Comments | xf_book_club: Story 269: "The Lambs" by so kiss me goodbye

wendelah1 in xf_book_club

Story 269: "The Lambs" by so kiss me goodbye

Oct 11, 2016 11:16

This novel was nominated back in September 2015 by rainatlas. It was a WIP at the time and I've been burned enough times that I'm wary of WIPs. I'm allergic to fanfic about William. Despite my reservations, I trust rainatlas's judgement. I read the two sections that had been posted and agreed it was a fic worth our time. On September 24, 2016, Lamia (so kiss me ( Read more... )

conspiracy, william, pg-13, post-col, post-series

Comments 15

mosinging1986 October 11 2016, 19:26:30 UTC

OOO, colonization! I've never heard of this one before. I will have to give it a try. (As soon as I put it on my ereader!)

Oh, bummer. The FF.net phone app Search feature is USELESS! It's not finding the story, even though the link on the computer works fine.

And on the site itself, isn't there any way to view more than one chapter at a time, in order to save the whole story in one shot? This thing as 44 chapters! It'll take forever to save chapters one by one!

Bah!

wendelah1 October 12 2016, 01:40:15 UTC

I wish I could help you. I only read fic on a computer. At FF.net, I don't see a way to view the entire story the way there is at AO3. You can play with the font, width, etc. but not what you need.

You could leave Lamia a comment and ask her to post it at AO3 if that's easier for you and other people who read on alternate devices. It's worth a shot.

mosinging1986 October 12 2016, 02:33:04 UTC

I'll figure it out, thanks. I used to read long fics on the computer. But these days my eyes can't take it.

If I can just find it on the phone app, that would be perfect. Weirdness!

anonymous October 12 2016, 19:54:25 UTC

I've been a lurker here for years, no live journal account, not much of a poster on any board. But I'm definitely a reader, and just wanted to share that the story is available at AO3 but the author has a different name there.

It's under author name bluelamia, and this is the link.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/8147528/chapters/18672257

I've read some of it, and it's well written. Hope to finish it eventually -- it's long!

JF

wendelah1 January 11 2017, 18:22:20 UTC

Thank you. I'm sorry I didn't see this at the time. Your comment went into the spam folder with the porn blogs because of the helpful link. The LJ spambot killer can't tell the difference. I will edit this into the post immediately.

zinnia03 October 14 2016, 22:20:28 UTC

I'm working on it, but it's loooooong. :-)

Enjoying it so far. Up to about Ch. 17.

wendelah1 October 16 2016, 17:16:06 UTC

It is long but I thought it was a pretty fast read, all in all.

My thoughts (spoilers if you haven't read) zinnia03 October 16 2016, 02:32:06 UTC

Finished it! I liked it very much. I was on the edge of my seat a couple of times; there were a few good twists in it. Of course, I'm not the best at figuring things out ahead of time -- I caught a few things but my tendency is to let the story sort of flow over me unless it's something really obvious ( ... )

Re: My thoughts (spoilers if you haven't read) wendelah1 October 16 2016, 18:05:21 UTC

I liked that the author stuck to Liam's POV, too, although there were a couple of times where I wished she'd trusted the reader more and hadn't had Liam spend so much time lurking about eavesdropping. I've only read the first two sections twice, and section three once all the way through so I'd have to go back in order to find those sections ( ... )

Re: My thoughts (spoilers if you haven't read) zinnia03 October 17 2016, 21:33:34 UTC

Was it entirely third person limited or did she occasionally switch to omniscient?

I'll concede the point. I'm an emotional reader first and a critical reader second, though I do tend to notice typos and horrible grammar! I've only read it through once so far, though I expect I'll revisit it.

Did Lamia mean us to think that somehow Gibson had also been uploaded into the net, too? It wasn't clear to me.

I think so. Not sure how it was achieved via being "absorbed" into the ship, but maybe Esther somehow had a hand in it. Maybe the nanocites allowed him to be connected in some way.

I also wondered about the fate of the super soldiers and of the little girl who went missing from her parents.

"I will find you, Eliie, I will." I don't think Ellie or her parents are from anywhere in the series. I confess I didn't like her much -- she seemed like a little bit of a vehicle for Liam to be "bad" since she was much less concerned about obeying the rules than Liam was. Maybe everyone needs permission to act out now and then. I ( ... )

RE: Re: My thoughts (spoilers if you haven't read) bmerb October 26 2016, 01:03:55 UTC

I think there are better reviews here than I'm going to manage, but I certainly did find the story gripping and wanted to keep reading at the end of each chapter. I really enjoyed the way Liam's parents were handled. No dumping the adoptive family, no emotionally suddenly replacing them with M&S. That read as realistic to me, and writing I enjoyed. I too didn't much care for Ellie, and honestly it seems like Gibson noted that in many ways Liam didn't care much for her either. I also don't totally buy the Liam-will-now-quest-for-Ellie thing either ( ... )

alleynyc December 4 2016, 04:02:09 UTC

Weighing in months late as usual. I'm at chapter 14 and losing interest but based on your reviews I'll keep going. Hope all are well!

wendelah1 December 5 2016, 05:57:49 UTC

I'm well. My husband is recovering from pneumonia, however.