Yeah, I know what you mean. Finding the perfect pair of shoes has that effect on me too. You are talking about shoes, right? What's this got to do with almost recommendable fics?

 

And 3 months later you remember that a pretty face doesn't mean your personalities are compatible.

 

Then your cock tells you to stfu and handle it.

 

I was faintly nauseated throughout the first chapter. I thought it would get better seeing as how most people's first chapter suck... that was until I read this.

Apparently Teddy is actually Buckwheat from the Little Rascals. :facepalm

 

I tend to have a fairly heavy bias towards Harry/Daphne stories. Not this one.

I had an unusually difficult time following the author's sentences. It didn't flow right to me. Furthermore, despite it being an AU, I fucking hated the characterization. By the end of the first chapter, I was bored of both Harry and Daphne. Hermione/Draco? Hell, no.

The OCs in the second chapter also tended to piss me off. The three guys - stereotypical Slytherin thugs - suddenly appear at Hogwarts out of the nether. And do we really need American first-year triplets who are distinguishable solely be their lingerie color? (That's a rhetorical question - don't answer that).

2/5 from me. And I'm feeling generous.

 

What the fuck am I reading?

I don't enjoy this story at all.

 

Started out...eh, adequate? Readable? But then the crap came in: Hermione/Draco, etc, as mentioned above by Kensington.

2/5. Just.

 

It's written...well? Some sentences flow, others seem like they're tripping over each other. Some good editing would fix that.

The plot...is there.

The characters are definitely nothing new.

To be honest, there's nothing there to really like. Plot too early to tell, but from what I read a 2/5 like the rest. Would have to become epic from what it is now to be considered for review.

 

I had to stop half-way through chapter 1. The characters and their interactions are just too painful to read. 1/5

 

...why would you read any Harry/Daphne recommended by Sesc?

Rookie mistake, rookies.

 

Draco is especially OOC, here.

Why on earth would he 'get a boner' for Hermione, a 'mudblood'?

 

Because his cock doesn't really give a fuck about her blood. At least for most of the month anyway.

 

The first 500 words or so (up to Sirius' advice) were decent enough, and had me expecting an entertaining read if nothing else. After that though...the writing just threw me off completely, even though I've read far worse (it's an easier read than House of Shards, for instance). He (?) seems to barely use commas, leading to some really awkward sentences.

Although maybe that's just me; I've been accused of having a comma fetish before *shrugs*

By the time it got to the party, I was skimming, and I couldn't really bring myself to finish the chapter, let alone read on. 2/5, max.

 

Because 'Snakecharmer' (which I believe he recommended) is pretty ok? And because he's a kick-ass writer, so the stuff he likes do have a chance of being ok?

/rabid Sesc-fanboy rant

EDIT: But this one does suck.

 

He's the lord of two houses, is rich as shit, Ron is jealous, Hermoine's dating Draco, and within the first 3k words we're not only introduced to Daphne and her family, but we learn that she has had a "secret crush" on Harry for years. Add in the fact that the author tries way to hard and writes in an unimpressive and overly grand way, I mean, honestly, who the fuck says "lad?" So, for me, this fic has no redeeming qualities and was a complete waste of the half hour it took me to read it.

On a sidenote, the title reminds me of that fic from a few years ago "A Potter-Blacks Role in Life." I've been reading this shit for to long.

 

The only redeeming quality of this fic is its title. It amused me. I couldn't get through the first paragraph of the actual story.

 

He did. I suggest reading through that thread again - it wasn't all lurve and acceptance, not even from me.

Definitely does not. He's said as much, as well.

That's all I needed to hear.

 

Agreed.

The way the three introduced themselves is what was really fucked up. "Hi, we're the bastard children of death eaters. You'll be seein' more of us real soon." Wut?

And that's "Out of the Ether." The "Nether" is... something else.

Oh, and an area in Minecraft, from what I hear.

I'm afraid I have to answer that.

They are NOT first year students, they are SIXTH year transfer students.

Story still sucks, though. The fact that one of the girls is named "Miley" is a catastrophic auto-fail of epic proportions.

I wish America would start sending decent students to Hogwarts, because these fanfic OC rejects are giving us a bad name.

I'll just sit here for a while and try to convince myself that the North American schools know Hogwarts is a joke, and a dangerous one at that, and have been sending their moronic problem students over just to see what happens.