One More Chance by Ali Vali

 

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Review-lite

…because…this is a refurbished fanfic first published in mid-2000s


  • Xena fanfic How Do You Mend a Broken Heart published by Vali in 2005, dusted and padded up for word count by the author and publisher
  • Refurbished, but still feels unpolished
  • A sequel to this story also exists – All it Took Was You – maybe that will also make an appearance as a novel sometime
  • We’re so extremely uncomfortable with super-butch characters who seem to secretly want to be men (case to point: in this book the Xena character, Harry, is called ‘Uncle Harry’ by a kid) 
  • Characterisations and storyline pretty clichéd and slightly over the top – as was he norm with Xena fanfic
  • This is not bad but then, it’s not wow either

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