Sophia Triad's Reviews > Slave to Sensation

Sascha Duncan (Psy) and Lucas Hunter (Changeling)

This was about murder… and the greatest lie that had ever been perpetuated by a race upon its own kind.

This book is an impressive start to a series that I have a feeling that it will become one of my favourite PNR series.

Psy-world is an interesting different new world. I haven't read anything similar before to be honest. The Psy have great psychic powers, but not feelings or desires.
They basically live in two worlds:
1. The real world which also includes Changelings (shifters) and humans.
2. The PsyNet which is like Internet, except it’s made up of minds, not computers. I would also compare it with the movie Matrix. It is actually a place where Psy “meet” and “socialize”.

Shifters are the normal shifters that we meet in most PNR books. They can transform into animals and they live in packs. We learn about two packs:
1. The DarkRiver leopard pack
2. The SnowDancers wolf pack
These two packs coexist in neighbourhood grounds.

In terms of mating, there can be only one lifemate for each Changeling.

Lucas Hunter is the Alpha of DarkRiver pack and he is a black panther. He will meet Psy Sascha Duncan , while he tries to find the Psy killer who keeps butchering Changeling females. When another girl is taken, Lucas runs out of time.

Sascha lately is not well. She is scared to death and she tries to hide it before she is locked away in a “rehabilitation facility”. Her main problem is that she has started having feelings, emotions, physical reactions in these emotions. This is not normal for a Psy. She is defective. The fact that she needs to work so closely to Changelings that they are overflowed with feelings and they are so close to their animal side, does not help.

Gradually we will learn that Psy have secrets. Their own lack of emotions is a deception imposed to them in order to make them less dangerous.

I enjoyed the writing style and the way the story and the world building is exploited. The mystery with the serial killer has a obvious solution, but I really did not mind this. I wad satisfied with everything else.


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(view spoiler)[2010: I think I will start this series. I heard it is good.
2012: Maybe this year, I will start it. It has shifters!
2013: Damn. I think I will try it next year. I have already started two new series.
2016: This is the year I will start this series. This January. After I finish this trilogy. And the new Black Dagger Legacy book. And maybe a couple of books I started last December.
2017: Why haven't I started this series yet? Why? Why? Why?
2018, January: I am definitely starting this series next month. Oh, look new books by Larissa Ione! Oh God!

2018, June: I am officially declaring Psy-Changeling series my challenge for this summer!!! (hide spoiler)]