Nalini Singh dives into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind-and none of the heart.
In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of "rehabilitation" - the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was...
Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy coexistence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion - and that the animal in him is fascinated by her. Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities - or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation...
This book goes to one of the best pnr's I've ever read. The writing is phenomenal, so great that I knew just with the first book that I'll be reading all the others :)
I first heard of this series a few months ago, and my reaction was like this: O.o Psychic people devoid of emotions and shape-shifters as couples
. I decided I definitely wasn't going to read
something like that.
. I decided I definitely wasn't going to read
something like that.
I was VERY, very, very, very stupid. 
The story very much remindes me of
the movie "Equilibrium", in which the hero lives in a society where
all humans are without emotions, he is a member of the highest authority, and
he deals with extinguishing everything that might trigger an emotional response
(great movie btw, one of my favorites, Christian Bale is awsome 
)
)
The heroine is part of the Psy society, they are
genetically modified humans with some amazing psychic abilities, but no notion
of emotion. She was born different, and forced to hide her nature from
everyone. Lucas is a changeling, a species of shifters, able to turn into
animals at will. He is wild by nature and ruled by emotion, and he finds her
irresistible. Being able to sense she's not the usuall Psy, he sets on seducing
her for information 
Their chemistry was off the fu*king charts! I mean, wow! Sascha was
constantly trying to keep her facade of calm and emotionless, and Lucas was
constantly trying to break it. The touching, caressing, the dreams 
simply HOT. I wanted to pet him myself 
the fact that he's a shifter - didn't really bother
me, in some books that part has an icky feel to it, but here it was perfectly
ok :)
simply HOT. I wanted to pet him myself the fact that he's a shifter - didn't really bother
me, in some books that part has an icky feel to it, but here it was perfectly
ok :)
And so I have to say, this book is a beginning
of an obsession, I can already tell
I love the style of writing, the world the author
created has me in it's grip and I don't think it will let go untill I reach the
final book.
BTW, Hawk was in this one, the alpha of the wolf
pack, I sooo want to read him 
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