Mibba Genius - Stories I'd Recommend

Most of you will know, I can be quite a tough critic, but there are some really worth-it stories out there, so I though I'd post one journal and then keep it up-to-date with all the good stories I've read. I'll use this format for each:

Title: Diary of a Reluctant Ruler
Author: xXGreyWingsXx
State: 72 c. UnF, OF, but Cl.
Summary:
Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Phil has to deal with a million things other than looking good and the press; handsome young men, snotty relatives, greasy politicians, a thousand-and-one rules and regulations all set to a waltz of mandatory perfection.


Key:
UnF – Unfinished
F – finished
c. – chapters
OS - one-shot/ short story.
FF - fan fiction
OF - Original fiction
Cl. - Cliché warning.

A 'cliché warning' basically means that there's a cliché in there, e.g. an arranged marriage. But I won't put something dreadful up, so it's unlikely to be entirely full of them.
Summaries in italics are taken from the story homepage.
Number of chapters was last checked on the 15 Nov 2009.
They’re in ABC order folks!
And the star system is pretty basic, but only used in finished stories.
A note to authors on the stars - if you're on here, you're pretty brilliant, so don't take them too personally!
And seperated into Finished and unfinished.

Finished:

Title: Activities Within
Author: temporary
State: F, OF, 14 c.
Genre: Romance
Summary:
A step-sibling is obtained by marriage.
Love is obtained by natural forces.
A step-sibling love is obtained by impure actions.

Stars: * * * * (4)

Title: Bandits
Author: break.my.bones
State: F, OF, 36 c.
Genre: Thriller
Summary:
It was never supposed to turn out this way. Things were supposed to stay under control, just like Dawson had said. There had been a mistake though, a terrible error on my part, and now the entire mission had gone wrong. I had messed up. I had blurted out a secret and now they knew, now they knew everything. We were done for. They had us cornered – they had set it all up, it was all a trap. And it was entirely my fault.
My name is Erin Augustine, and I am a terrible, terrible person.

Stars: * * * (3)
Would have been four, but for the ending.

Title: Dirty Journalism
Author: demetria-lynn
State: F, OF, 18c.
Genre: Romance
Summary:
Maybe it's cliché, maybe it's overused, but it's the truth: Max Leopold and Jackie Bodello hate each other. Being staff members of The James Journal, their boarding school's renowned student newspaper, Max and Jackie are forced to work together on a regular basis. Fights--both verbal and physical--are common, but their friends are always there to pull them apart. Until now, when Max and Jackie are suddenly forced to spend one week together alone. Things are about to get dirty.
Stars: * * * (3)

Title: Just A Freak
Author: fool's paradise
State: F, OF, 44 c.
Genre: true-life
Summary:
Nobody likes Riley.
For God's sake, the girl will just burst out dancing in the middle of the hallway. She's a spaz. She's a freak. She has no life. She should die.
And she knows it.

Stars: * * * * * (5)

Title: The Dictionary
Author: aerobesque
State: UnF, OF, 25 c.
Genre: Romance
Summary:
I never got in trouble. I was never late for class. I certainly never got detention; ever. But still, I couldn't help thinking detention wasn't so bad, despite as long as it may feel. And the thoughts that followed after I read that one word scribbled on the piece of paper in messy handwriting. It was a word with multiple meanings, but nobody had to be a rocket scientist to know what the word implied. I let out the breath of air I never realized I held in the first place. I stuffed the paper in my bag before ripping my skirt free and heading for home.
Affair. That's what was written on the piece of paper.

Stars: * * * * (4)

Title: The Locker Wars
Author: Bad Luck
State: F, FF, 48 c.
Genre: Romance
Summary:
William Beckett and Adele Bradlee have a game that's been going on since kindergarten. In their final year of high school, the game must finally die with a big bang. So who's going to win— William, or Adele?
And who is hiding the biggest secret? Because you never know who to trust during this game...

Stars: * * * * (4)

Title: Time Lifts the Light
Author: Ms.Marauder
State: F, OF, 34c.
Genre: sci-fi
Summary:
Indigo is a very normal girl - quiet and fairly content to be so.
But D.B. is not a very normal boy. Quite the contrary. D.B. is a very extraordinary boy.
Indigo soon discovers that she is connected to this strange (and sometimes, utterly fantastical) boy in a way that she never expected - never planned. D.B. pulls her into a world where she can travel through time, where each moment can be harnessed and claimed. She realizes that time, even though it is not as stoic and unwavering as she had thought it to be, will always lift away what matters least; only leaving behind the things that are meant to be.

Stars: * * * * * (5)

Unfinished:

Title: Howling At The Moon
Author: Me and You
State: UnF, OF, Cl., 17 c.
Genre: fantasy
Summary:
Contains the clichéd girl-turned-werewolf, but is otherwise entirely unclichéd and very gripping.

Title: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Author: SheScreamsWhyOhWhy
State: UnF, OF, Cl., 19c.
Genre: fantasy
Summary:
Genevieve's life revolved around two things--her waitressing job and caring for her dying mother. But late one night, a single misstep leads to a fatal encounter with a centuries-old vampire, Maxim Hall, who is struggling with the dark specters of his past. She is plunged into a world of the heretofore unknown, and must come to terms with it.
And through it all, could romance blossom?
Or her demise?
After all, love is to die for.


Title: Life in the Darkness
Author: TavarElda
State: UnF, OF, 33 c.
Genre: action
Summary:
Hidden underground, the Arena exists purely as sporting entertainment for the rich. A complex of tunnels and caves, all centering around the Pit is a young girls new home.
Though it is anything but homely.


Title: The Chronicles of City Lights and Modern Love
Author: Two For My Seconds
State: UnF, OF, 12 c.
Genre: romance?
Summary:
Alessandra Evangelo is a daughter of the Mafia, recently moved to Manhattan, she suddenly finds herself swept up in the world of her Italian grandfather, apparently the heir to his mafia post, and the cause for much speculation.

Title: This Nightmare Land
Author: Crookshanks
State: UnF, OF, 30 c.
Genre: fantasy
Summary:
Kerry Abernathy has always known that there was something wrong with her. As one of the only three scholarship students at the expensive private school she attends, she’s accustomed to being an outcast—mind-reading isn’t exactly the funky quirk that attracts hordes of friends.
But when she meets someone who seems to know how to control her ability, she follows him—and gets way more than she bargained for. Suddenly she’s someone important, someone everyone wants. Oh, and with the fate of an entire world in her hands, of course.
And it’ll be up to her to make things right before it’s too late.


Title: You’ve Got Another Thing Coming
Author: Fronkensteen
State: UnF, OF, 36 c.
Genre: v. random fantasy
Summary:
Callie Johnson is the average teenager; too individual to even notice. However, soon strange things start to happen and Callie finds herself pulled into a dream world, accompanied by a friend she didn't even know she had.
Together they try to find the answers to Callies problems, but they encounter many strange and somewhat dangerous things along the way...
June 1st, 2009 at 09:19pm