Fic Rec: The Best of Times - Polyphony

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Title: The Best of Times
Author: Polyphony
Pairing: John/OMC, John/Sherlock
Length: 72107 words
Rating: Adult
Warnings: violence, character death
Verse: Sherlock BBC, hint of the books
Author's summary: Struggling to cope with life after Reichenbach, John is gravely injured during a vicious, apparently motiveless street attack. Convalescing, on Mycroft’s invitation, at the Holmes family seat, John encounters someone entirely unexpected and uncovers an intriguing seventeen year-old mystery. Things hot up as John finds himself battling to work out the solution before James Moriarty’s legacy catches up with him – and also rekindling a love affair that was never really given the chance to blossom.

Mystery, murder and mayhem together with love, romance and the return of the absent Sherlock in an enigma that will keep you on your toes until the very end.

Reccer's comments: I'm not going to say very much because I wouldn't want to give away any of the twists and turns in this addictive story. If you love a long story that you can't put down this one qualifies in spades!

Comments

[swissmarg]

Excellent fic, but... this was just recced by arminaa on 29 Jan. Just a couple of entries below.

[the-hobbet.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed that. I did check the spreadsheet and it wasn't there.

[swissmarg]

It was there, although I know that people have had trouble with the spreadsheet not loading all the way. You need to wait several seconds and scroll down to make sure that the entire spreadsheet has loaded (the last entry should be a fic by zoicite, if the entries are sorted by author name). Also make sure that no filters are turned on, because that will mask some of the entries. For example, just now I looked at the spreadsheet and someone had filtered it to only show JW/SH fics. I had to cancel the filter in order to see all of the entries.

[the-hobbet.livejournal.com]

I was getting it all the way to zoicite and it did show another fic by Polyphony so I guess there must have been a filter on, though I do consider this fic to be JW/SH. I have no idea how to tell if there is a filter on or that I needed to check for that. Maybe you could add that information to the guidelines (I did read them).

[swissmarg]

Since the pairing is JW/SH and JW/OMC, it gets left out when someone filters only for JW/SH. :( You can see if there is a filter on because there is a little funnel symbol at the top of the column that's being filtered. But yes, I agree the spreadsheet needs a bit more explanation than is currently available. I'll see if the mods can add it in somewhere obvious. :)