Rachel Martin
Author at Cascade Library http://www.skeeter63.org/tslibrary/authors/auth-rachelmartin.htm.
Leave It (Sentinel)
Reviewed by Kathryn A on 16th March 2001 (2)
This is an Alternative Universe story in which Jim and Blair meet
in South America just before Jim goes to Peru. I'm not quite sure of
what to say about this one. It is not warm and fuzzy. It is gritty,
a little sordid, definitely rated AO. It is also well-written,
enthralling, absorbing. Undoubtedly different. This is Army-Jim here,
man with no home but the army, military crew-cut regulation and all.
And Blair is showing his mother's influence... they dislike each other
on sight. And yet... something is drawing them together. The Sentinel
is already out of the box...
This is more about Jim than about Blair; told from his point of view,
and the story has already been rolling a while when Blair comes on the
scene. It also seems much more realistic in regard to Army life; this
stuff is serious (and sordid). Take heed of the rating.
Unfortunately, we seem to be left up in the air; it ended too soon. Or
at least, ended too soon if one was interested in what happened to Jim
and Blair, instead of just Jim. I'm left wondering if we're just
expected to assume that things happened the same way as in canon, that
Jim went off to Peru and got shot down... missed it by that much. I
don't know.
Read it if you want something different.