by darkkixie on S&C (reviewed by request from an anonymous reader)
The problem with maintaining a blog that takes requests is that sometimes people want you to review stories that really aren't your cup of tea. Frankly, I'm completely bored with the whole vampire/werewolf/witch phenomena to which the Twighlight series--a story that actually makes you dumber as you read it--sounded its death knell. (Okay, I'll probably get some hate mail for that, but you will never convince me that Bella and Edward are intellectually stimulating.) So, yeah, I really didn't want to read this story about werewolf Blaine and witch Santana and mystery Kurt.
But I did.
And I couldn't put it down.
The story is bloody good (pun intended). The author is a truly creative story teller with a fertile and imaginative mind. The characters are complex and compelling, and the story line keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end. I have bags under my eyes from staying up way too late reading this story.
Having said that, I fervently wish that the author had spent even a small amount of time editing. I can forgive an author for getting excited and writing quickly. I certainly find truly embarrassing typos in my own work when I edit, and then I find more even after going over a story again and again. But there are so many typos in this story that they get hard to overlook after a while. I also have a problem with the use of so many irregular verbs (learnt, leant, smelt, etc.). I hesitate to revisit the whole British English/American English controversy, but Americans tend to dislike irregular verbs (thus, American characters are unlikely to use them in speech). So, I'll allow Kurt to wear a "mac" and to store his gear in the "bonnet," but a smelt will always be a small, yummy fish to me.
