A Spark in the Darkness / by random.chick.heart (NC-17)

Title: A Spark in the Darkness (and sequel Feeding the Flame)
Author: random-chick-heart (aka randomchick29 on LJ)
Fandom: Hunger Games
Genre: AU, Romance
Pairing: Gale/Katniss
Length: Epic (~250k+ words)

Author's Summary:
Our lips meet somewhere in the middle in a passionate kiss, and our message is as clear as that of the crowd when they raised their hands in the traditional salute: We will not be broken. AU version of the 74th Hunger Games. GalexKatniss. Lemons inside.

Review:
An outstanding Gale and Katniss in the games fic with the twist that in this, they've been a couple for awhile and that makes a big difference to their strategy. This fic is a real page-turner and while slow to update and was really difficult to download to my ereader (thanks to LJ), it's well worth the effort.   Lots of lovely feels in this fic too :)

A Spark in the Darkness (on ff.net) and Feed the Flames (on LJ)

Two Fires / by isabugg (PG-13)

Title: Two Fires
Author: isabugg
Fandom: Hunger Games
Genre: AU - Gale and Katniss in the Arena
Pairing: Gale/Katniss
Length: Very Long (119,146 words)

Author's Summary:
What if Gale, overtaken by the grief of seeing his oldest friend about to be swept into the monstrosity that is the Hunger Games, volunteered for Peeta and took his place?

Review:
Nice version on the Gale and Katniss in the arena plot. Doesn't shy away from the horror of the arena or the shallowness of the Capitolites. I was really sad to get to the end and realize the author had abandoned this one - it cuts off just getting out of the arena and given that, I guess I felt in retrospect that the story as is had only really been half-developed, particularly the friendship/relationship between Gale and Katniss lost out to (admittedly a very good depiction of) the Games and I just felt it could have been more balanced if that was where the author planned to end their first book.

Two Fires (on AO3)