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crack_van2008-01-14 10:17 am
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A Night to Treasure by Julia Verinder (NC-17)
Fandom: THE MAGNIFICENT 7
Pairing: Well, Chris and Vin and an OC woman - het, thought, even though there are slashy-kinds of subtexts
Author on LJ: not that I know of
Author's Website: Julia Verinder's Fanfiction
Why this must be read:
As a rule, I don't read het - no, I know, it's close-minded and short-sighted of me, but I've rarely found het that wasn't so romanticized and 'Mary-Sue-d' that I could stand it (as I was explaining to a close friend recently, there are very very few romantic bones in my body and most of those were broken and now give me pain when I get cold).
Julie Verinder, however, is an exception to the het rule. I stumbled across her slash a while back and she's been rec'ced here for some of her other works as well (see "Footfalls Echo in the Memory"), quite deservedly. She's one of those writers who just writes so wonderfully that you take a chance on something you wouldn't otherwise read. She does a very credible job with the characters, making me believe that Vin and Chris would do as they do in this story, in this very realistic interpretation of life in the American West. They're hard men - but good in their own ways, as the series itself reflects, and as this story reflects. Very nicely done.
"A Night to Treasure" - get to it from this page.
Pairing: Well, Chris and Vin and an OC woman - het, thought, even though there are slashy-kinds of subtexts
Author on LJ: not that I know of
Author's Website: Julia Verinder's Fanfiction
Why this must be read:
As a rule, I don't read het - no, I know, it's close-minded and short-sighted of me, but I've rarely found het that wasn't so romanticized and 'Mary-Sue-d' that I could stand it (as I was explaining to a close friend recently, there are very very few romantic bones in my body and most of those were broken and now give me pain when I get cold).
Julie Verinder, however, is an exception to the het rule. I stumbled across her slash a while back and she's been rec'ced here for some of her other works as well (see "Footfalls Echo in the Memory"), quite deservedly. She's one of those writers who just writes so wonderfully that you take a chance on something you wouldn't otherwise read. She does a very credible job with the characters, making me believe that Vin and Chris would do as they do in this story, in this very realistic interpretation of life in the American West. They're hard men - but good in their own ways, as the series itself reflects, and as this story reflects. Very nicely done.
"A Night to Treasure" - get to it from this page.