invaderwitch - but joy comes in the morning
Fandom: Supernatural
Author: invaderwitch
Title: but joy comes in the morning
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Word Count: 10,000
Spoiler: Season five
Author's summary: The world is ending and Castiel - every Castiel - is in love.
Rating:
”but joy comes in the morning” starts out with a three line long sentence that's long enough to take the breath away from you. A few more of the same length follows but thankfully it slows down after that which is a very good thing. For ”but joy comes in the morning” deserves to be read slowly and with enough periods to give the reader a bit of breathing space once in a while.
The story is a clever reflection over Dean and Castiel's relationship as it could have evolved through season five, but invaderwitch manages to avoid a retelling of the season, instead taking pivotal moments and episodes and putting her own spin on them.
The story is seen from Castiel's pov which is something I think many authors struggle with. It's particularly hard to capture someone as alien as Cas can be and again as human and naive as he sometimes appear without coming up with someone who is either a charicature or someone who is either one thing or the other, but not both. Even the show seems to struggle with it once in a while, morphing Castiel from an all powerful being one minute, to a childlike character who has to try out in practice what he just learned from tv - no matter how inappropiate the setting - the next. Invaderwitch deftly manages to blend the two personalities into a fully believable Castiel who changes with the events around him, reflects over them and learns from them and the reader is gently guided on a journey alongside him as he comes to understand more about himself.
I particularly enjoyed the conversations between Castiel and Dean in ”but joy comes in the morning”, especially in the quiter moments. Invaderwitch is very good at describing the emotions surrounding the conversations, to build up the entire paragraph around it, so the reader has a fully formed picture of the scene.
The narrative manages to weave the different scenes together so that they complement each other and bring the action forward, moments in themselves but always a part of the main story so that they don't become fragmented pieces held together by a thin thread.
If you liked season five, and would like a bit more depth to it, I fully recommend this story.
Rating:
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Author: invaderwitch
Title: but joy comes in the morning
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Genre: Drama
Rating: R
Word Count: 10,000
Spoiler: Season five
Author's summary: The world is ending and Castiel - every Castiel - is in love.
Rating:
”but joy comes in the morning” starts out with a three line long sentence that's long enough to take the breath away from you. A few more of the same length follows but thankfully it slows down after that which is a very good thing. For ”but joy comes in the morning” deserves to be read slowly and with enough periods to give the reader a bit of breathing space once in a while.
The story is a clever reflection over Dean and Castiel's relationship as it could have evolved through season five, but invaderwitch manages to avoid a retelling of the season, instead taking pivotal moments and episodes and putting her own spin on them.
The story is seen from Castiel's pov which is something I think many authors struggle with. It's particularly hard to capture someone as alien as Cas can be and again as human and naive as he sometimes appear without coming up with someone who is either a charicature or someone who is either one thing or the other, but not both. Even the show seems to struggle with it once in a while, morphing Castiel from an all powerful being one minute, to a childlike character who has to try out in practice what he just learned from tv - no matter how inappropiate the setting - the next. Invaderwitch deftly manages to blend the two personalities into a fully believable Castiel who changes with the events around him, reflects over them and learns from them and the reader is gently guided on a journey alongside him as he comes to understand more about himself.
I particularly enjoyed the conversations between Castiel and Dean in ”but joy comes in the morning”, especially in the quiter moments. Invaderwitch is very good at describing the emotions surrounding the conversations, to build up the entire paragraph around it, so the reader has a fully formed picture of the scene.
The narrative manages to weave the different scenes together so that they complement each other and bring the action forward, moments in themselves but always a part of the main story so that they don't become fragmented pieces held together by a thin thread.
If you liked season five, and would like a bit more depth to it, I fully recommend this story.
Rating:
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