Talin works with disadvantaged children – homeless,
troubled and in trouble. And several have gone missing and the only thing she
can think to do to help them is confront a horror from her past
Clay, the wereleopard and desperate reminder of a
terrible past she’d left behind and a moment of terrifying bloodshed that still
stains her memories
Clay can’t believe the woman he long thought dead is
still alive, but he can hardly reconcile the fact she left him for so long nor
can he bring himself to let her go again.
I continue to love the world building of this series –
the Psy and the Changelings, the Psy’s society’s desperate struggles as they
face conflict and threats on all sides against the council; whose loosening grip
increasingly shows the flaws in Silence while at the same time we still see how
dependent the Psy are on it. I love how we’re seeing Psy both shape the netmind
and be shaped by it
I love the history of Silence and the existence of the
Forgotten which is so excellently filled out and developed to create a very
real society with so many possible storylines and characters arising out of it.
I really like that we’re beginning to look at humanity as
well – after all here we have people with no powers, no strength, clearly the
victims of society. They’re even called the “worker bees” and often forgotten.
But Talin embraces this label – and we several mentions of how the humans are
supposed to be the glue that holds their society together
And now we have emerging hints of what the races are like
when they come together
All of this is excellently explored with the ongoing
story of the Psy, Talin desperately hunting for missing children with extra
bonus insight into Ashaya, another Psy facing the Council while still being Psy
– not an outsider like Sasha or Faith. She’s still Psy, she’s still Silent –
but she still fights the Council. A Psy doesn’t have to be none-Psy to oppose
the Council or what the Psy have become.
