(with Hunky Dreamboats!)
I know it’s been a while since we’ve posted anything here, we have not given up the blog, but have all been quite busy. Â Today I have our first guest review, a review of three stories with a common theme, By Miss Millicent Bluestocking Being Mrs Darcy by Lucy S Why someone might want…
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…
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…
Second Chances by Lynn O Continuing with our alternate realities theme this month, we have another dream-inspired story. As 1950s Disney Cinderella sings to her little avian friends: “No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dream that you wish will come true.” While Fitzwilliam Darcy would seem to make…
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…
Fudge by Mortie Fudge is a modern Pride and Prejudice that begins in a small town in Michigan. The names are altered, but kept close enough that it’s obvious which name belongs to which character (e.g., Elizabeth is Elise). Otherwise it’s a par-for-the-course retelling of P&P. Why you should read this: You enjoy wry, self-deprecating…
Reflections, by Teg This week, I’m taking on one of the “classics.” In this “heart-breaking†modern adaptation of P&P, Elizabeth and Darcy are reunited at Pemberley, where they do everything but confess their love for each other. The awful Lydia and Wickham create scandal and our beloved couple separate without revealing their feelings. Awkwardness prevails…
The Rules of Estrangement by Kathy It seems to me that fanfic audiences (and probably audiences in general) love it when a bright, sassy young thing sharpens her wit on a proud, reserved, filthy rich man, especially when the two eventually fall in love and end up in marital bliss. At least, that’s what most…