Going Pro / by Crystalkei (PG-13)

Title: Going Pro
Author: Crystalkei
Fandom: Bend it Like Beckham
Genre: post-series, female characters
Pairing: past Jess/Joe
Length: Medium (36,489 Words)

Author's Summary:
Jess has graduated from university and Joe's got an offer for her to play. But who wants to play professional football for your ex-boyfriend?

Review:
A story about the Girl Power generation in a post-Girl Power world. By the time Jess graduates, the bright future she saw in women's pro soccer is over.  For all her abilities and ambitions, with few options, she's stuck going back to the world she tried to escape - of family and obligation and the incredibly awkward position of playing for the team her ex-boyfriend coaches. This story is about her trying to find her place in this world.

Going Pro (on ff.net)

Aeternum Vale / by Deejaymil (PG-15)

Title: Aeternum Vale
Author: Deejaymil
Fandom: Sherlock BBC
Genre: Urban Fantasy AU
Length: Medium (17,591 Words)

Author's Summary:
AU. After John Watson lost his Guardian Angel in Afghanistan, it left him alone in a world that doesn't look favourably upon the Severed. After meeting the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes, John is forced to question everything he thought he knew about the country he fought to protect, and just what it means to be Wingless.

Review:
This Urban Fantasy - especially the "Angels" - has elements of a daemon AU. Though there's not much to this fic yet and, imo, too much of what is there is verbatim from canon, I think this story has a lot of potential to be a creative and engaging story as it continues.

Aeternum Vale (on AO3)

The Vast Profundity Obscure / by mistyzeo (PG-15)

Title: The Vast Profundity Obscure
Author: mistyzeo
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (ACD), His Dark Materials
Genre: Daemon AU
Pairing: Sherlock/John
Length: Medium (20,613 Words)
Note: rec'd on fancake

Author's Summary:
More than a year after Sherlock Holmes' return from the dead, his cohabitation with the good Doctor has more or less returned to normal. With their daemons at their sides, Holmes and Watson are as keen a pair of crime solvers as they ever were. Deep in the winter of 1895, their limits as a team are tested when a young woman's daemon is stolen from her side and destroyed. It is not the first of such attacks, Watson learns, and he and Holmes immediately set out to find the culprit of the horrifying deed. They are led into a web of back alleys and gambling debt that leads ultimately to the heart of the government, all in the pursuit of the elusive element of Dust. But their investigation is not a secret one, and the duo's fame in the city of London brings them more trouble than expected and forces them to take some measures to protect one another that violate many a social taboo.

Review:
This fic isn't just a "what animal would these character's have for a daemon" fic - it's a casefic centered around the details of daemons from HDM. It's a great story, complete, and I think it strikes a great balance between the feel of the Victorian Holmes, the Urban Fantasy of HDM, and the tone of the contemporary BBC version that it should appeal to a large fanbase.

The Vast Profundity Obscure (on AO3)

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Necessity / by KerrAvonsen (PG-13)

Title: Necessity
Author: KerrAvonsen
Fandom: Doctor Who
Genre: AU
Pairing: past Rose/Mickey
Length: Medium (15,361 Words)

Author's Summary:
There is no Bad Wolf. Rose makes it back to the Doctor the hard way.

Review:
An AU where Rose takes the slow road to brilliant.  It's hard and she has to be really detremined and really clever and use all the resources she has at her disposal but eventually she manages it and saving the Doctor as a result of all that hard work is a pretty awesome story --- in some ways, its better than Bad Wolf (but not every way because Bad Wolf's destruction of the Daleks/saving Jack speech was pretty awesome too). 

Necessity (on AO3)

Shoring up the Walls / by Philomytha (PG-15)

Title: Shoring up the Walls
Author: Philomytha
Fandom: Rivers of London
Genre: Missing Scene
Length: Short (1,847 Words)

Author's Summary:
Nightingale and Peter at the end of Broken Homes. Contains major spoilers.

Review:
I can't explain much of this without serious spoilers for Book 4 but if you've read Book 4 already, this is a great missing scene fic --- Thomas and Peter trying to make sense of what happened ---- for the very end of that book.

Shoring up the Walls (on AO3)

Zombies of Wimbledon / by Philomytha (PG-15)

Title: Zombies of Wimbledon
Author: Philomytha 
Fandom: Rivers of London
Genre: casefic
Length: Short (3,225 Words)

Author's Summary:
Everything is real, and that includes zombies, but they're not like the ones in horror movies.
Set after Broken Homes and includes some spoilers, though it's not about the events of the book.

Review:
Thomas and Peter have to deal with some harmless, accidental, archaeological zombies... and figure out what caused them.  Not a long fic or a complicated case, but a good short fic in a small fandom.

Zombies of Wimbledon (on AO3)