Title: I Seem to Be a Verb
Fandom: Inception
Pairing: Eames/Arthur
Categories: Romance, AU
Length: Epic (93,719)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: bookshop
Author Website: AO3 | Tumblr

Author's Summary:
Notting Hill AU, written for the i_k prompt, "I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her." Arthur owns a quirky hipster science bookstore. Eames is a world-famous mega-celebrity.

Clearly this calls for a meet-cute.

Review:
One of the longer running Inception fics I have been following has finally been completed after a few years! And, to my delight, it is a wonder from start to finish.

What do I know about Notting Hill? Admittedly, not much. Do you need to know anything about the movie? Heck no, you'll enjoy this fic so much anyway. Here, Arthur's the owner of a book store. Both he and his store are eccentric--Arthur for not really caring about having customers ever, and the book store for only selling applied science books. Good thing Arthur doesn't seem to much care about things like turning a profit, at least at the beginning.

And then Eames, who is this huge celebrity, comes in one day, browses around, and accidentally makes the book store famous. Then he and Arthur get together and the entire thing is glorious. It's not all sunshine and puppies, the relationship is strained greatly by Eames's celebrity status and various secrets he keeps, as well as Arthur being poor at people matters in general, but you never doubt that they'll make it through in the end.

It's so much fun. So much fun. Celebrity names are dropped here and there, the author seems to delight in writing the fic with a certain tongue-in-cheek flair. The side characters, Ariadne especially, have their own lives and worries going on and you never forget that. The writing is smooth and polished, definitely easy to get yourself lost in. Overall, it's just a great fic that's long enough to sink in for a while and get happily lost in.

I Seem to Be A Verb