August Review – 2018 Fanfiction Reading Challenge

As the second month of working on the fanfiction reading challenge hosted by Carrie @ Cat on the Bookshelf comes to a close, I have to say I’m rather pleased with the data I’ve collected so far. With the rounded average of 1.2 million words a month and the average word count of a novel being 90,000 words, I’m getting through about 13 novels a month or roughly 3 books a week. Not bad. (If I do say so myself.)

One thing I have noticed by recording what I read as I go, is that the more stressful and

Rec: Playing Possum by Goodluckdetective

Title: Playing Possum
Author: Goodluckdetective
Canon: Overwatch
Pairing: Jesse McCree/Hanzo Shimada
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 14,543
Summary: When Jesse McCree’s bounty doubles, Jesse has a plan: stay low and don’t die. Waking up with his funeral on the front page of the newspaper, it becomes clear he

Rec: Terms of Endearment by ceasefire

Title: Terms of Endearment
Author: ceasefire
Canon: Overwatch
Pairing: Jesse McCree/Hanzo Shimada
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 3,333
Summary: Five times McCree gave Hanzo a pet name, and one time Hanzo gave McCree one.

Rec: Familiar Habits by Philosophics

Title: Familiar Habits
Author: Philosophics
Canon: Overwatch
Pairing: Jesse McCree/Hanzo Shimada
Rating: Explicit [NC-17]
Word Count: 8,176
Summary: After joining Overwatch, Hanzo finds it difficult to sleep some nights. It is nothing a hot cup of tea cannot fix, but he never expected that he would have company.

Pairing Profile: McHanzo

Fandom: Overwatch
Partners: Cole Cassidy “Jesse McCree” and Hanzo Shimada
Pairing Name: McHanzo | YeeHan

Rec: When You Give a Cyborg Some Clothes by LoverlyMadhatter

Title: When You Give a Cyborg Some Clothes
Author: LoverlyMadhatter
Canon: Overwatch
Pairing: Genji Shimada/Zenyatta
Rating: Explicit [NC-17]
Word Count: 7,449
Summary: When you give a cyborg some clothes, his omnic will not stop staring.

Rec: Dawn (or Thereabouts) by NeverwinterThistle

Title: Dawn (or Thereabouts)
Author: NeverwinterThistle
Canon: Overwatch
Pairing: Genji Shimada/Zenyatta
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 4,833
Summary: “You have left this rather late,” Zenyatta observes, holding the rucksack open for Genji’s repair kit, and then for several cases of shuriken, and a bottle of lubricant for

Pairing Profile: Genyatta

Fandom: Overwatch
Partners: Genji Shimada and Tekhartha Zenyatta
Pairing Name: Genyatta | Zenji

Rec: Blind Spots by Falke

Title: Blind Spots
Author: Falke
Canon: Zootopia
Pairing: Judy Hopps/Nicholas ‘Nick’ Wilde
Rating: Mature [R]
Word Count: 21,839
Summary: A murder investigation teaches ZPD a few things about Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, and teaches Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde a few things about themselves.

Rec: Better Than a Win by Aria

Title: Better Than a Win
Author: Aria
Podficcers: RsCreighton & SomethingIncorporeal
Canon: Good Omens
Pairing: Crowley/Aziraphale
Rating: Teen [PG]
Word Count: 1,200
Summary: Aziraphale would have missed (or perhaps deliberately ignored) the nuance of together, but Crowley was a man-shaped