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The Convergence Series by shaenie (NC-17)
Fandom: Lotrips
Author: shaenie
Author website: Mindless Entertainment With No Redeeming Features
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shaenie
Pairing: Dominic/Orlando, Billy/Dominic, Dominic/Elijah, Elijah/Billy/Dominic
Rating: NC-17
Warning: BDSM
Why this must be read:
Because it should be subtitled: The Smut That Stole My Brain. This is a monster and possibly the only thing which comes close to Calico's Sabotage for sheer mental melt-down powers. When I say monster, I'm really not exaggarating: Cusp is over 150kb, Catalyst over 400kb and Convergence is about 60kb. And to add to that, there's a plot as well. Cusp sees Billy fairly sure that Dom's interested in the same sort of thing as him - ie bdsm (life imitating art? This was written well before the Oscars and the notorious marks on Dom's wrists) - but valuing their friendship too much to make a move which would decide it once and for all. Naturally, Dom doesn't make it easy for him and Billy's patience and restraint reaches epic proportions. Catalyst sees Billy and Dom working out the kinks (lol) of their relationship while slowly coming to a very surprising realisation and Convergence sees the working out of that realisation.
The brief, interweaving stories, Contentment, Memento and Ghost and beautifully written and Ghost at least is almost heart-breakingly poignant.
Cusp is from Billy's pov, Convergence moves the narrative to Dom and Convergence to Elijah. The author handles the different narrative voices very convincingly and reading one-after-another displays the quality of the characterisation very strongly through the narration; all the boys sound different, react differently and stand alone as convincing characters. It's also interesting seeing how they see each other - the way that Dom talks about Billy and Elijah in Catalyst is nicely paralleled by the way he is described by them in Cusp and Convergence. Memento and Ghost have Viggo and Orlando's narratives respectively and prove that the author isn't just limited to Dom, Billy and Elijah.
I can't reccommend this series strongly enough. It has angst, joy, sex, confusion, love, pain, amazing characterisation, a riveting plot (um, it's worth setting a little time aside because you might not be able to stop reading once you've started). More than that, it has the ability to make you think about your life, your choices and the limitations you may have put on yourself. I'm not going to say that reading this story has changed my life, but it has encouraged me to open my mind to a variety of possibilities that I'd dismissed before - and that is a mark of superb writing.
"Dammit, Dominic," Billy growled softly, and planted a hand in the middle of Dom's chest and shoved hard, sent him sprawling into the sand on his back with an audible thump that pushed Dom's breath from his chest with a little ‘huh.' Billy twisted to his knees beside him, and glanced at Dom long enough to see that his face was open and startled, but his eyes were darker than ever, more wanting. Wanting more. He caught Dom by an arm and hip and flipped him neatly onto his belly.
"Wha ...?" Dom said, but didn't finish as Billy dropped onto his back, and the breath gusted out of him again. He and Dom were nearly the same height, and Billy liked that. He liked it a lot. Splayed on Dom's back like this, they fit together, inch for inch, toe to crown. He caught Dom's wrists in his hands (Dom twisted them, but not hard enough to break even the lightest of grips, more like he was just feeling Billy's grip, experiencing it) and dragged them upward through the sand, leaving trails like snow-angel wings. He pinned them neatly above Dom's head, held them there with both hands, and for a moment, he just breathed on the back of Dom's neck and stored up the memory of Dom's body pinned beneath him, stored up the tension and the tight play of muscle as Dom thrummed a little.
"You have to fucking push me, don't you, Dominic. You can't just let it go, trust that I am not playing when I tell you to let it go ." He could hear it in his own voice, hear it in his tone, heavy with silken threat, he could hear how much he wanted Dom, and he knew damned well Dom would hear it too. Let him go, let him up, his mind yammered, but it felt distant and unimportant.
"I don't want you to let it go," Dom snarled (wolf snarl) beneath him, and pressed back, deliberately pushed back into Billy, the little fucker. Frustration sparked him as easily as lust, and he had both in what seemed like massive quantities at the moment.
"Dominic," he warned, but he was breathing on the back of Dom's neck, he could smell the ocean on Dom's skin, and it was already too late, too late.
"Come on," Dom breathed, and that flashed hot in his mind, flashed hot and vivid and stroked him in all the right places. Dominic needing , oh fuck fuck fuck, how was he supposed to resist Dominic needing?
[The link goes to Cusp which is the first in the series]
Convergence by Shaenie,
Author: shaenie
Author website: Mindless Entertainment With No Redeeming Features
Author on lj:
shaeniePairing: Dominic/Orlando, Billy/Dominic, Dominic/Elijah, Elijah/Billy/Dominic
Rating: NC-17
Warning: BDSM
Why this must be read:
Because it should be subtitled: The Smut That Stole My Brain. This is a monster and possibly the only thing which comes close to Calico's Sabotage for sheer mental melt-down powers. When I say monster, I'm really not exaggarating: Cusp is over 150kb, Catalyst over 400kb and Convergence is about 60kb. And to add to that, there's a plot as well. Cusp sees Billy fairly sure that Dom's interested in the same sort of thing as him - ie bdsm (life imitating art? This was written well before the Oscars and the notorious marks on Dom's wrists) - but valuing their friendship too much to make a move which would decide it once and for all. Naturally, Dom doesn't make it easy for him and Billy's patience and restraint reaches epic proportions. Catalyst sees Billy and Dom working out the kinks (lol) of their relationship while slowly coming to a very surprising realisation and Convergence sees the working out of that realisation.
The brief, interweaving stories, Contentment, Memento and Ghost and beautifully written and Ghost at least is almost heart-breakingly poignant.
Cusp is from Billy's pov, Convergence moves the narrative to Dom and Convergence to Elijah. The author handles the different narrative voices very convincingly and reading one-after-another displays the quality of the characterisation very strongly through the narration; all the boys sound different, react differently and stand alone as convincing characters. It's also interesting seeing how they see each other - the way that Dom talks about Billy and Elijah in Catalyst is nicely paralleled by the way he is described by them in Cusp and Convergence. Memento and Ghost have Viggo and Orlando's narratives respectively and prove that the author isn't just limited to Dom, Billy and Elijah.
I can't reccommend this series strongly enough. It has angst, joy, sex, confusion, love, pain, amazing characterisation, a riveting plot (um, it's worth setting a little time aside because you might not be able to stop reading once you've started). More than that, it has the ability to make you think about your life, your choices and the limitations you may have put on yourself. I'm not going to say that reading this story has changed my life, but it has encouraged me to open my mind to a variety of possibilities that I'd dismissed before - and that is a mark of superb writing.
"Dammit, Dominic," Billy growled softly, and planted a hand in the middle of Dom's chest and shoved hard, sent him sprawling into the sand on his back with an audible thump that pushed Dom's breath from his chest with a little ‘huh.' Billy twisted to his knees beside him, and glanced at Dom long enough to see that his face was open and startled, but his eyes were darker than ever, more wanting. Wanting more. He caught Dom by an arm and hip and flipped him neatly onto his belly.
"Wha ...?" Dom said, but didn't finish as Billy dropped onto his back, and the breath gusted out of him again. He and Dom were nearly the same height, and Billy liked that. He liked it a lot. Splayed on Dom's back like this, they fit together, inch for inch, toe to crown. He caught Dom's wrists in his hands (Dom twisted them, but not hard enough to break even the lightest of grips, more like he was just feeling Billy's grip, experiencing it) and dragged them upward through the sand, leaving trails like snow-angel wings. He pinned them neatly above Dom's head, held them there with both hands, and for a moment, he just breathed on the back of Dom's neck and stored up the memory of Dom's body pinned beneath him, stored up the tension and the tight play of muscle as Dom thrummed a little.
"You have to fucking push me, don't you, Dominic. You can't just let it go, trust that I am not playing when I tell you to let it go ." He could hear it in his own voice, hear it in his tone, heavy with silken threat, he could hear how much he wanted Dom, and he knew damned well Dom would hear it too. Let him go, let him up, his mind yammered, but it felt distant and unimportant.
"I don't want you to let it go," Dom snarled (wolf snarl) beneath him, and pressed back, deliberately pushed back into Billy, the little fucker. Frustration sparked him as easily as lust, and he had both in what seemed like massive quantities at the moment.
"Dominic," he warned, but he was breathing on the back of Dom's neck, he could smell the ocean on Dom's skin, and it was already too late, too late.
"Come on," Dom breathed, and that flashed hot in his mind, flashed hot and vivid and stroked him in all the right places. Dominic needing , oh fuck fuck fuck, how was he supposed to resist Dominic needing?
[The link goes to Cusp which is the first in the series]
Convergence by Shaenie,
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Hey - I read the comment and then looked who commented and dude! Yay!
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Great recc!!
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