Alexandra Quick and the Thorn Circle

[inverarity]

Alexandra Quick and the Thorn Circle was my first fan fiction novel. It is set in the Harry Potter universe, but takes place in America and stars an original character. It is the first of a planned seven novels.

A wiki documenting Alexandra's world is available at the Quickipedia. This project wasn't started by me, and I don't do much maintenance there, though I will occasionally correct errors.




You can read AQATTC at:

• FanFiction.net
• Mugglenet FanFiction
• FictionAlley

Comments

Upon the second reading, all remains great.

[clanoblique.livejournal.com]

I read all of your (currently published) Alexandra Quick stories a few years ago but, as I finish AQATTC for the second time, shall follow the instructions in the PDF and post a review! Well, if "review" means a glowing acclamation. It's rare to find a fanfiction that pays true homage to the source material without being afraid to expand the story--Alexandra Quick is more of, in my humble opinion, a spiritual sequel series than what is commonly called fanfiction. Don't get me wrong, I love and write fanfiction and I'm not trying to demean the genre in any way. But it is pretty rare to find an author so bold as to write a whole set of books with all Original Characters--and succeed! Alexandra Quick reinvigorated that sense of wonder I felt reading Harry Potter for the first time, the great feeling of discovering a new and fascinating world with marvellous creatures, histories, and magic. Like rereading a good novel, rereading AQATTC let me appreciate the story's subtleties, foreshadowing, and watching the characters grow up as I consider what they are in later years...
Specifically to this book in the series, let me congratulate you on a stellar introduction to an American wizarding world that neither overly condemns out of hand the injustices of the Old or British world--as seems common in much fan fiction--nor is it merely a carbon copy of the Old World magic. Moreover, your characterization and pacing are excellent, and your ideas and turns of phrase are a genuine pleasure to read (what comes to my mind first are Trollbooths, your Rowlingesque appreciation for acronyms, and the American identities of governmental institutions).
While I know you have kept up the good work, given that I'm set on rereading the other books soon, I can only finish by saying...I can't wait for AQATWA.

Re: Upon the second reading, all remains great.

[inverarity.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I'm glad they are still equally enjoyable on rereading.