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Date Posted: 13:20:38 10/25/02 Fri
Author: Kaylorin
Author Host/IP: pcp632159pcs.newhvn01.in.comcast.net / 68.53.200.184
Subject: Re: General Review & Discussion: What She Deserves by Herself-B/S
In reply to: KatLurkin 's message, "General Review & Discussion: What She Deserves by Herself-B/S" on 17:03:02 10/21/02 Mon

TY Kat for reminding me we were doing things different this time around. I read this story when it was suggested,and got it confused with another when Kat brought it up a few days ago. Then I couldn't access the site to refresh my memory until today. Sorry I'm soo late on the review. To which... here I go;

First of... I am not into slash. I can deal with the girl on girl stuff.... cuz my huband likes porn and, even if you;re not into it, you get used to it, but the m/m was a bit weird for me. Still, I thought the story touched on a range of emotions, which is an impressive thing in itself.

As far as mispells and whatnot, None popped out and made me stop reading, so no complaints.

I thought some of the charactizations were slightly off... but in ways relevant to the story.

It made Buffy care for Spike, without it being slammed down your throat (which since I'm a Spuffer I don't mind, but it very annoying sometimes without explination)

I started reading, and had to finish it once I started, so very high marks in that respect.

I too don't agree with Buffy and her one night stands, but Herself is not the first to put our hero in that position in a fic. Unfortunately, you can never tell what soem women may do after an attempted rape. Each person handles, or doesn't handle it, in different ways.

I try to take into account what the author was thinking when he put Spike with another male. Although I I have yet to see any clear tendancies in that direction on the show, I see why the author went that route in the story. In fact his lack of enjoyment was th epoint, so kinda Kuddos to Herself. She played it off well.

Over all, I didn't like the story's theme, but I'll have to admit it was very well done.

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[> Re: General Review & Discussion: What She Deserves by Herself-B/S -- TC, 20:00:17 10/25/02 Fri (A010-0313.AMRL.splitrock.net/64.196.205.59)

First off let me just say that the writer of this fic obviously knows how to write a well structured piece. The descriptions are very well done and they definitely have no problem with writing scenes that are shed with emotion. That being said I still didn't like this fic and it the main reason wasn't because it was B/S but because IMO both Buffy and Spike were written completely out of character. There were a couple scenes here and there where I saw glimpses of the characters I know but they were few and far between. The scene that really threw me was the conversation on the phone with Willow and Buffy. Willow guessing that Cordelia was the person Buffy saw and then guessing Spike was not what Willow would've said at all IMHO. But that's not huge. What really was hard was the amount of M/M slash and darkness of this fic. IMO, the character of Spike would never go for another man.... but since this is fanfic I'll let that slide. Still, what was written in that aspect didn't appeal to me at all. Neither did the way that Buffy was written. I don't know if I could see Buffy just going on a trip and banging mechanics along the way in her car for the hell out it and that's only a small part of what I disagree with in regards to how she was written. But still, overall like I said the fic was structured very well and the descriptions were very good.

I give this fic a 74


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