Ya know, you might want to give Taliesin's story a try anyway. It's sort of a mutant AU. They're still in UNCLE, not a Regency romance or an elven wood or anything. She's created a dystopic version of our world, where an undisclosed catastrophe has redrawn the world map and UNCLE is a more ambiguous force than good it was in the show. Plus it has the virtue of being short-ish, and strongly plotted.
That said, I know what you mean about certain works in Pros. While there are AU novels I adore (Ellis Ward's Harlequin Airs, I know, I konw) and others I enjoy (Meg Lewton's Regencies, which are outrageous romps), there are others I just want to take a blue editorial pencil to and carve up.
I didn't participate in the recent discussion of The Cook and the Warehouseman on account of I would have absolutely nothing good to say about it. I read the whole damn thing, but more with the slack-jawed amazement one generally reserves for train wrecks and particularly awful car crashes. And do not get me started on Larton. Or Master of the Revels. I've kept my copy of that because the art is outstanding, but after many attempts, I'd rather watch paint dry than have to read it.
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That said, I know what you mean about certain works in Pros. While there are AU novels I adore (Ellis Ward's Harlequin Airs, I know, I konw) and others I enjoy (Meg Lewton's Regencies, which are outrageous romps), there are others I just want to take a blue editorial pencil to and carve up.
I didn't participate in the recent discussion of The Cook and the Warehouseman on account of I would have absolutely nothing good to say about it. I read the whole damn thing, but more with the slack-jawed amazement one generally reserves for train wrecks and particularly awful car crashes. And do not get me started on Larton. Or Master of the Revels. I've kept my copy of that because the art is outstanding, but after many attempts, I'd rather watch paint dry than have to read it.