Shield of Winter by Nalini SinghMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changeling amazing series just keeps growing better and better with each book.
The world-building is complex, multi-faceted and imaginative but most of all she has established a world that is real and believable, which almost fades into the background getting a reader to focus on the characters and the stories.
“Insanity, blood-soaked death, murderous aggression, this is who the Psy were before Silence. No other race, it is said, bred more vicious, more intelligent, or more sadistic serial killers. But worse was the clawing madness that destroyed so many of them, saints and sinners alike, until it became known as the flip side to their incredible psychic gifts.”Throughout the series, the character development has been amazing. Real people who you can relate to and engage with. And with each book, the story-line is filled with sub-plots that entwine seamlessly with the main plot.
Shield of Winter, the 13th book and the 2nd one where the hero is one of the Arrows, the 1st being Judd Lauren’s book, Caressed by Ice, in the Psy/Changeling series, we now have Vasic’s story.
One of the main plots in the story deals with the Arrows, who are working with the empaths, a group that was seen as defective when Silence was introduced and who may be the key to stop the infection that is running rampant in the Psy world. We also learn more about how Silence was implemented and how much evil and violence has happen from that time to now.
Vasic meets Ivy, a Psy-empath living in DarkRiver, when he’s asked to protect her in the experiment that Kaleb Krycheck believes is the only way to find a solution of stopping the infection.
Vasic, Senior Arrow, with telekinetic powers which enable him to teleport at any time to any place, is truly a fractured soul. Trained unwillingly since the age of four to be a killer, he has since discovered the betrayal by Ming, the Arrow leader, who had used them for ulterior motives.
We learn about his childhood, his connection to Aden, now leader of the Arrows.
He’s tired of living, thinks he’s a dangerous and should not be allowed to him but at the same time, he has a responsibility to protect his fellow Arrows – but nothing can wipe the guilt he carries for what he has done in his past.
Ivy Jane, a Psy empathy who had gone through a voluntary reconditioning when she was sixteen, which almost wiped out her Psy-mind, had been taken by her parents, who had hidden and protected her together with other Psy people with the same problem of their fracturing of Silence.
She now needs to learn how to use her powers if she’s to save the Psy population.
Vasic and Ivy together were so wonderful. It was heart-breaking watching the setbacks he suffered as he tried to reconnect with his feelings and emotions. How at times, he doubted himself….
”The day I feel, is the day I die.” – Vasic tells Ivy.Ivy has survived a lot in her life through strength and determination. She sees more beneath Vasic’s façade.
She is determined not to give up on Vasic. She will fight for him, do anything to help him to make him happy. To be with him on his journey to overcoming the fear that he’s not worthy and finding the way to forgiving himself.
I loved seeing the growth of their relationship. That against all odds, two people, flawed but strong are able to find happiness together.
Another thing I really liked was seeing how their relationship affected everyone in their lives. How their happiness meant so much to the people who loved them.
Loved the appearance of some of my loved characters….Hawke, Sascha, Lucas, Judd and many others. I so enjoy finding more about how their lives have progressed since reading their stories.
I loved Vasic and Ivy’s book. I am very interest to seeing how this series goes next.
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