Silver Marcant is the
scion of the power, influential, Marcant family. She is also the assistant of
Kaleb Krycheck, de facto leader of the Psy. She also runs the global emergency
response network
She is a busy woman
She has little time
for people trying to kill her, or big clumsy werebears trying to insert
themselves into her life
This book marks the
transition of the Psy/Changeling series into the new series, the Trinity era -
and I really have to praise how excellently this has been structured, as I
referred to in Allegiance of Honour the transition book in the series.
That book excellently summed up where nearly everyone was in their lives, the
position of the world and what would be the new conflict coming forwards. The
overarching story of the last 15 books has been the fall of Silence
Silence is over.
Silence is done, that chapter is closed and with Allegiance of Honour
setting up the new foundation we have the new conflict: what happens now? Where
is the world? Especially as it becomes apparent that the different races need
to be more united than ever
Behold the Trinity -
where Silence has fallen and the whole world has changed - and with it the
whole tone of the series is much broader as well. The previous series felt more
focused… we had a couple and the werewolf pack/psy group they were part of. And
it was pretty much localised. Yes there was the fall of Silence, but largely
the battle against Silence for most of the Psy characters for most of the books
has been survival. Even the Arrows, the Shapeshifter packs, Devraj Santos’s
hidden group, are all stories of survival (well and romance, obviously).
Survival against the evils of Psy Society, against discovery and occasionally
about their survival against their own exploding psy abilities. Yes society is
changing in the background but that’s more a side effect of their quest for
survival rather than a goal they’re actively pursuing until the last few books
And so now we have Trinity and I think branching a whole new series was the ideal way to do that and emphasise how the foundational theme of the series has changed. Trinity, forged from the Humans, Changelings and Psy to create a more hopeful, united future. And paradoxically, a more diverse one (in terms of factions): the Psy have somewhat broken or, rather, with the fall of the Council the divisions have become more relevant. We don’t have “the psy” we have the Arrows and the Empath Collective and the Nightsky group and Kaleb’s faction suddenly being more individually defined even as they work together. Or the shapeshifter packs who are distinct entities rather than the unity of the Wolves and Leopards. I think they’ve always been so divided but rarely were they all so involved in the close, personal focus of the previous books.
Which brings me to
the excellent choice of Silver as the protagonist for this book - Silver
Mercant so nicely bridges all of this and brings the new collective focus on
several factions since she’s the head of the global emergency network while she
herself is both perfectly aligned with Kaleb Krycheck while at the same time
being a member of the powerful Mercant family which is allied with him but
definitely not in his pocket. Silver represents the different factions being
balanced but ultimately acting in unity that truly defines this new series.
She’s an excellent choice of protagonist to herald in this new era
