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The Journey Home
After Tony assaults a guide at a crime scene, an old friend brings the Alpha Guide of North America to DC to investigate Tony’s claim of guide misconduct. This starts Tony on a new path away from DC and NCIS, and he finally finds a place to call home
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504 pages, ebook
Published February 8, 2015
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March 19, 2025
Great use of a crossover with a large amount of worldbuilding leading into the Guide/Sentinel background. The beginning half of the story is pretty enjoyable with Tony learning and new information always popping up, but the back half feels like it drags quite a bit. I found a lot of the side relationships annoying, which made it hard when large amounts of time were spent on them.
April 8, 2019
Love it and cannot wait for the sequel!
March 15, 2023
An excellent Sentinel crossover, with leads and secondaries from three other shows I watched: NCIS, Stargate, and Without a Trace (just Martin). Blair and Jim are among those helping Tony heal, train, and get justice, along with a number of excellent S/G OCs.
(The casting pics section of the Main Page https://jillyjames.com/fiction/the-jo... is a gallery of gorgeous actors, (named, in case you draw a blank)!)
The eventual Tony/Jack (no spoiler; they're right on the cover and in the tags) starts with a great premise, very SG-1 canon-appropriate, and develops well, with both personal and professional issues considered. Tony turns out to have some unusual gifts — which have him targeted by PTBs with agendas — and naturally his own approach to it all, but he isn't a Gary Stu.
Gibbs gets his own match, with its own complications, and also has to face how wrong he allowed the MCRT dynamic to get; Abby and (less-seen) Ziva and McGee face consequences canon never gave them, but I don't feel any of the characterizations were OtT bashing.
Oh, Sam isn't bashed, either, but she is given an interesting, relevant, and (again) canon-appropriate backstory that presents itself with negative reactions at first.
The S&G hierarchy, skills, and public understanding thereof is realistically imperfect in this 'verse; they're neither all paragons nor an oppressive monolith. The local Prides and official Council priorities don't always match.
The only thing more I could wish for is Tony going through the 'Gate, meeting more ~alien~ humans than just Teal'c, but he and Jack need a bit more training and assessment before that happens. This story is only their beginning.
The proofing quality is quite good, though there were a few minor errors.
Oh, hey, btw, I notice the Jilly James URL is back to https.
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This latest, sooner-than-usually-planned reread (3/'23) was prompted by my belatedly (*finally*) deciding to do a thorough dive into Jilly James's Evil Author Day offerings (i.e., unfinished-and-no-finish-guaranteed stories), and when I got back as far as 2015, I saw that her choice for posting was the first four (un-Beta'ed) chapters, 22K words, of Protecting Home, "Home Verse 2", i.e., TJH's sequel: https://evilauthorday.dreamwidth.org/...
"Summary: Tony and Jack return from Peru, ready to start their new life, but someone is still after Tony, and strange things keep happening." (In other words, the actual training period with the Chopec is skipped over other than in discussion.) (N.b., to view any of these EAD posts, you have to be registered on DreamWidth — I have been for a year or two, but rarely visit — then simply click to join this shared EAD "community".)
I wasn't sure I'd remember precisely who had what abilities, nor the possibly-recurring [Cascade] OCs, so ... 🤷 It was no hardship to revisit a favorite. 🤗 I'm about to read the partial PH, so I'll add a quick note to this review afterwards.
Update: I was surprised to realize I *had* already read all four chapters! I don't think I can have included PH in my 11/'22 reread of TJH, though, or surely I *would* have remembered that, right?
Anyway, it starts at the airport, moves to Jack's, then takes place mostly in the mountain, where SGC procedures haven't yet fully adjusted for what Sentinels & Guides properly need, especially with a brand-new bonded Alpha pair, including a very protective Jack, and Tony's novice and novel methods. Besides Blair, a couple of Tony's Cascade friends do come into it. The ending is definitely unresolved — and still pre-'Gating — but lots of good stuff to that point, both plotty and personal, and therefore no regrets from me.
(The casting pics section of the Main Page https://jillyjames.com/fiction/the-jo... is a gallery of gorgeous actors, (named, in case you draw a blank)!)
The eventual Tony/Jack (no spoiler; they're right on the cover and in the tags) starts with a great premise, very SG-1 canon-appropriate, and develops well, with both personal and professional issues considered. Tony turns out to have some unusual gifts — which have him targeted by PTBs with agendas — and naturally his own approach to it all, but he isn't a Gary Stu.
Gibbs gets his own match, with its own complications, and also has to face how wrong he allowed the MCRT dynamic to get; Abby and (less-seen) Ziva and McGee face consequences canon never gave them, but I don't feel any of the characterizations were OtT bashing.
Oh, Sam isn't bashed, either, but she is given an interesting, relevant, and (again) canon-appropriate backstory that presents itself with negative reactions at first.
The S&G hierarchy, skills, and public understanding thereof is realistically imperfect in this 'verse; they're neither all paragons nor an oppressive monolith. The local Prides and official Council priorities don't always match.
The only thing more I could wish for is Tony going through the 'Gate, meeting more ~alien~ humans than just Teal'c, but he and Jack need a bit more training and assessment before that happens. This story is only their beginning.
The proofing quality is quite good, though there were a few minor errors.
Oh, hey, btw, I notice the Jilly James URL is back to https.
**********
This latest, sooner-than-usually-planned reread (3/'23) was prompted by my belatedly (*finally*) deciding to do a thorough dive into Jilly James's Evil Author Day offerings (i.e., unfinished-and-no-finish-guaranteed stories), and when I got back as far as 2015, I saw that her choice for posting was the first four (un-Beta'ed) chapters, 22K words, of Protecting Home, "Home Verse 2", i.e., TJH's sequel: https://evilauthorday.dreamwidth.org/...
"Summary: Tony and Jack return from Peru, ready to start their new life, but someone is still after Tony, and strange things keep happening." (In other words, the actual training period with the Chopec is skipped over other than in discussion.) (N.b., to view any of these EAD posts, you have to be registered on DreamWidth — I have been for a year or two, but rarely visit — then simply click to join this shared EAD "community".)
I wasn't sure I'd remember precisely who had what abilities, nor the possibly-recurring [Cascade] OCs, so ... 🤷 It was no hardship to revisit a favorite. 🤗 I'm about to read the partial PH, so I'll add a quick note to this review afterwards.
Update: I was surprised to realize I *had* already read all four chapters! I don't think I can have included PH in my 11/'22 reread of TJH, though, or surely I *would* have remembered that, right?
Anyway, it starts at the airport, moves to Jack's, then takes place mostly in the mountain, where SGC procedures haven't yet fully adjusted for what Sentinels & Guides properly need, especially with a brand-new bonded Alpha pair, including a very protective Jack, and Tony's novice and novel methods. Besides Blair, a couple of Tony's Cascade friends do come into it. The ending is definitely unresolved — and still pre-'Gating — but lots of good stuff to that point, both plotty and personal, and therefore no regrets from me.
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