(with Hunky Dreamboats!)
Five Sons Mr and Mrs Bennet Never Had, by biichan A completely delightful romp through five possible alternative universes. What if each of the Bennet girls had been born boys? Structured as glimpses into five different moments through the (parallel) stories. Why you should read this: It’s both hilarious and insightful, cleverly structured and entertaining….
Thank you, Clarence, by MAB. This entry in our month of alternate reality tales doesn’t just goof up the plot with some unspecified sorcery or a random magical doohickey. No, in this story, the magic gets a little boost from that old storytelling technique I like to call “misplaced Christmas sentimentality.†Why you should read…
Omens by Abigail K When we first considered this theme, Omens immediately came to mind as a follow-up review to A Glimpse, though I hadn’t read it for years and didn’t remember much more than the premise and rather liking it. It’s not an alternate reality in the sense that the others are, where the…
Tesseract by Spring Just before the wedding Elizabeth Bennet goes back in time so that she could have spent the last six months already married. Why you should read this: If you like stories which demonstrate that pre-Hunsford Darcy would not have made a good husband. Why you might not like it: You like stories…
A Lifetime in One Night, by Alyson L. It’s dream sequence week here at SC(WHD)! Not really, but this story is similar to the previous tale, in that it involves a bizarrely true-to-life dream sequence wherein our intrepid Hero and Heroine only discover their deep and abiding love whilst they sleep. Oh, wait! It’s a…
A Glimpse, by Alicia M My first glimpse of this story (have you observed what I did there?) was of a particularly unpromising bilious cast, but it came recommended, and after all, Readability exists for web 0.5 faux pas such as this one. Most fanfic attempts, on the face of it, are stories showing alternate…
I must freely admit to being an enthusiast of anything that has to do with secondary or unpopular characters. The less play a character usually gets in fic, the more excited I will be when I come across a story featuring them. Even so, when I stumbled onto Silvestria’s Marriage Vows, I was a bit…
Crossed in Love by catie56 Imagine if, instead of pining away at the Gardiners’ until Elizabeth returns from Kent, Jane decided to make her own way to Kent and spend the rest of Elizabeth’s holiday with her? This, kittens, is where our story begins. Why you should read it: You’re a fan of well-written stories….
First impressions: it was a rec from a trusted source, so fairly promising from the get go. It was cited as a well written AU with alternative pairings. Conclusion: extremely readable, and very charming. Finished with ease. Why you may wish to read it: the prose is excellent, the characters IC, the main divergence from…
In All Their Glory by Lee It is rather challenging to summarise the plot, since it’s less a story than a series of sexcapades. However, the series of somewhat related scenes goes like this: The newly-married Elizabeth prepares to have sex with her husband. He turns out to be a closet nudist (and no, this…