recsfest day 28

[norwich36]

Today's Clex rec is garryowen, Last, Best Hope . Aliens are invading, and earth's only hope is the Smallville mutants. One of my favorite AUs. I love the torturously slow build-up of Clark and Lex's relationship in the story--garryowen is so amazing at teasing the reader--but I also adore the plot. Stories in which the mutants get redeemed are pretty much my favorite type of SV AU ever, and we get lots of that in this story.

And coincidentally, garryowen is the author for this month's fireside chat/ ask the author at svroundtable, so you should go over there and tell her how much you love her stories and ask her questions.

And not only that, but teot, who organized the SV BigBang challenge last year, and is therefore at least indirectly responsible for inspiring this story and many other fabulous ones as well, is considering holding the challenge again, and has a poll about it for potential participants here if you haven't already filled it out.

This concludes February recsfest 2007! I hope you all enjoyed this incarnation of the Clexrecfest. Sometime in the next week or so I'll be posting an alphabetical list of all the recs from this month to svroundtable, in case you missed any of them or would like a handy list without having to go through the whole month's entries.

Comments

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i did enjoy it! thanks for all the good reading. :)

[kristiinthedark.livejournal.com]

You are awesome, as usual!

[garryowen.livejournal.com]

I second the awesome comment.

It's gratifying to read that you liked the pacing of the story because the rough draft was VERY different. I realized the pacing was wrong, so I rewrote pages and pages and pages, and moved things around. It was torture. My poor betas. They should have gotten paid. Anyway, I'm glad my work wasn't in vain.

:)

[talitha78.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all of the great recs throughout the month. :)

[serenography.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you did this. I haven't been reading much fic lately, but when the mood hits me, it's great to know I have this reference to use.

[bagheera-san.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the recs, too! Thanks for taking the time :)

[ender24]

I often points to your recs in your memories, so it would be great if you have them in one post them at the roundtable as well!
and thanks for the lovely recs, it was so fun to reread them!