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Silver Silence by Nalini Singh

3 reviews

sup3r_xn0va_maya's review against another edition

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funny mysterious sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

💬: "The Trinity Accord is the fragile foundation of all their hopes and dreams of a future without war, without violence, without shattering loss. It is a noble ambition. But the past is not an old coat that can be discarded and forgotten. It is a scent that clings and clings and clings.

Singh, Nalini. Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity Book 1) (p. 1). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

📖Genres: paranormal romance, romance, urban fantasy, adult

📚Page Count: 479

🎧Audiobook Length: 16h 01min

👩🏾‍🏫My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 

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Silver Silence is the 16th book in the Psy/Changeling series and 1st in the Psy/Changeling Trinity series both by Nalini Singh. This book is about Silver Mercant, a Psy and Valentin Nikolaev, an alpha bear. Silver is stationed at Valentin's bear compound where she's been helping keep an eye on things since the Trinity Accord as been established. Silver gets poisoned and almost dies as a result and now Silver along with the Mercant family and Valentin are looking for the culprit. 

This book had stuff going on but it really FELT like nothing was happening for the duration of the book. Silver gets poisoned at the beginning so I assumed this book would be about hunting down the culprit and they eventually do that but it takes so long. Valentine courted Silver and it was a cute story but it went by so slowly, this book took me 4 weeks (A WHOLE MONTH) to finish because there was very little action on the page. I'm actually disappointed with how boring this was. 

The spicy scenes were below average for me,  there were two of them and they weren't my favorite scenes. I'm not a huge fan of the virgin heroine and the painful first time, the second scene was a little better but still just "okay". I'm giving it two chilies 🌶️🌶️ out of five chilies

Overall, Silver Silence was just okay but it was definitely on the boring side. I'm giving this book 3 stars out of 5. 
⭐️⭐️⭐️ 3/5 Stars

I listened to this for free on the library app [HooplaDigital.com]
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adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Boring, slow, poorly written, disjointed flow, choppy sentences. Forced myself through it in hopes of a good conclusion. Not sure why this author is considered good.
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adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective 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? No

4.75

This is great start to the Psy-Changeling Trinity series/a great continuation of the Psy-Changeling series. Featuring cold-as-ice psy, Silver Mercant, head of the EmNet (the global emergency and humanitarian network) and Valentin Nikolaev, the powerful, friendly alpha of a clan of bears in Russia, this is grumpy-sunshine romance to the max. I thought that even without context of having read the Psy-Changeling series, the build up of the stakes in this new trinity society was excellently done. I obviously think the book is better and the reading experience richer if you’ve read the preceding series because you will already have context with the characters and how things got to this point, but I think it may be possible to start with this book. As someone who has read all the previous books, this is definitely a 4.5-5-star book for me. The depth of emotion and self-sacrifice between Valentin and Silver is amazing, the building and transition of their love story is wonderful, the conflict and tension and narratives about family and hurt and familial love are exceptionally written. If there is one minor quibble, it’s that some of the transitions between cold Silver and warm Silver were a little clunky and out of nowhere but not in a way that was unbelievable because of Val’s persistence. Also, some people may be sensitive to the “persistence of bears” theme because it can also be interpreted as a lack of respect for boundaries and consent or a sort of harassment when someone has disavowed a desire for a relationship with a potential suitor. I personally didn’t read it this way and this certainly made Silver’s transitions believable, but I can see how someone may be sensitive to this aspect of the book and could justifiably feel “a way” about it.

I could hardly put this down. This is definitely one of my favourite books in this entire Psy-Changeling-Human world so far.
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