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field_reportsIf only all the post-Half-Blood Prince shipper hullabaloo had produced more like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
owlyscribblings' By the Sea. This is a story that gives proper credit to all of the relationships implicated by JKR finally settling the question. It understands that most people don't stay with their first loves -- and more importantly, that changes of heart are not swoony or romantic. They're difficult. There are no easy, OTP-pleasing reconfigurations here.
Sometimes the writing style was a bit too oblique for me, but overall I thought it was refreshingly understated and un-dramatic, especially when such huge tectonic shifts are happening beneath the surface. It makes the playing out of these changes much more realistic and believable -- more like life rather than fiction.
owlyscribblings' By the Sea. This is a story that gives proper credit to all of the relationships implicated by JKR finally settling the question. It understands that most people don't stay with their first loves -- and more importantly, that changes of heart are not swoony or romantic. They're difficult. There are no easy, OTP-pleasing reconfigurations here.Sometimes the writing style was a bit too oblique for me, but overall I thought it was refreshingly understated and un-dramatic, especially when such huge tectonic shifts are happening beneath the surface. It makes the playing out of these changes much more realistic and believable -- more like life rather than fiction.
