SPN Rec: Oh, the Plot, and Supernatural things to sink your teeth into.

[icarus]

Plot?

Remember when I said that, while it was easy to find beautifully characterized Sam and Dean in the Supernatural fandom, I was looking for something with a really meaty plot, and believable supernatural aspects?

How would you like to write a gorgeously descriptive writer, with powerful action scenes right up there with ltlj? With the richness of auburnnothenna?

Red by big_pink, Gen, PG-13

I love Pink's taste for careful research and locales built so lovingly, you can almost breathe the pine. I live in Seattle and have been in the woods she describes, and she nails the feel of the forest, the mist-turning-rain of the Pacific Northwest. She gets the masculine outdoor culture of the logging industry. This complex story cuts between three different times, with revelations about Dean when he is 14, 18, and in the present. It is a professional quality novel with none of the usual fanfiction shortcuts (skipping physical descriptions, minor canon characters mentioned but not introduced, skimpy OCs, familiar settings sketched rather than fully drawn). Her Evil Bad Scary Thing is all too real, and at the same time so strange, it defies all the usual tropes. You will be on the edge of your seat, mesmerized. Pick a time to start this where you can read all ten chapters at a go, because I promise, you will not be able to put it down.

Dazzleland by big_pink, Gen, PG-13

Ignore the crappy title, this is a poignant, touching read that plausibly fills in how and why Sam left for Stanford. By the time he left, oh god, I was right there with him, slamming the door. This is largely Sam's jaundiced perspective, which is not kind to John, but I have to say John screws up so very badly. Measurably. In a fashion typical of Pink, the story interweaves the past and present, jumping seamlessly from Sam's last year of high school, to a hunt that returns Sam and Dean to the scene of many unhappy memories. In the process, the boys lay some personal demons to rest.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

That's true. Her settings and plots seem to take over, though I do think Dazzleland is less about the setting and more about the Winchester family. But no, not about Sam and Dean in particular.

Icarus