There are so many good things to say about this and I'm not even sure where to start. I can't lie, I've been looking forward to your big bang since I read Named admittedly, well behind your actual posting date and curious.
There's always some interest in seeing an author write well and then wondering if the next thing will be just as well or eh or totally the same thing in a not good way. This was perfect. Originally, what drew me to Named was your summary. It was perfect. It told me nothing about the story (well, not REALLY) but made me want to read it. This summary was the exact same thing. You should give a class on summaries.
Anyway, before this gets too weird and creepy, I just want to say that your prose and voice are both amazing. The original and interesting plot aside, the way you write your characters is actually amazing. Even through Castiel's POV, you manage to give Sam, Dean, Gabriel, Isis, and even Morpheus completely unique voices. You give readers this amazing ability to hear them as if we were RIGHT THERE and listening. It's great. Your descriptions are poetic without being long and confusing, and you balance the line between prose and plot very well.
And your plot was great. That's such a bummer about Inception, because the whole time I was reading this I was thinking "I'd see that movie." It converted well into SPN though, and the way you handled Castiel's belief in his father and the discovery of Morpheus was beautiful.
My favorite part, my absolute favorite part, is the way you handle Castiel's in-between phase as human and angel. I loved that his grace was literally ripped from him and that he struggled to adjust. The best part of the whole thing was during his Re-education, when you really beautifully combined his experience as an angel in heaven with his new human senses, how he knew there wasn't that physicality to heaven, but he saw it anyway and it made sense.
Anyway, this is getting long and creepy. In short, you are a wonderful writer and this was a beautiful story.
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Date: 2011-10-12 02:40 pm (UTC)There's always some interest in seeing an author write well and then wondering if the next thing will be just as well or eh or totally the same thing in a not good way. This was perfect. Originally, what drew me to Named was your summary. It was perfect. It told me nothing about the story (well, not REALLY) but made me want to read it. This summary was the exact same thing. You should give a class on summaries.
Anyway, before this gets too weird and creepy, I just want to say that your prose and voice are both amazing. The original and interesting plot aside, the way you write your characters is actually amazing. Even through Castiel's POV, you manage to give Sam, Dean, Gabriel, Isis, and even Morpheus completely unique voices. You give readers this amazing ability to hear them as if we were RIGHT THERE and listening. It's great. Your descriptions are poetic without being long and confusing, and you balance the line between prose and plot very well.
And your plot was great. That's such a bummer about Inception, because the whole time I was reading this I was thinking "I'd see that movie." It converted well into SPN though, and the way you handled Castiel's belief in his father and the discovery of Morpheus was beautiful.
My favorite part, my absolute favorite part, is the way you handle Castiel's in-between phase as human and angel. I loved that his grace was literally ripped from him and that he struggled to adjust. The best part of the whole thing was during his Re-education, when you really beautifully combined his experience as an angel in heaven with his new human senses, how he knew there wasn't that physicality to heaven, but he saw it anyway and it made sense.
Anyway, this is getting long and creepy. In short, you are a wonderful writer and this was a beautiful story.