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Title: Daddy's Girl
Fandom: The Hannibal Series
Pairing: Hannibal/Clarice
Categories: future, kid!fic, horror, thriller, mystery
Length: epic (the series)
Warnings: um...it's a Hannibal fanfic? Expect violence and some physical and mental abuse.

Author on LJ: n/a
Website: Kurt GW @ ff.net

Author's Summary: Clarice Starling awakens from Dr. Lecter's hypnosis, only to rediscover what her life was like with him. Alternate Strings is an 'alternate sequel to Daddy's Girl, which assumes that Clarice Starling escaped the GD eleven years ago with her daughter now her peace is threatened.

Review:
FBI agent Clarice Starling wakes up to a life where she is married to the good doctor and they have a daughter together.

Are you creeped out yet?

Although the premise seems far fetched for those familiar with the movie series, the third book (chronologically) actually ends with Lecter and Clarice going to the opera together in Buenos Aires. In essence, Lecter replaces his baby sister (Mischa; the one who died in Europe as a child and was cannibalized) with Clarice, and the readers are led to believe the two live happily (twisted) ever after.

Without giving away too much of the plot, I'm just going to say that the author does a wonderful job at creating a dark and tense atmosphere and it sure beats watching Scream/Saw/most movies of that genre any day -- if you are that way inclined, that is.

Daddy's Girl (ff.net)
Alternate Strings (ff.net)

Kurt GW is a very prolific writer in the Hannibal fandom, but please keep in mind that her other stories are a lot more gory and violent than the two rec'd.

Comments

[identity profile] slyprentice.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 18th, 2009 04:17 pm (UTC)
I feel like I should have known there was a 'Hannibal' fandom, seriously, but I didn't so now I want to read this but am almost worried about it. Especially since they have a child together. *mind bends*
[identity profile] meishali.livejournal.com wrote:
Mar. 19th, 2009 12:02 am (UTC)
Daddy's Girl can be read as part of a much longer series titled The Susana Series (the name of Clarice's daughter). The later parts of those stories get very gory and even I wasn't able to finish them. If you were okay with the Hannibal movies, Daddy's Girl shouldn't be a problem at all.
(Anonymous) wrote:
Dec. 3rd, 2011 03:05 am (UTC)
Note from the author:
I'm glad to see those stories are still being read. While "Daddy's Girl" and "Alternate Strings" were part of a larger series...they sort of weren't either. I'd ended the Susana series with "Ghosts from the Past", but the idea that eventually became "Daddy's Girl" had been knocking around my head for about a year. By then I'd decided to move from gore to more psychothrillery sorts of things.

Those two stories are better than their predecessors, at least in my own opinion. By then I'd written a lot more, so obviously there's that. "Daddy's Girl" almost wrote itself over about a week in August 2003. It's one of my shorter works in terms of length, and also in space (it takes place over only a few hours, really.)

"Alternate Strings" was actually kicked off by a comment one of the readers had made on Dr. Lecter's Basement, saying she would wonder what would have happened if Clarice had made it out of the house. See, it's good to comment: sometimes you might get an entire story out of it!

Also, I now have a daughter of my own, born in 2005, and it's interesting to see the actual of a little girl's daddy worship. (Which leads me to one other small thing: above refers to me as "she" -- I'm male.



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