10 Fan Fiction Reviews

Theme: In the future (years later)

10 things i hate about you.

Kat and Bianca’s mother is hardly mentioned in the movie, we just know she passed away when the girls were younger. This fanfic is about Kat at her mother’s funeral and the memories she has. A good read but overloaded with emotion and a clique ending.


10 things I hate about you

This story starts with Kat receiving the news from her doctor that she has cancer and only has 40 days to live (hence the title). She is more worried about how she is going to tell Patrick this news but when she does he is overly supportive and promises to give her the best forty days and night of her remaining life. The cancer is going to spread over Kats heart so the writer takes the heaviness out of the story by using lines such as “I was heart-broken, (excuse the pun).”


10 things i hate about you - Two years on

Kat has moved away to do her studies at Sarah Lawrence so her and Patrick decided to separate but remain as friends. As she goes her own way in life she is forever thinking about Patrick even while dating other guys. It has been nearly ten years since she last saw him and they didn't bother to keep in touch for long. One day Kats friend rings her with the news that Patrick died of a heart attck at just 28 years old. This is a well written story with poems to Patrick and the date of his death is the 22nd of Janruary 2008. This is significant because eit is the date that Heath Ledger died and Heath Ledger played Patrick in the movie ‘10 things I hate about you’.

The Grinch

In the original movie, the Grinch is portrayed as a heartless person as he tries to steal Christmas. This fanfic story goes 1 year into the future and the Grinch now is starting to appreciate Christmas and is living with his girlfriend Martha May Whovier. The story takes away the whole point of the Grinch hating Christmas which he is known for and why people enjoy watching him.


Glee – 5 years on “good times”

All the people from glee club have gone their separate ways with some owning their own business’s and others trying to make it big on Broadway. Rachel then organizes a surprise reunion for everyone and they all come together and reminisce on the “Good times” they had in Glee club. Quinn and puck are reunited and fall back in love with each other. Kurt owns his own clothing range called ‘Hummel & co’ and Rachel is doing broadway work (which didn’t surprise anyone. The reunion makes everyone miss glee club so they agree to keep in touch with each other from now on. This story was written in a very formal tone so it made me think about the story in a more serious context. Overall I enjoyed seeing where the glee cast would be in 5 years time.


19 years later. Twilight

This story is about the Cullen family returning to their old home town Forks and going back to school. Because they are vampires, they never age so Bella and Edward are stuck as 17 year olds for the rest of their lives and have to swap towns before anyone notices that they haven’t aged. A cocky student named Ian takes a liking to Bella and then tells his dad about his new crush. He explains to his dad about Bella Cullen and her Boyfriend Edward. “Realization and confusion dawned on an almost 40 year old Mike Newton.”. This part of the story was the key point as Mike went to school with Bella and Edward 19 years ago when they too were his age. I thought this story was well written with Ian and Bella’s point of view both being portrayed. It also finished with a good twist.


19 years on – High school musical.

This story also goes 19 years into the future and only focuses on the 2 main characters of Troy and Gabriella. After graduating from East high, the two got married and then had kids. They both continued acting, mainly in theatre and have a 13 year old boy and a 11year old girl. Troy was now a gym teacher and basketball coach and Gabriella worked at a family law counseling centre. This story was too cheesy for me as they came off as the perfect American typical family as everything in their lives was good but also seemed fake.

Glee – 12 years later

This story is based on the character Quinn. Most Glee stories that I’ve looked at are based on her even though she wasn’t the main character. In the last episode viewed of Glee, Quinn has her baby and in this story she keeps it. It then goes on to tell her life story of how she went to college and got married and is know pregnant with another child. She has gone back to McKinley high school as a teacher and also teaches the cheerios cheerleading squad that she was once captain of. She hasn’t kept in contact with any of the other Glee members but is going to an upcoming reunion where she hopes to see them all again. This story was a good read as it wasn’t all ‘happy families’ and it didn’t have any deaths or tragedies. Nice to have a lightweight story for a change.

Remember Me – 11 years later

In this movie, the main character dies at the end leaving a grieving family and a pregnant girlfriend. He died from the 9/11 and this story carries on 11 years into the future. His family (including his 10 year old son who he never got to meet) visit his graveyard every Saturday. They then go to his favourite diner and talk about his life and how happy he would be that they have all stayed together. This was a good read and I liked how the family kept positive over the tragedy. Most fan fiction stories I’ve read that have a male character who dies usually leave behind a girlfriend or wife who then find out they are pregnant. This story was predictable in that sense but otherwise was well written with the right amount of dialogue.