Stolen Soul
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| Bodie/Doyle Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Stolen Soul |
| Author(s): | LilyK |
| Date(s): | 2009 |
| Length: | |
| Genre: | slash |
| Fandom: | The Professionals |
| External Links: | online here |
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Stolen Soul is a Bodie/Doyle story by LilyK.
This is a "horror" or supernatural story written for the Discovered In A Live Journal Halloween Challenge, 2009.
Reactions and Reviews
I'm not usually a fan of supernatural stories, but I love the way Lilyk writes the lads. [1]
I think there are some really good bits to the story. I like the concept; it's pretty rich stuff. And I love most of what LilyK writes. But the story felt too rushed to me - like things should have spooled out a little more slowly, or the story itself should have been longer, to build up the emotions (and horror) more.Also, two things about the characterization: overall B&D sound right on target characterization-wise , but I would think they'd be a bit freaked immediately after the incident. (Though once they were past that, I could see the ending happening as written.) And I'm not sure if Cowley would've just accepted that Doyle had suddenly resigned and was using drugs. After all, it would point to a huge amount of misjudgment on his part - and agents *are* expensive to train. :-)
As much as I enjoy her writing, I guess this one doesn't quite work for me. Or I need to read it again.[2]
It didn't work for me either, I'm afraid, and I agree with your points above - Cowley takes the idea of Doyle's drug problem and resignation a bit too easily. If nothing else, Doyle suddenly taking drugs, with his background, would mean that something fairly drastic had happened to him, which would suggest a huge rift between Bodie and Doyle, if Bodie hadn't known... Simply rephrasing it as "he looks like a man on drugs, but that's not Doyle - I'm worried..." would give us the same physical impression, without the plot/characterisation hole. We definitely needed a better build up of tension/horror in order to feel it, too - and closer involvement with the characters, I think. Or at least simply being told that something's frightening doesn't work for me, I need to feel it, to be convinced that it might exist...[3]
I loved it. It completely worked for me. It's in my folder of 'keepers' under the sub-label 'hallowe'en fics'. I know it isn't specifically a hallowe'en story but it has enough ghostliness to be appropriate for re-reading then. [4]