Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling, #1) in Book Bloggers Anonymous

Mar 15, 2021 Jessica rated it really liked it

Shelves: audiobook, books-i-own

I FINALLY picked this book up after it's been on my tbr years. This is a book that you definitely have to pay attention to because of the unique world. I am still a bit confused about how the whole network and mind stuff works and I do wish we got a bit more of the changelings in here. But the romance was AMAZING and I really loved Lucas and Sascha's relationship. I am such a sucker for fated mates and loved how deeply they fell for each other. I loved the dreams they had together and how Sascha ...more

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Oct 18, 2012 Lover of Romance rated it it was amazing

Shelves: genre-paranormal-romance, topic-futuristic, character-shape-shifter, genre-futuristic-romance

Sasha is a Psy, having grown up where her own mother is part of their great council, and having to never experience any emotion. But Sasha is different than the rest of the Psy, she does feel emotion, but tries to hide it from the other Psy so that the unthinkable doesn't happen. Then her mother tells her that she will be liason of sorts with a changeling, more specifically Luc Hunter the Alpha of his pack. Lucas, has always had a certain distaste for the Psy, however when he meets Sasha he thin ...more

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Nov 08, 2012 ✿❤~m49913~❤✿ rated it it was amazing

Shelves: translate, paranormal, thriller-romance, borrow-rent, so-recommended, want-to-own, favorites, series

Indonesian cover:

Ok, first, I'm still confuse about PsyNet system. Until the end of the books, I still confuse.

I love Sacha. She remind me for Selena from Underworld film.

Remind me with her coolness, physic and can love someone who is so dangerous like Lucas Hunter.

I read in translate version, so at least I can catch the story better than first I read it in English...

I love this twin: Rome and Jules...

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Nov 15, 2011 Marina rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: shifters

Wow! I truly enjoyed this Journey to Psy-Changeling San Fransisco!

I really loved the word of Psy, I liked the starting point of the Psy concept, the emotional cold people raised only to function as robots, with only guideline the pure logic . Free of all emotion! Shocking in its simplicity this idea was an Innovation for me.

spoilers.

We meet the head of the DarkRiver leopard pack Lucas Hunter and Sasha Duncan a mulfanctioning Psy who is still capable to feel, their business relation is an excus ...more

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Sep 04, 2012 Chelsea rated it really liked it

Shelves: smexy, weres, uf-pnr, suggested-series-firsts

This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Can someone please tell me why I didn’t start this series sooner? As a fan of the sexy/dangerous mixture of Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series, I should have known she’d offer a one, two punch in a straightforward paranormal romance.

Slave to Sensation has a mental game of cat and mouse, shifters who are all about “skin privileges” and completely enthralling sex scenes. Really, Slave to Sensation in one word is enthralling.

The romance is head This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Can someone please tell me why I didn’t start this series sooner? As a fan of the sexy/dangerous mixture of Nalini Singh’s Guild Hunter series, I should have known she’d offer a one, two punch in a straightforward paranormal romance.

Slave to Sensation has a mental game of cat and mouse, shifters who are all about “skin privileges” and completely enthralling sex scenes. Really, Slave to Sensation in one word is enthralling.

The romance is heady. Lucas and Sascha fall into the enemies to lovers trope, but it’s more than that. They agree to work together on a business deal, both with ulterior motives. Sascha is a Psy. Her emotions are supposed to not exist. She is supposed to be clinical, detached and logical. (Kind of like Vulcans.) This makes her kind the opposite of everything the changelings value. Changelings, or shifters, are about nature and emotion. The best example of the difference is not that Psys avoid touch, but that they’d prefer to use science to make children instead of doing things the—ahem—old-fashioned way.

Here’s the thing, though. Sascha isn’t a normal Psy. She feels and it takes constant effort to keep up mental walls, to make sure no one knows. The consequences for feeling in her world are worse than death. Only Lucas makes her feel. He makes her question what she knows about her own kind. He makes her want something more, even if it only lasts a few days.

Singh was smart in the way she brought these two together. Sascha is so cerebral and so scared of anyone finding out the truth, she starts to open to Lucas in shared dreams. Dirty dreams where she tests the waters, imagines what it would be like to touch someone, to be touched back. It’s these baby steps that make her reactions to her first real kiss with Lucas feel genuine. We get pulled through their love story with growing tension that makes putting the book down near impossible.

While I clearly devoured this book, I wasn’t immune to some of the obvious points in the plot. Maybe I read too many angst-filled novels, but I felt like the big conflicts toward the end of the novel could have been harder on them both. I expected things to fall apart and have to be repaired, and it didn’t ever get that bad. That said, the characters were engaging and the writing super sexy.

I may have immediately downloaded Visions of Heat (Psy/Changeling #2) after finishing Slave to Sensation. The romance will keep me coming back to Psy/Changling again and again.

Sexual content: Graphic sex ...more

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