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Fantasy.
Fiction.
Romance.
HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author of Shards of Hope, Shield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian, who creates a ??breathtaking blend of passion, adventure, and the paranormal?*... A woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future? Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she??s dangerous. Charged with protecting his people??s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It??s a task he??s never hesitated to complete?until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy??s most insidious weapon. Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor, and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting desperately for her sanity itself. Her only hope is Dev. But how can she expect to gain the trust of a man who could very well be her next target? For in this game, one must die? ??I wished I lived in the world Singh has created.???*New York Times… (meer)
So far, I've been annoyed at every single book in this series. Without fail, the male main character acts disrespectfully and without decency at the beginning of the book, and he never apologizes for it. However, it's mostly been of a level that I've been able to ignore, and it doesn't last very long.
In this book, it takes ages, and it disgusts me. The female main character, Katya, has been brutalized and has had some REALLY bad experiences with being locked up. And the male main character, Dev, keeps her prisoner. The justification is nowhere near good enough. There would have been ways around the problem, and even if there was a risk in helping her, it would have been easy enough to involve Katya in the decision making, instead of forcing her. She is a reasonable woman and obviously a good-hearted one, she would have complied with what was necessary. Dev was very well aware that she was not to blame for what happened to her. So, no excuse for locking her up, and definitely no excuse for making a move on her when she is your prisoner, and the power balance is so far off to be almost non-existent.
Aside from all that, I really saw nothing appealing in Dev's character, not even when he turned around after half the book. Also, at least the main characters in the other books had an excuse for acting Neanderthal, if not a good one, since they were half animal, but Dev really doesn't. Then there were the letters of someone who lived through the period when Silence started. They were boring and didn't add anything to the story. I already feel that the books are starting to splinter more, with little intermezzo's of side characters, and the stupid letters weren't helping. And finally, there were nowhere near enough changelings in a book that belongs to the psy-changeling series. There was a psy and a forgotten, and I find the forgotten to be boring. The only character that appealed to me was Dev's grandmother, and she has a very small role.
This one I enjoyed a little less. Too much emphasis on how he is so dominant and lethal and she is so weak, yet so strong. The story remained good, but I had not as much connection with Katya and Dev as I could have had. ( )
Cuando una joven Psi aparece brutalmente torturada e inconsciente frente a la sede de la Fundación Shine, su director Devraj Santos sabe el peligro que esto supone, puesto que probablemente sea una infiltrada del Consejo Psi con una misión: liquidarle. Aunque finalmente la chica despierta víctima de una profunda amnesia, Dev recurre a algunos de sus aliados para averiguar su identidad. Su nombre es Ekaterina Haas y su mente ha sido poseída por un enemigo muy poderoso. Aún así, Dev, que es incapaz de resistirse a la fascinación que despierta en él esa mujer inteligente, atractiva, y a la vez valiente y vulnerable, decide protegerla. Ekaterina, por su parte, repudia su vida anterior y adopta el nombre de Katya. Sin embargo, a medida que va recuperando la memoria, van reapareciendo en su mente las órdenes asesinas que le han sido implantadas. Mientras lucha contra la locura que amenaza con subyugarla, se da cuenta que los sentimientos que se gestan entre ella y su protector son cada vez más intensos... y que ambos tienen los días contados.
My twin sister has been telling me to read this series for years and despite liking the other Nalini Singh's I had read I never got around to reading it. After reading these books I can't imagine why I hesitated to read them ; they are really good. The story is fresh and original, the writing style is engaging and the characters are so well written that you truly get invested in their lives. I have enjoyed all the books in this series psy, changeling and human as they are all fascinating in their own way. ( )
Fantasy.
Fiction.
Romance.
HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author of Shards of Hope, Shield of Winter, and Heart of Obsidian, who creates a ??breathtaking blend of passion, adventure, and the paranormal?*... A woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future? Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she??s dangerous. Charged with protecting his people??s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It??s a task he??s never hesitated to complete?until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy??s most insidious weapon. Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor, and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting desperately for her sanity itself. Her only hope is Dev. But how can she expect to gain the trust of a man who could very well be her next target? For in this game, one must die? ??I wished I lived in the world Singh has created.???*New York Times
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In this book, it takes ages, and it disgusts me. The female main character, Katya, has been brutalized and has had some REALLY bad experiences with being locked up. And the male main character, Dev, keeps her prisoner. The justification is nowhere near good enough. There would have been ways around the problem, and even if there was a risk in helping her, it would have been easy enough to involve Katya in the decision making, instead of forcing her. She is a reasonable woman and obviously a good-hearted one, she would have complied with what was necessary. Dev was very well aware that she was not to blame for what happened to her.
So, no excuse for locking her up, and definitely no excuse for making a move on her when she is your prisoner, and the power balance is so far off to be almost non-existent.
Aside from all that, I really saw nothing appealing in Dev's character, not even when he turned around after half the book. Also, at least the main characters in the other books had an excuse for acting Neanderthal, if not a good one, since they were half animal, but Dev really doesn't.
Then there were the letters of someone who lived through the period when Silence started. They were boring and didn't add anything to the story. I already feel that the books are starting to splinter more, with little intermezzo's of side characters, and the stupid letters weren't helping.
And finally, there were nowhere near enough changelings in a book that belongs to the psy-changeling series. There was a psy and a forgotten, and I find the forgotten to be boring. The only character that appealed to me was Dev's grandmother, and she has a very small role.
So, I would give this one a pass. (