Oh boy. Ohhhh boy. Super glad I'm nearing the last book (15) of this first "season" of Psy-Changeling, because at this point I'm reading for the plot, and the romances are starting to weigh everything down. Why am I still reading, 12 books into this series, if I rarely have anything good to say about the romance, you ask? Honestly, the world and plot Nalini Singh has built up here is SO interesting.

Having two Psy characters as the main romance is definitely a first for this series, and it could have been better than it was. I think my main issue here was with Kaleb as a character. I was very much looking forward to his story, because we've had hints of the strength of his Psy powers and a huge secret he's been hiding. When the secret was revealed I was just...kind of flabbergasted. That was it? Books of build up and teasing and wanting to know, and his huge secret is that Sahara is clan Nightstar, was kidnapped and held captive for years, and...that's it? Huge disappointment.

The reveal that Kaleb is also The Ghost was so anticlimactic. It makes absolute sense that he is considering the reveal of just how strong he is in this book, but wow. Lame. Speaking of Kaleb's power, holy shit did he just get written into being the most powerful being in the entire fucking world? It's mentioned constantly that he could crack the Earth in half if he wanted to, he's soooo powerful, and I just want to throw my hands in the air.

The romance was fine. The reveals of Kaleb's past in the course of the romance was pretty good, filling in gaps and giving a lot of backstory I really did enjoy.

Lots of world changing events happen in this one, which is 95% about the Psy world and all the stuff happening with Pure Psy and their terrorist acts. I loved that this was 50/50 on plot vs romance, it made for a much better reading experience than most of the last 5 or so books. HUGE changes to the world at large occur. The climax with them thwarting Vasquez's attack on San Francisco was sooo lame but I enjoy the idea of allowing for room for this plot thread to continue in the future.

In the end, the romance ends up BONDING KALEB AND SAHARA IN THE PSY NET LIKE THEY'RE CHANGELINGS LMFAOOOO. OK! Sure! Go ahead and do that here too, I guess! Kaleb is just that fucking special!

3 more books to go...and I was way too optimistic in hoping for a Vasic/Aden side romance, because apparently they have their own hetero romances in the next 2 books.