My apologies for posting this a day late.

Title: Resistance Series (per reccer) aka Claire/Wesker saga (per author)
Fandom: Resident Evil
Pairing: Claire Redfield/Albert Wesker
Categories: Action, Romance, Drama
Length: Super Epic (242,000+ for series)
Warnings: Character death, mentions of human experimentation, violence, some gore (not enough to turn me away and I have a pretty low gore tolerance factor)

Author on LJ: None that I can find
Author Website: Link to Author’s page at FFN

Summary:
Claire is determined to help stop the viral, chain reaction that Umbrella originally caused, but when she steals a virus from Wesker, she gets more than she bargained for.

Review:
I’ve never played Resident Evil, and have only seen parts of the movies, but for some reason when I stumbled across this series a few years ago it stuck with me, even though I know nothing of this universe beyond the basics. In the interest of full disclosure, I love to read fic set in fandoms I know nothing about, so I’m used to accepting the fact that I won’t understand everything. The series is one of my guilty pleasures that I’ll go back and re-read about once a year. It reminds me of those Harlequin novels I used to read as an impressionable teen, and I mean that in the nicest possible way because I *loved* those books.

If you like a little action with your romance this series hits the spot. It’s the classic Romeo and Juliet storyline, with lovers from warring families, if Romeo had introduced a virus into his system to become a super human “tyrant” who was virtually unkillable. There is plenty of back and forth with our star-crossed lovers coming together then falling apart before coming back together again. There is a slow building friendship with moments of uncertainty and miscommunication mixed in with things like death, rebirth, scary creatures and human experimentation. One of the things I liked about this series is that Wesker is a tyrant and his end goal is domination, this is not sugar coated, and Claire is not blind to his faults.

If I have a quibble with this series it’s that it is so long. If I’m trying to read it straight through, I find that it drags a little for me in the fourth and fifth stories. Sometimes I’ll take a little break for a few days and come back energized and ready to finish.

All stories linked at FFN below:

Resistance
Infection
Adaptation
Reverberations
Heated Tenacity