My review of Bonetree's Goshen series

[whitewriter]

The first fic : Goshen was good, but literally just the beginning of the epicness. I did find it a tad .... cheesy? As to how the end up being pushed together (there was some areas where I rolled my eyes hard with the angst) but the writing is overall, so good I just couldn't care less and I knew it was going to continue to be an epic ride (due to flashbacks of the first time I read it-- couldn't remember what happens but could remember how epic I remember it being) I need better vocab beyond epic --

Its nice that Goshen, although the start of the series, is not entirely a necessary part to the whole series. That being said, if you don't read the rest of it in the proper order you will be .... confused to say the least (less so if its a re-read).

Then I moved onto reading City of Light by accident prior to Secret World because Bonetree's works are so poorly organised on Gossamer. Then realised my mistake 3 parts in (the whole while I was thinking there is a huge chunk missing here, why would she write a story backwards for?)
Anyhow.

So I quickly rectified that.

I think I enjoyed Secret world the most.

Then City of Lights was quite the slow burn but the last 2 parts were just so... spot on with the action. What makes the series so good is how she builds and builds and builds this epic (that word again) senario, and then just when you wonder how it's going to resolve, she gets it done! and your like BRAVO! So huge kudos to City of Lights. It was slow going at the first but -- worth reading it properly and not skimming.

The Lost Land (TLL) was good but I felt like bonetree got a little lost in how the hell she (could be a he? but I don't get that vibe TBH) would resolve this story. I won't give it away but she chooses what I would consider to be the "easy way out".

In TLL, M and Skinman take a trip to Ireland and that's probably the coolest part of the story.

Throughout the entire Goshen series, you can see that Bonetree loves to separate M and S and then tease out all the angst that goes with that so that was good as well. The last scene is probably one of the best ever written birth scenes in the fanfiction (and TV world-- requiem was pretty funny) that I have ever read so kudos there (and I'm a midwife apparently so I should know, right?). The series has a definite ending, Bonetree leaves no loose ends. Which is a lovely change from the likes of CC's writings.

I loved this series for its very plausible new characters (Granger, Robin, all The path members, Mae, Sean) bringing back older characters in the series to enrich the story and make it more x-filesy even though it was a counter-terrorism case (Albert, Victor etc.) and its so well written the AU doesn't even feel like AU. It literally feels like CC could have taken this path, should he have chosen to do so.

I wonder what Bonetree does now (for a living), and how old he/she was when these fics were written.

I'm listening to Patsy Cline now due to her references within the series. Did you know that she died at age 30 due to a freak plane crash? RIP Patsy, a force for women in music.

Meanwhile, I found this amazing top ten fanfics list on LJ.
I swore F and C's to my old mate Rosy in the USA that after Bonetree "I wasn't going to read another fanfic" (as I have been doing since I started this FF re-journey 2 weeks ago) but yeah... I have to read Wintersong next I believe... I joined the community too. I intend to put up my top 10 in my not too distant future.

Score card:
Characterisation of canon characters: A+ (starts of as an A in the first part but it gets better so I add on a + as the series caries on)
Characterisation of original characters: A
Story line: Does A+++ exist?
Smut: A
Overall writing: A+

Comments

[wendelah1]

I'm looking forward to your top ten fanfics list.