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molly_p_w's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
indecisivesailorscout's review against another edition
4.0
I'll have to go back through and rate all the stories individually, but overall, Nalini cruuuuushed it! Talk about SWOON. I wish there was more!! I'm already feeling changeling withdrawal.
enchantedtomeetcute's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
angels_gp17's review against another edition
5.0
Audio April 2018: I have no complaints. I very much enjoyed the audio of all these novellas. It was a lot of fun revisiting the Psy-Changeling world and listening to the stories come to life. Highly recommend reading or listening to this series.
If you are a fan of the Psy-Changeling series then you don’t want to miss out on these four great novellas.
Beat of Temptation #0.5 - 5 Stars
This one takes place several years before Slave to Sensation. Here we see a very young 19-year-old Tamsyn, who became the healer to the cats at a very young age. We see her relationship or lack of one with Nate who’s 29. These two have known since Tam turned 15 that they where mates, but the age difference plays a part in their relationship, because Nate wants Tam to have the freedom she deserves first.
This story was emotional, sad, and full of lots and lots of sexual frustration and tension.
Stroke of Enticement #3.5 - 5 Stars
Here we meet Annie, a shy human school teacher and Zach a sexy cat changeling. Annie’s a loner. Her parents had love, but then it died, and she doesn't want that, so she doesn’t think Zach will stay around. Zach is caring and does a fabulous job wooing his mate, but doesn’t understand why the bond hasn’t clicked yet.
Trust and commitment are the main focus for these two. The romance happens within the first 48hrs, but Singh does a fast track a month after to see the dynamics of there relationship. It was a sweet loving story to read. Giving us a different kind of relationship and challenges to work through.
Declaration of Courtship #9.5 - 4 Stars
Here we meet Grace, a submissive wolf and Cooper a high ranking SnowDancer lieutenant who is going to court Grace. Cooper’s a dominant wolf and must learn how to handle Grace and Grace must learn to come to grips with the sub/dom wolf tendencies and not let her submissive nature rule her.
This paring is hard sometimes for the changelings and doesn’t always work out. It presents several challenges. Singh was able to bring two opposites together without having them compromise something in order to be a unit, a mated pair. It’s full of sexual tension, sizzling encounters, and also very tender and sweet moments.
Texture of Intimacy #10.5 - 5 Stars
This one contains Lara and Walker’s story from Kiss of Snow. They don’t get their own novel, but they do come together in Kiss of Snow. I loved that we get to further explore their relationship. We get to see inside Walker’s mind, his past, his feelings, and his growing family. We also get a little focus on Alice and insight into possible future pairings, such as Tai and Evie.
This paring is also of a different kind with Walker being a Psy and Lara a Changeling. It was sweet to read about them after their mating and see where their relationship is at. It’s sizzling and tender.
Singh never fails to impress. The sexual tension is thick and the characters are lovable and memorable. I very much loved these novellas.
If you are a fan of the Psy-Changeling series then you don’t want to miss out on these four great novellas.
Beat of Temptation #0.5 - 5 Stars
This one takes place several years before Slave to Sensation. Here we see a very young 19-year-old Tamsyn, who became the healer to the cats at a very young age. We see her relationship or lack of one with Nate who’s 29. These two have known since Tam turned 15 that they where mates, but the age difference plays a part in their relationship, because Nate wants Tam to have the freedom she deserves first.
This story was emotional, sad, and full of lots and lots of sexual frustration and tension.
Stroke of Enticement #3.5 - 5 Stars
Here we meet Annie, a shy human school teacher and Zach a sexy cat changeling. Annie’s a loner. Her parents had love, but then it died, and she doesn't want that, so she doesn’t think Zach will stay around. Zach is caring and does a fabulous job wooing his mate, but doesn’t understand why the bond hasn’t clicked yet.
Trust and commitment are the main focus for these two. The romance happens within the first 48hrs, but Singh does a fast track a month after to see the dynamics of there relationship. It was a sweet loving story to read. Giving us a different kind of relationship and challenges to work through.
Declaration of Courtship #9.5 - 4 Stars
Here we meet Grace, a submissive wolf and Cooper a high ranking SnowDancer lieutenant who is going to court Grace. Cooper’s a dominant wolf and must learn how to handle Grace and Grace must learn to come to grips with the sub/dom wolf tendencies and not let her submissive nature rule her.
This paring is hard sometimes for the changelings and doesn’t always work out. It presents several challenges. Singh was able to bring two opposites together without having them compromise something in order to be a unit, a mated pair. It’s full of sexual tension, sizzling encounters, and also very tender and sweet moments.
Texture of Intimacy #10.5 - 5 Stars
This one contains Lara and Walker’s story from Kiss of Snow. They don’t get their own novel, but they do come together in Kiss of Snow. I loved that we get to further explore their relationship. We get to see inside Walker’s mind, his past, his feelings, and his growing family. We also get a little focus on Alice and insight into possible future pairings, such as Tai and Evie.
This paring is also of a different kind with Walker being a Psy and Lara a Changeling. It was sweet to read about them after their mating and see where their relationship is at. It’s sizzling and tender.
Singh never fails to impress. The sexual tension is thick and the characters are lovable and memorable. I very much loved these novellas.
shezz's review against another edition
5.0
Beat of Temptation -4 stars
In Stroke of Enticement - 4.5 stars
In Declaration of Courtship - 4.5 stars
In Texture of Intimacy - 4 stars
In Stroke of Enticement - 4.5 stars
In Declaration of Courtship - 4.5 stars
In Texture of Intimacy - 4 stars
starlitbooknerd's review against another edition
5.0
Great
I love hearing about all these stories that involve characters crucial to the main series! I can’t wait to see what happens next!!
I love hearing about all these stories that involve characters crucial to the main series! I can’t wait to see what happens next!!
greylandreviews's review against another edition
4.0
4 stars
All of these novellas were good but, my favorite was Stroke of Enticement.
Trigger Warnings: alcoholism, parents death from suicide mentioned, murder, ableism, fatmisia, nightmares, car accident mentioned, death of parents, suicide mentioned, and abortion mentioned
All of these novellas were good but, my favorite was Stroke of Enticement.
Trigger Warnings: alcoholism, parents death from suicide mentioned, murder, ableism, fatmisia, nightmares, car accident mentioned, death of parents, suicide mentioned, and abortion mentioned
nelsonseye's review against another edition
4.0
A nice collection. Have to say that Tammy and Nathan's story is my favourite.
desiree_mcl's review against another edition
5.0
Reread: 6/2019 Listened to this on audio, Angela Dawe is a fantastic narrator and I'm enjoying binging this whole series.
Original review: 3/2013
A Psy-Changeling anthology collection. It's not all of the short stories available, there's one other short story about 80-100 pages in the Burning Up anthology.
Two of these novella's (Beat of Temptation & Stroke of Enticement) were published previously. While the last two (Declaration of Courtship & Texture of Intimacy) are new.
Beat of Temptation: Psy Changeling #0.5 (read previously/copy & pasted my review)
4.5 stars.
I really loved this short story. I'm going to start reading Book 8 in the Psy-Changeling series in a couple weeks and I've loved Tamsyn and Nate from the beginning of the series. So I was extremely excited to learn that they did have a short story featuring them.
I love Nate, he is wonderful in all of his scenes throughout the series. However in this story he annoyed me so much. On the one hand I understand he had in his mind that Tamsyn was too young, and when she was fifteen and he was twenty-five that was absolutely right. But now Tammy is back, nineteen, already their Pack's healer, clearly mature enough to make her own decisions about mating and Nate's constant pushing and pulling of Tammy made me want to slap him and knock some sense into him.
Other than that this was a very good addition to the series. A must read for any Psy-Changeling fans.
Stroke of Enticement Psy-Changeling #3.5
5 stars.
Although this one had been released before, it's the one that I hadn't read yet. The original anthology it was in was just too expensive for me (about 15-18 dollars) and it was the one they didn't have at my library. So I liked that it was included in this one. Finally got to sit back and enjoy Zach and Annie's tale.
Annie is a teacher, a human, and she works at a school that has quite a few changeling kids enrolled due to the closeness of various changeling factions. Zach is a DarkRiver leopard who immediately is interested in Annie.
Annie isn't use to guys showing her that much attention. Normally she gets looked over or guys are disappointed because they know what her aunt/cousin (I can't remember what Caro's relation to Annie is) looks like and Annie is the opposite. Annie has had some hard times, the accident that caused her leg to be crushed and seeing her parents marriage dissolve to the point that her father barely "sees" her mother.
So Zach has a little bit of an uphill battle to convince Annie to mate with him. Zach was so great with Annie's family. Her mother wasn't happy with changelings, she didn't hate them but she also didn't want her daughter dating a changeling. However Zach kind of won her over when she saw the way Zach looked at Annie, which was like she was the only woman in the world.
The story was very sweet and I loved Zach and Annie together. I wish to get more scenes with them in future installments.
Declaration of Courtship Psy-Changeling #9.5
4.5 stars.
I loved Grace & Cooper. As soon as we were introduced to them in a previous book (can't remember which one) I wanted to read their romance.
Cooper is a dominate wolf in the SnowDancer pack. Grace is one of the more submissive wolves in the pack.
Cooper has had his eye on Grace since she became a part of SnowDancer a few months ago. However he couldn't immediately chase her because she was so submissive, it would have given Cooper an unfair advantage in the relationship because Grace wouldn't have made the necessary connections to other people in the pack.
Both Grace and Cooper have had their share of family heartbreak. Both have lost their parents as children/teenagers and while they had other people in their lives to take care of them it has of course left emotional scars. Cooper's are more at the forefront and that's an issue in their courtship that they have to work through.
I enjoyed this story, I liked seeing how Cooper and Grace worked through the obstacles in front of them.
Texture of Intimacy Psy-Changeling #10.5
4.5 stars.
In Kiss of Snow we got Walker and Lara's courtship. In this story we got them post mating but with some issues still between them.
Walker, while far more open then he had been before still has a bit of a wall put up. However Lara is able to help Walker let down those walls one wall at a time.
I loved how open Lara is with Marlee and Toby and how loving she is with them. Those two kids really need a mother figure that won't leave them. Kristie (Toby's & Sienna's mother) committed suicide and Yelene (Marlee's mother) didn't want to taint her line and abandoned her child by staying in Silence.
Lara and Walker's major issue in this story is when Walker automatically shuts himself down emotionally when he has to deal with something traumatic. It's worked out though.
Also I enjoyed hearing about Zach and Annie for a brief bit. And I look forward to seeing if Riodan and Noelle get a story in the future.
This anthology is a great addition to my Psy-Changeling collection. All the stories in this collection are great. My only complaint is that the short story from the Burning Up anthology isn't in here. Other than that it's wonderful.
Original review: 3/2013
A Psy-Changeling anthology collection. It's not all of the short stories available, there's one other short story about 80-100 pages in the Burning Up anthology.
Two of these novella's (Beat of Temptation & Stroke of Enticement) were published previously. While the last two (Declaration of Courtship & Texture of Intimacy) are new.
Beat of Temptation: Psy Changeling #0.5 (read previously/copy & pasted my review)
4.5 stars.
I really loved this short story. I'm going to start reading Book 8 in the Psy-Changeling series in a couple weeks and I've loved Tamsyn and Nate from the beginning of the series. So I was extremely excited to learn that they did have a short story featuring them.
I love Nate, he is wonderful in all of his scenes throughout the series. However in this story he annoyed me so much. On the one hand I understand he had in his mind that Tamsyn was too young, and when she was fifteen and he was twenty-five that was absolutely right. But now Tammy is back, nineteen, already their Pack's healer, clearly mature enough to make her own decisions about mating and Nate's constant pushing and pulling of Tammy made me want to slap him and knock some sense into him.
Other than that this was a very good addition to the series. A must read for any Psy-Changeling fans.
Stroke of Enticement Psy-Changeling #3.5
5 stars.
Although this one had been released before, it's the one that I hadn't read yet. The original anthology it was in was just too expensive for me (about 15-18 dollars) and it was the one they didn't have at my library. So I liked that it was included in this one. Finally got to sit back and enjoy Zach and Annie's tale.
Annie is a teacher, a human, and she works at a school that has quite a few changeling kids enrolled due to the closeness of various changeling factions. Zach is a DarkRiver leopard who immediately is interested in Annie.
Annie isn't use to guys showing her that much attention. Normally she gets looked over or guys are disappointed because they know what her aunt/cousin (I can't remember what Caro's relation to Annie is) looks like and Annie is the opposite. Annie has had some hard times, the accident that caused her leg to be crushed and seeing her parents marriage dissolve to the point that her father barely "sees" her mother.
So Zach has a little bit of an uphill battle to convince Annie to mate with him. Zach was so great with Annie's family. Her mother wasn't happy with changelings, she didn't hate them but she also didn't want her daughter dating a changeling. However Zach kind of won her over when she saw the way Zach looked at Annie, which was like she was the only woman in the world.
The story was very sweet and I loved Zach and Annie together. I wish to get more scenes with them in future installments.
Declaration of Courtship Psy-Changeling #9.5
4.5 stars.
I loved Grace & Cooper. As soon as we were introduced to them in a previous book (can't remember which one) I wanted to read their romance.
Cooper is a dominate wolf in the SnowDancer pack. Grace is one of the more submissive wolves in the pack.
Cooper has had his eye on Grace since she became a part of SnowDancer a few months ago. However he couldn't immediately chase her because she was so submissive, it would have given Cooper an unfair advantage in the relationship because Grace wouldn't have made the necessary connections to other people in the pack.
Both Grace and Cooper have had their share of family heartbreak. Both have lost their parents as children/teenagers and while they had other people in their lives to take care of them it has of course left emotional scars. Cooper's are more at the forefront and that's an issue in their courtship that they have to work through.
I enjoyed this story, I liked seeing how Cooper and Grace worked through the obstacles in front of them.
Texture of Intimacy Psy-Changeling #10.5
4.5 stars.
In Kiss of Snow we got Walker and Lara's courtship. In this story we got them post mating but with some issues still between them.
Walker, while far more open then he had been before still has a bit of a wall put up. However Lara is able to help Walker let down those walls one wall at a time.
I loved how open Lara is with Marlee and Toby and how loving she is with them. Those two kids really need a mother figure that won't leave them. Kristie (Toby's & Sienna's mother) committed suicide and Yelene (Marlee's mother) didn't want to taint her line and abandoned her child by staying in Silence.
Lara and Walker's major issue in this story is when Walker automatically shuts himself down emotionally when he has to deal with something traumatic. It's worked out though.
Also I enjoyed hearing about Zach and Annie for a brief bit. And I look forward to seeing if Riodan and Noelle get a story in the future.
This anthology is a great addition to my Psy-Changeling collection. All the stories in this collection are great. My only complaint is that the short story from the Burning Up anthology isn't in here. Other than that it's wonderful.
leabookjoy's review against another edition
5.0
Probably not a good idea to read it before the other tomes but well ... ITS BRILLIANT ><