Fic Rec: A Feast At Azkaban
Jun. 23rd, 2005 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lls_mutantI've seen this recced on my flist by a couple of people, but I'm going to join in the reccing party, because, well, because it's well written Sirius and you know how I feel about Sirius. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nyxfixx's A Feast At Azkaban. It's R/S slash, well written, and utterly amazing.
jazzypom touched on the prank and the way that's handled (brilliantly) and krislaughs talked about the characterization of the Dementors and magic in general, so I'll hit a different area and that's the characterization of Sirius and his family.
It was funny as I read it, because I was 90% sure that she's never read my stuff, and yet there were some very, very similar ideas (especially when I read about Sirius playing ball with Muggle children, and there's one line that's almost word for word in Part IX of Accidentally In Love, which obviously no one's seen and I actually swiped it from one of my kids at youth group). But what really got me, and this is a personal thing, was she really did an excellent job with areas I wasn't happy with in my own fic. I LOVED the characterization of Sirius's mother, and I thought it was absolutely perfect- the combination of love and cruelty was perfectly balanced. I also thought she got the brutal, hot anger that's in Sirius, and his cruelty as well (something that I think is often missing from my own version of Sirius). This version of Sirius can be charming and loving and wonderful, but if you cross him... wow. And it's so well done.
There is a "mature situation" (you probably can guess what I mean, and I don't mean sex between Sirius and Remus), but it's handled just as it should be: it's all about power and control, and not at all about sex. The effects are lasting- even years later- and it's not something shaken off and used as fanfic uses it.
The relationship between Sirius and Remus- and exactly why Sirius suspects Remus- is so close in some ways to what I imagine that I believed it perfectly. It's utterly plausable that it played out this way, and the final scene between Sirius and Remus (you'll know which one I mean) is intense and heartbreaking.
So go read. This one is truly worth reading!
nyxfixx's A Feast At Azkaban. It's R/S slash, well written, and utterly amazing.jazzypom touched on the prank and the way that's handled (brilliantly) and krislaughs talked about the characterization of the Dementors and magic in general, so I'll hit a different area and that's the characterization of Sirius and his family.It was funny as I read it, because I was 90% sure that she's never read my stuff, and yet there were some very, very similar ideas (especially when I read about Sirius playing ball with Muggle children, and there's one line that's almost word for word in Part IX of Accidentally In Love, which obviously no one's seen and I actually swiped it from one of my kids at youth group). But what really got me, and this is a personal thing, was she really did an excellent job with areas I wasn't happy with in my own fic. I LOVED the characterization of Sirius's mother, and I thought it was absolutely perfect- the combination of love and cruelty was perfectly balanced. I also thought she got the brutal, hot anger that's in Sirius, and his cruelty as well (something that I think is often missing from my own version of Sirius). This version of Sirius can be charming and loving and wonderful, but if you cross him... wow. And it's so well done.
There is a "mature situation" (you probably can guess what I mean, and I don't mean sex between Sirius and Remus), but it's handled just as it should be: it's all about power and control, and not at all about sex. The effects are lasting- even years later- and it's not something shaken off and used as fanfic uses it.
The relationship between Sirius and Remus- and exactly why Sirius suspects Remus- is so close in some ways to what I imagine that I believed it perfectly. It's utterly plausable that it played out this way, and the final scene between Sirius and Remus (you'll know which one I mean) is intense and heartbreaking.
So go read. This one is truly worth reading!
