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ci5hqM.Fae Glasgow is one of my favourite Pros authors, and I totally intend to print out more of her fic tonight and read happily on, but the first one I pulled from the pile was Rough Trade, so I thought I'd start with that...
Rough Trade sees the lads start off on a sexual relationship, but not at all smoothly and happily - and M.Fae didn't ever pretend to be a fluffy writer of happy-fic, her stories tend to be gritty and uncomfortably realistic in many ways. Her lads are often rather prickly behind their jovial facades, and she's not afraid of showing that. No matter how much you want them to be different, in M.Fae's stories they are laid starkly bare in their views of the world, in where these came from, and they just don't always behave the way heroes are supposed to behave. A bit like in the eps, really... *g*
The thing is, through all the spikiness and grim grey of their world, M.Fae also shows us (in most of her stories) that the lads really do need and want and in fact love each other - it's just that circumstances, and the way they've grown up (and let's be honest, they're men who've grown up to be killers, for whatever reason) mean that they can't always be honest with each other, or even themselves, about that.
Rough Trade is very like that - Bodie does not want to admit to being "queer", and neither does Doyle when he's found out. Bodie is not kind, Doyle is not noble, but M.Fae showed me so well the reasons behind the way they were acting that on the one hand I was worrying that reality would continue to be reality and things would turn out badly, but on the other hand I was sure that it wouldn't - because the lads both knew, they just had to admit that they knew... Don't get me wrong, this isn't a "misunderstandings" story, I don't think I've ever read one of those by M.Fae, this is a full-on, real-hearted, keep-you-on-your-toes story. I love those kind. They make you think, and they involve you full-time, and you remember them afterwards. Brilliant.
Anyone else liking M.Fae..? *g*
Rough Trade sees the lads start off on a sexual relationship, but not at all smoothly and happily - and M.Fae didn't ever pretend to be a fluffy writer of happy-fic, her stories tend to be gritty and uncomfortably realistic in many ways. Her lads are often rather prickly behind their jovial facades, and she's not afraid of showing that. No matter how much you want them to be different, in M.Fae's stories they are laid starkly bare in their views of the world, in where these came from, and they just don't always behave the way heroes are supposed to behave. A bit like in the eps, really... *g*
The thing is, through all the spikiness and grim grey of their world, M.Fae also shows us (in most of her stories) that the lads really do need and want and in fact love each other - it's just that circumstances, and the way they've grown up (and let's be honest, they're men who've grown up to be killers, for whatever reason) mean that they can't always be honest with each other, or even themselves, about that.
Rough Trade is very like that - Bodie does not want to admit to being "queer", and neither does Doyle when he's found out. Bodie is not kind, Doyle is not noble, but M.Fae showed me so well the reasons behind the way they were acting that on the one hand I was worrying that reality would continue to be reality and things would turn out badly, but on the other hand I was sure that it wouldn't - because the lads both knew, they just had to admit that they knew... Don't get me wrong, this isn't a "misunderstandings" story, I don't think I've ever read one of those by M.Fae, this is a full-on, real-hearted, keep-you-on-your-toes story. I love those kind. They make you think, and they involve you full-time, and you remember them afterwards. Brilliant.
Anyone else liking M.Fae..? *g*
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