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vee_fic posted her thoroughly absorbing Supernatural novel Six of One (damn her!), which I read in one sitting unless you're counting coffee breaks (and I personally think coffee time should get built in). It has a good Sam voice and a terrific Dean voice and a smart plot and a nice set of original characters, exactly what the plot needs plus enough more to be people, and it does things I thought I disliked in Supernatural fic and makes me love them, because it has everything that I love best about the series: the unbreakable love between the brothers and how that's not something special in the show, it's just families writ large; the desolation of life on the road and the small comforts of daily life and the whole beat-up dusty aesthetic, half attitude and half practicality. Vee is especially good and especially subtle at showing how the Winchesters' family dynamic affects their interactions with everyone else, how Dean is always comfortable with being the big brother and always terrified by loss, how Sam is always comforted by being taken care of and is as ferocious in defense of his family as Dean is, when driven to the wall.
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vee_fic posted her thoroughly absorbing Supernatural novel Six of One (damn her!), which I read in one sitting unless you're counting coffee breaks (and I personally think coffee time should get built in). It has a good Sam voice and a terrific Dean voice and a smart plot and a nice set of original characters, exactly what the plot needs plus enough more to be people, and it does things I thought I disliked in Supernatural fic and makes me love them, because it has everything that I love best about the series: the unbreakable love between the brothers and how that's not something special in the show, it's just families writ large; the desolation of life on the road and the small comforts of daily life and the whole beat-up dusty aesthetic, half attitude and half practicality. Vee is especially good and especially subtle at showing how the Winchesters' family dynamic affects their interactions with everyone else, how Dean is always comfortable with being the big brother and always terrified by loss, how Sam is always comforted by being taken care of and is as ferocious in defense of his family as Dean is, when driven to the wall. I also liked ( story spoilers (READ THE STORY FIRST) )
