Because this author was rightly vilified for their actions, though I did enjoy the book when I read it - 1 am only sending a rating.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for allowing me to read it.

4 Stars for a satisfying conclusion of The Community series. To be honest I expected a bit more after the first two books but I guess writing a finale for something is never easy. It wasn't an easy read, not because it was bad but because of the things that went down on the property of the Farm, but no unexpected triggers. Would definietly recommend this to anyone who enjoyed the other books in The Community Series

Never in a million years.
This fake author probably stole this story from another unsuspecting person.

Douchiest of douches.

NO

Since Santino Hassell has been revealed as catfish who abused and harassed many, I will not be reading this one, nor reviewing it.

In light of some of the recent information that has come out about this author and your response to those allegations, I will not be reviewing, reading, or purchasing any more titles by this author.

An incredible conclusion to this paranormal series, Sightlines kept me on the edge of my seat. I've loved Chase and Eli together since the very beginning, and when they are both in trouble, their loyalty to one another and desire to keep each other safe makes them absolutely irresistible as a couple.

A lot happens in this book in regards to The Community and its hold on those with supernatural abilities. The band of misfits - including Chase and Eli - have become determined to take down the establishment that has done nothing to protect them and everything to exploit them. The moves they make are dangerous and bold, and if successful, could have a huge payoff. All the couples we've met could live quiet, happy, drama-free lives, and maybe even turn The Community into what it was supposed to be from the beginning.

This story kept me on the edge of my seats and made me love Chase and Eli so much.

I had been waiting for this book. I finally got the time to read it. This is book Three and finale of this series and doe need to be read in order.
Case and Elijah are back on the farm. Chase is tortured and not willing to give in until they threaten Elijah. Chase makes a deal to follow his Father for Elijah.. Soon he finds his Telekinesis works when it comes to protecting Elijah but is still not controlled.It's a temporary solution to keep them ae.

I loved this story. we get another peek at some of the recurring leads and more insight on Jasper and Richard. there are some twists and turns and the story is gripping. I am very pleased with the outcome. There is lots of action and the romance is great.

A high-adrenaline conclusion to the Community series. Chase and Elijah's relationship feels so real as they each work to overcome their own fears of intimacy while they work to free themselves and others from the grip of the Community. Loved it!

I acquired this book on NetGalley as soon as I saw it, despite the fact that I hadn't read the first two! Of course, I purchased them before reading them to prep. I'd been wanting to read this series for an age.

This book is not a stand alone, so if you haven't read the previous two books, Mama Jude is gonna tell you to go do that. They're totally worth it. I really loved this series. Hassell handles a lot of really complex emotional, logistical, and interpersonal complexities that come with characters who have special abilities.

Of the three books, Sightlines was my least favorite. It was still a fantastic book, and I recommend it. Perhaps because I anticipated the climax too much? Perhaps because I ways DYING for Chase's story the whole series? Chase did not let me down: Hassell is not apologetic about the aspects of his personality that are harsh or cutting; it would have been unrealistic considering his upbringing and traumas. He does get us inside Chase's head, beautifully, which I loved.

There were some really gripping, shining moments in this book. The delivery of action -- particularly when Chase is using his telekinesis but cannot control it and is working through its deadly implications -- AKA freaking out -- that were written beautifully. Very tough, emotional without being flowery, and tuned in to the character.

The part I didn't like as much was the dynamic between Chase and Elijah. Perhaps this is a personal preference thing -- the way that Chase pretended to treat him wasn't my favorite, but I got it. But the sex in front of people, the push and pull Chase put Elijah through, their chemistry -- it felt a little forced. I felt like this book would have been much stronger with less of the sex between the two of them. Not erasing it completely, but it took away from the book.

I loved seeing how Chase viewed his relationship with Holden, particularly after getting to know Holden so well in Oversight. It was interesting to see such a contrast -- I love when authors pull of narratives from unreliable narrators so well. I could read a whole book about those two figuring out how to be brothers and not assume things about each other.

It was lovely to see all the returning characters from The Community series (particularly Trent, who is just my favorite). This was a great closing book in the series, which I definitely recommend.

My least favorite series by one of my most favorite authors. What he does really well -- hot sex, gripping characters, found families in urban environments, conflict -- were here but less substantial than what I'm used to. Like this effort was rushed. The bad guys were too obviously bad; the good guys to samey in their conflict; the ending too quickly resolved. The love interests here... I dunno. the MC was so damaged and treated the love of his life so badly, I just couldn't get into them. That said, it was a decent read -- good pacing, interesting world, and ultimately a good place to escape a bad day.

Reviews by the Wicked Reads Review Team

Sarah – ☆☆☆☆☆
I’ve been waiting for this book ever since the second story ended with a perilous cliffhanger. Thankfully, this story picks up right where we were left – Chase and Elliot are enduring torture after they’re captured by the Community. This third book has the most action of the three. And we also get to watch as many of the Community’s secrets unravel. I absolutely loved this story. It was a single sitting read for me and it is a brilliant end to the series.

Chase’s allegiances have been suspect from the start of the series, so I love that the last book is his. He is the closest to his father and the Community but he may also be the character most betrayed by the Community. We’ve always known that Chase is clever but this time we get to watch his mind work as he plots and schemes against his father.

This isn’t as much of a romance as the first two books were. There is a connection between Chase and Elliott and there are a couple of steamy scenes, but the focus of this story is the action and the preparations for the final showdown between the Community and the psys who have been hurt by or alienated from the Community.

As much as this is an action adventure, it is an action adventure starring Millennial New Yorkers. The constant squabbles over relative intersectional privilege and the attempts at democratic consensus do slow the story down – but they also made me laugh.

I have really enjoyed this series. I love good Urban Fantasy and this feels fresh and very self aware. This third book is my favourite because all the story threads pull together perfectly, and we’re given a taste of a potential happily ever after. However, it definitely won’t stand alone and should probably be read as soon after book two as possible.

I expected Sightlines to be my favorite of this series and I’m glad to say it definitely was.

Elijah was always my favorite character and it was delight to have him as one of the MCs of the story. He and Chase have an interesting dynamic that makes them, in my opinion, the best couple of the series, maybe because their story was happening, so to speak, in the background of the first two books. That made them feel more real and their relationship more developed, at least for me, though I have to admit I expected a bit more from them, of them, in this book. When I got to the end I still felt like there were things that still needed to be sorted out and some conflicts/problems to be dealt with. That was, frankly, my main and only problem with this book – it doesn’t feel like the end of a series, which it apparently is.

Sightlines is fast-paced and hard to put down. I read it one sitting and though the ending felt a bit rushed and just a tiny bit too easy for me, it was satisfying. The characters, Hassell’s biggest strength in my opinion, were great. It was awesome to see everyone together and I liked how they dealt with the Community and Chase’s father. Again, it still feels like it isn’t an ending because things were left (at least when it comes to the Community) in a happy for now kind of way.

In conclusion, Sightlines was an enjoyable read, even with its faults. Hassell is still my favorite romance author and I can’t wait to see what his next books will bring. 4.0 stars.

If you’ve been following along with their side-story in the past two books, you’ll know that Elijah and Chase don’t make things easy on themselves. Their relationship has been a rollercoaster of arguments and misunderstandings.

Even while their lives are in danger, the two men just can’t seem to figure out how to communicate their feelings. Chase, in particular, doesn’t want to admit that he’s been in love with Elijah from the get-go.

I thought Chase’s reluctance to accept his feelings, though annoying at times, was also adorable. It made sense, given his childhood. He was just so afraid of rejection, and that he wasn’t good enough for Elijah.

But regardless, Elijah and Chase were very sweet together. I really liked seeing them slowly work out the kinks in their relationship, and all of that while being total badasses.

Plus, they’ve got some great chemistry in the bedroom!

The action plotline gets as much page time as the romance. The past two books have been building up to this final showdown between Richard and his sons.

I don’t want to give anything away, but I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see what would happen next. The plot moved quickly, and there was never a dull moment.

The ending was perfect, wrapping everything up nicely for Chase and Elijah, and also for Nate and Trent, and Holden and Six.

If you’re looking for an engaging paranormal series that delivers on the action and the romance, I highly recommend The Community series!

I hate to say this, but I think my love affair with Santino Hassell’s books is over. On the sites I’m forced to use a numerical start rating, I almost gave it 2 stars. The end dragged it up to a third, but it was a close call. I simply didn’t like it. I didn’t like the characters. I didn’t like the narrative style. I didn’t like the pacing. I. did. no. like. it. And if I’m honest, the last several books by Hassell that I’ve read have skirted this same edge. And it makes me so sad, I lovedhis early works. But all his characters feel the same now and here I felt Chase was taken to such a grumpy extreme that I couldn’t overcome it enough to enjoy his character. And Elijah was a shadow, barely there. As always, the mechanical writing is good but this book was a bust for me.

The best of the series, in my opinion, or maybe it just feels that way because each book was a treat and each story featured one of the young men who were linked by their father, the founder of The Community, an organization that fosters psychic powers and encourages their communication with each other for the good of the whole. Or, at least that’s my understanding of what the general public would believe them to be. On the other hand, in reality, the Community is tightly run by this man who uses human beings, including his own children, as no more than research projects—always trying to perfect mind control and to find the perfect candidate to be able to foresee the future and rule others through psychic abilities.

I honestly thought this book was going to feature more of Holden and Six from Oversight as they worked to destroy the Community from the inside by infiltrating the Farm, where recalcitrant psychics were taken to be “reprogrammed,” and setting the patients free. In reality, some of that happened but the main thrust of the story was Chase and Elijah and Chase’s F’d up emotions and inability to touch his own humanity and emotions—especially with Elijah. At the end of the last story, they were captured and separated and while Jasper tries to basically suck the psychic ability from Chase’s mind, others are working on Elijah in the Silo to assure that his precog abilities will only be used for the good of the Community and that he will be compliant and non-rebellious when they finally integrate him with the rest of the patients at the Farm. Somehow Chase manages to convince his father that he will work with him if they release Elijah to him. Considering Chase is his best choice as second in command of the organization, his father finally goes along with the plan—only to be totally upended when Chase and Elijah join with his half-brothers and others who believe the Community does more harm that good.

The excitement and pins and needles hold-your-breath-and-hope-for-the-best moments that occur in this story are plentiful. The love between Chase and Elijah finally shines through when Chase begins to accept his own humanity and is willing to admit that Elijah is the best thing that’s ever happened to him. Watching his growth and change and the evolution of the revolution of the psychics housed at the Farm and having an opportunity to revisit characters from Insight and Oversight provided hours of entertainment in this exciting conclusion to the series.

After thoroughly enjoying the first two books in The Community series by Santino Hassell, and having built up so much of my own anticipation for the third, I was very happy when Sightlines surpassed all my expectations. Essentially broken down into two parts—a brutal look at the insidious nature of “The Farm” and Chase and Elijah’s attempt to escape, followed by a reckoning for “The Comm” as a whole—this story weaves the previously unraveling threads back together into new possibilities, and gives some extraordinary characters a chance to truly live.

Chase has been a perplexity and source of fascination for me since I first read Insight, and Sightlines underscores that his presence in all three narratives is imperative. Both a prize and pariah, he’s too dangerous to be trusted, yet too unique and powerful to be eliminated. Reduced to a thing to be dissected with an eye towards replication, his story was tough to get through, mostly because the monsters here actually do exist in one incarnation or another in the world around us.

As he’s undergone what may be the most jarring evolution since the beginning of the series, I found Elijah to be similarly engaging in Sightlines. There’s a purity to him that’s still downright shiny in a lot of ways, and it’s no wonder that Chase finds himself as perplexed as he does. I also felt that Elijah’s loss of naivety beautifully intersected with the stuttering rebirth of Chase’s capacity to hope, and the resulting collision was as provocative as it was sweet.

What made The Community so terrifying to me wasn’t any single moment, but, rather, the fear, greed, and twisted purpose that might lead—indeed, has led—some to perpetrate the horrors we ought never be willing to inflict on one another. While it is a work of fiction, Sightlines makes several extremely pertinent affirmations about human nature, beginning with Chase’s early observation that:

“Apathy was humanity’s biggest crime. Not murderous intent.”

From the beginning, Sightlines proved itself to be a strong and welcome addition to a series I’ve come to care about quite a lot. Chase and Elijah have long been a source of character-driven anxiety—in the best manner possible—for me, and I was very gratified with the way their story ended. Additionally, everyone I came to love from the first two books is back, an eventuality I admit to being especially greedy for. In the end, the series feels complete, I’m glad to have the paperbacks on my favorite bookshelf, and I’m looking forward to starting the whole thing over again soon.

Seriously, I have yet to find a Santino Hassell book that I didn’t devour within hours.

There’s something about his prose…

He stitches his characters’ lives so seamlessly into worlds that seem so much like our own that I half imagine that if I went to New York, I could find myself bumping into them just on my way to buy a beer.

Reading Sightlines is a lot like riding a rollercoaster in the middle of the night. In the dark. While you know that there’ll be twists and turns and some drops, there’s no way to tell when they’re coming until you’re on them. It’s one hell of a thrilling book and Hassell is excellent at balancing the darker aspects of the unfolding world with making you care about the characters that live in it.

Elijah Estrella and Chase Payne are amazing characters. I’ve been hoping with my fingers crossed that we’d get a spotlight on Elijah ever since he showed up in Insight. I read a lot of urban fantasy and by now, y’all know two of my biggest issues. In a nutshell, the genre doesn’t have enough queer brown people.

And this series has plenty of queer and brown people especially with Elijah (who is very queer and very brown). His developing relationship with Chase and how the two characters build something beautiful together as they work to save their world from Chase’s awful father and his head torturer is basically a huge high point of Sightlines.

Another thing about Sightlines that I love is that it’s not an easy read.

It’s dark and it hurts to read because from book one, the Community was clearly supposed to be this safe space for a group of people that would be mistreated by the government. But it’s rotten. And, as we see in Sightlines, things are a lot worse than they seemed even in the last book.

But Elijah and Chase want to heal the Community. Cut the rot out (both literally and metaphorically) so that it does what it’s supposed to and keeps the more marginalized members of their community safe from harm.

And the thing is that Sightline ends with hope.

Hope for the future of their world and for the security of their plans.

When I started Sightlines way back when I first got the ARC, I was prepared to be like “weh I need another book in the series”. I was. I’m a greedy Stitch. But I finished Sightlines not just satisfied with how the characters’ stories were wrapped up or the shape of the Community or with Elijah and Chase’s relationship –

But hopeful.


And that’s a good feeling to get from a novel.

Straight up, Sightlines is one of my favorite reads of 2017 so far and I’m so glad that Santino Hassell and the cool folks at Riptide Publishing were able to bring the entire Community series into this world. If you haven’t started on this trilogy before today, now’s the time to start.

4.5 Stars

Chase Payne is aptly named, as he has known little else but the pain of rejection, nightmarish torture and the debilitating pull of psychic gifts that he can barely control. In love with another psy, Chase can’t even bring himself to trust Elijah’s feelings for him but clings to the idea that he is nothing more than a substitute for his brother, Holden, who Elijah once had a crush on. But as time goes on, and Chase realizes just how deeply wrong the farm that the community runs actually is, he turns to the only thing that he can even conceive believing in—Elijah.

Now the two of them must not only attempt to escape the farm, but they must find Chase’s brothers and warn them that their father is after them, intent on killing them or having his psychic vampire, Jasper, suck their gifts from their very minds. But even though there is someone on the inside helping both men, and their gifts are no longer being suppressed by strong drugs, Chase remains volatile to say the least. The only thing he is certain of is that his cataclysmic powers are triggered when he fears Elijah is endangered, and that seems to be happening at every turn. The two are on the run and will need the small ragtag group, which includes Chase’s brothers, to help them put an end to their father’s evil empire once and for all.

The third and final chapter of Santino Hassell’s Community series starts with a bang and never lets up. Sightlines is a sweeping and dramatic ending to a paranormal series that I have so enjoyed. Wrapped in intrigue and supporting a stunning cast of characters whose abilities stretch the imagination, this novel ties together every loose end and makes every murky plot point left dangling in the other books crystal clear. These folks are in a fight for their very lives, not to mention their sanity, and their story leaves you hanging on the edge of your seat till the very end.

I was so glad to see that love doesn’t really change Chase; he is still the bratty, cynical man he has always been, but slightly tempered by his feelings for Elijah. Elijah is no wilting flower, and he holds his own through some horrific circumstances that we are given an inkling about through Chase’s ability to delve into Elijah’s memories. The two of them make a formidable team, more powerful than any other pairing this series has explored, and yet more vulnerable as well. Chase is most aware that his father can get to him simply by using Elijah as the hook that will force poor Chase to do his bidding. Despite that very real threat, both Chase and Elijah are determined to bring Richard Payne down, and suffice it to say that this novel will not disappoint you if you are hoping for the same.

In fact, it is just that, the end of this book, that I found fault with. The novel itself was nonstop action, every piece of it fitting together seamlessly, the story compelling and the characters intriguing. However, I must admit that I felt the ending was a bit rushed. I fear it may be because I was a bit bloodthirsty in wanting to see both Jasper and Richard suffer a bit, but even without that element, I can only describe the ending as a bit anticlimactic for me—too swift and too neat. I readily admit that I might be in the minority on that opinion, and also confess I was sad to see this series come to an end. There was so much to explore in this world Mr. Hassell created, and I was like a crack addict wanting more and more. Santino Hassell creates such memorable characters and then weaves them into a story that is just top-notch.

For those who have followed this series, I think you will be more than pleased at this last installment. Sightlines is storytelling at it’s best, and I can do nothing less than highly recommend it to you.

I've wondered how powerful Chase truly is so I was excited about his story. His abilities are definitely all that, but actually, his vulnerability is at least as attractive. He's been starved for affection for so long. It's astonishing that he became such a great man. As much as this is a high-action battle between the good and bad sides of the psy community, it's a love story between Chase and Elijah. Both have been through enough pain for a lifetime. Their resilience is amazing. Chase has some stunning displays of his psy talent in this book. I love that he uses it for protection and not to lord over everyone else. If you want action or romance, Sightlines delivers. It is a fitting ending to the series, but I can also see how more books might be added some day.