Fic Review - Temper the Wind

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Title: Temper the Wind
Author: Gui Mauve
Link to story: Not online - ProsLib CD
Zine: Not in a zine - ProsLib CD

We start this story in the middle of an op, one where Doyle has somehow fallen foul of some enemy or other, and has just been found by Bodie and Turner...

We find out very quickly that Doyle was kept drugged and can't remember who his captors were, or what happened. The story follows both lads as they try to work it out, and we're also given glimpses from Turner's point of view, which I quite liked as another way of seeing their world.

I think I'd like this to have been longer and more detailed - there's a bit of a rush through it all, from the rescue, to the recovery from addiction, to Doyle's return to work, and I'm not sure the timescales used are particularly realistic, so that for me it was more a tantalising glimpse of their lives, from a slight distance away... The author doesn't shy away from showing the lads' emotions either, slightly more than I can imagine they might, but ymmv of course...

Readable though, I didn't have to put it down and gather my strength to get through it, and I didn't want to put it down until I got to the end - so another one that I'd recommend from the ProsLib CD! *g*

Comments

Typo

[hagsrus.livejournal.com]

Gui Mauve, not Maeve -- feel free to delete this. Cheers F

Re: Typo

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh cheers - well spotted! *g*

[angel-ci5.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this, I've printed it out for the TBR pile. I really appreciate reviews for the CD, there's so many stories on it, I can never choose which to read... and I like to have an inkling what kind of story I'm getting!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, that's just how I feel! Too much choice! If I'm reading on my computer I don't mind what it is, but if I'm printing stories out I like to know that they'll be good enough to curl up with... Only I need other people to write some recs too, for that! *g*