OMG at first I thought it was my internet conection, which happens I mean I was about to kill my IP when it wasn't I was about to cry

And now I'm just thankfull is up and running Thank You Mr Admin 

And now I can start a PTS addiction group 

If you like a historical setting, you'll probably like it.  I enjoyed it.  There's a certain unexpected circumstance that upsets some people, but it didn't particularly get my dander up. 

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I keep hearing mixed reviews about it and out of curiosity I kinda wanna read it but I don't know if I should. 

Now the thread is back I can whine about the crappy fics I've read lately. The downside to reading fic in a bad mood: you have 0 leeway for mistakes and just flounce all over the place

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This story was about Bella as a stroke victim, something I thought looked interesting.. except it was never really developed, the relationship between B/E wasn't explained and there wasn't really a conclusion.

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Again, started promising and then got ridiculous very quickly.. B/E get married out of nowhere and his whole family just accepts it, the whole story seems to be on a superficial level without ever getting into actual meaning. It also has possibly the most abrupt ending of any fic ever.

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I wanted to kneecap Bella for pretty much every chapter of this - she's constantly whiny and seems to have the backbone of a jellyfish. The author doesn't know her arse from her elbow when it comes to SPaG and uses colloquial English for a story set in Forks.

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Now obviously, as this is an Edward's Eternal fic it's decent, but I just didn't like the story line all that much. I don't particularly like that instant type of love, and kissing a guy once and him proclaiming to love you forever? Bit full on! I'd be running a mile in the opposite direction.

Uh.. yeah. Don't read any of these, basically.

I've been struggling with one too. Someone posted Saving Bella by Mynxi over in the 152 thread, so I started it. It's Bella/Jasper, New Moon au, with a really damaged Bella. Now I love me a damaged heroine, but this Bella is really pushing my limits. I just don't get someone who's entire self worth could get SO ruined over a freaking guy, to the point that she wants to die. There's sadness and depression, and then there's this Bella.

But I'm slogging through it, I don't know why, glutton for punishment.

Eh I've made it 500 pages in, only around 100 left, I'll stick it out to the end, lol. It had enough going to keep me interested, even I did want to smack the taste out of her mouth more than once for her overly melodramatic attitude.

When you think about it, Stephenie Meyers really set Bella up for breaking completely in the books.
That poor girl had no experiences whatsoever in her old school because in that huge highschools shy, silent students with good grades are not remarkable. Then she moves in the middle of the schoolyear to a town where everybody knows each other since birth. Groups are built since forever and she is too shy to really try to find her way in. People are interested in her because she is new, but before she can make anything more than aquaintances, Edward, that "perfect looking god" kind of falls for her and romances her. She is more than flattered, nobody ever gave her that much attention before! But for being in a relationship with him, he has to keep her isolated, so nobody else gets close enough to uncover his and his families secret. So she can do nothing else than to cling to him and his family, especially since her own family life doesn't really deserve to be called that. Nobody's fault, she and her dad just don't know each other at all and he has no idea how to act around a teenage daughter he has rarely seen the past years. And this relationship gets a severe blow when she runs to Phoenix because of James.

So we have a shy, nice, very inexperienced teenage girl with no real contact outside of that vampy family. All of them are physically far better than her, which damages her selfimage even more, because she has no contact to real people (between Twilight and New Moon were summer holidays, no school means no other teenagers, only vamps for Bella).

And then it comes, the famous woods scene. Edward really did a number on her there. Why he didn't realize how much he broke her is beyond me. She already thought she is nothing compared to him and the family, breaking up that way was a very low blow. AND because he isolated her before, she has nor friends to talk to, she doesn't dare to get professional help (my boyfriend broke up with me because his brother wanted to eat me? yeah, right, where's the paddded room?). Her dad has no idea what to do and leaves her alone. She is completely isolated.

You may see that I'm not much of a fan of New Moon  And I think Bella had every right a teenage girl has to crash completely.

However, stories where she is unable to move on for years don't make sense for me either... I think somewhere along the way she would have grown up and been able to move on. Edward was lucky it were only six months of separation...

Oh my, I'm rambling...