Fanfiction – “A Little Motherly Love”

Title: A Little Motherly Love
URL: http://www.asynjor.com/fanfic/byrd.html
Author: Celeste Byrd
Source: Ranma 1/2
Rating: 4/6
Type: Alternate Universe
Length: 8 Chapters (Unfinished but author is deceased)

Grammar: 3/6 (Fairly well written but in script format. There’s the occasional uncorrected word)
Originality: 4/6 (Uses the original story and makes just enough changes to feel new)
OOCness: 3/6 (Sure, it’s an alternate-universe fanfic, but the author has stillmade false assumptions)
Overall: 3.5/6 (Has it’s flaws and just isn’t quite worthy of a 4 but still an OK read)

It’s in script format so my rating of the Grammar will be lowered and it does re-quote a lot of dialog but so do a lot of other fanfics. It just means that it can’t get as high an originality score. The author did say that it was her first fanfic but I can’t go easy on that. These ratings are supposed to tell you how much or little you would enjoy reading something.

The beginning feels a little unoriginal but not as much as it could be. I have to admit that it’s an interesting concept. In fact, this is only the second time I’ve ever seen a Genma is dead and Ranma is raised by Nodoka fic. I’ve seen several “Ranma gets left home” fics and one other “Genma is dead and Nodoka takes Ranma on the training trip” fic. (Review for that one pending.) I also have to admit that I prefer the other fic though. This fanfic makes too many common mistakes and I have noticed some places could benefit from a proofreading.

I would send in some corrections to the author but she is now deceased as far as I know.

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