Tinker by Wen spencer (wen_spencer)

[lightreads]

Fiction. Sci-Fi/fantasy. Due to unexpected consequences of building a transdimensional gate in orbit over Earth, our Pittsburgh spends all but one day of each month on Elfhome. Our intrepid heroin runs a junkyard, builds things, and tangles with elves and other interdimensional troubles. Good God, this is vile. The pseudoscientific set-up is actually sort of interesting, and there was potential in the interdimensional relations aspects of having a piece of the United States on foreign soil, but these things are ignored in favor of transformative!sex!magic, gratuitous romantic entanglements for Mary-Sue Tinker, and truly disgusting racial politics. I kept reading due to a rubbernecking impulse, and indeed it really is terrible to the predictable, patronizing end. After spending the whole book angsting about going to Earth for college because she just cannot choose, Tinker highs off and makes that choice for the entire city after she's turned into an elf by the power of magic!elf!sex (oops, did I ruin that for you?). Also, big points off for the author listing,
yep, Wen Spencer as one of her LJ interests.