Recent reading
Jul. 22nd, 2024 10:10 amThe Pastor's Fire-side Vol 3 by Jane Porter (1817)
I still find the style overwrought (and arrgh, sometimes I want to prune back her adjectives), but I can't deny that Jane Porter can spin a good yarn. I find it quite page-turney now! ( The latest plot developments )
The Blood of the Hentzaus, by El Staplador (2012)
A novel-length Ruritanian f/f fic about the next generation of the Prisoner of Zenda characters, complete with a villainous Hentzau, an unwise attachment, plotting for the next throne succession, and swashbuckling at the castle of Zenda. Quite enjoyable!
A reason to live (a reason it is not permissible to die) by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
chestnut_pod (2022)
This is a Silmarillion fic about Elwing and her pregnancy in the refugee colony at the mouth of Sirion, seen from the POV of an elvish midwife/nurse. The author says it was written as an emotional response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, but this was not apparent to me at all when I read the fic! Anyway, Elwing is so young and does not know what it will mean to be a half-human, half-elf, and does not know how pregnancy happens. Elwing also has a will of iron and pours herself into making the community of Sirion work. I really appreciated that the style of this is so different from Tolkien's, allowing us to see the world from another angle. (Usually I only review novel-length fics in my book posts, but this one is 27K, and hey, I don't have to follow my own rules.)
I still find the style overwrought (and arrgh, sometimes I want to prune back her adjectives), but I can't deny that Jane Porter can spin a good yarn. I find it quite page-turney now! ( The latest plot developments )
The Blood of the Hentzaus, by El Staplador (2012)
A novel-length Ruritanian f/f fic about the next generation of the Prisoner of Zenda characters, complete with a villainous Hentzau, an unwise attachment, plotting for the next throne succession, and swashbuckling at the castle of Zenda. Quite enjoyable!
A reason to live (a reason it is not permissible to die) by
chestnut_pod (2022)This is a Silmarillion fic about Elwing and her pregnancy in the refugee colony at the mouth of Sirion, seen from the POV of an elvish midwife/nurse. The author says it was written as an emotional response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade in the US, but this was not apparent to me at all when I read the fic! Anyway, Elwing is so young and does not know what it will mean to be a half-human, half-elf, and does not know how pregnancy happens. Elwing also has a will of iron and pours herself into making the community of Sirion work. I really appreciated that the style of this is so different from Tolkien's, allowing us to see the world from another angle. (Usually I only review novel-length fics in my book posts, but this one is 27K, and hey, I don't have to follow my own rules.)
