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The top five completed Spuffy fics that I go back to again and again...



Title: The Butterfly Effect
Author: Cousinjean
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Five months after the events of "Chosen," a still grieving Buffy must follow a time-travelling demon back to 1997 (circa Season 2) Sunnydale to prevent him from destroying the timeline--and try not to destroy it herself in the process.

Title: Legions of True Hearts
Author: Eurydice ([livejournal.com profile] eurydice72)
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Post graduation, a restless Buffy goes to London to escape the memories of Angel, only to lose herself in unexpected dreams. But is William real, or is he a distraction? Is he, possibly...both?

Title: Long Day's Journey
Author: [livejournal.com profile] anaross
Rating: R
Summary: Spike's return, seen through the eyes of Angel and his friends.

Title: Perfect World
Author: Cousinjean
Rating: R
Summary: A slip of the tongue creates a whole new world of problems for Spike. Picks up about 4 months after "Grave."

Title: Affinity
Author: Ginmar
Rating: NC-17
Summary: Post-Doublemeat Palace

Date: 2006-10-27 05:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jans-intentions.livejournal.com
Wow, these all sound really great. It's lovely to see Cousinjean's work reced too. I'm storing these for rainy day reads.

Date: 2006-10-27 05:57 pm (UTC)
yourlibrarian: Angel and Lindsey (PunkSpike: carabear27)
From: [personal profile] yourlibrarian
Classics indeed. I think the only one I haven't read is the third one (though sometimes it takes me a while to realize I have actually seen something before!)

Juat putting in a more direct link to #2 (which has a sequel!):
http://www.loveslastglimpse.com/legions.htm

Date: 2006-10-27 05:58 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kazzy-cee.livejournal.com
I adore the Butterfly Effect - I've a printed out copy that lives by my bed when I want to have something to pull the old heart strings. *sighs happily* Thanks for the other recs I think I've read them, but I can now stick them in memories for checking!

Date: 2006-10-27 08:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com
Butterfly Effect is IMO one of the top 10 Spuffy stories ever written. Good choices all!

Date: 2006-10-27 08:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smudgiboo.livejournal.com
I have read all except Long Days Journey, and I couldn't agree more, especially Butterfly Effect, that one I've read about 5 times !!!

Date: 2006-10-27 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lusciousxander.livejournal.com
The Butterfly Effect sounds like a great fic, will read it tomorrow :)

Date: 2006-10-27 10:46 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] alwaysjbj.livejournal.com
All fabulous fics!!

Date: 2006-10-27 11:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com
Good choices; these are all wonderful1 I have a weakness for "Affinity". I just love the whole concept of Angel getting drunk and stealing Spikes car!

Date: 2006-10-28 03:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deborahc.livejournal.com
Affinity is the only one I seem to have not yet read from that list. I've just bookmarked it so I check it out later. Perfect World and The Butterfly Effect are my two favorite fics by cousinjean, who remains one of my all time favorite Spuffy writers. Anaross' Long Day's Journey is fabulous, but my current favorite of hers is her current WIP - the post NFA where Spike is a college poetry instructor at a small, Eastern school. Eurydice's Legions' was quite engrossing and a marvelously woven past/present fic, but of her many wonderful fics the one I pull out again and again is A Touch of Frost.

My own list would have to include to include Barb C's Necessary Evils, but there's many worthy fics out there to choose from. We Spuffy readers have been/are incredibly fortunate to have such gifted and prolific writers sharing their Buffyverse stories.

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