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Title: Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California
Fandom: The Baby-sitters Club
Pairing: Byron/Jeff
Categories: Romance, humour, first-time, teen angst
Length: Long (29,893 words)
Warnings: Underage
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zelempa
Author Website: merples by zelempa and yolsaffbridge
Summary:
And then he was there, standing in the doorway.
He obviously hadn't put much thought into what he was wearing, but somehow, he made a white T-shirt and jeans look like designer fashion. Unlike most of my shirts, his actually fitted him perfectly, showing off his slim waist and muscular arms. The bright white set off his golden skin perfectly. Around his throat he wore one of those hemp-and-shell surfer necklaces. His pale blond hair had been cut short and stuck out in every direction. He was grinning that wide, friendly, dimpled grin of his.
Oh, man. Oh, man. I was in trouble.
Review:
This was written for Yuletide 2010. Even though I had only a cursory affair with the Baby-sitters Club series when I was younger, I was still familiar enough with the characters to be in awe at how well zelempa has pulled off their voices -- spot-on.
Byron Pike and Jeff Schafer don't feature in the series as much as their elder sisters do, but their features in the book have been significant enough to be scraped together into a ship manifesto, and this fic takes that backstory, the entire BSC world, and builds something amazing and believable.
The fic reads exactly like an Ann M. Martin book (down to the very last pages), which is a feat, considering that it successfully incorporates sex and profanities without feeling the least bit out of place. Byron and Jeff grow up and go through their awkward and angsty teen stage together, set in a backdrop of the next generation of baby-sitters. Club business is still at the foremost, this time featuring a fascinating power struggle between the original and the next gen sitters.
Go, and embrace the feels of the BSC reboot!
Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California
If you enjoyed that, there's also a sequel:
Baby-sitters Club: The Next Generation Super Special #1: What Happens in Sea City...
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Fandom: The Baby-sitters Club
Pairing: Byron/Jeff
Categories: Romance, humour, first-time, teen angst
Length: Long (29,893 words)
Warnings: Underage
Author on LJ:
zelempaAuthor Website: merples by zelempa and yolsaffbridge
Summary:
And then he was there, standing in the doorway.
He obviously hadn't put much thought into what he was wearing, but somehow, he made a white T-shirt and jeans look like designer fashion. Unlike most of my shirts, his actually fitted him perfectly, showing off his slim waist and muscular arms. The bright white set off his golden skin perfectly. Around his throat he wore one of those hemp-and-shell surfer necklaces. His pale blond hair had been cut short and stuck out in every direction. He was grinning that wide, friendly, dimpled grin of his.
Oh, man. Oh, man. I was in trouble.
Review:
This was written for Yuletide 2010. Even though I had only a cursory affair with the Baby-sitters Club series when I was younger, I was still familiar enough with the characters to be in awe at how well zelempa has pulled off their voices -- spot-on.
Byron Pike and Jeff Schafer don't feature in the series as much as their elder sisters do, but their features in the book have been significant enough to be scraped together into a ship manifesto, and this fic takes that backstory, the entire BSC world, and builds something amazing and believable.
The fic reads exactly like an Ann M. Martin book (down to the very last pages), which is a feat, considering that it successfully incorporates sex and profanities without feeling the least bit out of place. Byron and Jeff grow up and go through their awkward and angsty teen stage together, set in a backdrop of the next generation of baby-sitters. Club business is still at the foremost, this time featuring a fascinating power struggle between the original and the next gen sitters.
Go, and embrace the feels of the BSC reboot!
Baby-sitters Club The Next Generation #6: Byron and the God of California
If you enjoyed that, there's also a sequel:
Baby-sitters Club: The Next Generation Super Special #1: What Happens in Sea City...
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Comments
I loved the BSC books when I was younger and I read so many of them. Like you, I was really surprised at how similar these fics were to the original books and how well the author incorporated more mature themes without losing the feeling of it being a BSC book - especially in the Super Special! I loved these stories, the letters at the end and the switching POV took me right back to my childhood.
I was so surprised to discover the sequel and I was writing the rec. These fic should just be published as books in the BSC Next Gen series -- they fit in so well next to originals :)