Sunday, June 20, 2004

Review
I have decided that I will write a review for a good peice of fanfiction at least once a month. Today's story is "Two Weeks" by Garret Jax, who also happens to be a friend of mine.

Summary:
"Two weeks" is an InuYasha story. When Kagome is injured in a fight with a dragon named Atma, the doctors say she has two weeks to live. However, InuYasha learns of a healer named Vadise who can heal anything. The Search for the Shikon Jewel takes a backseat as the whole group begins to search for Vadise. But on this search both InuYasha and Kagome must face the demons inside themselves.

Review:
Jax is a beginning writer, but he's pretty good. The story is well thought out, and there are few loose ends. However, it is part of a larger story, so the loose ends that are there are understandable, and will most likely be taken care of in the next two stories (Right, Garret? *Fixes a mean eye on Garret*)

The characters stay in character most of the time. The one character who goes out of character the most is Kagome, but Garret's a guy, so we'll forgive him for that. The rest of the characters could have been written by the original author. I could hear them actually saying the lines.

This story is VERY Inu/Kag. If you're a Miroku/Kag or Sess/Kag or Koga/Kag or any other pairing fan, I would suggest avoiding this story. It's actually a sore point that he can write better Inu/Kag fluff than I can...however, with that in mind, the fluffy parts aren't too fluffy. They capture the awkwardness of InuYasha and Kagome's feelings for each other almost perfectly.

Personally, my favorite part of the story is Garret's discription of Miroku's "Game", and his youkai city of Shinjuku is awesome. His original characters are interesting. My personal favorite is Kitty, although Aaron is pretty cool too.

The one thing that bothered me the most about "Two Weeks" was the grammer. Some of it was pretty messed up, and it made it a little hard to read. But I'd definatly give it a shot.

"Two Weeks" is a wonderfull story, but at 56 chapters plus an Author's Notes chapter, I wouldn't read it unless you have an afternoon to do it in. And ignore the line at the beginning that says, "Okay, this is gonna be a relatively short fic". It is a lie. As he himself has said, he was being stupid.

"Two Weeks" is PG-13, and I would give it a 4.7 out of 5 rating. It's at fanfiction.net.
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