January 30th, 2011 at 07:10pm
I really enjoyed this.
Some of your description is wonderful. The line that first really caught me was "some pseudo-trendy affair filled with neon lights and young people in bizarre outfits." I love how you make the world of the party sound so foreign to Sera, and this instantly makes the reader empathise with her and get onto her side. There are a number of other gorgeous phrases you use as well, but that was the one that immediately caught my eye.
I also love the way you develop the passion between Lucien and Sera. You first make Sera seem almost out of her depth, saying that "she was drowning in his touches, in kisses, in desire and fire." I love the poetic phrasing of that sentence, and although the love still seems somehow "wrong", it also feels so, so right. Your sex scenes don't seem awkward and forced, but full of life and passion and romance and lust, which I love. You've pulled them off very well!
It's a fantastic story.
Ordinarily, I'd hate the more explanation-heavy story rather than a more descriptive one, but somehow, you managed to make your telling into showing and the description where there is some is wonderful.
You have some really, really great character development between Lucien and Sera here. Usually, the kind of "forbidden love" stories are usually pretty clichéd, but yours was really wonderful.
I also thought that the ending was really great, kind of shattering the traditional love story ending. It may be a bit of a guilty pleasure, but I did really really enjoy it.
You write the sex scenes really well, which I applaud since I find them so, so awkward to write. They seem to flow off of the page (well, really screen) beautifully, and, well, I agree with basically everything that Roseh; new york said.
So yes, excellent work here!