Coming Home (Sentinel story)

Sentinel Fanfiction
Title:	Coming Home
Author(s):	Calista Echo
Date(s):
Length:
Genre:	slash
Fandom:	The Sentinel
External Links:	Coming Home
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Coming Home is a Sentinel story by Calista Echo.

Reactions and Reviews

Brainwashed!Blair/Eric is...wow. I don't think that I've ever read a story like this before, in any fandom. The attention to detail was astounding.

There is nothing like 315k of epic hurt-comfort to restore one's faith in a fandom. This is a sequel to Stealing Home. I really enjoyed this, even though I have not read "Stealing Home." I remember skimming it (another big dish--356k) and thinking it looked kinda interesting, but for whatever reason, I did not engage. The sequel, on the other hand, drove bang out of the gate right into the heart of my hurt-comfort kink, and I read it straight through in about two hours. Glory. I kinda think this is readable as a stand-alone. But, I could just be crazy and influenced by previous skimming....

Why you should read this: Hurt. Comfort. Chocolate. Peanut butter. Gin. Tonic. These. Are. Met. A. Phors. What I'm really saying here is: angst, torment both mental and physical, miscommunications, pain pain pain, violence, comfort, healing, cuddling. Yum. With skill and at great length, the story twists in the psychological corkscrew and then uncorks the bottle and decants us into a limp pool of exhausted satisfaction. Man, we've needed this.

What might throw you off stride: Some typos--but sprinkled through a huge story, and so not really that noticeable--and probably a few other things I could think of if it weren't one a.m. Um, okay, here's something: the story got a bit sketchier, a bit vaguer, toward the ending. The horse was a little tired as it crossed the finish line. But it was a lovely ride.

Update 4/4: I just heard that this was posted as gen elsewhere, which suggests that the ending was tacked on. Explains a lot. I suppose that the reverse could be true--it could have been chopped off to make it gen (think about that analogy a moment). Still, this kinda bugs me and makes me question whether I was in optimal reading mode at eleven o'clock at night--did I miss broader flaws? I don't know. I'm not going to change my rec, but it's something to think about.

Update 4/4: And with yet another update--I heard from the author after a list thread about this story and am feeling more sympathetic again. No, I'm not PMSing, thank you very much. Go away.