Years too late here, nearly a decade in fact but... And WOW this xf bookclub has been going on for nearly a decade. How awesome is that?!?! But I digress.
So Hunter and Fox. Or Hunter IS Fox. Clever use of names there. I think Wendy is right, this HAD to have been something of a crack at or parody of the overlapping and multiple worlds of xf fanfiction as well as a bizarre slipping of universes and times within plot.
I don't have much intelligent to add other than I really thoroughly enjoyed this one. Dark but well plotted, confusing, interesting, thought provoking, and oh-so-twisted. I love that there is an alternate universe Krychek who is nice and mostly normal and does dinner (and sex of course) with Scully. And the variations on Samantha. And Hunter, oh geez what a screwed up character, the epitome of what Mulder's could have become without any scruples. Her only love is self love, which is also love of Mulder who is herself. And my doesn't he learn a lot about himself through her, his deep base desire to be humiliated and shamed and redeemed all at once. So dark but somehow that aspect seems just only slightly off the edge of canon to me. I love that Mustang Sally and RivkaT write M and S as though they actually have to cope with all the traumas of their lives, WITHOUT the weekly reset button!
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So so late
Date: 2016-08-19 06:07 am (UTC)So Hunter and Fox. Or Hunter IS Fox. Clever use of names there. I think Wendy is right, this HAD to have been something of a crack at or parody of the overlapping and multiple worlds of xf fanfiction as well as a bizarre slipping of universes and times within plot.
I don't have much intelligent to add other than I really thoroughly enjoyed this one. Dark but well plotted, confusing, interesting, thought provoking, and oh-so-twisted. I love that there is an alternate universe Krychek who is nice and mostly normal and does dinner (and sex of course) with Scully. And the variations on Samantha. And Hunter, oh geez what a screwed up character, the epitome of what Mulder's could have become without any scruples. Her only love is self love, which is also love of Mulder who is herself. And my doesn't he learn a lot about himself through her, his deep base desire to be humiliated and shamed and redeemed all at once. So dark but somehow that aspect seems just only slightly off the edge of canon to me. I love that Mustang Sally and RivkaT write M and S as though they actually have to cope with all the traumas of their lives, WITHOUT the weekly reset button!