Story recs
Jul. 29th, 2013 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakElementary:
Death Before Dusk: usually I don't read stories in which the relationship between Sherlock and Joan turns sexual, but this one is byyahtzee63, so I gave it a go, and am glad I did. It's a story in which the world is awaiting a meteor strike that will end humanity in three months, which means clearing up murders is not exactly a priority anymore. But Holmes and Watson are on the case anyway. And yes, there is end-of-the-world sex in between, but it's not the main point of the story, and doesn't result in them having sudden epiphanies about the nature of their relationship. A good case story, a clever take on an apocalypse-on-the-horizon genre, and Bell, Gregson and Moriarty (!) all have great appearances.
A Place of Greater Safety/ French Revolution History:
Bonsoir chère maman: this one doesn't announce itself as a crossover, but in a way, you could almost count it as one, between Hilary Mantel's novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Or you could count it as historical fiction. A vignette about Annette Duplessis, Camille Desmoulins' mother-in-law (after she'd been other things to him) who outlived so many and saw much, experiencing the revolution of 1832. Short, and yet a brilliant character portrait of Annette, who for me was one of the most vibrant characters of Mantel's novel.
Les Porcelets; or, an Afternoon in Arcis : also a vignette: Camille and Danton during that time Danton took Camille and Lucile to meet his family in Acis. Has the novel's wit, emotion and UST.
Death Before Dusk: usually I don't read stories in which the relationship between Sherlock and Joan turns sexual, but this one is by
yahtzee63, so I gave it a go, and am glad I did. It's a story in which the world is awaiting a meteor strike that will end humanity in three months, which means clearing up murders is not exactly a priority anymore. But Holmes and Watson are on the case anyway. And yes, there is end-of-the-world sex in between, but it's not the main point of the story, and doesn't result in them having sudden epiphanies about the nature of their relationship. A good case story, a clever take on an apocalypse-on-the-horizon genre, and Bell, Gregson and Moriarty (!) all have great appearances. A Place of Greater Safety/ French Revolution History:
Bonsoir chère maman: this one doesn't announce itself as a crossover, but in a way, you could almost count it as one, between Hilary Mantel's novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, and Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. Or you could count it as historical fiction. A vignette about Annette Duplessis, Camille Desmoulins' mother-in-law (after she'd been other things to him) who outlived so many and saw much, experiencing the revolution of 1832. Short, and yet a brilliant character portrait of Annette, who for me was one of the most vibrant characters of Mantel's novel.
Les Porcelets; or, an Afternoon in Arcis : also a vignette: Camille and Danton during that time Danton took Camille and Lucile to meet his family in Acis. Has the novel's wit, emotion and UST.
no subject
Date: 2013-07-29 11:43 pm (UTC)