2001-2003

 

Accidentally In Love by Angel (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I would have liked to see these issues resolved, especially if it lead to the characters being more fully fleshed out by the story’s end.
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Air Kisses by Sara-Marie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Ultimately, Air Kisses is just about the smut, not the plot.
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Avery by Ashley (link)
review by Bethany (website)
What’s great about a first person narrator, especially one who is a step or two removed from the biggest drama, is that you can get a really interesting perspective.
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Bed of Lies by Brittney (link)
review by Bethany (website)
My favorite type of hanfic is the type that takes real life and just turns it a bit… sideways.
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review by Elizabeth (tumblr)
I can’t fault her for the issues mainly because every fledgling writer’s first stories are definitely not the best but they sure can be fun to read.
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Bloom by Jasper (link)
review by Bethany (website)
What is interesting to me is the obvious tension between Kirby and Zac which never gets realized.
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Broken Side-View Mirror by Casey (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Casey has interesting ideas, but she seems to never let them get anywhere, instead allowing Broken Side-View Mirror to focus largely on the typical road trip antics and a few, albeit steamy, sex scenes.
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Burn by Toona (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Some authors can’t balance all that drama and angst without it becoming absurd, but Toona most definitely can.
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Cat O’Nine Tales by Trixie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Although there are still plenty of other hot sex scenes, the story falls into fairly typical love triangle territory.
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Catapult by Ella (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I’m always a bit wary of stories that are wildly popular. Will they live up to the hype?
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‘Cause You’re A God by Sunnie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
The sexual tension, too, is a little bit unbelievable, if incredibly hot.
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Deep Blue Heart by Barbara (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Although it still strains credulity a bit, the plot is complex enough to keep me guessing and never quite coming up with the right answer.
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Distortedly Perfect by Jenn (link)
review by Bethany (website)
At times, I’m not sure he’s going to survive until the end of the story, and that fear keeps me on the edge of my seat.
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Dividing Reality by Selina (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I must admit that while it is overly formal at times and she does often use the wrong words, Selina’s writing has an interesting quality to it.
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Erin’s Memory by Ashley-Anne Douglas and Emma Peachey (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I’m not sure if they are trying too hard to sound British or just trying to hard, period, but for the most part, it does work quite well.
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Eternal Night by Taylor Quest (link))
review by Bethany (website)
What is it about Taylor being a vampire in older hanfics? I’m not sure when or how this became such a popular trope, but it’s not surprising that Taylor Quest embraced it.
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Everything I’m Not by Casey (link)
review by Bethany (website)
There’s a sweetness to it and just barely enough hotness to keep me hanging on to see what happens in the sequel.
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Faded by Lijah (link)
review by Bethany (website)
It’s, sadly, a realistic plot, but one that it’s hard not to make sound like a lifetime movie.
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Fallen Angel Series by Ashley (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Ashley has, from what I can tell, a good grasp of the details of drug abuse, but without getting preachy.
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Family Album by CandyStix (link)
review by Bethany (website)
It may be a short story, but it packs a pretty strong emotional punch, even in spite of some strange and unexpected characterization of several people.
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Hanging By A Moment by Bethany (link)
review by Bethany (website)
If it had been finished, it might have been a pretty good story.
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Happily Ever After by Stephanie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
From the start, I don’t see a huge change between the first story and this one.
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Harmony by Jenn (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Her writing is quite solid. It has a good sense of atmosphere that is just a bit nostalgic now, but not enough to feel stuck in its time.
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In Retrospect by Morgan (link)
review by Bethany (website)
That’s a tough thing to pull off, multiple unreliable narrators, but Morgan does it well.
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Jaded by Jezebel T. Jordan (link)
review by Bethany (website)
While her smut is as hot as ever, in spite of her formatting issues, I think Jezebel missed a big opportunity to make this fic even steamier.
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Just Another Victim by Krystal (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Krystal takes what could be just a basic horror story and makes it all about the family relationships.
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Just To Be Thin by Lindsay (link)
review by Bethany (website)
It’s clear that Lindsay has done her research, and may even have personal experience with anorexia and bulimia, but I still find it hard to connect to Taylor.
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Kokai by Lijah (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Much like Faded, most of the chapters of Kokai pass by with little to nothing happening in them.
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The Last of the Rock Stars by April-Maye (link)
review by Bethany (website)
What’s here, though brief in chapter count and chapter length, is a more nuanced tale of fame gone wrong that it appears on the surface.
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Like It or Not by April and Jny (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Unfortunately, the story’s unfinished nature means that the interesting premise I saw in the beginning doesn’t get much screen time, so to speak.
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Living Up The Ghost by Nichole (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Nichole is very upfront about its content, and so anyone who can’t handle reading about self injury, depression and mental illness should stay away.
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Lot 41 by Casey (link)
review by Elizabeth (website)
I feel for a story written when it was it was probably good but now it’s just kind of too cheesy and too cliche.
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Lovers In A Dangerous Time by Brooke (link)
review by Bethany (website)
It’s clear that Brooke has put a lot of thought into her characters and their backstory, but that often bears no resemblance to the story she ostensibly based hers on.
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Memories… of a Forgotten Past by Taylor Quest and Melody Blake (link)
review by Bethany (website)
There are multiple point of view switches and flashbacks, and with nothing to denote when that is happening, it all results in a bit of mental whiplash.
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Midst of August by Katie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I’m afraid that Katie simply combined too many cliche, dramatic ideas in Midst of August, and does justice to none of them.
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The Moffson Tapes by Jenn and Lauryn (link)
review by Bethany (website)
It’s a very unique way to write a story, and it takes a while to adjust to, but I can’t help admiring someone (or in this case, two someones) who think outside the box.
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My Brother’s Keeper by Pega (link)
review by Bethany (website)
There are times when I feel Pega could have gone even deeper, but I do love the characters she has created.
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The Naked City by Ivey and Nanaja (link one and link two)
review by Bethany (website)
Like the sort of sitcom this story is based on, the characters just go around and around in circles, with only sexual tension and a few comedic moments to keep me interested.
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Neskowin by Becca (link)
review by Bethany (website)
There’s just too much to keep up with here and not enough made clear.
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Not A Pretty Girl by Kate (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Kate tries just a little too hard, not just with the plot, but with her vocabulary and sentence structure, and it all ends up making me roll my eyes.
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Not An Angry Girl by Kate (link)
review by Bethany (website)
It’s the definition of a slow burn. It’s barely even a smolder.
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Off the Ledge by Jasper (link)
review by Bethany (website)
While the original characters still seem to be the most important ones, I do find the idea of seeing things through the non-famous siblings’ eyes new and interesting.
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On My Own by Akimbie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
On My Own is far from the best Zaylor story I’ve ever read, but it’s hard to deny that it was groundbreaking in its own way.
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Operation Tulsa Thunder by Adam (link)
review by Bethany (website)
The plot is deliberately absurd, but with a less absurd narrative lying beneath the premise of Hanson as secret super spies.
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Parts of a Picture by CandyStix (link)
review by Bethany (website)
The drama piles higher and higher, though it’s always tempered with plenty of hotness.
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Perfect Girl by Kaylee (link)
review by Bethany (website)
What I like so much about Perfect Girl, in spite of its imperfections, is that it perfectly captures the zeitgeist of the early 2000s.
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Phonetic by Jenn and Lauryn (link)
review by Bethany (website)
For those who enjoyed the heyday of Moffson fic, though, Phonetic is a great little piece of crack.
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Road To Eden by Ashley (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I have a real thing for stories about Taylor’s shotgun wedding.
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Shades of Blue by Bethany (link)
review by Bethany (website)
All the dreams are a little cheesy, in fact, but I’ll allow them to be. Dreams are fantasies, after all, right?
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Someone by Ashley (link)
review by Bethany (website)
While I normally enjoy shotgun wedding plots, and Ashley does tread old familiar ground with the quick divorce and possibility that the baby isn’t actually Taylor’s, it isn’t quite dramatic enough for my tastes.
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Someone Special by Becca (link)
review by Bethany (website)
There’s nothing inherently wrong with the plot of this story, but I think Becca could have taken a lot more time to tell the story.
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A Sorta Fairytale by Jen (link)
review by Bethany (website)
This story has a lot of potential, which Jen never quite manages to fulfill in the chapters she did post, but the other half of the story might have salvaged it.
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Soundtrack For A Cynical Mind by Cyndi and Kate (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I like a story where both characters, not just the original female ones, have drama to work through.
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Star Crossed by Monroe (link)
review by Bethany (website)
Do you ever read a story and find yourself wanting to like it more than you really do?
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Sucks To Be Me by Katie (link)
review by Bethany (website)
The plot, as it turns out, isn’t so much about what it’s like to be Hanson girlfriend but about Taylor being an unrepentant cheater.
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Tiny Dancer by Cate (link)
review by Bethany (website)
The concept of Hanson as a “stage family” is one that crops up from time to time in fic, but I can’t recall reading another story that applies that idea to the next generation.
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Tumbling Down by Reba (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I’m certainly not opposed to stories about underage drinking, cutting, teen pregnancy, abuse and eating disorders, but they’re issues that need to be handled well.
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Wedding Portrait by CandyStix (link)
review by Bethany (website)
There’s still plenty of angst, though, all of it centered around who will give away Dylan at her wedding–Isaac or Zac.
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What Does Not Kill You Will Make You Stronger by Nikki (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I tend to find it depressing when it seems the protagonist will never escape and the antagonist is above all forms of justice.
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When Isaac Met Aria by Winona (link)
review by Bethany (website)
I appreciate that Winona spends half the story building up the beginning of the relationship, so that the happy domestic bliss is mostly glossed over.
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When You Were Here by Erica Mary and Elise (link)
review by Bethany (website)
When You Were Here is a decent little story with only a few errors to marr its above average writing and plotting.
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Wild Hearts by Jezebel T. Jordan (link)
review by Bethany (website)
In true Mary Sue fashion, the plot largely revolves around Emma, taking the typical (although not always predictable, as I can’t guess her biggest secret) dramatic twists and turns.
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Wouldn’t You Prefer A Maiden Fair? by Kate (link)
review by Bethany (website)
The funny thing about series is that even if you don’t really like the stories, by the time you’re two stories in, you’re kind of invested anyway.
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