I stayed up way to late reading this fic straight through and just loved it. Don't expect a copy of canon with Gale written in over Peeta - it's creative and original and Gale is a much more intelligent and aware character than either Katniss or Peeta so putting him in cahoots with canonically brilliant Haymitch from the start is fantastic and it was just plain fun seeing him manipulating the games with the same kind of cunning as he analyzed the problem of the The Nut in Mockingjay. Now in retrospect, it did maybe go a bit far at times - Katniss and Gale had some serious plot armor, but it didn't break the suspension of disbelief during the story. What's posted now equivalent to canon book 1 and I'd love to see where the rest of the story goes so I hope the author decides to continue.
FanficRecs Deliciously Different AU
I stayed up way to late reading this fic straight through and just loved it. Don't expect a copy of canon with Gale written in over Peeta - it's creative and original and Gale is a much more intelligent and aware character than either Katniss or Peeta so putting him in cahoots with canonically brilliant Haymitch from the start is fantastic and it was just plain fun seeing him manipulating the games with the same kind of cunning as he analyzed the problem of the The Nut in Mockingjay. Now in retrospect, it did maybe go a bit far at times - Katniss and Gale had some serious plot armor, but it didn't break the suspension of disbelief during the story. What's posted now equivalent to canon book 1 and I'd love to see where the rest of the story goes so I hope the author decides to continue.