Paranormal Romance published by Berkley 09 Aug 22
Another winner for Ms. Singh. Against the backdrop of Ivan and Soleil’s love story, we finally get some answers regarding the scarab queen and the future of the Psynet and the Psy people. The Psy have always been arrogant and superior, while the changelings have quietly crept up on them and shown their claws and teeth, but it’s the puny humans who might surprise everyone yet. Can’t wait to see what new adventures the author has in store for us next. I just wish we didn’t have to wait a full year for the next chapter.
The Mercant family has always been a powerful family that stays in the background with the Mercant matriarch pulling strings. Silver, Canto, and now Ivan have definitely been wonderful surprises with stories that have advanced the overarching story arc. I wonder if there are any other Mercant surprises still in store for readers. Ivan is the typical tortured hero believing that he is an abnormal Psy, I loved Lucas Hunter’s tongue-in-cheek response to this when Ivan uses words similar to what Sasha originally used to describe herself when she met Lucas.
One of the highlights of this story is going back to Dark River and the cameos about the much-loved characters from the early series. Two of my favorites are Mercy with her pup-cub and his personality – adorable! – and Nadiya Hunter’s love for chocolate cake that, after her feast, left her with a rounded stomach and a new favorite babysitter.
Soliel is a healer, so it makes her desire to kill Lucas Hunter, which has obsessed her for so long, such an anomaly. However, when the chips are down, she sticks up for her love and will hold him to her and heal him with her love and belief in his goodness. These two together and their bonds, both psy and changeling, have the power to change the world, and perhaps they will.
The heart of this series is family, and we see evidence of it everywhere. This heart is what makes readers pick up Ms. Singh’s stories and become fans for life.
Grade: A
Summary:
Silence has fallen. The Psy are free to feel emotion. Free to love. But Silence was never a prison for Ivan Mercant. The biggest threat to his future lies dormant in his brain—a psychic monster that wants only to feed. And now, the brutal leash he’s kept on that monster is slipping. He prepared for this day, for the end of Ivan Mercant . . . but that was before he met Lei.
As primal as she is human, this wild changeling brings color into his life, laughter to his soul. Then the dream shatters in a rain of blood, in silent bodies in the snow. Lei is gone. Vanished without a trace . . . until he meets strangely familiar eyes across a busy San Francisco street.
Soleil Bijoux Garcia is a healer who has lost everything. She exists in a world of desolate aloneness . . . till the day she finds herself face-to-face with a lethal stranger. The animal who is her other half knows this man, but her memories are tattered fragments. Sorrow and a need for vengeance are all that drive her. Her mission? To kill the alpha of the DarkRiver leopard pack.
But fate has other plans. Soon, a deadly soldier who believes himself a monster and a broken healer might be all that stand between life and death for the entire Psy race. . . .
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