Lillie's Review: Storm Echo

Storm Echo by Nalini Singh

Publisher: Berkley (August 9, 2022)

Series: Psy-Changeling Trinity, 6

Genre: Paranormal Romance (M/F)

NYT bestselling author Nalini Singh takes us into the hearts of two fractured people in a world on the brink of a psychic Armageddon . . .

Silence has fallen. The Psy are free to feel emotion. Free to love. But Silence was never a prison for Ivan Mercant. The biggest threat to his future lies dormant in his brain—a psychic monster that wants only to feed. And now, the brutal leash he’s kept on that monster is slipping. He prepared for this day, for the end of Ivan Mercant . . . but that was before he met Lei.

As primal as she is human, this wild changeling brings color into his life, laughter to his soul. Then the dream shatters in a rain of blood, in silent bodies in the snow. Lei is gone. Vanished without a trace . . . until he meets strangely familiar eyes across a busy San Francisco street.

Soleil Bijoux Garcia is a healer who has lost everything. She exists in a world of desolate aloneness . . . till the day she finds herself face-to-face with a lethal stranger. The animal who is her other half knows this man, but her memories are tattered fragments. Sorrow and a need for vengeance are all that drive her. Her mission? To kill the alpha of the DarkRiver leopard pack.

But fate has other plans. Soon, a deadly soldier who believes himself a monster and a broken healer might be all that stand between life and death for the entire Psy race.

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Lillie's Review: Last Guard by Nalini Singh

Last Guard by Nalini Singh

Publisher: Berkley (July 20, 2021)

Series: Psy-Changeling Trinity, 5

Genre: Paranormal Romance (M/F)

New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to a world devastated by change in her award-winning Psy-Changeling Trinity series, where two people defined by their aloneness hold the fate of the Psy in their hands. . . . 

Termed merciless by some, and a robotic sociopath by others, Payal Rao is the perfect Psy: cardinal telekinetic, CEO of a major conglomerate, beautiful—and emotionless.

For Canto Mercant, family and loyalty are everything. A cardinal telepath deemed “imperfect” by his race due to a spinal injury, Canto cares for the opinions of very few—and ruthlessly protects those he claims as his own. Head of intel for the influential Mercant family, he prefers to remain a shadow in the Net, unknown and unseen. But Canto is also an anchor, part of a secretive designation whose task it is to stabilize the PsyNet. Now that critical psychic network is dying, threatening to collapse and kill the entire Psy race with it.

To save those he loves, Canto needs the help of a woman bound to him by a dark past neither has been able to forget. A woman who is the most powerful anchor of them all: Payal Rao. Neither is ready for the violent inferno about to ignite in the PsyNet . . . or the passionate madness that threatens to destroy them both.

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Lillie's Review: Archangel's Sun by Nalini Singh

Archangel's Sun by Nalini Singh

Publisher: Berkley (November 24, 2020)

Series: Guild Hunter, 13

Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy (M/F)

A horrifying secret rises in the aftermath of an archangelic war in New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh’s deadly and beautiful Guild Hunter world. . . .

The Archangel of Death and the Archangel of Disease may be gone but their legacy of evil lives on—especially in Africa, where the shambling, rotting creatures called the reborn have gained a glimmer of vicious intelligence.

It is up to Titus, archangel of this vast continent, to stop the reborn from spreading across the world. Titus can’t do it alone, but of the surviving powerful angels and archangels, large numbers are wounded, while the rest are fighting a surge of murderous vampires.

There is no one left . . . but the Hummingbird. Old, powerful, her mind long a broken kaleidoscope. Now, she must stand at Titus’s side against a tide of death upon a discovery more chilling than any other. For the Archangel of Disease has left them one last terrible gift . . . .

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Lillie: The Birth of a Romance Reader

Today I've got something a little different to share from Lillie. She's talking about the most influential book in her Romance Reader Life and how romance novels have been there for her no matter what horrible things the world threw at her.

I know that's something many of us can relate to, myself included. Our particular details may change, our preferred books and authors as well, but almost all romance readers know this story by heart.

By the way, Lillie will be back with a few more guest reviews, including one for Archangel's Sun next month. Stay tuned! :)

The Birth of a Romance Reader (or A Love Letter to Julie Garwood)

Recently on Romance Twitter, a conversation was happening about the most influential books in our reading history. The books that formed us. Ana Coqui tweeted about a blog post she’d written about hers at Love In Panels. And it got me to thinking about the ones that were important to me. As I sat down to make my list I hit a stumbling block because it all came down to one book. I may still do a roundup someday about all the books I’ve loved but I can’t do that without doing this first.