My Sentinel series by Arianna

[bluewolf458.livejournal.com]

This month has flown past, but before I return the van to the garage and hand the keys on to the next driver, I'm finishing with a good long three-part story;

My Sentinel series by Arianna

Fandom: THE SENTINEL
Pairing: Jim/Blair
Length: 110671 words (in total - all three stories)
Author on LJ: caarianna
Author Website:www.wolfpanther.com
www.arianna.hidden-muse.com
Why this must be read: - This three-part story story comes in two versions, gen and slash (parts 2 & 3). Set in the future, it starts with Blair, great-grandson of 'our' Blair, reading his ancestor's description of how Jim died when the Switchman's bomb exploded. That Blair and his wife were murdered by Ventriss, their son James brought up by Naomi. James died when Yellowstone erupted, leaving a daughter who was this Blair's mother. Much of Cascade was destroyed in the cataclysm following the eruption, and when eventually what was left of the city was excavated, Blair, as something of an expert on the late twentieth/early twenty-first century was called in for advice... and realised that the body found cryogenated in the cellar of William Ellison's house was his ancestor's Jim.

The middle story explores the jungle where Jim 'lived' during the years he was in the cryogenic chamber, and in the third the organized crime that has flourished since the disaster tries to destroy them.

This trilogy covers several themes that I like. People surviving in a post-disaster world - caarianna handles this theme extremely convincingly, building up a world where, despite a lot of destruction caused by the natural disaster, a lot of technology has survived and been developed further. There's mysticism in it, reincarnation, the characters' protectiveness towards each other...

The word count is for the gen version. The slash version is a little longer.

Gen
My Sentinel
Memories of the Jungle
A Sacred Trust

Slash
Memories of the Jungle
The Long Road Home

Comments

[jak-frostty.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. I never realized 'My Sentinel' was part of a series, I thought it ended there. Awesome!

[caarianna.livejournal.com]

I hope you enjoy the next two segments.

And thanks, Bluewolf, for the rec!!!

[lapetite-kiki.livejournal.com]

I most definitely enjoyed My Sentinel with the two slash sequel! It was a wonderful journey! :-)

[caarianna.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad! I still hope to write a fourth and final chapter to this timeline, in which Simon is exposed to the nanites and also becomes 'immortal' but I'm not sure when that will happen!