Fic rec: Dark Blossoms
Dec. 11th, 2008 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
regasssaThis is...maybe one of my first recs ever. I don't get to read much, but I make certain to read my holiday fics when I get them, because I write so hard to try and make the deadlines, and enjoy the whole process so very much. I screwed up this year because a whole month of writing time was yanked out from underneath me, and I've been playing catch up.
Anyway, I want to rec this simply beautiful fic, because it's just so endearing and perfect. The writing is sumptious, the characters possessing of their own thoughts and emotions in regard to other people, quite focussed on their own lives -- and deaths.
It's also, interestingly, a PG fic, and has absolutely no slash in it whatsoever. Yes, you read that right. I made a lot of requests that didn't include my OTP, including Snape/Bella and Snape/Lily, and this one has both.
All in all it's charming, well characterised, has an optimistic if not happy ending, and takes canon gently by the throat and shakes it. Every sentence is structured beautifully, neatly avoids the cliches, and the dialogue is completely believable, both in terms of character, and in respect to the storytelling. There's no giving anything away through dialogue, because the storytelling is so intense.
If you want a good read, try this one
Pairings Snape/Lily, Snape/Bellatrix
Rating PG for lots of angst
Warnings none
Summary Snape is dead and tries to find some meaning for what used to be his life.
Disclaimer The world of HP and its characters belongs to Rowling. The author of this fic has borrowed them for the purposes of storytelling. No profit was or will be made.
Word count ~5,480
Author Notes It's not so much life after death as regret after life.
Anyway, I want to rec this simply beautiful fic, because it's just so endearing and perfect. The writing is sumptious, the characters possessing of their own thoughts and emotions in regard to other people, quite focussed on their own lives -- and deaths.
It's also, interestingly, a PG fic, and has absolutely no slash in it whatsoever. Yes, you read that right. I made a lot of requests that didn't include my OTP, including Snape/Bella and Snape/Lily, and this one has both.
All in all it's charming, well characterised, has an optimistic if not happy ending, and takes canon gently by the throat and shakes it. Every sentence is structured beautifully, neatly avoids the cliches, and the dialogue is completely believable, both in terms of character, and in respect to the storytelling. There's no giving anything away through dialogue, because the storytelling is so intense.
If you want a good read, try this one
Pairings Snape/Lily, Snape/Bellatrix
Rating PG for lots of angst
Warnings none
Summary Snape is dead and tries to find some meaning for what used to be his life.
Disclaimer The world of HP and its characters belongs to Rowling. The author of this fic has borrowed them for the purposes of storytelling. No profit was or will be made.
Word count ~5,480
Author Notes It's not so much life after death as regret after life.