Name of fanfiction: The Seven Hunters
Rating: 10/10
Review:
YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD!!!THat was all that I could say when I read a particular chapter from his fanfiction, when Littlefoot killed another dinosaur for the very first time. It really sums up my feeling about this fanfiction quite well.
Rhombus has taken the Gang that we know and love so much, and forced them to be sharpteeth. to live a life that truly horrifiies them. To become something that they used to fear. Along the way, the gang so much about the particulars of sharptooth life, from how to hunt, to how to deal with rival sharpteeth, to things like how a pack stays together, and how to deal with what you are. The writer is so decriptive in these cercimstances, that readers actually learn a thing or two about animals in the wild.
This story was partly inspired by Sharptooth Valley by Brekclub, but it greatly surpasses it in my mind. That story just didn't have the emotion that this one has. It didn't have the sharptooth gang know anything about their alternate lives as leaf eaters, which really took a lot away from the story.
He also packs so much emotion into this story, and includes many mature subjects, like including instances of rape recently in the story. That's a very taboo sucject that most writers won't touch with a hundred foot pole, but Rhombus did, and handled it in a very mature and respectful way. The writer has rated his sotry as being Mature, but it's helped by it, not hindered by it. You really feel for these characters, and can understand what their going through. Even when they do something deplorable, you see the reason behind it, what they've been through to make them make these decisions. (Well, except for one character, but I won't spoil him.
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With every chapter I read, it leaves me wanting even more. That's a sign that this writer knows what's he's doing. If every cliffhanger at the end of every chapter leaves the reader on the edge of their seats, that speaks volumes for how engrossing and casptivating it is.
This is the best fanfiction I've read on these forums. There's some much older fanfics on here that other people adore as classics, but I've sadly still not been able to read them. I haven't read ones such as the BOSE ones, Far Away Home, Twilight Valley, or that movie script one about the catastrofic storm(I forget the name of that one right now). Still, this is the best one that I HAVE read.
Name of fanfiction: Venatione Venatus
Rating: 8/10
Review:
This is also a very good, ongoing story that I have been kind of following. I didn't really know what I was in for in the beginning, but it really opened up for me. Having Chomper first come to terms with being a sharptooth while being forced into a juvinile pack of other sharpteeth, and then bringing in an epic over-arching story line about two big forces that wants the other wiped off the earth was a shock.
The Writer here introduces a lot of characters into this story. He gives them all their own back stories, and everything. For some odd reason, though, I'm just not into a lot of his OC's. IT might be that there's so many of them, and they keep getting mixed up in my head, but I don't get the same kick in the gut feeling other readers do when he kills one of them off. (He does this A LOT, if you didn't know that.
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Even though, I've very much into the overall storyline, even if I'm not into some of the particulars. The impending clash of these two massive forces, and the drama that this is creating, with both sides doing despicable acts, and trying to gain the upper hand, have me very interested. You could say this is a mixed bag for me, but I feel this story still deserves a 8, just because the overall story is so good. Even if I don't care about some of the OC's, I still wanna see where this story is heading.
That's a blob of words I've been hiding, not wanting to say out of some sort of fear of dissapointing the writer, but Dosu2Dinner really deserves to know it. I hope he understands.
I might review some more later today. I'll just have to see.
