Boniblithe's feedback challenge

[doyle]

I took part in boniblithe's Feedback Challenge and was assigned docmichelle/Tigerlady. I've never read her work, so I was bouncily pleased to find that she has a Buffy/Pirates of the Caribbean crossover on her page. But I'll get to that in a minute.


By the Waters of Babylon

This is Cordelia-centric. I love afterlife fic, and my problem in giving feedback on this is Sixth Sense Syndrome where I don't want to give away the ending, but I loved that it turned my expectations on their head. I really liked the fantasy element of the whole thing, the technicolour heaven and the non-humans.

Sweet Tooth

Willow/Fred's one of my favourite pairings. This is a short piece but it has a wonderful split narrative, Fred's history and her abstract thoughts on sugar alternated with her meetings with Willow. I have a thing for use of repetition and I'm in love with the structure of this, the repeated 'sugar is bad for you' and the shift of who Fred's rock is. And it's just damn pretty. As always with Fred fics, science being brought into it somewhere makes me very happy, so I loved the aside about the effects of sugar on physiology.

Forty Tongue Lashes and a Bit of Parley

Anya tells Halfrek the story of how she was sent to wreak vengeance on one Captain Jack Sparrow. The author had me on the second sentence, with 'Brimstone Bar and Grille'. That name just tickles me. And then I was had again as soon as Halfrek spoke her first line, because Hallie needs more action in fanfic. The voices, both Anyanka's sharp, slightly huffy narrative voice (love the line Halfrek sighed hugely. Anya was pretty sure it was a habit she had developed specifically to emphasize her bosom) and Jack Sparrow's dialogue, are great. I could completely believe that Jack could talk and flirt his way out of being wished against, too.


All of her fics, including a Buffy/X-Men crossover and stories set around Brimstone and The Mummy, can be found here.

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