A Fan's Playground

When this book was first announced, I was both excited and skeptical. Katherine Addison's previous book, The Goblin Emperor, is one of my top comfort-reads and a book I find an endless delight. (as evidenced by the fact that I've read it 5 times in the 6 years since it was published) So I was excited about the possibility of another Addison book! But on the other hand it's a Sherlock Holmes fanfic, featuring the Jack the Ripper murders, and I am a) a bit burned out on Sherlock Homes, and b) not interested in Jack the Ripper. But I figured I would give the book a try anyway, because I trusted Katherine Addison.

And unfortunately I found myself really disappointed in the book, and for unexpected reasons! (And now I'm feeling a lot more trepidatious about the Goblin Emperor sequel coming out next year...)

Usually when I write reviews of books I try to be fair, and acknowledge that books that don't work for me often do have their right readers out there even if I'm not one. But this book has enough stuff going on that I'm uncomfortable with that I don't think I can do that, even though it DOES have some genuinely good aspects too.

( cut for extensive spoilers and negativity )

I'm STILL NOT HERE.

Except Purimgifts happened, and I need to share my fics!

I had the fantastic luck to write Hark! A Vagrant fics for verity, and had a ball doing so. It kind of makes me want to write ALL THE HARK! A VAGRANT FIC.

Here is what I wrote:

A Canoe of Her Own, about Canadian stereotypes, high-school girls, and canoes.
What She Wants, a crossover with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, about the Sexy Vampire Ladies who want women's rights.
Would Rather Be Reading, a crossover with Sherlock Holmes, about Polly the chimneysweep girl.

AND I had the fantastic luck to get FIVE wonderful stories for Purim!

The Thick of It, by blamography, a Good Omens fic in which War is her scary awesome self and capable of intimidating the hell out of anyone she cares to.
Descendent, by blamography, a lovely Good Omens fic about what it means to Anathema to be a descendant.
Pepper, by blamography, a Good Omens fic about Pepper, in which Pepper is Pepper and Pepper is awesome.
Down in the Valley, by kristin, a lovely thoughtful Firefly fic about Zoe and war.
Dear Moses, by seekingferret, in which Zipporah writes a letter she'll never send to Moses, and it is every kind of YESSS.

Yay! I am very grateful to all my wonderful authors!

And now I am gone again. Invisible! Unpresent! Except for my continuing bible project posts, of course....

*hates on thesis*