Fic Rec: Love Or What You Will

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Title: Love Or What You Will
Author: miss_frankenstein
Pairing: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson
Length: 32057
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: none
Verse:Sherlock BBC (AU)
Author's summary: John is an English professor who specializes in War and Post-War Literature and Sherlock is the brilliant yet impossible Ph.D. student assigned to be his TA because no one in the Chemistry Department is willing to put up with him. And - somewhere between Waugh and Plath, e-mails and takeaway, novels and villanelles - they fall in love.
Reccer's comments: After subscribing to this fic in its infancy and watching the chapter count go up, I finally got a chance to sit down and read it through yesterday, and found it really quite brilliant. Sherlock and John are wonderfully in character, despite a major change of profession for both of them, and I think that the feeling of familiarity came from the dialogue and kindness, on John's part, and the wit, mental acuity, and crime solving on Sherlock's. Other characters including Molly, Lestrade, and Mycroft make short appearances that really add to the story. In my opinion, John and Molly's friendship is perfectly done, and in addition to that small mentions of Donovan and Anderson were written perfectly. Even Moriarty - who can feel very out of place in some AUs - was well done and fit in with the story. Besides that, I especially loved the way poetry was integrated into the story, the tension that was built between Sherlock and John, and the final resolution of that tension; by the end, I felt entirely satisfied.