#lariope

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Lariope

Pen names: Lariope

Accounts: LiveJournal (updated 2017), Ashwinder, Petulant Poetess, AO3

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Location: United States?

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Recommended fanfiction: Second Life

[ravenousreaderhere]

The Exception to the Rule

I usually don’t read Severus/Hermione fics where Severus is still her professor, I usually shun Severus/Hermione fics where the classroom and the bedroom collide, and I usually ban Severus/Hermione fics from my reading list where the author tries to mash their relationship into the plot from the books... Except Second Life by Lariope broke all those boundaries. Hermione and Severus are pushed together (*cough* Dumbledore *cough*) into marriage and their marriage is used as a means to an end. Severus and Hermione remain in a professor-student relationship, and there’s a rather entrancing scene in which they approach sex with Severus as her instructor. All of this runs parallel to the plot from the sixth and seventh books. 

And... It’s remarkably good. The characters are well-done - flawed, realistic, and some of them exceptionally witty - and the plot complements canon. I heartily recommend it to all Severus/Hermione fans. People skeptical of the pairing should note that common objections to the pairing are not addressed very well: things like the age gap, the prior professor-student relationship, or them seeming unlike each other. Their relationship just kind of happens. However, that is a small criticism of an excellent work.

Title? Second Life. Author? Lariope. Word count? 231,591. Rating? R (for lovely explicit sex and the violence that naturally follows a climactic battle with a megalomanic wizard. Also, some swearing). My take? A really good read, filled with great characters and a well-done plot.

[fleetwoodmouse]

John tries to take on a case of his own. The results are not quite what he expected.

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Fic rec:

John Dreams of Sherlock /a> by Lariope, because unf!