The Dover Keeper by underwater_sky

Posted on LiveJournal

Pairing: Frerard

Rating: NC-17

Chapters: 54

Word Count: Probably a bazillion

Summary: Frank is a seventeen year old who doesn't want to grow up and has little aspirations for anything beyond standing outside the local liquor store and getting drunk. But when he meets Gerard, the old, ageing, and well known fag artist, he is offered something he cannot turn down.

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Yeah I know, probably everyone has already read this, but if you are one of the few Frerard fans like I was that shied away from this story because of the length, or things you have heard from other people, or whatever the reason - don't, because I finally finished it not too long ago, and wow - it was worth it.

So in my opinion, this fic did start off really slow. I read the first chapter over a year ago, and I had no desire to continue it, but JC brought it up randomly one day while I was on vacation, and I had free time, so I got back into it.

It took me forever to read...almost two weeks or something like that (I usually read most books in a week - even full length novels), so yeah, it's long af, but I am so glad I forced myself to pick it back up, and it actually made me cry, which is a pretty big accomplishment since I am a cold-hearted bastard.

I will shut up now, because I am pretty sure that everyone who actually pays attention to this rec list is like "wth Starr you are so weird for just reading this now", so yeah - go read it if you haven't.

I would recommend reading it on LiveJournal, even though there is a few copies posted on Wattpad. The first one I found on here was missing parts, and not just chapters - random paragraphs would be completely gone, and I only noticed because I checked the comments. There is a full version on here, but quite a few of the chapters were marked private, and I don't like following people who only post other's works, but if you don't mind that, I'll add the link for that as well.

There is also an Epilogue and a sequel called The Rainbow, I read the Epilogue and it was really cute, but I am only on chapter three of The Rainbow, so I don't have a thorough review for that just yet, but so far I like it.

Update: I have now officially finished The Rainbow and I am not sure what to think about it.

For a short, spoiler free summary, I liked the beginning, I hated the middle, and I adored the end.

I don't think it's a necessary read, and in some ways I wish I had stuck with just The Dove Keeper because The Rainbow changed a lot of things and didn't really focus on just Frank and Gerard, but at the end of the day, it was very well written and it made me feel a lot of things which is a rare occurrence.

LiveJournal Link: http://underwater-sky.livejournal.com/33006.html

Wattpad Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/14420105-the-dove-keeper-frerard-underwater_sky