March Reading
Apr. 2nd, 2021 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wyndewalkerNo bingo for March. Instead I focused on reading a single long fic I hadn't read before but had been recced. In this case: A Marauder's Plan by CatsAreCool FFN or AO3 Due to the wildly different word counts on the sites I used the count plugin for Calibre which came back with 866,828/866,692 for the different versions.
Summary: Sirius decides to stay in England after escaping Hogwarts and makes protecting Harry his priority. AU GOF.
I started on March 2nd and finished on the 25th. Overall I really enjoyed this story. It was great seeing a responsible Sirius specifically, and responsible adults in general. A number of secondary characters are greatly fleshed out adding to the depth of the story and CatsAreCool did some interesting things with the concept of Family Magic. There are a lot of threads, plots and sub-plots, woven throughout this story and, barring one mentioned below, CatsAreCool did an excellent job of keeping track of everything and keeping the reader moving in the right direction.
Pretty much my only two complaints were a, early on there was a lot of repetitive information being passed along in conversations between characters but that thankfully stopped after about the first quarter of the story; and, b, there was a "twist" that really felt like it came completely out of nowhere. That being said, neither really affected my overall enjoyment of the story. It definitely goes on my would, and probably will, read again list. Also considering the fact that the author wrote and posted this over the course of several years they did an amazing job of keeping it coherent and well written. I highly recommend reading it if you have a couple weeks to spare. :>
And because some people were interested in seeing the list of stories I've read, and because I keep track of things like that, like a great big nerd, below is a link to a Google Sheet with the year-to-date info. No links and currently no source listing, ie AO3, FFN, etc. But I'm neurotic enough that I may include that info at a later date.
https://tinyurl.com/yp76t6pk
My April Fandom Bingo card will be posted shortly.
Summary: Sirius decides to stay in England after escaping Hogwarts and makes protecting Harry his priority. AU GOF.
I started on March 2nd and finished on the 25th. Overall I really enjoyed this story. It was great seeing a responsible Sirius specifically, and responsible adults in general. A number of secondary characters are greatly fleshed out adding to the depth of the story and CatsAreCool did some interesting things with the concept of Family Magic. There are a lot of threads, plots and sub-plots, woven throughout this story and, barring one mentioned below, CatsAreCool did an excellent job of keeping track of everything and keeping the reader moving in the right direction.
Pretty much my only two complaints were a, early on there was a lot of repetitive information being passed along in conversations between characters but that thankfully stopped after about the first quarter of the story; and, b, there was a "twist" that really felt like it came completely out of nowhere. That being said, neither really affected my overall enjoyment of the story. It definitely goes on my would, and probably will, read again list. Also considering the fact that the author wrote and posted this over the course of several years they did an amazing job of keeping it coherent and well written. I highly recommend reading it if you have a couple weeks to spare. :>
And because some people were interested in seeing the list of stories I've read, and because I keep track of things like that, like a great big nerd, below is a link to a Google Sheet with the year-to-date info. No links and currently no source listing, ie AO3, FFN, etc. But I'm neurotic enough that I may include that info at a later date.
https://tinyurl.com/yp76t6pk
My April Fandom Bingo card will be posted shortly.
