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Forever Ignored
In a post-apocalyptic world, the majority of survivors scrabble to make it through each day, while a favoured few control supplies and technology. After leaving the orphanage, Col teams up with others to scrounge a living in the Broken City, until a friend shows him how to access an entire warehouse full of food. Stealing from it was Col's first mistake. Going back again was his last...
Warning: m/m, rape-fic, dark-fic, scenes of pain and torture
**Words: approx 99500 COMPLETE** 24 Chapters (May still be an Epilogue)
Warning: m/m, rape-fic, dark-fic, scenes of pain and torture
**Words: approx 99500 COMPLETE** 24 Chapters (May still be an Epilogue)
300 pages, online free fiction
First published August 13, 2013
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Traxie
3 books64 followersI'm a finnish girl and I've been writing stories for most of my life. Until now no one has ever read anything I've written but since discovering AFF I decided to share a little bit of what I've done.
The kitty in the avatar is my kitty, isn't he adorable?!
The kitty in the avatar is my kitty, isn't he adorable?!
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July 21, 2013
20 July: this is being updated regularly again now: maybe an ending in sight?
Don't ignore the warnings, people. A very dark fic, but I trust traxie to get us to an HEA (of a kind) in the end.
EDIT: New chapter added June 2013. Looks like Traxie's going to finish this now that Forgotten's completed.
Don't ignore the warnings, people. A very dark fic, but I trust traxie to get us to an HEA (of a kind) in the end.
EDIT: New chapter added June 2013. Looks like Traxie's going to finish this now that Forgotten's completed.
September 26, 2013
Heard about this freebie from the Ticket to Stockholm group, and absolutely loved it. The premise of the book is like this:
Col is part of a generation of people born during the Global War, known as the Ignored. Living as a street rat with a pair of twins, he goes to scavenge food. When he steals once too many from a warehouse stocked by the City Leaders, he is interrogated and eventually picked by a famous interrogator named Vasca. Those Vasca have found interesting in the past usually leave with missing limbs, or never see the light of day again.
The story is considered dark fiction. There are multiple scenes of beatings, acts of dehumanization (like being chained), and one scene of gang rape (though not from Vasca). The writing doesn't get very graphic during these moments, so it wasn't as disturbing as it could be.
The main character Col, is a street rat who does what he needs to survive. Yet he doesn't like stealing from others - that doesn't mean he won't if necessary. He's rebellious during the initial stages of his captivity, and he doesn't do the smartest of things. In fact, he doesn't know much of survival in general. Yet he has a "good" heart. However, my interest didn't lie with Col. It went with Vasca. Vasca was an enigma to me, since the story is told in first-person from Col's perspective. He's an interrogator and is good at what he does, because he doesn't care about people (sound familiar to a certain I&I interrogator? *cough*Toreth*cough*), except for one or two exceptions. Vasca is the one in charge and he lets Col knows it, and not with pretty words either. What I enjoyed most in Forever Ignored was to see how the relationship between Col and Vasca developed. Would I call it Stockholm Syndrome? Not necessarily (I can't really go into much more detail without feeling like spoiling something).
Now I would have rated this a 4.5 star book if it weren't for some niggles. The first being proofreading. The writing gave me the impression that English may not be the author's native language (this is just a conjecture). There are proofreading mistakes that I normally overlook in free online fiction, but there are also the use of incorrect wording, incorrect verb and noun use and missing articles (i.e. "a" and "the"). While it doesn't make certain instances unreadable, it just means rereading a sentence slowly to parse together the correct meaning. This seemed to get worse as the book progressed and was pretty bad by the last chapter. Another issue I had was the lack of character description in the book. I love details in my characters, but all we get is that Col is probably 17-18 years old, skinny, pale skin, and hair that reaches his eyes, while Vasca is tall, muscular and has dark hair. Vasca is at least 7 years older than Col, but we don't really know.
I also feel the need to warn readers that there seemed to be drastic character changes in Col and Vasca in within the last three chapters. I think the author did this in order to give the book a HFN/HEA type of ending. While I love a happy ending, it seemed kind of off in a book with such dark themes. It might have worked better if the ending was more ambiguous and hinted at a possible happy ending rather than painting a vivid picture of one. But that's just opinion. :)
Col is part of a generation of people born during the Global War, known as the Ignored. Living as a street rat with a pair of twins, he goes to scavenge food. When he steals once too many from a warehouse stocked by the City Leaders, he is interrogated and eventually picked by a famous interrogator named Vasca. Those Vasca have found interesting in the past usually leave with missing limbs, or never see the light of day again.
The story is considered dark fiction. There are multiple scenes of beatings, acts of dehumanization (like being chained), and one scene of gang rape (though not from Vasca). The writing doesn't get very graphic during these moments, so it wasn't as disturbing as it could be.
The main character Col, is a street rat who does what he needs to survive. Yet he doesn't like stealing from others - that doesn't mean he won't if necessary. He's rebellious during the initial stages of his captivity, and he doesn't do the smartest of things. In fact, he doesn't know much of survival in general. Yet he has a "good" heart. However, my interest didn't lie with Col. It went with Vasca. Vasca was an enigma to me, since the story is told in first-person from Col's perspective. He's an interrogator and is good at what he does, because he doesn't care about people (sound familiar to a certain I&I interrogator? *cough*Toreth*cough*), except for one or two exceptions. Vasca is the one in charge and he lets Col knows it, and not with pretty words either. What I enjoyed most in Forever Ignored was to see how the relationship between Col and Vasca developed. Would I call it Stockholm Syndrome? Not necessarily (I can't really go into much more detail without feeling like spoiling something).
Now I would have rated this a 4.5 star book if it weren't for some niggles. The first being proofreading. The writing gave me the impression that English may not be the author's native language (this is just a conjecture). There are proofreading mistakes that I normally overlook in free online fiction, but there are also the use of incorrect wording, incorrect verb and noun use and missing articles (i.e. "a" and "the"). While it doesn't make certain instances unreadable, it just means rereading a sentence slowly to parse together the correct meaning. This seemed to get worse as the book progressed and was pretty bad by the last chapter. Another issue I had was the lack of character description in the book. I love details in my characters, but all we get is that Col is probably 17-18 years old, skinny, pale skin, and hair that reaches his eyes, while Vasca is tall, muscular and has dark hair. Vasca is at least 7 years older than Col, but we don't really know.
I also feel the need to warn readers that there seemed to be drastic character changes in Col and Vasca in within the last three chapters. I think the author did this in order to give the book a HFN/HEA type of ending. While I love a happy ending, it seemed kind of off in a book with such dark themes. It might have worked better if the ending was more ambiguous and hinted at a possible happy ending rather than painting a vivid picture of one. But that's just opinion. :)
October 9, 2013
This book is a WIP. However, the author hasn't updated in about 6 months and seems to have abandoned the book. I am disappointed, since this story seemed to have a lot of potential. English is not the author's first language and it shows in the writing, but I have to give Traxie credit for what has been written so far. I will keep checking for updates from time to time, but I can only give it a 3 star rating based on it being apparently abandoned.
Well, the author finally got a chance to finish this story. I liked the story well enough. It is quite obvious that English isn't the author's first language, so I'm not going to hold mistakes in choice of words or spelling against her. I thought the ending of the story was concluded better than the other two stories I had read by this author. I don't really like that the author had Colan's potential love interest was Vasco, who had abused Colan in the past. I did like that Vasco changed his ways by the end, but still, he had abused Colan. I also find her main characters in general to be pretty submissive characters who seldom stand up for themselves. This is okay to a certain extent, but sometimes a person has to stand up for themselves.
Well, the author finally got a chance to finish this story. I liked the story well enough. It is quite obvious that English isn't the author's first language, so I'm not going to hold mistakes in choice of words or spelling against her. I thought the ending of the story was concluded better than the other two stories I had read by this author. I don't really like that the author had Colan's potential love interest was Vasco, who had abused Colan in the past. I did like that Vasco changed his ways by the end, but still, he had abused Colan. I also find her main characters in general to be pretty submissive characters who seldom stand up for themselves. This is okay to a certain extent, but sometimes a person has to stand up for themselves.
January 16, 2014
The beginning was so slow I skimmed a lot of it. But about half way through this became really interesting...
August 13, 2013
8/13/13 - Complete now! Possible epilogue though..
December 18, 2022
Traxie doesn’t seem to write anymore. That’s too bad. This book is even better than Forgotten. There is an inescapable logic driving the characters. One of the best online novel on the subject for those who liked In The Company of Shadows (from AIS) or the Red Braid (from fran_fic).
November 13, 2012
I liked this and wanted to see it to the end, but, alas, the author seems to have moved on.
Sigh.
Sigh.
October 10, 2013
Not sure how I feel about this.
December 9, 2013
Not as deep as the previous books but still an e,notional read. Novelette but it worked.
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September 9, 2016Gesichtspalmex10^6.
May 22, 2013
I thought this was a beginning of a good book to bad it's not finished, it's still a WIP
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