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4.21 AVERAGE
4.21 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-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
3.75 ⭐️
Once again not quite 4 stars but an excellent follow up to the arc that was started with Wolf Rain
A great main couple and NIKITA WAS HERE that’s enough to sell me on this
I didn’t quite fall hopelessly in love this time and -strangely!- no tears? It’s very easy to make me emotional and both Wolf Rain and Alpha Night made me cry a bit, not Last Guard tho
Oh, loved the non-binary character of Aran, I hope they come back and Patel and Arwen truly stole my heart, I love these boys and I love their love
I’ll take a break now and come back to this series in a few months to finally catch up to the last release!
That ending was freaking exciting so I can’t wait :)
Once again not quite 4 stars but an excellent follow up to the arc that was started with Wolf Rain
A great main couple and NIKITA WAS HERE that’s enough to sell me on this
I didn’t quite fall hopelessly in love this time and -strangely!- no tears? It’s very easy to make me emotional and both Wolf Rain and Alpha Night made me cry a bit, not Last Guard tho
Oh, loved the non-binary character of Aran, I hope they come back and Patel and Arwen truly stole my heart, I love these boys and I love their love
I’ll take a break now and come back to this series in a few months to finally catch up to the last release!
That ending was freaking exciting so I can’t wait :)
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
medium-paced
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-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
4.5 stars
I received an e-ARC copy of Last Guard from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
This book was soooo good. Like I couldn't put it down good.
Canto Mercant and Payal Rao are two powerful hub anchors for the failing PsyNet. Payal is known as the cold robotic CEO of her family's holdings but is kept on a short leash by her power hungry father and psychopathic brother. Canto is the information head of the Mercant family and is bound to a wheelchair, considered less by his own race because of physical imperfections. When Canto discovers plans for the PsyNet by the Psy ruling coalition, he knows the Anchors must be involved for the Psy race to survive. Together the two most powerful anchors might be able to help the PsyNet, if they can find their way forward from the broken children when they met the first time.
When I found out that this book focused on 2 psy I was a tiny tiny bit disappointed. Not going to lie, I adore me the changelings. Also I keep hoping for more revelations about BlackSea (because I am just freakin curious). And Anchors are not that exciting because all they do is anchor the PsyNet. This book might be not as interesting.
*headdesk*
Because HELLO the PysNet is dying and of course the Anchors would figure out how to save it. Duh! I am an idiot. Also this reminded me in all the good ways of Heart of Obsidian which is still one of absolute favorites.
Canto and Payal are amazing. Both suffered trauma during their childhoods. Canto got out. Payal did not. This made their coming together again after decades apart, interesting and fraught with emotion. . I really loved watching Canto interact with his family and seeing a Psy who has never been silent that is an adult. Payal is so remote but watching her open up with Canto was fantastic.
There is more depth on the PsyNet on how the anchors work. There is also more of look at Psy history and why erasing the past has consequences.
This book just made me really happy.
Also look for an appearance of a super cool empath and bear. And Kaleb. And more Bears, which I think I need more Bears.
Tiny tiny
I received an e-ARC copy of Last Guard from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review
This book was soooo good. Like I couldn't put it down good.
Canto Mercant and Payal Rao are two powerful hub anchors for the failing PsyNet. Payal is known as the cold robotic CEO of her family's holdings but is kept on a short leash by her power hungry father and psychopathic brother. Canto is the information head of the Mercant family and is bound to a wheelchair, considered less by his own race because of physical imperfections. When Canto discovers plans for the PsyNet by the Psy ruling coalition, he knows the Anchors must be involved for the Psy race to survive. Together the two most powerful anchors might be able to help the PsyNet, if they can find their way forward from the broken children when they met the first time.
When I found out that this book focused on 2 psy I was a tiny tiny bit disappointed. Not going to lie, I adore me the changelings. Also I keep hoping for more revelations about BlackSea (because I am just freakin curious). And Anchors are not that exciting because all they do is anchor the PsyNet. This book might be not as interesting.
*headdesk*
Because HELLO the PysNet is dying and of course the Anchors would figure out how to save it. Duh! I am an idiot. Also this reminded me in all the good ways of Heart of Obsidian which is still one of absolute favorites.
Canto and Payal are amazing. Both suffered trauma during their childhoods. Canto got out. Payal did not. This made their coming together again after decades apart, interesting and fraught with emotion. . I really loved watching Canto interact with his family and seeing a Psy who has never been silent that is an adult. Payal is so remote but watching her open up with Canto was fantastic.
There is more depth on the PsyNet on how the anchors work. There is also more of look at Psy history and why erasing the past has consequences.
This book just made me really happy.
Also look for an appearance of a super cool empath and bear. And Kaleb. And more Bears, which I think I need more Bears.
Tiny tiny
Spoiler
. Are you a TK fan? Then expect earthquakes. See [b:Caressed by Ice|458034|Caressed by Ice (Psy-Changeling #3)|Nalini Singh|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1432865457l/458034._SY75_.jpg|446535] and [b:Heart of Obsidian|15781026|Heart of Obsidian (Psy-Changeling, #12)|Nalini Singh|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1359653471l/15781026._SY75_.jpg|21496528] if you don't know what I mean
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I overall love the Trinity series as an extension of the Psy/Changeling world. I’d say this is the weakest of the bunch, with a lot of the major roadblocks fixed in just a chapter or two
I did like it more when I first read in it 2021, but now cycling through it in a reread before Resonance Surge I just found it really flat and not compelling. I think the Anchor network is really interesting so I hope we get to see Arran and Suriana and the rest of that cast in later books.
I did like it more when I first read in it 2021, but now cycling through it in a reread before Resonance Surge I just found it really flat and not compelling. I think the Anchor network is really interesting so I hope we get to see Arran and Suriana and the rest of that cast in later books.
emotional
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s almost as if an AI ghost-wrote it.
A good idea with bad execution — the NetMind being corrupted, in turn corrupts its anchors, which initially got sent to Psy centres for difficult children. These two were such anchors: met and bonded there before the centres closed. They reunite almost immediately as adults, and there is no tension and they save the day. Ta-da!
Payal’s psychopath family drama was vaguely entertaining, although her being neurodivergent is basically washed out as ‘she takes meds and is fine now’. Which, ok, fine — but the neurodivergent thing is never explored.
Canto, in contrast, lives in Hallmark-land where all is good.
There’s no character arc, no plot, the antagonist doesn’t do anything the whole book.
I’ve downgraded this to 2/5 for being eminently forgettable.
Upon re-reading it for what I initially thought was the first time, I kept getting a vague deja vu, all up until the last page. Nothing more. But here’s the punchline, it turns out I’d read it completely before! When it came out! So why?
Because Singh found a recipe and can no longer care less about good writing.
Do you want to know what I do remember? The plot of first three Psy-Changeling books, basically forever ago. The characters, the dynamics, the danger. In comparison, this is nothing. Boring, dull, lacking purpose.
So having read all this, why, you might ask, did I finish it? Because I was having trouble sleeping, and I read fast.
A good idea with bad execution — the NetMind being corrupted, in turn corrupts its anchors, which initially got sent to Psy centres for difficult children. These two were such anchors: met and bonded there before the centres closed. They reunite almost immediately as adults, and there is no tension and they save the day. Ta-da!
Payal’s psychopath family drama was vaguely entertaining, although her being neurodivergent is basically washed out as ‘she takes meds and is fine now’. Which, ok, fine — but the neurodivergent thing is never explored.
Canto, in contrast, lives in Hallmark-land where all is good.
There’s no character arc, no plot, the antagonist doesn’t do anything the whole book.
I’ve downgraded this to 2/5 for being eminently forgettable.
Upon re-reading it for what I initially thought was the first time, I kept getting a vague deja vu, all up until the last page. Nothing more. But here’s the punchline, it turns out I’d read it completely before! When it came out! So why?
Because Singh found a recipe and can no longer care less about good writing.
Do you want to know what I do remember? The plot of first three Psy-Changeling books, basically forever ago. The characters, the dynamics, the danger. In comparison, this is nothing. Boring, dull, lacking purpose.
So having read all this, why, you might ask, did I finish it? Because I was having trouble sleeping, and I read fast.
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-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