What do you think?
Rate this book
Under The Same Sun
Fandom: Supergirl (TV)
Relationship: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor
The device flashes red. She assumes she’s attached the wrong wires, completed the wrong circuits, but she's human. She knows she’s human. And if she’s human, red means human. Nothing else to say on the matter. She’ll make sure she attaches the wires correctly in the commercial model. She moves on and forgets about it.
||
Twenty four years ago, a queen who reigned under the red giant Valor escaped a planet besieged by her sister’s rubble. To begin again, she created an heir to hide amongst the local species, to rise amongst them and usher in a new age.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/120...
Relationship: Kara Danvers/Lena Luthor
The device flashes red. She assumes she’s attached the wrong wires, completed the wrong circuits, but she's human. She knows she’s human. And if she’s human, red means human. Nothing else to say on the matter. She’ll make sure she attaches the wires correctly in the commercial model. She moves on and forgets about it.
||
Twenty four years ago, a queen who reigned under the red giant Valor escaped a planet besieged by her sister’s rubble. To begin again, she created an heir to hide amongst the local species, to rise amongst them and usher in a new age.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/120...
481 pages, ebook
First published December 24, 2017
3 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
January 3, 2019
This is one of those rare occasions, at least recently (not counting rereads), wherein I read a fanfiction by an author I’ve actually read something by before. Which greatly helped me, it did.
The very beginning of this book was way too ‘telling’ instead of ‘showing’, to the point where I started to think that maybe I’ll add this to my massive pile of ‘currently reading but really, I’m pausing this read, and possibly DNF this read’. But I stopped myself – because, I reminded myself, this is an author I’ve read before – and I happened to have loved that other story. Course that was a really short 18 page story and this here, as in the book this review is reviewing, is something slightly short of 500 pages. I’d forgotten that – favorite short story writers do not always make favorite novel length writers (and vs versa).
Right, so. This is, basically, a recap of the second season of Supergirl. With some added twists here and there. It’s actually a lot better than that might imply, but that’s basically what the book is about. Also worse than implied . . . for reasons (okay – one reason: there were too many occasions wherein I knew something occurred, it’s referenced, but . . . it occurred in the television episode and is not fully noted in the story, just referenced in passing (on the other hand, there’s at least one scene that got referenced on the tv series, but got skipped over – but was shown in the book here)).
Basically this is boiling down to: if you can get past the ‘telling not showing’ opening, there is a good story here but there’s also a little too much ‘falling into telling and not showing’, though less so than the beginning would suggest; and, being an avid watcher of Supergirl helps.
What’s the difference, the added ‘thing’ here, the twists, the, okay, I should just reread what I wrote so I stop trying to remember mid-sentence. What’s the added thingie? Mostly the added thingie is that Lena is an alien (it’s not a reveal to note that here – it was revealed immediately in the book), and (while it doesn’t happen immediately) Lena and Kara have a relationship. Oh, and connected to being an alien – Lena occasionally does some superhero type stuff.
I had several problems with the book as I read it: near the beginning of the book, Lena is tested by the agency Kara and Alex work for – both in terms of powers tested, and in terms of DNA/background/alienness. The DNA test constantly comes up in passing - as in ‘just what the fuck did the test results say?’ way, and get constantly brushed aside, sometimes by a new scene before that question could be addressed, but often by someone asking the question and someone else brushing the question aside. Because they were too busy. WTF was that about? It’s obvious from the beginning just what type of alien Lena is (though there were still surprises, to me, that got revealed), and the reader probably picks up on it immediately, but Lena doesn’t . . . and everyone around her wants to block her from finding out the truth. Are lying to her. Eventually the truth comes out and . . . she just brushes aside the fact that every fucking person who knew the answer, who blew her off (and this includes people like Alex and Kara) on finding out the answer, who literally lead Lena to hook up (business-wise) with someone who she might otherwise not have worked with but for their lies . . . and Lena’s all like ‘whatever’ and makes a joke about ‘keeping secrets’.
Mind you, despite the opening, and despite some of the problems I was having, this book was heading to something around a 4 star rating until the ending. I had massive issues with the ending.
Rating: ….. 3.3
January 3 2019
The very beginning of this book was way too ‘telling’ instead of ‘showing’, to the point where I started to think that maybe I’ll add this to my massive pile of ‘currently reading but really, I’m pausing this read, and possibly DNF this read’. But I stopped myself – because, I reminded myself, this is an author I’ve read before – and I happened to have loved that other story. Course that was a really short 18 page story and this here, as in the book this review is reviewing, is something slightly short of 500 pages. I’d forgotten that – favorite short story writers do not always make favorite novel length writers (and vs versa).
Right, so. This is, basically, a recap of the second season of Supergirl. With some added twists here and there. It’s actually a lot better than that might imply, but that’s basically what the book is about. Also worse than implied . . . for reasons (okay – one reason: there were too many occasions wherein I knew something occurred, it’s referenced, but . . . it occurred in the television episode and is not fully noted in the story, just referenced in passing (on the other hand, there’s at least one scene that got referenced on the tv series, but got skipped over – but was shown in the book here)).
Basically this is boiling down to: if you can get past the ‘telling not showing’ opening, there is a good story here but there’s also a little too much ‘falling into telling and not showing’, though less so than the beginning would suggest; and, being an avid watcher of Supergirl helps.
What’s the difference, the added ‘thing’ here, the twists, the, okay, I should just reread what I wrote so I stop trying to remember mid-sentence. What’s the added thingie? Mostly the added thingie is that Lena is an alien (it’s not a reveal to note that here – it was revealed immediately in the book), and (while it doesn’t happen immediately) Lena and Kara have a relationship. Oh, and connected to being an alien – Lena occasionally does some superhero type stuff.
I had several problems with the book as I read it: near the beginning of the book, Lena is tested by the agency Kara and Alex work for – both in terms of powers tested, and in terms of DNA/background/alienness. The DNA test constantly comes up in passing - as in ‘just what the fuck did the test results say?’ way, and get constantly brushed aside, sometimes by a new scene before that question could be addressed, but often by someone asking the question and someone else brushing the question aside. Because they were too busy. WTF was that about? It’s obvious from the beginning just what type of alien Lena is (though there were still surprises, to me, that got revealed), and the reader probably picks up on it immediately, but Lena doesn’t . . . and everyone around her wants to block her from finding out the truth. Are lying to her. Eventually the truth comes out and . . . she just brushes aside the fact that every fucking person who knew the answer, who blew her off (and this includes people like Alex and Kara) on finding out the answer, who literally lead Lena to hook up (business-wise) with someone who she might otherwise not have worked with but for their lies . . . and Lena’s all like ‘whatever’ and makes a joke about ‘keeping secrets’.
Mind you, despite the opening, and despite some of the problems I was having, this book was heading to something around a 4 star rating until the ending. I had massive issues with the ending.
Rating: ….. 3.3
January 3 2019
Displaying 1 of 1 review