Tuesday, July 5

Book Review: Hostage to Pleasure by Nalini Singh




Author: Nalini Singh
Title: Hostage to Pleasure
(Psy-Changeling #5)
Genre: Paranormal Romance, UF, SciFi, Fantasy
Format: ebook
Pages: 330
Published: September 2nd 2008
Where I Got It: Borrowed from library

Summary: 
Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy—cool, calm, emotionless . . . at least on the surface. Inside, she's fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper's embrace.

DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard's rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian's agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules . . .



Review:
The last one of the series was meh for me, so I was a little nervous about starting this one.

Here we follow Ashaya and Dorian. Ashaya is the perfect Psy. She is cool, calm, and emotionless...at least on the surface. When she is separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her race, she is forced to escape. Which lands her in more danger with the DarkRiver sniper named Dorian. Dorian is a changeling, but he lacks the ability to actually transform into his animal form. After losing his sister to a Psy Killer, he has a rage building and he hungers for vengeance. Falling for each other is not on the agenda. 

I struggled a little bit with this one. Mainly because I didn't buy them as a couple. I liked them both, but as a couple? It seemed so impossible and the chemistry seemed lacking. 

However, I loved watching the story unfold. I couldn't stop reading because I had to know how everything was going to be fixed. The bad guy was fun! Super bad. 

I love this world even though there is such bad blood between the races.

Maybe in the next book, we'll see more of Ashaya and Dorian and I'll understand and see them be all in love and happy. But yes, even though I struggled with this couple I can't wait for the next book. Things are getting good. 

In the end, this was okay. I struggled with seeing them fall in love and etc, but I enjoyed the story itself and the world. Can't wait for the next book. I'll give this 3 stars. 







 

5 comments:

Sophia Rose said...

I do love how we can not be into the romance couple and still love what is going on around them in the larger story. I had a few series couples that didn't work for me, too.

Blodeuedd said...

Id loved to try these in audio

Carole Rae said...

Sophia, that makes me feel better. I had two couples in a row that didn't work for me.

B, same. I've done a couple with the narrator.

Jen Twimom said...

I remember thinking books 4 and 5 weren't as good. But I think Mercy's book is next? LOVED IT!! One of the best in the series. Gah - it's been AGES since I've read these books.

Carole Rae said...

That gives me hope!