The Sentinel
                             After spending years in the Peruvian jungle during his tour in Army Special Forces, Cascade PD Detective James Ellison developed hyperactive senses, which came back to him five years after his return to the US. He can see people in darkened windows at night from two hundred yards, hear the music playing on the radio of the car he's chasing after he's lost sight of it, and can distinguish between wood and plastic after both have been in a three thousand degree fire. Blair Sandburg, a local anthropology student, tells Ellison that he is a "Sentinel," who in ancient tribes would protect the village and seek out game using such hyperactive senses. Sandburg becomes Ellison's back-watcher and teacher of how to use his new powers as Ellison brings a whole new edge to the war on crime in Cascade, Washington. (Summary written by J.C. at IMdB, used without permission.)

 

Alyjude
     Crossroads
         
  • Excellent
  • Adult
  • Romance
  • Novella
    		•    Jim says good-bye to Blair and Simon who then try to get off the mountain (without much success) while Jim ruminates over the fact that maybe he wished they were still here - or at least that Blair was still here, er, there, um, with him, you know? He also decides that his mid-thirties have been great. I love this writer's voice. She's got it nailed.
         Polar Ice Caps
             
  • Excellent
  • Adult
  • Drama
  • Skinny Novel
    		•    After Naomi sends Blair's diss off to get published and Jim reacts to the ensuing furor, Blair packs his stuff and takes off before the boys at the PD can offer Blair the badge. He lands in Southern California where he eventually falls into writing detective novels as the reclusive and best-selling Jake Sands. Meanwhile, in Cascade, Jim isn't doing so hot without his Blair and after zoning becomes a way of life, Simon places personal ads in a desperate attempt to reach Blair. It's the usual Jim's-personal-issues-push-Blair-into-self-destructive-neuroses-and-only-their-love-can-save-them-happily-oversexed-after plot. It's just that she does it so darned well you only notice that it's the usual plot because 3 out of 4 Sentinal slash stories have this plot.
     
    April Valentine
         Phantom Pain : Phantom Pain: Jim : Phantom Pain: Miracles
             
  • Good
  • Adult
  • Drama
  • Novel
    		•     After losing his legs in an accident that nearly rips their friendship apart, Blair relocates to Baltimore to somehow get on with the business of living. Jim lets go for as long as he can, then follows him. Most of the story was excellent, from plot and character development to the way the individual scenes were crafted. If it weren't for the ending, I'd fork over 7.99 for a paperback. The ending, while not sucking completely, went too far past my ability to suspend disbelief. Yeah, miracles happen, but this was too much.
     
    Brook Henson
         A Guide's Guide to Living with a Sentinel (Who Just so Happens to Be Totally Blind)
             
  • Excellent
  • Teen
  • Romantic Comedy
  • Novella
    		•    Life with Jim and Blair a couple of years after Jim has been blinded in an undercover operation gone wrong. Jim works with blind teenagers and Blair is back at the university. The narrative hits two of the biggest reader turn offs, ever: second-person and present tense. It took me a little bit of time to get the flow of the writing and to get used to the voice, but once I settled into it, I never noticed the tense and I couldn't imagine this in first person. The plot is wonderfully done and other than a lingering sensation that I was a little to in media res, as it were, the mildly disjointed, flow-of-the-moment narration fit. An appearance of Blair's father and two siblings is freaky-weird, though.
     
    Cat's Whiskers
         Walking with Dark Angels
             
  • Excellent
  • Teen
  • Science Fiction
  • Novel
    		•     Based loosely on Susan Foster's GDP universe. Blair is a Dark Guide with a history of torturous abuse from Alex Barnes hiding from Sentinels as a part of the Empath Underground Railroad in the Enclave of Cascade in the distant future. Jim is a Dark Sentinel searching for the Dark Guide and Body Heir to the Oligarchy of Ellison. This is an excellently written political thriller. The "Dark Angels" is a little to romance novelish of a name not to giggle, but other than that, they're very well written. Characters such as "Chris Larabee" make an appearance, but this isn't a cross-over. While Jim and Blair were important, they really aren't the focus of most of the story. Note: ff.net archive.
     

     

     

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