Cloudbusting by Mab (NC-17)

[audrarose.livejournal.com]

I am the worst. rec'er. ever. Alas, RL intervened, but now I'm going to do four over the next four days. Prepare for spam. *bg*


Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author on lj: mab_browne
Website: none
Why this must be read:

Mab's world can be a very scary place. She kills people. She turns them into vampires, haunts them, hurts them, makes them run from the scary stuff hiding in the darkness, and when things go bump in the night it isn't always the boys getting busy. But even if she leaves you standing on the side of a lonely road in the middle of the night with a single pair of headlights bearing down on you through the fog, you will at least take comfort in the fabulous pacing, gorgeous language and intricate plotting.

Cloudbusting is set post-TS by BS (the end of the series for the non-TS fluent) and actually isn't one of her supernatural epics. It is, however, angsty, passionate, fascinating, and contains the single most wrenching transition I've ever read in fan fiction. If you're an angst-junkie like me, you're gonna love this one. Make it hurt, baby.

Cloudbusting

Comments

[patk.livejournal.com]

I loved this story even before you recced it. :-) Mab has just recently posted the sequel to it: "Crossing the line" and it's no disappointment.

The first few pages overlap with the end of "Cloudbusting" but is told from a Jim POV, which makes the sequel not only longer but actually better, since it enhances the understanding of the different situations of Jim and Blair and the emotions involved. After that, the story line develops further.

Very well done characterization, according to the circumstands the guys find themselves in, an action scene at the beginning that is way more than a simple description of who shoots whom, a story full of emotions, given to us in an unobtrusive, very "manly" voice. She approaches the topic "one sentinel, one guide" in a way that doesn't make me cringe (like other "bonding"-fic sometimes) and is pretty much how I would our canon-characterized-guys expect to handle it. And a Brackett who is as malicious that it's a pleasure to read it.

If you liked Cloudbusting, you will most likely like Crossing the line too.

PatK
:-)
And a beautifully done scene when they come together for the second time. :-) I really hope Mab will write a third part of this story.

[timian.livejournal.com]

Guh. That's such a gorgeous story. Wonderful rec. :)