[Report This]Date: 10 Mar 2013 03:02 PM Title: Just Another Reason to Hate the Government
That....was one long ass story. And totally worth the read. Incredible job, m'dear!
Date: 30 Aug 2010 02:33 AM Title: Just Another Reason to Hate the Government
AWSOME story!!!! It's rare to find a complete Dark Angel crossover this good. Totally worth coming back to read again and rec to DA crossover addicts.
Date: 02 Jun 2010 12:20 PM Title: Just Another Reason to Hate the Government
Hey, there. Wow, I finished. That is one long story. My favourite kind, of course :D.
So much to comment on. I should have reviewed on a chapter basis, but then, I did not want to stop reading. So you see, it's all your fault, really.
This is a really cool and neatly elaborated 'verse. Seriously, you did a great job at fitting in all the pieces, intertwinning all the trails, leaving no loose ends.. You also did a wonderful job on the characterization, giving them all distinct and individual personalities (not easy as the story moved on and more and more characters kept getting added). Dean and Alec's sibling/parental/alpha/pack relationship is wonderfully intricate and layered. Keegan is a really interesting addition and the mix of transgenic abilities and supernatural ones is well done. I like that you added so many different elements and meshed them all (angels and demons, fey, transgenics, humans, familiars, military, civillian..).
I am a bit intrigued by Max's role in the whole thing. At some points she was more central to the story, at others she seemed to take a back seat. She is the only character I felt you did not know what to do with. (and please let me clarify this is just *my* feeling, I am sure you did; she just feels kind of adrift to me, compared with the sense of purpose I get from the other characters, even secondary ones)
The action sequences were fun and fast paced and the otherworldly elements fit well in and you did a great job at having the characters express the weirdness and frustration at them.
I'd suggest to pay more attention to "your/you're" as this is seems to be the only consistently incorrecuse of grammar throughout the chapters.
All in all, a wonderful story, well told, great characters and a pleasure to read.
Thank you for sharing this universe with us and for taking the time to write it.
Maia.
Author's Response:
0_o wow. I bow down to your epic review! I don't think i've ever gotten one so awesome before! ::squishes you::
Ah, you got me on the your/you're. they're (<-- ::squee!::) the bane of my existance!
And as to Max, her plot ultimately was...severed from the main story. It didn't fit. It IS revamped in the sequel, 'Sojourn', on my lj.
Thank you so much for taking the time to read it.
vil
Date: 29 May 2010 09:26 AM Title: BioHazard
Hee! You are right, the world should not be denied a good zombie story.
Great pacing, nice banter. I have not read your other stories in this 'verse, in which I assume you have introduced the backstory of these characters; that being said, it did not detract from my enjoyment of this one at all.
My only nitpick is how they managed to get into the city so easily in the first place, if there was the military and the lockdown. (probably they got there *just* before or something, but that's not made clear in the story).
But! That's just a detail, thank you for a thrilling and very entertaining story.
Maia.
Author's Response:
i will admit, them getting into the city is a play on every resident evil game so far: there never seems to be ANY problem getting into the lockdown/contaminated zones, despite "military" lol! then again, most people don't play the games as obessessively as my boyfriend and i, so that i may have relied on that crossover point a bit much. thanks for pointing that out!
this 'verse is my baby, and yes, the backstory for all of them is primarily found in 'Just Another Reason to Hate the Government', and for Alec, in 'The Last Brick in the Wall'. I tried to write this stand-alone, i'm so glad it worked! we need more resident evil/dark angel crossovers, he he he.
i'm really glad you enjoyed it. the world needs more zombies!