karlakolumna

Despite the very annoying typos and mistakes I've (grandly ^^) decided to not take them into account in regards to my rating of this story.
Because I really liked this fanfic otherwise. It's very plot-driven and totally engaging--to the point that I spend half the day finishing this story even though I have much more pressing commitments right now...

The romance (somewhat) takes a backseat to the "main plot" and apart from the last couple of pages there's no sex, so fair warning. Instead there's a mystery, crime, bad guys and flash backs to Hogwarts right after the war that show the beginnings of a tender friendship between Harry and Draco and great character and plot development in general.

Even though, I gotta admit that all typos and grammar mistakes became rather distracting at some point. Usually I manage to successfully block those out, and tbh I guess that I often don't even register quite a number of errors since I'm not a native english speaker. But, well. What really annoyed me was repeatedly getting the 3rd person simple present wrong throughout the whole book: like "He and Susan returns to the office...". And mixing up words that sound similar like "accomplishes" instead of "accomplices" or "shutters" instead of "shudders", to name just a few...

Well despite all that I still enjoyed the story and characterisation a lot which is why I'll refrain from dropping a star due to said annoying mistakes--so: 4 stars, it is!