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Nov 04, 2009

MelissaB rated it:

******** 4 1/2 stars ***********

Blaze of Memory tells the story of Devraj Santos, the director of Shine, and Katya, a damaged Psy with amnesia. Ekaterina, aka Katya, is dropped off at the headquarters of Shine unconscious, starved and abused. She doesn't remember who she is or what happened to her except in nightmares she can't remember upon waking. Dev knows she is probably a Trojan horse sent by the Psy to infiltrate Shine, which is the front of the Forgotten who are the descendent More...

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Jun 13, 2011

Zeek rated it:

In Singh's futuristic world, people have evolved into beings with special talents. The changelings are shifters and the Psy are a race of people with enhanced abilities.

Blaze of Memory delves deeper into the group of people known as The Forgotten- Psys who dropped out of the Silence Protocol long ago when it was first enacted.

Sensing the excising of emotions from the Psy, which The Silence Protocol did to perfection, would lead to ruin- The Forgotten has formed its own More...

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Nov 20, 2010

Jess the Romanceaholic rated it:

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Mar 31, 2011

Lady Vale rated it:

There are not enough words to express how much I enjoyed this book. I loved everything about this one. I must say that Nalini Singh is a master in paranormal romance. Every book she writes is outstanding. Her writing skills are over the top. And this world she has created keeps surprising me more with each book.

In this book we get another point of view over the psy's world, the develop of the forgotten's story. I must admit that I though I would not be thrilled with this book because More...

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Aug 09, 2011

~♡♥Ang ♥♡~ rated it:

Where do i start??
To be honest i was at the start not liking this one, but as i kept with it i was falling hard for Dev, and was enjoying the book.. and Katya she was just so cute!! i really liked her a lot.
I hate Ming i really hope he dies!!
To be honest i really dont like any one on the council apart from Faith dad!!
This had me laughing at some stages, i was made a lot with Dev but what put me over was the Last 4 chapter Shit, i was crying so much,I love that emotional ride More...

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Nov 26, 2011

Shannon rated it:

I've read the entire series, and this was an unique addition. The author does a great job coming up with highly original storylines and adding to the Psy Changeling world to keep the series fresh. The main characters were different from what we've seen in the past. Instead of a changeling and psy coming together, we saw the interaction between the head of Shine, representing the Forgotten (former psy that are not Silent), and a 'broken' Psy.

This is one of those books that picks you up More...

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Nov 24, 2009

Katie(babs) rated it:

Blaze of Memory is seventh book in Nalini Singh’s highly popular Psy-Changelings series. The character highlighted in this story is Devraj Santos who was first introduced in Mine to Possess (book 4). Dev runs the Shine Foundation, a type of shelter for children known as the Forgotten. These children are human but have Psy abilities. Dev is one of these Forgotten. He tries to not let his emotions run away from him and can be very cold and meticulous. If Dev wanted to, he could become a killer, bu More...

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Aug 21, 2011

Keri rated it:

I couldn't resist, I had to continue with my Psy-Changling journey. I love Dev from when I had met him before and I continued to love him in this story. This one was a bit more emotional to me then some of the others. Because we really got to feel his and Kataya's romance and saw them fall in love. What happened in the end was that much more emotional. I just get so wrapped up in Nalini's world, I just want to keep reading until I have read them all. What is even more intriguing who is up for a More...

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Oct 05, 2010

Caty rated it:

First of all, let me say how much I love this series, 'cause seriously, I adore it.

Blaze of memory tells the story of Dev, the enigmatic director of Shine Foundation, the group that protects the forgotten Psy, and Katya, the former assistant of Ashaya (Hostage to Pleasure) who was captured by a member of the council and tortured nearly to death, and might or not, be the ultimate weapon of the Silent Psy against the Forgotten, even she can’t remember what kind of damage did they progr More...

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Aug 07, 2011

Michelle rated it:

There is so much I could say about this addition to Singh's psy-changeling series. I went from being underwhelmed halfway through this book to being completely overwhelmed at the end. Blaze of Memory wrecked me. Throughout the first half of the book I found myself skimming through parts, waiting for something to actually happen. It seemed like there was chapter after chapter of build-up with nothing really *happening*. As usual in the psy-changeling books, I had to gloss over some of the ma More...

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Apr 07, 2011

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Aug 09, 2011

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Mar 01, 2011

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Dec 27, 2009

Mojca rated it:

After the slightly iffy sixth installation in this series, we have yet another winner with Dev and Katya's story. I admit at my slight reluctance at reading this one - Dev wasn't on my list of heroes who immediately needed their story told in this series, but I'm more than happy with how things turned out. For him and for Katya.

She might've appeared weak and fragile, but she truly had a wall of steel inside her (maybe that's what drew Dev to her *wink wink*), but luckily she didn't h More...

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Dec 05, 2011

Jill rated it:

Dev and Katya's story is so wonderful. My only complaint is that because Dev is the director of Shine that we are a bit removed from the Changelings we've grown to love in the beginning of this series. Singh kind of takes us out of their world and submerges us more into the Psy world and the world of The Forgotten. The Forgotten are those Psy individuals that decided not to submit to Silence in 1970 when the Council implemented it. They went Rogue and with their emotions intact began intermarryi More...

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Aug 13, 2011

Jessica rated it:

Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she’s dangerous. Charged with protecting his people’s most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It’s a task he’s never hesitated to complete…until he finds himself drawn to a woman who might yet prove the enemy’s most insidious weapon.

Stripped of her memories by a shadowy oppressor, and programmed to carry out cold-blooded murder, Katya Haas is fighting d

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Jul 25, 2011

Sandy rated it:

Nalini Singh’s Psy/Changeling series has become one of my all-time favorites. With this latest installment, I’ve learned it doesn’t matter who she makes her hero and heroine, I’m going to love it. I thought I would be disappointed that a changeling wasn’t in the spotlight this time around. I couldn’t have been more wrong. In fact, Blaze of Memory has now become my favorite of the series — all because she made me cry.

And I mean cry. Sobbing. I didn’t just tear or mist up. I flat out cri More...

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May 24, 2011

Dine rated it:

Im siebten Band der Psy-Changelings-Serie geht es um die Medialen und die „Vergessenen“.
Mediale empfinden nichts, denken und handeln immer logisch, ohne Herz. Dadurch ähneln sie mehr Robotern als Menschen. Mediale streben nur nach zwei Dingen: Geld und Macht - weswegen sie auch für Geschäfte aller Art zuständig sind. Das Programm Silentium hat sie dazu ausgebildet, zu sein was sie nun sind.
Sie können auf der ganzen Welt über ein geistiges Netz, das Medialnet, das sie am Leben hält, kom More...

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Oct 22, 2010

Peep (Pop! Pop!) rated it:

Quite possibly my least favorite out of all the her books. I don't know. Pretty much the whole way through I was trying to justify anything higher than a 1 star rating. It just didn't work for me.

At times I'd read other reviews (on various books) and people would complain that they didn't see the chemistry between the main characters. I would think to myself, what are they talking about?? It's there! It's great! I had no idea what they were talking about! Now I know exactly what they w More...

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Apr 11, 2010

Lina rated it:

Blaze of Memory just had the right touch of wildness, vulnerability and strength to leave the most skeptical affected in ways you can't deny.

Nalini Singh books have that quality about them. To touch you bone deep. Crawl under your skin and refuse to make leave. It doesn't disappoint this time either. Of course, I do miss the sensual, possessive and sexy changelings and their ability to melt the ice in the hearts of the coldest Psy, but Katya's craving for touch and Dev's receding hu More...

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Mar 03, 2010

Literary Cravings rated it:

I have to say that I was a tad nervous to start reading this book. Since it's the 7th book in the amazing Phy-Changeling series I had a evil little voice in the back of my head whispering "Will this be the book that flops?". We all know it usually happens in long series but I'm so happy I was absolutely, completely WRONG!! (Take that evil me!!) Since the start of chapter one with Katya opening her eyes and seeing the handsome Dev I. was. Hooked. Katya and Dev are such compelling rea More...

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Jan 20, 2010

Martina the Book Fairy rated it:

The Psy-Changeling series are paranormal romance novels that take place in a futuristic Earth where the populace has evolved into three separate types of humans: plain human, shapeshifters, and Psy. The most prevalent shapeshifters in the books are a feline group (DarkRiver) and a wolf pack (SnowDancer). The Psy are humans who have psychic powers of varying types & strengths, but who because of a wave of violence long ago, have eschewed emotions entirely for a way of life called "Silence" More...

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Jan 08, 2010

Erin rated it:

Nalini Singh hit it out of the park with the sixth installment of her Psy-Changeling series, Branded by Fire. Unfortunately, Blaze of Memory doesn't quite reach that standard. Singh sets up a tough situation for her characters: Katya has amnesia but is almost certainly a sleeper assassin sent to disrupt or destroy the Shine Foundation's work. Dev feels the need to protect the woman who was tortured and dropped on his doorstep, but has a greater obligation to the community that relies on him t More...

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Jun 16, 2011

A rated it:

I held off reading this book for a while because I didn't like the fact that it introduced completely new characters. In this sense, the book did make up a lot of things on the fly and left itself a lot of room for making new exceptions, venturing into new territory and recreating and expanding on Psy/Changeling laws that didn't previously exist. In this sense, I kind of felt like Singh was just making things up to make the story work and reworking the already pretty established universe to mold More...

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Apr 02, 2011

Nairabell rated it:

When Dev Santos finds an unconscious battered woman on his doorstep, he takes her into his care. Katya has been stripped of her memories and programmed to carry out an unknown task. All she knows is that she is dangerous. Dev feels duty bound to eliminate any threat to the safety of his people but is irrevocably drawn to Katya. Together they must work to discover who Katya is, and what her captors programmed her to do.

This is the seventh book in Nalini Singh's incredible Psy-Changel More...

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Nov 10, 2009

Melindeeloo rated it:

No Formula Romance Here - Still Mixing it Up, Singh keeps Her Series Fresh and Fabulous

Blaze of Memory has a bit of a different feel from the rest of the Psy-Changeling books - maybe because neither of the leads are Changelings this time and yet neither of them are truly Psy either - but different in this case is still really really good.

Devraj Santos is a descendant of those Psy who broke away from the 'collective' when the Psy decided to implement Silence, More...

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Mar 20, 2010

Beanbag rated it:

I'm giving it four stars, but I'm rounding it up from about 3.6, I think.

I was very intrigued that this story was going to be about Dev Santos, the director of Shine (the organization that protects the Forgotten) and the presumed dead scientist who used to work with Ashaya, Ekaterina.

It started out fine, she's been tortured nearly to death, both psychically and physically and left on Dev's doorstep. He obviously suspects a trap or Trojan horse, but he's a softy for in More...

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Oct 17, 2011

❀ Sharon ❀ rated it:

This is finally Dev's book. If you remember from prior books, he is the Director of Shine and is on the lookout for children of the Forgotten (Psy who left the net to avoid Silence). The book starts off with them finding Ekaterina or Katya dumped off in front of Dev's house, horrendously tortured. He is immediately drawn to her but it's obvious that Katya is a set up. The problem is she can't remember anything at first.

The last twenty percent literally saved this book for me! It real More...

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Apr 06, 2011

Irene rated it:

Okay Nalini Singh can't write a bad book so yes I did enjoy this one. But... it wasn't up to her usual par. I wasn't as invested in the two main characters. Sometimes, I was more interested in the side stories about the children than the main story. Give her credit I did actually start to believe the HEA wasn't going to happen. And come on- it's a romance- the formula is set from page one. In a romance- it's not the end of the story- the HEA- but the journey- the how you get there. The first sex More...

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Aug 02, 2010

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