Nalini Singh
4-1/2 Stars
Recommended: For Mature Audiences
Sascha Duncan has always hidden her inner core as she knows she is a broken Psy and would be sent for rehabilitation if this were discovered. Treated as a cardinal due to her mother's high position on the Council, Sascha is placed in charge of a joint business venture between the Psy and the DarkRiver leopards- the first joint venture between the Psy and changelings.
Lucas Hunter is DarkRiver's Alpha and he has a secret agenda. A Psy serial killer is stalking changeling women and one of his pack lost his sister to this vicious killer. Lucas' plan is to infiltrate the PsyNet through Sascha to obtain the killer's identity but he never expects to find a Psy who feels emotions. War is about to break out between changeling and Psy as the changelings believe the Psy are protecting a killer. Sascha and Lucas will have to learn to work together quickly as one of the SnowDancer's women has been kidnapped by the psychopathic Psy and her time is running out.
Okay. I have to say that for awhile, I've been judging this book by the cover. I thought to myself, "I'm really not in the mood for another schmutt book." However, I decided to go ahead and download it to my Kindle (LOOOOOOVE my Kindle!) and try it out.
WOW!!!!! Wow! Wow! Wow!
Okay, so yes. There is schmutt and it's great schmutt! So, if you're one of my younger viewers, please understand that I am not recommending this book to you. I love you, but no.
However, if you're one of my older, more mature viewers - READ THIS BOOK!
LOL!!
Okay, so just to let you know how utterly captivating this book was, I inhaled it in a day. And then I went to the Kindle store and purchased the next two books and THEN, after reading book 2 -which will be reviewed later - I hopped onto Amazon and bought the rest of the series. One of the reasons I fell off the radar was because Nalini Singh ABDUCTED me through her books!
She did a fanTASTic job of capturing her characters. I honestly was a little turned off by the whole idea of Psy. I was like, "How am I going to connect to someone who has no emotions?" BUT! Ms. Singh took that, owned it, and then stomped allllll over it!
And, can I just say for the record, that I NEED a Lucas. *heavenly sigh that I'm seriously hoping Ri isn't watching* Lucas is fantastic. Okay, yes, he's hot. Hellloooooooo, he's in my head now! I can make him look like whatEVER I want, and just let me tell you, I made incredible! However, Ms. Singh gave him such wonderful depth of character that I could actually sync with him. He had great--you know, I want to say "motive", but that's not the right word. He acted on the right reasons. His actions weren't always the right ones to take, but that's what it made his character so wonderful for me. He wasn't perfect. He didn't always know what to do. He came off the page as real.
It took me a bit to sync with Sascha, but only because her Psy-ness was a little alien to me. Once I figured her out, I loved her. LOVED her. Was she my favorite heroine in the series? No, but that's because Ms. Singh has a few really great characters to choose from.
So! It's a great series. It's not your average romance. There are some steamy scenes, so this is NOT recommended for my younger audience. However, this is a great book about characters who come across as being real.
GREAT job, Ms. Singh. Well done!
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