August 24th, 2007 
09:55 pm Middle Ground by Maggie B (NC-17)
Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown

Why this must be read: Jim’s character fascinates me and I love stories that use his thoughts or his actions to examine the inner man.

This story does that in a wonderful little trip of self-discovery for Jim when he comes to realise he’s in love with Blair.

Of course, being Jim and a hands-on, kinesthetic-thinking kind of guy, he discovers this by experience rather than reflection. He’s familiarly taciturn but is still perfectly able to have an extended inner monologue which is all the more fascinating for the fact that he doesn’t actually say very much at all in the story.

And the reader, being less emotionally repressed than Jim, has the fun of figuring everything out before he does then watching him get around to catching on.

A little taste... )

The writing here is fresh and original, and some of the descriptions and images from this story stuck with me for ages after I read it.

Middle Ground
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