Highly recommend the first story. It's an amusing tale that twists the fanon "human stuck in pony body" plot that adds in the body's original owner being stuck in there too.
That said the stories have some issues. Namely the focus on gender swapping and the main character's constant state of crisis over the matter.
What would of been a funny or even dramatic one time arc instead becomes a central swing point of the whole plot for a frustratingly long time. It starts early in the first story and runs the course straight through the second and into the third.
Other plot points are brought up and explored, but the main character's gender crisis and applicable issues always seem to be at the least a background concern. It quickly becomes a combination of awkward and annoying.
I sense this might be more compelling of an issue if the reader can sympathize with such a gender crisis, but if you can't it just comes off as out of place and odd.
By the time the third one rolled around I couldn't even get past three chapters in before realizing that the gender crisis, which had seemingly been settled in the 2nd story, was still going to be a major driving factor. This combined with a botched attempt at pulling Darker and Edgier made me abandon the final story completely.
All in all, the first story is a solid read with often hilarious interactions if a slightly unsettling author track. However, I can't recommend the sequels much as they suffer from a nasty case of Sequelitis.
FanficRecs An amusing start that falls a little flat
Highly recommend the first story. It's an amusing tale that twists the fanon "human stuck in pony body" plot that adds in the body's original owner being stuck in there too.
That said the stories have some issues. Namely the focus on gender swapping and the main character's constant state of crisis over the matter.
What would of been a funny or even dramatic one time arc instead becomes a central swing point of the whole plot for a frustratingly long time. It starts early in the first story and runs the course straight through the second and into the third.
Other plot points are brought up and explored, but the main character's gender crisis and applicable issues always seem to be at the least a background concern. It quickly becomes a combination of awkward and annoying.
I sense this might be more compelling of an issue if the reader can sympathize with such a gender crisis, but if you can't it just comes off as out of place and odd.
By the time the third one rolled around I couldn't even get past three chapters in before realizing that the gender crisis, which had seemingly been settled in the 2nd story, was still going to be a major driving factor. This combined with a botched attempt at pulling Darker and Edgier made me abandon the final story completely.
All in all, the first story is a solid read with often hilarious interactions if a slightly unsettling author track. However, I can't recommend the sequels much as they suffer from a nasty case of Sequelitis.