyin of Andur-Kursh, and reacted the same to a low whistle and a tossed pebble.
The Taste of Honey (Sandman) - I usually don't like reading Sandman fic because it's so hard to live up to Gaiman's standard, but this fic does. At one point, it's a little too close to "The Sound of Her Wings" for comfort, but then... oh, the ending.
And the prose, oh, the prose.
By the time they cross the creek (Dream over the arched bridge, Death over the skipping stones) she has acquired a packet of pralines in newspaper, a cats' eye marble, a gift certificate for six free violin lessons, and a balloon shaped like a dripping thing with too many legs.
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Date: 2007-01-01 04:08 pm (UTC)- hossgal
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