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Title: No Way to Treat a... Series (by Tinnean)
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Categories: Historical AU (1960's), mystery, drama
Length: super!Epic
Warnings: beastiality (minor)
Author on LJ: n/a?
author Website: http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/tinnssinns/
Review:
Because of the author's notes, I know that the first two stories in this series were based on No Way to Treat a Lady, which I've never seen. It's hard to imagine that it's better than these fics, however, because they're extraordinary.
In the first story we get a quick sprint through Jim's life: kicked out by his father for being gay, sent to military school, became a hustler in NYC, got out of the business and started working in security (with Simon Banks as his boss). It's a little rushed, but that's okay -- Tinnean's just getting through the necessary exposition so we can spend more time on Jim and Blair.
And, boy, do we get more time with them. The second fic is from Blair's POV, starts at Blair's childhood until it catches up with the end of No Way To Treat a Sentinel, and lasts for 600 K. Blair is a cop trying to find a serial killer who is targeting gay men, one of whom is from Jim's past. Unlike most fanfic mystery plots, this story is very well designed, with multiple layers, several plot twists, and a satisfying conclusion. And, needless to say, the development of Jim and Blair's relationship is kick-ass as well. Authentic, fascinating, and surprisingly sweet, this is a good story for anyone who wants to settle in and enjoy an engaging mystery.
BTW, for those who (like me) are seriously turned off by beastiality, I just want to reassure you that the beastiality is minor, occurs only during a couple of dream sequences, and is highly symbolic (gee, I wonder who the panther represents?) Those scenes are also very short and if you wanted to skip right over them (which I tend to do when rereading this fic), it wouldn't hurt your enjoyment of the story.
No Way to Treat a Sentinel
No Way to Treat a Guide
Goin' Courtin' (sort of like a clip episode of the first two -- only included because I have an anal retentive need for completeness)
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Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Categories: Historical AU (1960's), mystery, drama
Length: super!Epic
Warnings: beastiality (minor)
Author on LJ: n/a?
author Website: http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/tinnssinns/
Review:
Because of the author's notes, I know that the first two stories in this series were based on No Way to Treat a Lady, which I've never seen. It's hard to imagine that it's better than these fics, however, because they're extraordinary.
In the first story we get a quick sprint through Jim's life: kicked out by his father for being gay, sent to military school, became a hustler in NYC, got out of the business and started working in security (with Simon Banks as his boss). It's a little rushed, but that's okay -- Tinnean's just getting through the necessary exposition so we can spend more time on Jim and Blair.
And, boy, do we get more time with them. The second fic is from Blair's POV, starts at Blair's childhood until it catches up with the end of No Way To Treat a Sentinel, and lasts for 600 K. Blair is a cop trying to find a serial killer who is targeting gay men, one of whom is from Jim's past. Unlike most fanfic mystery plots, this story is very well designed, with multiple layers, several plot twists, and a satisfying conclusion. And, needless to say, the development of Jim and Blair's relationship is kick-ass as well. Authentic, fascinating, and surprisingly sweet, this is a good story for anyone who wants to settle in and enjoy an engaging mystery.
BTW, for those who (like me) are seriously turned off by beastiality, I just want to reassure you that the beastiality is minor, occurs only during a couple of dream sequences, and is highly symbolic (gee, I wonder who the panther represents?) Those scenes are also very short and if you wanted to skip right over them (which I tend to do when rereading this fic), it wouldn't hurt your enjoyment of the story.
No Way to Treat a Sentinel
No Way to Treat a Guide
Goin' Courtin' (sort of like a clip episode of the first two -- only included because I have an anal retentive need for completeness)
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Reccing is always a crapshoot -- no one has identical taste, so there's always going to be some stories people disagree on. Plus, there are only so many perfect stories out there and I figure no one would be happy if I recced ten stories and decided to call it quits:)
http://janedavitt.livejournal.com/tag/point+of+contact
ENJOY! - And let me know some time how you liked it!
Augh! It's a WIP! Which I guess I should have guessed, but I was kind of hoping it was a series:)
Okay, good points: the writing, the characterization, and the fact that Jane's taking her time (this, btw, is *always* a good point -- long stories rock.)
The only issue I'm really having is that the terms of Blair and Jim's relationship (which is a four letter acronym THIS FILTER WON'T LET ME USE *arg*) is neither a k-nk nor a squ-ck for me (heck, explicit material of any sort is neither a k-nk nor a squ-ck -- I've read so many explicit scenes that they don't have much impact any more; I generally read graphic material because that's where the good authors are) so the entire story thus far feels like a PWP. On the other hand, I have high hopes that she's going to continue this story into a 2 MB epic (which isn't impossible at 300 KB a night), which will be highly reccable:)
Thanks for the heads up! I look forward to reading the fic through when Jane's finished with it.
(Side note: this took something like ten tries to get through *sigh*)
For me 'very explicit' is often more a squick than a kink, but I do read PoC because of the dialogue. Most of it is dialogue and the - up to now relatively harmless - sex scenes are spread between and not too distracting for me. I love it because it has this lovely UST and the characters feel very IC despite their uncanonical occupations. Which was what I didn't like about No Way... (you were right, I didn't like the second part either :-( ). The guys didn't 'feel' like JimnBlair to me because she did not even have their speech patterns down. I would perhaps have read it as original fic (though why would I be tempted?), because all her J/B had in common with the guys on the show (as far as I can see) were the names.
I think I'm a little more lenient with TS fic than with others because I've never seen the canon and there are so many versions of Jim and Blair out there that I honestly can't tell which is accurate and which isn't. It'll be interesting to see if I get pickier once I've actually seen the show.
Whom do you know from Germany already if I may be so curious?
Augh! It's a WIP! Which I guess I should have guessed, but I was kind of hoping it was a series:)
Okay, good points: the writing, the characterization, and the fact that Jane's taking her time (this, btw, is *always* a good point -- long stories rock.)
The only issue I'm really having is that the terms of Blair and Jim's relationship (which is a four letter acronym THIS FILTER WON'T LET ME USE *arg*) is neither a k*** nor a s***** for me (heck, explicit material of any sort is neither a k*** nor a s***** -- I've read so many explicit scenes that they don't have much impact any more; I generally read graphic material because that's where the good authors are) so the entire story thus far feels like a PWP. On the other hand, I have high hopes that she's going to continue this story into a 2 MB epic (which isn't impossible at 300 KB a night), which will be highly reccable:)
Thanks for the heads up! I look forward to reading the fic through when Jane's finished with it.
(Side note: this took something like ten tries to get through -- I feel like a Victorian novelist trying to get past censors *sigh*)
thank you soooo much for your epic!recs and greedily devouring fic at breathtaking speeds here, lol.
er, just thought I should let you know that as far as am aware, the urls for Tinnean's No way to treat a sentinel/No way to treat a Guide etc doesn't work but the rest are is still luckily available at 852 prospect! ^_^
respectively:
1. http://web.archive.org/web/20060520180437/http://www.852prospect.org/archive/archive/24/noway.html
2. http://web.archive.org/web/20060520180804/http://www.852prospect.org/archive/archive/24/noway2.html
3. http://web.archive.org/web/20070202033359/http://www.852prospect.org/archive/archive/27/goincourtin.html
Season's Greetings fellow fandomers!