Net-Fic Review: Bitch's Brew (Harry Potter)

[kerravonsen]

Title: Bitch's Brew
Universe: Harry Potter
Author: Death ofme
Size: 45K 15288 words
Tags: Novelette, EWE, Post-Voldemort, Mystery, Horror, Angst, Friendship, Cross-dressing, SSHG, SSHG2011
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape, Bellatrix Lestrange

Ranking: Very Good
Review: http://www.katspace.org/reviews/netfic/Author/Death_ofme#Title_BitchsBrew

Summary: Re-telling of "Fitcher's Bird". Investigating the disappearances of several young wizards, Hermione finds the trail leading to a dead woman: Bellatrix Lestrange. What lies in the lost Black estate? What dark secrets does the last room hold?

Be prepared, if you read this, for role reversal, gruesome sights, compelling characterisation, angst and horror and hope and despair, unexpected sympathy, poignant madness. Hermione, even in the midst of the horror and seeming helplessness, manages to keep her wits about her. Severus is ruthlessly practical. And the end is both happy and sad. If you can't cope with written horror, avoid this - I did say "gruesome" - but otherwise, this is definitely worth reading.

So, any horror fans out there?

Comments

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I'm not a fan of horror. This came across to me as a "dark fairytale", sort of Baba Yagaish in its matter of fact, grotesqueness with a little bit of Bluebeard thrown in. I suppose I would make more of a comparison with Fitcher's Bird only I've never read it. Having read this, I don't intend to either!

[kerravonsen]

Yes, it did remind me very much of Bluebeard.