Giorgia Reads's Reviews > Slave to Sensation

3.75 Stars

One of the things that I liked most about this story is the world building. It wasn’t necessarily intricate nor was I blown away by the concept BUT I have never read anything similar.

There are 3 kinds of people in this world. The Psy, the Changelings (who are basically shifters - so nothing new there) and the Humans who didn’t really make an appearance in this book but I think we will have human characters in the next instalments.

It’s the first category- the Psy - who give flavour to this world. Firstly because it’s an entirely new concept (at least to me it is) and secondly because their power structure, their abilities and their personalities are intriguing. They are supposed to be machine-like in their actions and they are also supposed to be emotionally emancipated. The ones who do start to feel anything at all (ranging from fear, jealousy, happiness, anger or worst of all love) are considered flawed, defective, and they are at risk of getting what is the equivalent of a lobotomy which would leave them able to exist in the most rudimentary form.

That is the most basic knowledge we are given in regards to the Psy society and throughout the book we get to discover more through the heroines journey of self discovery. (Her - Sascha- being a Psy who has started to feel too many things and runs the risk of being discovered).

The hero, Lucas, is an alpha changeling (a panther) who gets involved in Sascha’s life as a means of getting information about a serial killer who is Psy and is being protected by the highest Psy authority. (Because Psy are supposed to feel no emotion they cannot be killers, it would sort of tarnish their reputation for something like that to be public knowledge)

I was drawn into the story from the start. I found both main characters to be interesting but more so the heroine. There was the element of the unknown in regards to why she is unraveling and why she’s exhibiting all sorts of “weird” behaviours for a Psy.

The plot was a bit predictable only in that it followed the usual trajectory and there wasn’t really a high stakes feeling to it. It was a bit flat in the emotional department but it did keep me entertained enough.

As to the romantic relationship. I think those two are good together and they had chemistry. But there wasn’t anything extraordinary to set them apart from other typical fictional couples. Definitely not a great love story, but a solid one I’d say.

I’m definitely going to continue with this series. And I’m glad it has 15 books because I love discovering a good, promising series knowing I have so much to look forward to.