Title: Unbelievers

Author: isthatyoularry

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~136,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Lottie Tomlinson, Johanna Deakin, Anne Twist, minor characters: Robin Twist, Stan Lucas, Ed Sheeran, Mark Tomlinson

Other tags: Romance, Alternate Universe, highschool, (not)friends with benefits, hate/love relationship, football fic, (kind of)angst and fluff playing on repeat.

Summary: It’s Louis’ senior year, and he’s dead set on doing it right. However, along with his pair of cleats, a healthy dose of sarcasm and his ridiculous best friend, he’s also got a complicated family, a terrifyingly uncertain future, and a mortal enemy making his life just that much worse. Mortal enemies “with benefits” was not exactly the plan.

Or: The one where Louis and Harry definitely aren’t friends, and football is everything.

Comment: Lately I’ve found that I didn’t like too much smut in a fic. Like, I love a few good scenes of it, but it I wanted porn without plot I’d search for PWPs and not for multi-chaptered works. This fic is an exception.

You see, it’s 136K of smut. With plot on the side. The thing is, the smut is part of the plot, so it’s great to have to much of it. I loved it.

Plus, I’m a sucker for highschool AUs, and for secret relationships, and for football, and this fic has all three of those. So, that’s a great bonus.

Definitely going to read it again someday!

Title: Landslide

Author: aimmyarrowshigh | spibsy

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~143,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Zayn Malik, Niall Horan, Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Jade Thirlwall, Lou Teasdale, Tom Atkin, Lux Atkin, Phoebe Tomlinson, Daisy Tomlinson, Nick Grimshaw, Liam Payne, George Shelley, Lottie Tomlinson, Fizzy Tomlinson

Genres: Romance, AU

Summary: The year is 1976. In November, Jimmy Carter will take control of the White House. Americans are meeting Laverne & Shirley at their apartment in Milwaukee. Hotel California diverges from the reign of Kool & the Gang. And the FBI is still reeling from the repercussions of Watergate, the tragedy at Wounded Knee, Operation Family Secrets, and the strategic terrors of the anti-cult movement.

That's what Special Agent Harry Styles has been told is the basis of his mission to an abandoned farmhouse in rural New Hampshire.

With his hair grown out long and his shirt untucked, he's going undercover to do reconnaissance on suspected cult leader Louis Tomlinson, who has led a group of people out into the middle of nowhere, leaving no record of the life he'd had before. All Harry knows is what the agency gave him: Tomlinson's name, and instructions to figure out what he's doing with the eleven people he brought with him.

In the year that Harry spends undercover and under Louis Tomlinson's wing, he learns more than he ever expected.

Comment: Will you look at that? A story that isn’t Zarah’s!

Alright. Okay. I need to find where to start. There are so many things to say about this.

The plot! The plot of this amazing piece of work is something SO out of the ordinary. This is something I’ve never expected to read, and I was so surprised by it with every new chapter. Like, when I thought that I couldn’t be surprised again - boom! I’m wrong. Kudos to that.

The writing: These two authors managed to fascinate me with their writing skills. So good. I can’t think of many authors who can make me read a 100K+ work in one day.

Also, the characters: so much character depths! It’s like each and every character in this story was thought through, like the authors knew their entire past even though they didn’t share it with us. Every once in a while they reveal a new little detail about someone that will change the entire way the reader sees them, and that’s wonderful.

All in all, this was a great, GREAT fanfic and I really think everyone in the fandom should read that.

Title: Hold My Breath

Author: zarah5

Rating: R

Word count: ~19,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Perrie Edwards/Zayn Malik

Summary: AU. It's possible — possible — that his three-week ban from the football pitch makes Louis just a tad antsy. Surely it's not so bad that it warrants punishment in the form of his friends signing him up for a yoga class? Either way, Louis is determined to hate every second of it.

He didn't count on a yoga instructor who wears flower-patterned headscarves and smiles like summer won't end.

Comment: Told you I was gonna read another one of her stories yesterday, didn’t I? Well, I did. Now there are 13 left.

This one was great for me, seeing it has a footie!Louis and I’m a huge football fan. So combining 1D with football? Yes, please! Also, there were some great football jokes I’ve never heard before.

Title: Reeling Through The Fall

Author: zarah5

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~40,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Zayn Malik/Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Nick Grimshaw, Ben Winston, Gemma Styles

Genres: Romance, AU

Summary: AU. They hate each other. Except for when they don’t.

Comment: *singing happily* another amazing AU by an amazing author!

Okay, realy, I’m in love. Can I marry the author? Can you marry someone you’ve never talked to? Never met?

Okay, to the story: beautiful piece of kind-of-angst that turns into totally-fluff. Made me smile my face off.

Go read it.

Title: The Dreams That You Wish

Author: Keep_Calm_And_Read_Fic

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~68,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Zayn Malik/Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Nick Grimshaw

Genres: Romance, AU, fluff

Summary: Cinderella/Ever After AU in which Louis is the world’s sassiest servant, Harry is a closeted prince with a deadline, Zayn is Harry’s chaperone, Liam is given the unenviable task of trying to distract Zayn long enough that his sister, Druscilla, can seduce Prince Harry (hint: doomed to failure) and Niall is the worlds most inappropriate fairy godfather.

Destiny, romance, mistaken identity, sexcapades and oblivious!everybody abound in this gross bastardization of one of my all time favourite fairy tales.

Comment: I know I said it might take some time for me to recommend another fic of this author, but then I was kind of really in the mood for this one? So I read it and it was PRECIOUS.

Okay, imagine this: a soldier (not a high rank but high enough for people to know she’s about to finish her military service), sitting on the bus, headphones tucked into her ears, her eyes focused on the iPhone’s screen. And then she starts laughing. Loudly. Ridiculous, really.

That was me. I was holding myself so much but I just couldn;t stop laughing. Great, great thing!

Disney!AUs are super-duper-awesome apparently!

Great writing again, really nice plot, interesting way of putting everything together. I liked it a lot.

Title: As You Are

Authot: zarah5

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~139,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Zayn Malik/Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Simon Cowell, Nick Grimshaw, Ed Sheeran

Genres: Romance, AU, fluff

Summary: AU. Five years after The X Factor launched his career as a radio host and songwriter, Louis Tomlinson returns as a judge. Falling for a contestant is the last thing he needs. It's also against his contract.

The only reason Harry auditions for The X Factor is because his best mate signed the two of them up as some kind of joke. Harry doesn't get the big deal—not until he's faced with this season's judges and realises that one of them used to be his desperate, impossible teenage crush.

Comment: Have I ever told you how much I love that writer? No? Well, I’m saying it now. The author who brought Wear It Like A Crwon to the world brings us another masterpiece.

Okay, so I have a thing for famous!AUs. Pretty sure I’ve said it already. And this, except for the famous-y thing, is also written wonderfully! The depth of every character! I always admire authors who can write from two different POV and make them sound like two different people. Like, when I try to write a fic from both Harry’s and Louis’ point of view they sound like the same person, different name. So here’s to people who are tlented enough to write something like that!

Also, this was funny. Really. And it wasn’t as angsty as I thought it would be. (don’t know why I expected angst...)

Title: Right Side of the Wrong Bed

Authot: eyesofshinigami

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~10,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Zayn Malik, brief mentions of: Liam Payne, Niall Horan

Genres: Romance, AU, fluff

Summary: There, standing in a pair of ridiculously tiny briefs and wielding a frying pan in one hand, is quite possibly the prettiest boy he's ever seen. Louis scrubs a hand across his face. "I'm in the wrong goddamn flat, aren't I?"

Or, the one where Louis wakes up on the wrong couch only to meet his future husband (even if Harry doesn't know it yet).

Comment: A short, nice and funny Larry AU, in which Louis is kind of an awesomeidiot and Harry is cute as fuck.

Made me laugh, in the middle of the bus, which caused so many people to turn their heads. Oh well.

Great piece of fluff!

Title: you’re the pulse that i’ve always needed

Authot: hilourry

Rating: NC-17

Word count: ~25,000

Pairing: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Side pairings/characters: Liam Payne/Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik

Genres: Romance, AU

Summary: Harry and Liam are law students at Yale University. Louis is a dance major at NYU along with his best friends Zayn and Niall. Harry wants Louis, but Liam gets to him first. And no, Harry definitely doesn't love his best friend's boyfriend.

(He sort of does)

Comment: Holy shit the sex! Okay, this was so cute and just so adorable! I must say, it has a great plot. It’s interensting while not too heavy, which is basically what this fandom needs these days.