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Storm Echo by Nalini Singh

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adventurous dark emotional funny slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

First of all, I have to say this was absolutely fabulous. I can’t say enough about how much I absolutely adore this Psy-Changeling Trinity series. It is superlative in every way from the world building to the relationship-building to the diversity of characters to the raw, powerful emotion that has you swooning in every page. And this book brought all of that. It was fantastic! But compared with other books in the series, perhaps it was maybe a little less complex and the plot was a little more… simple? I still adored it. I still swooned at how hard Ivan adored Lei and how loyal and loving Lei was back. Their relationship was lovely given their histories of abandonment and isolation from loving but somewhat irresponsible parents. The relationship building was absolutely beautiful- aspirational in fact for any romance. I loved the theme of found/built family and those bonds being as strong or even stronger and more healing that blood or ethnic identity. The plot was interesting enough if a little slow-moving and I think this is perhaps what let the book down the most. The plot kind of seemed a little forgotten about for large chunks and the whole bit with the spider and the scarabs felt a little under-developed till the end which came out of nowhere and didn’t match the plodding slow tale that came before it with little details. The slower plot development didn’t bother me much because I loved how focused the story was on Lei and Ivan. That said, it would have been nice to have a few more characters brought in that he could discuss the plot issue with and that solutions could have been tried with. Nevertheless, I still loved this, it’s still one of my favourites in the entire series and I absolutely adore cold, detached Ivan and zany, colorful, friendly Lei.

Many thanks to Berkley for the advanced reading copy!
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