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The Alpha Chronicles
The Awakening
Fandom: The Sentinel
Pairing: Blair/Jim
Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same.
Word Count: 69,152 complete
Pairing: Blair/Jim
Detective Jim Ellison doesn’t want a Guide. What he wants is peace and quiet and maybe for his ex-wife to disappear. Dr. Blair Sandburg, a successful profiler with the FBI, has nearly given up on finding his Sentinel. Then the night came where one’s pain drew the other across the country – neither will ever be the same.
Word Count: 69,152 complete
- GenresFan Fiction
208 pages, online fiction
First published March 31, 2009
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January 17, 2016
This was such a tough read for me emotionally and I don’t say that lightly. Beginning with an un-bonded Jim Ellison trying his best to navigate his way through his life and career without his Guide, this fic was intense and weighty with plot and emotional upheaval. Not only due to the initial separation between Sentinel and Guide – not purposeful necessarily, since neither Jim or Blair were aware of each other before the beginning of this fic – but because of the case they’re working throughout this story.
I won’t go into details about the case since it played a pivotal role in this fic but needless to say, it was heart wrenching and intense in a number of ways. Especially since, if you took away the Sentinel/Guide angle, it would still read just as intense and emotional. In fact, while some might argue, I would say that Jim and Blair’s developing relationship played secondary to the case and that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing (though I can’t deny I would have enjoyed some expansion on Jim and Blair’s relationship here or there).
Which brings me back around to it being an emotional read:
It was just a personal thing, and I really did enjoy this fic when I get right down to it. It was well-written, well plotted, and well worth the time spent reading it.
I won’t go into details about the case since it played a pivotal role in this fic but needless to say, it was heart wrenching and intense in a number of ways. Especially since, if you took away the Sentinel/Guide angle, it would still read just as intense and emotional. In fact, while some might argue, I would say that Jim and Blair’s developing relationship played secondary to the case and that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing (though I can’t deny I would have enjoyed some expansion on Jim and Blair’s relationship here or there).
Which brings me back around to it being an emotional read:
It was just a personal thing, and I really did enjoy this fic when I get right down to it. It was well-written, well plotted, and well worth the time spent reading it.
July 16, 2014
This is a great example of someone within fan fiction taking a concept from the original, and running a mile with it. Kiera does amazing work with the sentinel/guide concept and not just in this book. Her "Sentinels of Atlantis" is simply amazing to read and reread. What am I saying, everything by her is great to reread.
November 28, 2021
I have no idea who these characters are outside this fanfic but this is the second book I read from this author and I loved both of them so so much. She writes so good . I really really want more of her books preferably not fanfic because I’m with her husband on this -I would pay to read her books and she deserves it.
October 28, 2015
That was really intense and pulling story plot. Both Jim & Blair are good together.
What I did miss was the personal time between them, to get to know each other.
What I did miss was the personal time between them, to get to know each other.
October 28, 2015
This story was really pulling. I couldn't stop reading it till the end.
Recommended!
Recommended!
January 15, 2024
About 3.5, [initially] rounded down after some debate mainly just because it seemed like most of the exes and/or mothers, a woman in the DA's office, etc., were presented in an excessively negative light. I mean, not just bitchy but harmfully wicked. (Also, I wanted my 4 stars for her Tangled Destinies to be visibly higher.)
Field-certified [FBI] profiler Blair is a particularly admirable and formidable character here in multiple ways, and I liked Jim, Simon, et al. The case is a dark one, involving brutal child murder.
The writing is quite good, as is the world-building for the adaptations to canon — though the Guide-as-innately-sexual-being and even the (fanon-common) genetically-determinable matching elements are also iffy choices, for me — and the number of typos was pretty low. (I do wish Ms. Marcos would reliably learn how to spell a couple favored words of hers, such as "emerged", not "immerged"! ... unless she has since this was written, and just doesn't make a habit of re-editing??)
I don't get the sense that this author and I would be that sympatico in person, though, which unpreventably reduced my emotional investment in the story.
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11/2022: My opinions are still as initially stated when I first read this fic, as one of my first works from this belatedly-discovered author.
It's a little too bad that Ms. Marcos's other entries [so far] in her different-central-fandom-in-each-piece S&GAK Alpha Chronicles ( keiramarcos.com/category/series/the-a... ) use Blair and Jim as mere supporting characters, and don't return to any of the several intriguing hints/ threads left after this satisfying conclusion, nor are they such powerful casefic. Ah, well.
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1/'24 edit: Rounding up, because this stands out as memorable and gripping, and really doesn't deserve to be lumped with 3★ pieces (I even double-checked that my last-read date was the same as for the other Alpha Chronicles), though the issues I have still hold true.
Field-certified [FBI] profiler Blair is a particularly admirable and formidable character here in multiple ways, and I liked Jim, Simon, et al. The case is a dark one, involving brutal child murder.
The writing is quite good, as is the world-building for the adaptations to canon — though the Guide-as-innately-sexual-being and even the (fanon-common) genetically-determinable matching elements are also iffy choices, for me — and the number of typos was pretty low. (I do wish Ms. Marcos would reliably learn how to spell a couple favored words of hers, such as "emerged", not "immerged"! ... unless she has since this was written, and just doesn't make a habit of re-editing??)
I don't get the sense that this author and I would be that sympatico in person, though, which unpreventably reduced my emotional investment in the story.
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11/2022: My opinions are still as initially stated when I first read this fic, as one of my first works from this belatedly-discovered author.
It's a little too bad that Ms. Marcos's other entries [so far] in her different-central-fandom-in-each-piece S&GAK Alpha Chronicles ( keiramarcos.com/category/series/the-a... ) use Blair and Jim as mere supporting characters, and don't return to any of the several intriguing hints/ threads left after this satisfying conclusion, nor are they such powerful casefic. Ah, well.
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1/'24 edit: Rounding up, because this stands out as memorable and gripping, and really doesn't deserve to be lumped with 3★ pieces (I even double-checked that my last-read date was the same as for the other Alpha Chronicles), though the issues I have still hold true.
February 27, 2023
Didnt like it anymore a few years later in a re-read. Too much Mary Sue
March 16, 2014
Fanfiction of sentinel
January 20, 2016
Just perfect!
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