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Slave to Sensation (Psy-Changeling, #1)

Nalini Singh

Start date: January 1, 2012

Finish date: January 31, 2012

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Why we're reading this: Part of our group series re-read in prep for the 2012 release of "Tangle of Need". See "Re-read the Psy-C…more
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Jan 25, 2015 Daffodil rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Multiple rereads and I still love this book!

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Sep 04, 2012 Chelsea rated it really liked it

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

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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Nov 21, 2010 Vivian rated it really liked it

Shelves: first-in-series, read-2011

With the combination of title, cover, and being PNR, I never felt the burning need to pick up this book, even with the hoards of 5 star reviews. But I'm learning to listen to my GR friends who say a series rocks and look beyond the cover to the inside of a book. The world building is absolutely fascinating, the characters are rich and complex, and the writing is superb.

The Psy have generations of interesting history and secrets just waiting to be unlocked. They are a species who have undergone a ...more

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Jan 21, 2011 Katie rated it liked it

Okay, the book had a slow start, but a great finish! At first I was just reading about bedroom eyes and a real estate deal. Yes, you heard me right. They were going to build really big dog houses. Then it made a much needed left turn into bringing a serial killer to justice. Okay, now you have my interest...much better. The only bad thing is...if you didn't know who the killer was right off the bat then you have to be pretty dense. Good things: The whole psynet really had me. I was very intrigue ...more

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