R4 (Reactions, Reviews, Reference, Redirection) #0061 · 2:04pm Jan 11th, 2015
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Here are five possibly edited old reviews:
Tonight by Echos of a Dream
A Sister’s Work by CesareBlanc
Apple Family Values by Lapis-Lazuli
Rise from the Ashes by ArgonMatrix
Musical Relations by Lapis-Lazuli and Inky J
Tonight by Echos of a Dream
[story link] [my original review]
Character study of Princess Luna that doesn’t quite manage it. It is a little vague and a little too focused. It’s just a brief back-and-forth conversation between Luna and a mysterious guest (who we never learn the identity of sadly) that doesn’t really reveal all that much. I think that slice of life stories are much better for character studies than this sort of thing, simply because revealing a character indirectly is much more effective than trying to do the explore through conversation thing. Though a good author can pull off any specific execution of a idea.
A Sister’s Work by CesareBlanc
[story link] [my original review]
This was interesting. Sweetie Bell being a robot is one of the odder alternate universe versions of MLP, one I’ve seen in the description of a few other fanfics, but this is the first one I ran across that involved it. Though it is kept semi-secret for most of the story. Very short story though so that’s not long. The most interesting thing is that the story doesn’t really indicate one way or another if the whole robot thing is a secret or not. The princesses know, because they apparently got asked permission, but there is a slight implication that it is kept hidden as well. So it could go one way or the other.
Apple Family Values by Lapis-Lazuli
[story link] [my original review]
Sweet story. Another one in the Scootaloo is a orphan genre, but very well done. Nothing major, just nicely written slice of life of Scootaloo joining the Apple family. Going to be checking out more of this author’s stories.
Rise from the Ashes by ArgonMatrix
[story link] [my original review]
This is a cut-down version, but has pretty much all I had to say about the story in it.
Good, but one thing that tweaked me. Started out strong. I do like the concept of how the two Princesses compliment each other. Celestia as the intellect and Luna as the wisdom, among other traits for them both. It is something not a lot of stories comment on, but the few that do are quite good. All in all this story is another look at immortality and the pain Celestia must have felt when she banished her sister. Almost cliché at this point, but this story does a good job exploring it.
Musical Relations by Lapis-Lazuli and Inky J
[Story tagged mature] [my original review]
Well, still can’t get used to explicit sex in a pony fanfic. It’s where my sense of disbelief starts to break down, where the fact that they are ponies with hooves starts clashing. This one had more of that than a lot of fanfics. The characters were written with what is basically bipedal body language, even outside the sex scenes, and that kept poking me with a touch of annoyingness. Still, good romance story. Just wish is was less erotic and more sweet. Still planning on checking out the sequel to see if it continues to be good. Still going to be skimming the sex scenes, however, since they didn’t really have much to do with plot or character development.
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