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Affirmation III: In Life, In Love, by Kaye Austen Michaels (Slash, Explicit)
Fandom: STARSKY & HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 87,844 words
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smudley
Author Website: Kaye Austen Michaels on the Starsky Hutch Archive
Why this must be read:
In 2006, KimberlyFDR gave an excellent review of the first two parts of KAM's Affirmation series. The story links have since changed, but active links are posted below. KAM has recently posted part III of her excellent series. Since I've been rec'ing fics outside my comfort zone, I'll confess that stories giving the guys new careers in which they are no longer partners tops the list of my least-liked story scenarios. Kaye doesn't just give them new careers; she gives them careers as demanding as their old one, only without each other to fall back on. Oh, sure, they're lovers, as married as a same-sex couple in 1985 can be, but Hutch has graduated med school and focuses on a career in one of the most demanding medical fields – emergency medicine -- and Starsky is working at the Academy teaching rookie classes. So, they're not partners, and they're not cops. If this sounds like a recipe for the world's longest "lace-curtain slash" story, let me reassure you it most certainly is not. This wonderfully lengthy, meaty series gives us novel-length stories that develop a very real, totally believable life between two middle-aged men struggling to balance the demands of new careers with the love and passion they will not sacrifice, even when it jeopardizes those hard-won careers.
In this latest installment, originally published in the zine, "The Perfect Couple," in 2010, Hutch is riddled with concerns about the wisdom of embarking on such a radical career change at his age, and Starsky isn't sure that the Academy was the right move for him. As in all Kaye's stories, there are plots and subplots that add richness and depth and move these tales along at such a rapid pace you can get lost in them, only realizing too late that it's 3 AM, you've got work in the morning, and you're still reading! Kaye's style is as smooth as silk, her pacing just right, her dialog crisp in the ear, her grasp of the guys so "them" you'd think you were watching an episode, only better, and her original characters are fully realized, integral to the plot, yet never detract from the characters we really want to spend most of our time with: S&H. More importantly, Kaye knows how to build a theme, develop it, and carrying it all the way through to the most satisfying end, something as rare as whooping cranes and just as beautiful in flight.
Affirmation
Affirmation II: Life and Death
Affirmation III: In Life, In Love by Kaye Austen Michaels
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Length: 87,844 words
Author on LJ:
smudleyAuthor Website: Kaye Austen Michaels on the Starsky Hutch Archive
Why this must be read:
In 2006, KimberlyFDR gave an excellent review of the first two parts of KAM's Affirmation series. The story links have since changed, but active links are posted below. KAM has recently posted part III of her excellent series. Since I've been rec'ing fics outside my comfort zone, I'll confess that stories giving the guys new careers in which they are no longer partners tops the list of my least-liked story scenarios. Kaye doesn't just give them new careers; she gives them careers as demanding as their old one, only without each other to fall back on. Oh, sure, they're lovers, as married as a same-sex couple in 1985 can be, but Hutch has graduated med school and focuses on a career in one of the most demanding medical fields – emergency medicine -- and Starsky is working at the Academy teaching rookie classes. So, they're not partners, and they're not cops. If this sounds like a recipe for the world's longest "lace-curtain slash" story, let me reassure you it most certainly is not. This wonderfully lengthy, meaty series gives us novel-length stories that develop a very real, totally believable life between two middle-aged men struggling to balance the demands of new careers with the love and passion they will not sacrifice, even when it jeopardizes those hard-won careers.
In this latest installment, originally published in the zine, "The Perfect Couple," in 2010, Hutch is riddled with concerns about the wisdom of embarking on such a radical career change at his age, and Starsky isn't sure that the Academy was the right move for him. As in all Kaye's stories, there are plots and subplots that add richness and depth and move these tales along at such a rapid pace you can get lost in them, only realizing too late that it's 3 AM, you've got work in the morning, and you're still reading! Kaye's style is as smooth as silk, her pacing just right, her dialog crisp in the ear, her grasp of the guys so "them" you'd think you were watching an episode, only better, and her original characters are fully realized, integral to the plot, yet never detract from the characters we really want to spend most of our time with: S&H. More importantly, Kaye knows how to build a theme, develop it, and carrying it all the way through to the most satisfying end, something as rare as whooping cranes and just as beautiful in flight.
Affirmation
Affirmation II: Life and Death
Affirmation III: In Life, In Love by Kaye Austen Michaels