Read October 2021 and 2025
Recommended for fans of paranormal romance
★  ★  ★

It’s not horrible.

I picked up the Psy-Changling series after seeing a friend’s review (and suffering Quarantine Brain), and decided to work my way sequentially through the series. It is an intriguing paranormal romance series because it feels like more than romance with a story as a backdrop. It’s a mildly complicated world that seems to be getting progressively intriguing with how the three ‘races’ of people, the Psy, the Changelings, and the humans, can co-exist.

I had some curiosity as to how Singh was going to keep forcing members of the ‘races’ to interact enough to overcome prejudice. (As an aside, Singh, can we talk about ‘race’ in your world? Because I’m almost 90% sure you mean ‘species’ at most. I mean, everyone’s humanoid. How do you explain that?). In this case, there’s a forecasting Psy who lives on the edge of Psy territory for the quiet, and the troubled, animal-natured Vaughn living on the edge of his own pack’s territory (although leopards and panthers are all solitary and non-pride forming cats). Unsurprisingly, their paths will cross. More interestingly, the Psy, Faith, is discovering some of the cracks in the structure of her society.

In some ways, the two main characters felt like variations on the first book, but eventually they started to stand out. As before, it’s a dual POV book, with chapters from Faith, the Psy, and Vaughn, the were-panther. The language used for him was more straightforward and simple than Lucas, which helped individuate him. However, he was both possessive and determined that he knew what was best for both him and Faith, which raises concerns about agency. Not to be too spoilery, but is it weird that I found the most interesting character the juvenile (spoiler–Netmind)

I’ll concur with Her Shrimpiness, Sarah that there was a lot of cut and paste with the storyline, although unfortunately, Singh didn’t seem to be able to cut and paste the emotion of the characters from the first one. Which, you know, makes a romance less interesting. I felt the ‘heat’ between them, but wasn’t particularly invested in them to the same degree. Definitely one to read for the world-building, and for the occasional appearances of Sascha and Lucas.