Summergen 2019 rec post number 4
Sep. 5th, 2019 05:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amberdreamsSummer is drawing to a close and here's another little batch of awesome to see us through the dying days.
Exclesiates
Jess returns from the dead and Sam is getting married. All is well with the world - or is it?
A gentle ominous thread runs through this one, and kept me guessing. The story is a lovely Sam POV, and definitely delivers on the brotherly bond.
The Holy Grail Bird
Sam is at the heart of this gentle yet gripping and heart wrenching tale. I cried over a clockword bird and the ending broke me in a good way. A fantastical story that remains true to the characters and a truly magical resolution to Chuck's god bullet. This one is now top of my list of faves this year and I'm certain it will stay there.
The Master's House
Another Sam POV but this Sam is an angel, and the story takes use with Sam through aspects of creation and the burgeoning of individuality and free will in a way that is recognisably SPN and yet also wonderfully different. I especially loved the descriptions of Dean (there's a surprise) as having been a weapon in the heart of Darkness, and how that hurt him, how the story uses memories of war and how time develops over time (as it were). It's beautifully written, thought provoking, and clever. I love how, though this is such a different setting, our Sam and Dean shine through.
A post modern manifesto of joylessness
I need to add this one in because it's so tricksy and cool. Firmly in Sam's POV, the story takes us on a gradual realisation that we (and Sam) really don't know what's real and what isn't. The sense of calm confusion is actually more scary than anything more overt - the repetition is disturbing. It's sad and full of undercurrents of horror in a very subtle way.
Exclesiates
Jess returns from the dead and Sam is getting married. All is well with the world - or is it?
A gentle ominous thread runs through this one, and kept me guessing. The story is a lovely Sam POV, and definitely delivers on the brotherly bond.
The Holy Grail Bird
Sam is at the heart of this gentle yet gripping and heart wrenching tale. I cried over a clockword bird and the ending broke me in a good way. A fantastical story that remains true to the characters and a truly magical resolution to Chuck's god bullet. This one is now top of my list of faves this year and I'm certain it will stay there.
The Master's House
Another Sam POV but this Sam is an angel, and the story takes use with Sam through aspects of creation and the burgeoning of individuality and free will in a way that is recognisably SPN and yet also wonderfully different. I especially loved the descriptions of Dean (there's a surprise) as having been a weapon in the heart of Darkness, and how that hurt him, how the story uses memories of war and how time develops over time (as it were). It's beautifully written, thought provoking, and clever. I love how, though this is such a different setting, our Sam and Dean shine through.
A post modern manifesto of joylessness
I need to add this one in because it's so tricksy and cool. Firmly in Sam's POV, the story takes us on a gradual realisation that we (and Sam) really don't know what's real and what isn't. The sense of calm confusion is actually more scary than anything more overt - the repetition is disturbing. It's sad and full of undercurrents of horror in a very subtle way.