I don't see how it can be read without acknowledging the darkness of the storyline.
Yeah, me neither. Scully's family has disowned her, they're still puzzling out what happened to them in HFTW/WIEAYB, Scully's journaling to her dead sister. And that's just the relatively light "Mulder and Scully go on vacation" aspect of the fic. Ultimately, I find this fic about as dark as WIEAYB, except in this case the darkness emanates primarily from Skinner's half of the story.
I feel I've done a disservice to this fic by failing to discuss him more, but I haven't been able to quite get my thoughts together on his part of the story, important as it is.
Edit: And it wasn't an either/or thing with KvS7 and "Sokol." We read this in lieu of going on hiatus, assuming that it would only interest the mods and possibly you.
I had mentioned that it was a shame we couldn't read KvsS7 at the book club, because of the way it was structured. Then we got thinking that if we were just going to shut down the book club anyway, which we were already thinking about doing, then why not keep it open, but take that time to read a fic which would never have gotten the chance to be read at any other time. We really didn't mean to circumvent your rec, EC. I enjoyed and admired Sokol a great deal when I read it, and I definitely think we will read it here eventually.
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Yeah, me neither. Scully's family has disowned her, they're still puzzling out what happened to them in HFTW/WIEAYB, Scully's journaling to her dead sister. And that's just the relatively light "Mulder and Scully go on vacation" aspect of the fic. Ultimately, I find this fic about as dark as WIEAYB, except in this case the darkness emanates primarily from Skinner's half of the story.
I feel I've done a disservice to this fic by failing to discuss him more, but I haven't been able to quite get my thoughts together on his part of the story, important as it is.
Edit: And it wasn't an either/or thing with KvS7 and "Sokol." We read this in lieu of going on hiatus, assuming that it would only interest the mods and possibly you.
I had mentioned that it was a shame we couldn't read KvsS7 at the book club, because of the way it was structured. Then we got thinking that if we were just going to shut down the book club anyway, which we were already thinking about doing, then why not keep it open, but take that time to read a fic which would never have gotten the chance to be read at any other time. We really didn't mean to circumvent your rec, EC. I enjoyed and admired Sokol a great deal when I read it, and I definitely think we will read it here eventually.