Stranger than Fiction by MasenVixen

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This is a co-authored fic, but to be honest, I can't tell. It's possible that they share the same brain because there is not a notable shift in their writing styles. And the story doesn't seem to take on a random direction like so many other collab fics I have read. The author's came together based on the idea that they don't like how easily Bella forgives Edward in New Moon. And I get that. I mean, after she saved his ass and they got back from Italy, she should have given him some hell for that nonsense he pulled. They're meant to be right? A little discussion about his actions couldn't hurt.



This fic is the author's take on how The Twilight Saga would progress if the reunion in New Moon had never occurred. Basically, Bella and Edward never reconnected after he left her to lie alone on the cold, wet forest floor. Ordinarily, I don't read Alternate-Universe (AU) fics. It's just not a personal preference. However, I am reading this one and I do like it. Bella is a twenty-four year old author who wrote a book about a teenage girl and her vampire love. Except, unlike Bella's real life, Claire in the book, has a happily ever after ending with her vampire. Edward is a brooding vamp who ex-communicated himself from his family in mourning of the love he chose to leave behind. And rightfully so. Both of them are so badly damaged they are merely functioning for survival and you pretty much yearn for them to reconnect. Though, when they do, I don't think we can expect it to be all sunshine and roses. Bella is not as pliable as she is in Canon and it doesn't seem like Edward is nearly as much of a doormat.


What grabbed me about this fic is the prologue, which I can tell you has happened less than a handful of times for me. In the prologue you already get a taste of Edward's pain and ignorant seclusion. In his seclusion, he is only plagued by the hole in his frozen heart and the memories he longs for. And then, you get the subsequent torture that ensues when he's brought back into the world of the living. Now plagued with reading mind's of humans. What he reads, I'm not telling. What makes me keep reading the fic is Bella's inability to actually move on, despite how she appears to others on the outside.


So we do get some window climbing, flashy cars and the thrill of the hunt. Memories of meadow scenes both good and bad plague the memories of the characters. We get Jasper's ability to calm a room and Jacob's mammoth size due to his wolfy genes. Alice still sees the future and Rose is still...well Rose. I have to warn you that although there is canon characterization, this is not canon. So far there is cussing, there is death, there are limes, there are lemons. I personally am hoping for some hot Edward - Bella lemons in the future. Because if it's even close to the one I've read so far, we're in for a sweet treat. Also, if you thought Canon-Edward was broody, you were wrong. This Edward is a masochistic mess of self-hate and punishment. I am waiting for him to whip out a flogger of wolf teeth and go to town on his own beautiful, marble skin. And I like it. I like it a lot.


This fic is ten chapters in and updates about once a week, which is pretty quick; especially for a collab fic. So you'll never be want for updates.


The link to the story:  http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5634545/1/Stranger_Than_Fiction


They have a new thread on Twiligted:  http://www.twilighted.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8147&hilit=stranger+than+fiction&sid=f8f1c936910981a4a82820caa051bccf


The girls are now on twitter:  http://twitter.com/masenvixen 


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