~~ fic pimpage/review.

er. so i really haven't gone out on a limb and pimped a fic for awhile. while i enjoy certain fics, either they're already wildly popular or they're just not "good enough" and yet obscure enough and yet meaty enough and yet interesting... blahblah.

this isn't perfect or anything, but it's post-war adult!h/d and this is coming from a person who severely dislikes post-war and adult. a lot. a lot, lot. i have this prejudice against people who decide "oh look! they're older! we don't have to have them have those qualities we disapproved of in them anymore! whee!". but `unfinished business' by cupiscent doesn't give me that vibe. in fact, it's got to be the first present-plausible adult!h/d longfic i've read (having -still- not read `tissue of silver' or `transfigurations'), if you allow that draco is actually capable and intelligent and is able to have independent visionary desires or whatever. and that's okay, this fic sells it.

but the thing i love is-- as usual-- the draco. it's a great draco, for the rather admirable shades-of-grey person he's somehow become. he still seems like draco to me. i mean, maybe it's just the demeanor, but there's -chemistry- there, and you can't underestimate chemistry. also, it's hot even when harry and draco just -look- at each other, and man, i love that. that's what it's all about, man. also, the bits with hermione and ron and ginny (grown up but recognizable, like the rest) don't drag, and kind of add something. and let me just say that i've -never- liked -any- post-hogwarts character (that wasn't harry or draco) outside of `belong'. but that's just in a class of its own.

i feel weird, pimping it like this, but i felt like it and i didn't want to just say "read this" or whatever. i haven't felt this pleased since deche's `the more things change' and calico & julad's `lustre'. it's got energy, something to say, and a pov, and i -want- to imagine things this way even though normally i don't even want to think past seventh year. i'm so tired of reading badfic (though obviously it's my fault for doing so). the fic's got issues (what doesn't), in that i feel draco's too together and both of their vulnerability is so... subtle (i like 'em more desperate, but i'm a melodrama nut sometimes. so actually take that as a good thing) and they just seem too in control, but hey, small quibbles. usually adult!h&d get -much- more mangled and grown-up and such. this draco just... decided to play harder. which i can buy, maybe.

it's a solid fic, not flashy, just really well-crafted and it achieves its ends, i feel. as usual with draco-centric longfics of this nature, harry gets somewhat of a short shrift. but he's there and he's not without balls, which is good. draco doesn't really -know- him, also, so there's the pov to contend with. did i mention they're hot? ahahaha. i'll remember this fic for harry's eyes turning liquid for a split second and draco's breath catching. good stuff, man.