A review by tessisreading2
Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh

3.0

One of the earlier books in the series - the heavy plotting is definitely underway but it's less complex than it was last time. Side note: I do not love serial killer plots, but what I am realizing (reading this series all out of order) is that Singh has a tendency to make a lot of her bad-stuff-committing characters pawns. They were indoctrinated as children, they were themselves tortured, they are redeemable by true love, or - as here -

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their children are being held hostage. I mean, I get it, and she certainly has enough dyed-in-the-wool villains, but I don't love nuance when it means "closing your eyes to the murder of other children" or "okay, so you've murdered hundreds of innocent people, but you were kind of forced and you feel bad about it and now you're on the good guy side so it's fine."

I may need a bit of a break from the series for a while; I'm enjoying the romances but the background plot is getting a little overwhelming for me right now.