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221b_recsTitle: if nobody speaks of remarkable things
Author: darcylindbergh
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 34328 words
Rating: Explicit
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: Maybe that was why: you only get the one miracle.
Reccer's comments: I'm sliding this one in under the wire, because it just concluded and it's astonishing. The prose is excellent; there isn't a word out of place, and it's powerful and deeply evocative without ever being showy. It's almost breathtakingly emotionally honest--it deals with difficult topics, but the characters' healing process is realistically fraught yet hopeful, and the love between Sherlock and John is not a magic cure-all, but it's no less beautiful for that. I felt all the emotions right along with the characters. I once read a descriptor of visceral storytelling as being 'writing with blood in the mouth,' and that's what this is. It's so believable and achingly true and in-character, and it's one of the very best post-S3 fics I've read.
Warning: this story centrally involves miscarriage/stillbirth and the resultant emotional trauma; please proceed with caution if those are triggers for you.
Author: darcylindbergh
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: 34328 words
Rating: Explicit
Verse: BBC
Author's summary: Maybe that was why: you only get the one miracle.
Reccer's comments: I'm sliding this one in under the wire, because it just concluded and it's astonishing. The prose is excellent; there isn't a word out of place, and it's powerful and deeply evocative without ever being showy. It's almost breathtakingly emotionally honest--it deals with difficult topics, but the characters' healing process is realistically fraught yet hopeful, and the love between Sherlock and John is not a magic cure-all, but it's no less beautiful for that. I felt all the emotions right along with the characters. I once read a descriptor of visceral storytelling as being 'writing with blood in the mouth,' and that's what this is. It's so believable and achingly true and in-character, and it's one of the very best post-S3 fics I've read.
Warning: this story centrally involves miscarriage/stillbirth and the resultant emotional trauma; please proceed with caution if those are triggers for you.
