Over the years, I’ve stopped being blindly loyal to authors I once adored.
Most often, because there’s some change in the direction of their writing that doesn’t align with my own growth as a reader. Occasionally, I grow increasingly unforgiving of their writing tics, to the point where I cannot longer enjoy the story.
Either way, I tend to continue buying and reading books in a well loved series, because there’s always hope that the magic will happen again.
Or, perhaps, I just don’t know when to quit.¹
Which brings me to the Psy/Changeling series.
Last year, I thought I was done. Finis. The End. Game over.
However.
I was already invested in getting the next four story anthology, which…didn’t suck too terribly.² Add another year of the horrible, terrible, no-good reading slump, that stubborn hope, some amazon reward dollars…and here we are.
Caveat: explicit sex and some adult language in the book; a lot of ranting and spoilers, for both the series and this book, in the review. And I mean a lot–particularly the ranting. Proceed at your own risk.
Silver Silence, by Nalini Singh
This book is the sixteenth full length novel set in the Psy/Changeling universe, but it’s supposed to start a new arc in the overarching storyline of the series. If I understand correctly, the first fourteen books were “The Age of Silence,” the fifteenth book was…whatever it was, and this one starts “The Age of Trinity.”
The cover jacket blurb:
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Tags: 5.00 out of 10, book review, f/m, fated mates, Nalini Singh, Paranormal Romance, Psy/Changeling, series