Title: Just Call Me Angel...
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Angel/Xander
Categories: Romance, AU, Angst
Length: Long
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia

Author on LJ: spikendru
Website: Sword and Stake

Author's Summary: Xander Harris is a small-town, west Texas construction worker. He thinks his life is reasonably happy, until he leaves his fiancée at the altar. He wants something more but can't identify the longing until a mysterious stranger is hired at work . . .

Review:
On the whole, all human alternate universe stories very rarely catch me but this author managed to tickle my weak spot: construction worker alternate universes. Don't ask me why, I just enjoy them immensely, and spikeNdru's 'Just Call Me Angel...' is a superb example of why. While the characters aren't exact carbon copies of the ones we know from canon (Angel especially), they do manage to have echoes of themselves that slot nicely into the universe and the overall plot.

Speaking of plot, which is always important, I found myself wanting to rec this story the further I got into it simply because the storyline is so laid back. It's an 'easy' story, one that you can sit back and enjoy the characters getting from point a to point b without being cluttered up with extraneous side-plots that, in the long wrong, have no bearing of the main characters. While some readers might enjoy massive plots with twists and turns, I found the simplicity (and I mean that in the best of senses) to be refreshing. Xander and Angel's relationship doesn't just appear overnight; it builds and grows until finally they're together. Even with the touches of angst, that I have to admit were a little cliched but not damagingly so, this story is about these two guys getting together. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just Call Me Angel...

Title: Just Call Me Angel...
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Angel/Xander
Categories: Romance, AU, Angst
Length: Long
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia

Author on LJ: spikendru
Website: Sword and Stake

Author's Summary: Xander Harris is a small-town, west Texas construction worker. He thinks his life is reasonably happy, until he leaves his fiancée at the altar. He wants something more but can't identify the longing until a mysterious stranger is hired at work . . .

Review:
On the whole, all human alternate universe stories very rarely catch me but this author managed to tickle my weak spot: construction worker alternate universes. Don't ask me why, I just enjoy them immensely, and spikeNdru's 'Just Call Me Angel...' is a superb example of why. While the characters aren't exact carbon copies of the ones we know from canon (Angel especially), they do manage to have echoes of themselves that slot nicely into the universe and the overall plot.

Speaking of plot, which is always important, I found myself wanting to rec this story the further I got into it simply because the storyline is so laid back. It's an 'easy' story, one that you can sit back and enjoy the characters getting from point a to point b without being cluttered up with extraneous side-plots that, in the long wrong, have no bearing of the main characters. While some readers might enjoy massive plots with twists and turns, I found the simplicity (and I mean that in the best of senses) to be refreshing. Xander and Angel's relationship doesn't just appear overnight; it builds and grows until finally they're together. Even with the touches of angst, that I have to admit were a little cliched but not damagingly so, this story is about these two guys getting together. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just Call Me Angel...

Title: Just Call Me Angel...
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Angel/Xander
Categories: Romance, AU, Angst
Length: Long
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia

Author on LJ: spikendru
Website: Sword and Stake

Author's Summary: Xander Harris is a small-town, west Texas construction worker. He thinks his life is reasonably happy, until he leaves his fiancée at the altar. He wants something more but can't identify the longing until a mysterious stranger is hired at work . . .

Review:
On the whole, all human alternate universe stories very rarely catch me but this author managed to tickle my weak spot: construction worker alternate universes. Don't ask me why, I just enjoy them immensely, and spikeNdru's 'Just Call Me Angel...' is a superb example of why. While the characters aren't exact carbon copies of the ones we know from canon (Angel especially), they do manage to have echoes of themselves that slot nicely into the universe and the overall plot.

Speaking of plot, which is always important, I found myself wanting to rec this story the further I got into it simply because the storyline is so laid back. It's an 'easy' story, one that you can sit back and enjoy the characters getting from point a to point b without being cluttered up with extraneous side-plots that, in the long wrong, have no bearing of the main characters. While some readers might enjoy massive plots with twists and turns, I found the simplicity (and I mean that in the best of senses) to be refreshing. Xander and Angel's relationship doesn't just appear overnight; it builds and grows until finally they're together. Even with the touches of angst, that I have to admit were a little cliched but not damagingly so, this story is about these two guys getting together. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just Call Me Angel...

Title: Just Call Me Angel...
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Angel/Xander
Categories: Romance, AU, Angst
Length: Long
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia

Author on LJ: spikendru
Website: Sword and Stake

Author's Summary: Xander Harris is a small-town, west Texas construction worker. He thinks his life is reasonably happy, until he leaves his fiancée at the altar. He wants something more but can't identify the longing until a mysterious stranger is hired at work . . .

Review:
On the whole, all human alternate universe stories very rarely catch me but this author managed to tickle my weak spot: construction worker alternate universes. Don't ask me why, I just enjoy them immensely, and spikeNdru's 'Just Call Me Angel...' is a superb example of why. While the characters aren't exact carbon copies of the ones we know from canon (Angel especially), they do manage to have echoes of themselves that slot nicely into the universe and the overall plot.

Speaking of plot, which is always important, I found myself wanting to rec this story the further I got into it simply because the storyline is so laid back. It's an 'easy' story, one that you can sit back and enjoy the characters getting from point a to point b without being cluttered up with extraneous side-plots that, in the long wrong, have no bearing of the main characters. While some readers might enjoy massive plots with twists and turns, I found the simplicity (and I mean that in the best of senses) to be refreshing. Xander and Angel's relationship doesn't just appear overnight; it builds and grows until finally they're together. Even with the touches of angst, that I have to admit were a little cliched but not damagingly so, this story is about these two guys getting together. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just Call Me Angel...

Title: Just Call Me Angel...
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Angel/Xander
Categories: Romance, AU, Angst
Length: Long
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia

Author on LJ: spikendru
Website: Sword and Stake

Author's Summary: Xander Harris is a small-town, west Texas construction worker. He thinks his life is reasonably happy, until he leaves his fiancée at the altar. He wants something more but can't identify the longing until a mysterious stranger is hired at work . . .

Review:
On the whole, all human alternate universe stories very rarely catch me but this author managed to tickle my weak spot: construction worker alternate universes. Don't ask me why, I just enjoy them immensely, and spikeNdru's 'Just Call Me Angel...' is a superb example of why. While the characters aren't exact carbon copies of the ones we know from canon (Angel especially), they do manage to have echoes of themselves that slot nicely into the universe and the overall plot.

Speaking of plot, which is always important, I found myself wanting to rec this story the further I got into it simply because the storyline is so laid back. It's an 'easy' story, one that you can sit back and enjoy the characters getting from point a to point b without being cluttered up with extraneous side-plots that, in the long wrong, have no bearing of the main characters. While some readers might enjoy massive plots with twists and turns, I found the simplicity (and I mean that in the best of senses) to be refreshing. Xander and Angel's relationship doesn't just appear overnight; it builds and grows until finally they're together. Even with the touches of angst, that I have to admit were a little cliched but not damagingly so, this story is about these two guys getting together. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just Call Me Angel...

Title: Just Call Me Angel...
Fandom: Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Angel/Xander
Categories: Romance, AU, Angst
Length: Long
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia

Author on LJ: spikendru
Website: Sword and Stake

Author's Summary: Xander Harris is a small-town, west Texas construction worker. He thinks his life is reasonably happy, until he leaves his fiancée at the altar. He wants something more but can't identify the longing until a mysterious stranger is hired at work . . .

Review:
On the whole, all human alternate universe stories very rarely catch me but this author managed to tickle my weak spot: construction worker alternate universes. Don't ask me why, I just enjoy them immensely, and spikeNdru's 'Just Call Me Angel...' is a superb example of why. While the characters aren't exact carbon copies of the ones we know from canon (Angel especially), they do manage to have echoes of themselves that slot nicely into the universe and the overall plot.

Speaking of plot, which is always important, I found myself wanting to rec this story the further I got into it simply because the storyline is so laid back. It's an 'easy' story, one that you can sit back and enjoy the characters getting from point a to point b without being cluttered up with extraneous side-plots that, in the long wrong, have no bearing of the main characters. While some readers might enjoy massive plots with twists and turns, I found the simplicity (and I mean that in the best of senses) to be refreshing. Xander and Angel's relationship doesn't just appear overnight; it builds and grows until finally they're together. Even with the touches of angst, that I have to admit were a little cliched but not damagingly so, this story is about these two guys getting together. Nothing less, nothing more.

Just Call Me Angel...