This review was written by the lemon lovin' ssherrill115
Purgatory: A Love Story by Americanxidiot
Let’s see how ameircnxidiot describes her fic: On December 23, forty people boarded the Greyhound bus from Seattle to Port Angeles. Six would never arrive. A story of love, grief, and learning to live again once your heart stops beating. AU, no vamps - a Twilight/Wristcutters crossover.
Twilight - Rated: M - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 11 - Words: 42,424 - Reviews: 1062 - Updated: 2-10-10 - Published: 1-7-10 - Bella & Edward
I must admit that this is not the type of story I would normally read. I am not a big fan of Angsty stuff and I don’t like sad or death. I like light hearted love, fluff, lemons etc. BUT I am enjoying the Hell (pardon the pun) out of this story. I recognized americanxidiot from her fic “Closer to God”. I know she has written other stories. In fact, I THINK Snshyne is in love with another one of her fics Cascade and Cyanide. But since americanxidiot is on my “author alerts” I saw she wrote a new story. I must admit that I had the couch scene from Closer to God in my mind when I decided to read Purgatory: A Love Story. You remember the couch scene when he told her to lean back – OOOH My GOODNESS!!! Ok well this review is not about Closer to God but if you would like to read it – you must visit Americanxidiot’s LJ account and here is the link: http://americnxidiot.livejournal.com/6158.html
Purgatory: A Love Story is a story about six people who are on their way to Seattle on a Bus. None of them are sitting together or know each other. All of them are in their own lives going to Seattle for their own reasons. When the bus crashes and these six people “wake up” in a place that looks nothing like where they have spent their whole lives. I have always thought that Purgatory was Hell. I even asked a couple of my Northern friends and they all answered the question the same way – “What is Purgatory?” “Purgatory is Hell”. But then I did some online research and I found out that in the dictionary, Purgatory is: (in the belief of Roman Catholics and others) a condition or place in which the souls of those dying penitent are purified from venial sins, or undergo the temporal punishment that, after the guilt of mortal sin has been remitted, still remains to be endured by the sinner.
Maybe I am reading a little too much into the name of the story because I really love some stories and their names were what turned me off about them originally. But I get the feeling that the name of this story means a lot. Purgatory: A Love Story is told from Bella’s perspective and I normally like Bella. I usually find her to think and act a lot like I do (Not that I think Edward will drop into my lap one day). But THIS Bella is clueless. That’s not to say that she isn’t smart. She seems smart, but she has been living this life that I think would put most of us to sleep and she sees nothing wrong with it. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, she doesn’t enjoy her job, and she doesn’t really have any friends to speak of or anyone in her life that is special. She has a dog named Cathy and this dog is the only bright spot in her life. That is sad to me, and I think that is why Bella is in Purgatory. I think anyone as beautiful as Bella should, at the very least, have some friends and be doing SOMETHING with her life.
Bella is in Purgatory with Alice (a future fashion designer), Mike (a young teenage athlete), the driver of the bus (some old guy), an older lady passenger from the bus, and hmmm there is one more person…I can’t remember his name…green eyes, bronze messy hair, beautiful body…..oh, it’s on the tip of my tongue….oh yeah, Edward (the brooding medical student). They all wake up in this room and they are covered in blood from their wounds from the accident and their clothes are torn and their hair is dirty and they just kinda sit there until someone comes to help them. This person gives them clothes (used clothes) and lets them take a bath and then shows them their apartments without any real explanation. They get these pamphlets that read like stereo instructions (I stole that line from Beetlejuice) and basically the pamphlets tell them that they need to make the best of things. These six people proceed to “make the best of things”. No one really pitches a fit or gets mad or cries. It’s like they are a bunch of sheep. Until one day a guy shows up in town. This guy’s name is Jasper and he is on his way to find a way OUT of Purgatory.
Americanxidiot is an Amazing storyteller. I have enjoyed this story from the start and I am looking forward to finding out if they make it out of Purgatory or if they decide to stay. I want to know if Bella and Edward will drop their walls that they have built up around themselves and let the other one in. I want to know if you can have sex in Purgatory. I want to know if Jasper and Alice will get together. I want to know if Mike will make it back to his life and find a girlfriend and get to graduate high school. There is so much left to this fic that I can’t wait for the next update. I know that if you give it a chance you will enjoy it as much as I do. It is not sad (so far) or too angsty (for you angst fearers). I think it is just an all round enjoyable read and americanxidiot has been really good to update regularly. I think you should read this story and then all of her stories, ‘cause she is Awesome!!!
Here is the link to Purgatory: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5648371/1/Purgatory_A_Love_Story
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