Recovery by debjunk

A Harry Potter story

" Severus survives Nagini's bite, but his mental scars will take much longer to heal than his physical ones. Will he let anyone in to help him?"

Eh. It wasn't bad, but it really wasn't great. A bit bland.

Recovery

34 Reasons I Never Called You by Anaross

BTVS fic

"A list of excuses from Spike."

Not worth the time it took to read it. The voice was wrong, simple facts were wrong (Who the fuck is Joseph Marley? You mean Jacob? One of literature's great and famous entities? Couldn't bother to get the name right? REALLY??), and was just a stream of numbered crap. What a waste.

34 Reasons I Never Called You

Consolation by Magpie

A BTVS story

"Buffy and Devon spend some time at the Bronze."

I like the pairing, and the portrayal of Buffy as a bit detached even then is an interesting way to go.

Consolation

Summer Thing by Halrloprillalar

A Harry Potter story

"Hermione, Fred, George, summertime."

This story got major points just for the imagery of Fred and George using an Alice in Wonderland style croquet set. Something about that felt right. The righting style is odd, but perfect for this kind of sweltering and flowing ficlet.

Summer Thing

Lady in Red by LeeWeasley

A HP fanfic

"Harry falls in love with a beautiful mystery girl in red ...."

I wanted to like this one. I was looking for a nice sweet oneshot to quench my romantic thirst and this was a complete failure. Not only was it not plausible, the tense kept changing, which was incredibly distracting.

Lady in Red

Dear Diary by ozmafics

An HP story

Luna's thoughts after her first kiss from George

Very cute. A bewildered, but still insightful, Luna ponders biological reactions to feelings. My only complaint was the length.

Dear Diary

Legend by Seren

A Harry Potter fic

George merely looked at her blankly. "I'm waiting," he said neutrally, "for Hermione to come back and tell me what the hell a harvest moon is."

A series of accidents and chance meetings under the moon that begins a relationship. George is insightful in this one, and I like that. I think it fits well with his character.

Legend

The Dateless Wonders by cinnamon badge

A Harry Potter fic

"While Fred and Angelina fling themselves around the dance floor at the Yule Ball, George Weasley finds himself lonely and bored. Then he notices that he's not the only person there without a date."


This story is painfully cute. This is one of those pairings that has to be handled delicately or I feel that it just doesn't work, but the author handled that beautifully.

The Dateless Wonders

A Harry Potter fanfic

"She supposed that she had never really thought about it much before that day – the day she saw him again, standing in the rain outside her door dripping and gorgeous, like a vision out of a hazy past..."


There are some grammar issues with this one. Commas, apostrophes, compound words split when they shouldn't be. And Percy would have been a fifth year when Hermione started Hogwarts, not a sixth year. But other than that, this story is wonderful. Very plausible and neatly weaved into canon so nothing is exactly amiss.



Catching Fireflies

Possibilities by Pearle

A Harry Potter fic

"Wars make strange bedfellows, but there are many ways to enjoy yourself if you’re open to the possibilities."

Pretty much just Porn without Plot. it is cute though to see Remus as a liberated male that grew up in the sixties, prancing about nude in the bathroom. If you buy that as in character, then the other two are also perfect. Even though it was high on smut and low on plot, I liked it.

Possibilities

The Plan by polgara

BTVS/Firefly crossover

"Buffy has her eyes set on something she wants and she has a plan on how to get it. One that requires Jayne’s help. But is he willing to risk death to help her? "

Very nice. Not a lot of backstory, but it really isn't needed. Just a tiny little snippet of what feels like it could have been a longer story. Voices weren't perfectly spot on (Wash felt a bit off) but good anyway.

The Plan

Mr Pointy by jedibuttercup

A BTVS/Firefly story

"Jayne gets into a weapon-comparing contest with Serenity's newest passenger."

A bit random, but cute if you like the genre.

Mr Pointy

Finding Home by Sweetdoggie

A Buffy/Firefly fic

"Buffy, immortal from Willow's resurrection spell, meets the Firefly crew 500 years in the future."

Convincing characters, very well written. It made me smile, and the end was bittersweet, because nothing really ends happily ever after.

Finding Home

Deep Secrets by *unicorn-skydancer08

A Tinkerbell fic

"There was an old saying, that love was the very best thing that could ever happen to someone…and the very worst. Bobble, otherwise known as Phineas T. Kettletree, Esquire, could honestly say that certainly applied to him. In the tinker fairy's own words, love was as sweet as the first spring rose, yet as sharp as the bitter sting of an angry bee."

Very sweet. I'd write more, but I have a cast on my arm.

Deep Secrets

Grave Survivors by jedibuttercup

A Buffy/CSI crossover

"Nick Stokes isn't the only one who's ever awakened six feet underground."

Little snippits covering a year in the life of Nick and Buffy. the author points out that there is no one that would better understand what Nick went through being buried alive than Buffy. The way they find each other and the interactions are pretty believable. Good story/

Grave Survivors

I'm Yours by moonstalker

A Buffy/CSI crossover

"Buffy's in a relationship, only she's never met him. It's about time she met him. Buffy/Hodges"

Generally speaking, I hate songfics. With a bit of a passion. It's like, "Well, I can't think of what to say, so I'll just steal a song to convey feelings and emotions." That being said, this fic was lovely. The pairing was very different, and it worked seamlessly. There were parts that were a tad cheesy, but let's face it, that's one of the reasons we read love stories!

I'm Yours

Like a Woman Scorned by Lovelikethemovies

A Harry Potter/BTVS crossover

"After all, a dragon hath no fury like a woman scorned. Or something along the lines of that. Charlie meets Buffy at the site of a Horntail escape."

Not bad, but not great. Utterly forgettable.

Like a Woman Scorned

Trust and a little bit of fairy dust by kalina blue

A Harry Potter story

"All Hermione wants to do is work, but Fred has different plans."

Beautifully cute, perfectly written, and not overdone, as many holiday themed stories are. I really liked it, and it think the pairing is brilliantly done, since it is a tricky one to pull off.

Trust and a little bit of fairy dust

Five Times Claire Feels Lost (and one time maybe she’s found) by blueeyelinerx

A Heroes story

"Claire thinks that she is like the coffee, a little bit of herself spilling out at a time, leaving disappearing marks, until there is no more."

Anyway, you can read this story however you want - the author makes it AU, but don't let that stop you. It follows Claire, from high school to higher learning, capturing moments of a life half-lived as she goes about her business, enjoying very little of what comes her way. She works and studies and maybe-sometimes-might even have a relationship of sorts with Peter, but nothing between them is voiced, nothing is certain, and she's not sure how much more she can take of all the uncertainty in life.

I think this is pretty much my Claire, even if it's not quite - at first - my Peter, and I really like how the author manages to make Claire both naive and jaded, quite an impressive feat. I also like the flow of the words - the story is one of those ones that you can just read because it's conversational and inviting and moves nicely along. Not always happy, not entirely angsty, this is an interesting look at a possible future, with good bits, bad bits, and even a dash of hope.

Five Times Claire Feels Lost (and one time maybe she’s found)

Rage/Confusion by thete1

A BTVS fic

"He's easy when he's drunk."

I'm not sure I like this, to be honest. It's stark, raw, pretty dark, but I felt more needed to be established before it would feel in character. I don't know. This one left me feeling nothing.

Rage/Confusion