Visions of Heat - Psy-Changelings #2 - Nalini Singh
Sum up: (Goodreads)
Used to cold silence, Faith NightStar is suddenly being tormented by dark visions of blood and murder. A bad sign for anyone, but worse for Faith, an F-Psy with the highly sought after ability to predict the future. Then the visions show her something even more dangerous - aching need...exquisite pleasure. But so powerful is her sight, so fragile the state of her mind, that the very emotions she yearns to embrace could be the end of her.
Changeling Vaughn D'Angelo can take the form of either man or jaguar, but it is his animal side that is overwhelmingly drawn to Faith. The jaguar's instinct is to claim this woman it finds so utterly fascinating and the man has no argument. But while Vaughn craves sensation and hungers to pleasure Faith in every way, desire is a danger that could snap the last threads of her sanity. And there are Psy who need Faith's sight for their own purposes. They must keep her silenced - and keep her from Vaughn.
Some scenes contain sexual and violent contents that may offend sensibilities of readers.
Plot:
F-Psys can foresee the future. Because of their skill, F-Psys became more fragile and their interaction with the world had to be limited.
Faith NightStar is the best F-Psy of her generation. Every vision she has ever had became true. She is worth millions of dollars, if not billions. During one of her visions, Faith sees her sister's death, a sister that she rarely saw. But what disturbs her the most is that she only ever had visions about the economics trend and never about violence or murders. Now Faith is looking for answers but answers that cannot be provided by anyone on the PsyNet. She only knows one person what cut all ties from the PsyNet: Sasha Duncan.
One night, Faith decides to leave the facility she was living in. Her main objective is to seek help but she never suspected she would find a jaguar on her path.
Vaughn is one of Lucas' Sentinels and he is very close to his jaguar. When he was just a child, his parents gave him and his sister up. His sister died in his arms. He later heard his father killed his mother before committing suicide. He only lives for the Darkriver pack. They let him be part of their pack even though he is a jaguar. But when a red-hair woman comes along and forces him to reevaluate everything he ever fought for, he will stop at nothing to prove his loyalty.
Changelings only know physical contacts. It is what anchors them, they need it as much as they need air to breathe. But having a soft spot for a Psy who has been secluded from everyone and has never been touched will be rough on his panther. Fortunately, the darkness following Faith and invading her visions may dislike his touch even more than Faith. And Vaughn will stop at nothing to prove Faith that he is the only man for her...
Opinion:
Nalini Singh is one of my favorite writer ever! Everything she writes is amazing! She built a whole new world with this series and if the first book was just the settlement, we now know a bit more about this new world where Changelings, Psys and humans live in "harmony" (at least, that is what we thought).
This story is centered around the story of Vaughn - one of the Darkriver's Sentinels - and Faith - a F-Psy - who lived secluded from everyone since she was 3. The first time they met was explosive. They could not deny their feelings and their chemistry and trust me, I also wanted to feel Vaughn's touch.
"Because just looking at you gives me the most extreme pleasure I've ever felt."
"Christ, baby, tie me up before you start talking like that.”
I felt like this book took the reader more in-depth of what is going on in the Psy world. We see more politics with the High Counsel debating on the successor of Santano Enrique.
We also meet the NetMind for the first time. I liked the way he communicated with Faith through images and emotions. It is perceived as a human, a teenager who suffers from the Silence protocol. He tries to protect all the E-Psys who still are on the PsyNet. I sometimes struggled to fully comprehend the roles of the NetMind and DarkMind because it is highly complex to visualize what it is exactly.
For sure, the next books will bring even more actions.
Excerpts:
“Sleep Red, I've got you."
"Why don’t you smile more?” She liked his smile, liked seeing such uncomplicated happiness on his face.
“Never had much to smile about.”Looking into that smile, Faith gave up her last hazy dream of somehow returning to the only world she’d ever known. “I’m never going back.”The smile faded and something darker whispered into his eyes, something wild and savagely possessive. “Good. Because I wasn’t planning on letting you go."
