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Slave to Sensation
by Nalini Singh
This is an easy read, and I particularly liked the world-building. I thought that Singh juggled three different races (none of them human) well enough to really distinguish each from the others, and I'd totally be up for reading a history of the Psy, because they are weird and creepy and their logic takes them strange places.
That said I did find this a sometimes frustrating read. The main conflict is about trying to locate and rescue a wolf-pack woman who is the latest in a series of victims (irritating that the victims were always women, given the reason behind the murders) of a Psy serial killer. And I was interested in that story, I really was! But every time it looked like it might start going somewhere, I got dragged back to the frequently repetitive angst of the main romantic pairing. And yes, this is paranormal romance, I know. The romance was always going to be front and centre. It just felt a little unbalanced to me. Particularly near the end, when Brenna's rescue was addressed in a couple of paragraphs, very much "Oh, and that happened too". Dammit, don't make me care about the plot if it's going to be shoved aside as inconvenient every time your heroine needs to fight with her boyfriend! (There was a lot of fighting. Mostly because the boyfriend became more and more of a controlling arse as the story went on - why do people find this sexy? Is it his Tragic Backstory?)
I did like the follow-up with Brenna, though. And extra points for Tamsyn, I liked her a lot too.
That said I did find this a sometimes frustrating read. The main conflict is about trying to locate and rescue a wolf-pack woman who is the latest in a series of victims (irritating that the victims were always women, given the reason behind the murders) of a Psy serial killer. And I was interested in that story, I really was! But every time it looked like it might start going somewhere, I got dragged back to the frequently repetitive angst of the main romantic pairing. And yes, this is paranormal romance, I know. The romance was always going to be front and centre. It just felt a little unbalanced to me. Particularly near the end, when Brenna's rescue was addressed in a couple of paragraphs, very much "Oh, and that happened too". Dammit, don't make me care about the plot if it's going to be shoved aside as inconvenient every time your heroine needs to fight with her boyfriend! (There was a lot of fighting. Mostly because the boyfriend became more and more of a controlling arse as the story went on - why do people find this sexy? Is it his Tragic Backstory?)
I did like the follow-up with Brenna, though. And extra points for Tamsyn, I liked her a lot too.