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This book EARNS its 5 stars	Customer Rating:
I've read all of Singh's books in this series & the first one is the best one. I just can't say enough good things about it. It definitely earns such high ratings!

Wow - this is a great first book in a series

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I started reading this book while trying to get some distance from Christine Feehan's Carpathians. I couldn't have been more hooked. Nalini Singh writes so well. Her characters are different from what a lot of PNR books describe: both sides are incredibly strong, yet have flaws and find a way to take care of each other. The hero is not overly macho and unreasonable and the heroine isn't your typical woman with no life. I am very pleasantly surprised by this series and highly recommend it. I like the authors detail oriented writing and especially since she is writing about two different creatures (Psy and Changeling) that are not human-human, the details are very important. It is not as dark as the carpathians, but it is by no means a light read either. Fans of the dark hunters, carpathians and KMM's highlander series will like this book.

Great series!	Customer Rating:
I read this whole series a while back and was very impressed. Nalini Singh has created a fascinating and beleivable world with the three breeds - Psy, Changelings and Humans. A few things with the Psy didn't gel for me eg. the fact that they have no emotions and yet are competitive (which I would have thought had an emotional component) but overall I really enjoyed this alternate world.

Great new series	Customer Rating:
I love finding a new author and a new series I can be excited about. Wonderfully written, excellent character development, very hot romantic scenes, and enough drama to keep everything interesting.

Fabulous!

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My first Nalini Singh book about her Psy/Changelings was just a fabulous treat. I loved everything about it. She created an incredibly complex world and she did it with such a simplistic, natural grace that the constant stream of information about the Psy/Changeling world wasn't forced. She allowed it to flow to me naturally, so I barely registered I was getting a ton of exposition. The characters Lucas, the Alpha of DarkRiver, and Sascha, a Cardinal Psy was really hot. They portray their mating dance right from the beginning, two beings reduced to their most basic desires, circling each other as if searching for an opening. It helps that I love changelings or any kind of weres. There's something about the animalistic side of a man coming out that gets me all hot and bothered, and when Lucas actually manifests into his animal...*shivers* HOT! Nalini describes the Changelings as a warm, hierarchical pack of men and women and the Psy as a society of 'perfect' beings who have surpressed all emotions supposedly for the greater good, so they can control their abilities better. Which makes them into cold, robotic men and women without the emotion to sense right from wrong, good and evil. Our Sascha however, with the help of the panther Alpha, Lucas Hunter escapes what is known as Silence and tries to start anew with the DarkRiver pack. There wasn't a single character I didn't like. There wasn't any annoying personality quirks, no stupid plot contrivances by Sascha to prove she was independent and didn't need Lucas, no tree swinging male alpha traits that Lucas had to employ. This proves you can make a good book without relying on any TSTL moments designed to move the plot along. Thank God. I love the descriptive words Nalini uses for the leopards of DarkRiver. They are catlike, sensual, they purr and rub and give love bites. I loved reading how the characters would curl up in each others laps and entwine in each other's arms. She really never lets you forget that Lucas and the other changelings are not men, but dangerous, predatory cats. This was a great book and a great first book into Nalini Singh's fabulous Psy/Changeling series.