Title: Swings
Author: PrincessDushku
Rating: KPLUS
Genre: Hurt/Comfort/Romance
Status: Complete
Library Category:
Pairings:
Summary: Complete with Epilogue, Finding the one person in the world who's your other half is never easy- especially when you happen to have good reason to hate them.
Link: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3475265/1/Swings

It is unrepentant romantic. There is some plot, but mostly it uses the basic elements from show until 7, then diverges from the comics. All the major characters are present. Despite the B/F romance, there is no character bashing. The romance is sweet and wonderful but not cloyingly so. The second person narrative (Buffy's throughout) is very believable, and uses little to no gimmicks.

It's also very different from the DlP's usual oeuvre. I've loved it for a while now, so I thought I'd share.

4/5

Fixed formatting and added the FFN link to the actual story. --Zombie

 

Oh, hai.

Stumbled upon this a week ago, decided to give it a shot.

What you said is very true. Unfortunately, it's only true for the first 15 chapters or so. I found that after a while, the story started to drag on with the on-again, off-again routine. I mean, for a while it's basically B/F in odd-numbered chapters, and B/Other in even-numbered chapters. The drama killed the romance, IMO.

Gave me my fluff fix for a while, though, and got me started again on B/F, which might just become my favorite pairing ever (and no, it's not only because of Sarah Michelle Gellar and Eliza Dushku).

The writing is good enough that I didn't think about it while reading, and the 2nd-person is well done and likewise makes itself scarce enough to be enjoyable.

Rating went from 4/5 in early chapters to 3/5 in later parts

 

And misses.

(not really, I just wanted to post that)