Resonance Surge, the latest installment in Nalini Singh's Psi/Shifters series, features a plot that follows the formula that fans of the series already know. While the book may feel mediocre compared to other installments, there are aspects that stand out and maintain the reader's interest.

The most notable thing about Resonance Surge are undoubtedly the characters of Theo, Pax and the brief but impactful appearances of Kaleb. Theo and Pax offer an intriguing and emotionally resonant dynamic, adding depth to the narrative and commanding attention with their complex relationship. However, it is Kaleb, with his rare but electrifying appearances, who steals the show. Every time Kaleb appears, his presence is so magnetic that he overshadows the rest of the cast, reaffirming his status as many fans' favorite character.

4 ⭐ / 1 🌶️

Resonance Surge was a beary good read!
The bears always make for a tale fun. I love their charm and loyalty, and Yakov is no different! I loved his dedication, him and Theo were two halves of a whole and they worked so well together. Their relationship was a delicious slow burn and the hurdles they had to face kept me on the edge on my seat. I also enjoyed how all of the little threads from previous books in this series came together and look forward to where they may lead in the next book. I honestly cannot recommend the Nalini Sing's Psy-Changeling series enough. The world is constantly evolving, making a thrilling and addictive paranormal romance series with the perfect balance of action, intrigue, and romance.

"You're not alone, pchelka. Don't forget that."

✔️ Twins
✔️ Fated Mates
✔️ Forgotten Past
✔️ LGBTQ Representation
✔️ Secondary Romance
✔️ Past Character Cameos
✔️ Changelings (Shifters) and Psy (Super-Human Abilities)
✔️ Slow-Burn
✔️ World/Race Politics
✔️ Prophetic Dreams

"I'm not all brains, pchelka. There's plenty of brawn in this beautiful body."

Another great book by Nalini Singh! Automatic buy personally and professionally. I adore that this book has the Stonewater Bears as main and secondary characters. I like the fact the we get to see Councillor Marshall's family. This is a standalone but it helps if you have read and followed this author's world building from her first Psy-Changeling novels. Lovely slow burn romance. Great story and world building.

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Heidi

Review

Theo Marshall had a rough childhood, separated from her twin, Pax, when she was seven years old. Pax is a level 9 on the gradient and her councilor grandfather, was always disappointed with Theo’s level 2.7. He was worried she’d bring Pax down. Grandfather was in charge of her upbringing, and when he finally found a use for her, it was for evil. She didn’t find out until years later that she helped him in the murdering of dozens of innocents.

Her grandfather has recently been murdered, Pax is now the head of the family, and the twins have finally been able to reconnect.

Pax has asked Theo to investigate a psy rehabilitation center that their family has been funding. All the centers have been shut down since the fall of silence, yet money is still going out to this one every month. So, she heads out to Moscow to investigate. And, she’ll be working with one of the StoneWater bears, Yakov Stepyrev.

When Yakov was a teenager, he started dreaming of a girl. He always assumed it was his future mate that he hadn’t met yet. Recently the dreams had come back, but were much darker than those teenage dreams. In these dreams, he’s watching the girl, now grown, die. In his dreams, he’s unable to move to help her. Silver has asked him to help Theo Marshall investigate a center in the area, but it’s not until he meets Theo that he discovers she is the girl from those dreams. Now he must figure out how to stop the horrors in those dreams from becoming a reality.

Yakov and Theo immediately start investigating. Theo quickly discovers that she has been to this center before, a traumatic experience that she had no memory of. Now that she has been here the memories are coming back in flashes. Her grandfather brought her here when she was a child to have a procedure performed. A procedure that had to be halted midway through when Pax passed out on the other side of the world.

Theo knows that horrible things were done at this center, but it’s abandoned now. If it’s abandoned, why was her grandfather paying to keep it going? Where is the money going? And, is the truth to the horrors of what she did in the past here? Will she be able to find out if she is truly at fault for the lives she has taken, or was it something out of her control? Yakov vows to help her get the answers she seeks. He hopes to be able to find a way to save Theo from the horrors in his dreams, as well. Will they be able to find the answers they seek, before it’s too late?

I have really struggled with this spin-off series. I’ve just not enjoyed it as much as I liked the original Psy-Changeling series. Thankfully I did not have my usual struggles with this book. It must be the bears! I had no problem getting immersed in the story and mystery. It was also fun that both Yakov and Theo are twins.

Speaking of Yakov and Theo, I did enjoy these characters. Yakov with his bigger than life bear personality and his mile wide protective streak. The psy are always a bit boring to me, that whole no emotions thing. However, Theo didn’t bother me. She wasn’t all that exciting, but she was a decent character for an emotionless race.

The mystery aspect of this story was good, and I didn’t start putting it all together until right before it was revealed.

This book had some great secondary characters too. I actually loved both of Theo and Yakov’s twins and hope to see more of them, in the future. It’s looking like we won’t have to wait long for Pax’s story if the end of this one is any indication.

But please …. Give me more bears! I love these rambunctious guys that don’t know the meaning of personal space! They are cuddly and fun, and I adore them.

I love how Ms. Singh’ book never lets me down. The characters, story, the pacing everything was great. And I so love how Singh’ writing has the capability to make me want to keep reading it till I am finally finished with my read!! Un-putdownable

Veena’s review of Resonance Surge (Psy-Changeling Trinity, Book 7) by Nalini Singh
Romantic Fantasy published by Berkley 18 Jul 23

Bears! Loveable bears with their rough-and-tumble love of mischief, what’s not to love about a story featuring such animals, especially when you’re seeing double. This is Theo and Yakov’s story, but the long-simmering romance between Pavel and Arwen finally comes to a boil. There’s enough intrigue, suspense, and darkness to keep you on the edge of your seat as the story unfolds.


The Marshall family is everything evil, and it’s a good thing that Councilor Marshall Hyde was blown away when he was. While Pax is the gifted one and the perfect successor to the family heritage, his twin Theo just doesn’t cut it in the eyes of her family. She would be long dead if her being kept alive was not necessary for her twin’s survival, but she did live through hell and more that she did not even realize.

Now some of the machinations of her grandfather have come to light and Theo is dispatched to Russia to work with the bears in locating these rehabilitation centers and providing restitution to the residents. Theo will, of course, find much more than she expected from this trip to Russia, including truths about herself.

Yakov has a small gift of foresight. At a very young age he was able to see his mate in a vision, but one truth seems to be inescapable: every night he sees her die as he helplessly looks on. When he picks up Theo at the airport, he knows immediately that she is his mate, and he determines to do all that he can to change the future. After all, what’s the point of having foresight if you can’t change events.

As the two embark on a roller coaster ride of murder and mayhem and follow clues regarding the once inhabitants of the center, secrets begin to emerge, but not even the patterns that they are seeing prepare them for the eventual truths.

No book about bears would be incomplete without some mayhem and family hijinks bear style. Ms. Singh’s story telling is superb as always. I am awed by the power of her imagination and love how she builds background in this story by introducing letters between Yakov and Pavel’s great grandfather and his sister at the cusp of silence telling us how families were split apart, based on the choices that they made.

Will families have to make new choices as the Psy-net continues to fracture?

Grade: A

The power with which I adored this book! Not only are we dealing with family dynamics that are absolutely stunning, we are dealing with a couple all about accepting all parts of yourself. The way that I needed this book and didn't even know it is beautiful. Theo is an amazing female lead, with strength and a sensual awareness that she gets to finally explore. Yakov is amazingly understanding, patient, and playful. My favorite Psy Changeling books are always the Bear ones! I love the bear clan, and the baby bear gangsters don't disappoint! I love the cameos of other couples we get to see, and I love what happens here. I hate that I have to wait another year for another book, but I am happy to wait, because they are so good!

I would have leaped at this new series installment no matter what, but when I spotted we were back with the bear changelings, I was itching to devour Resonance Surge in one go- and nearly did.

Resonance Surge is book seven in the follow up Psy-Changeling Trinity paranormal romance series. The series reads like urban fantasy in many ways. Hence, they should definitely be read in order and the original series shouldn’t be skipped.

Since Silence fell, the new Psy leaders have time to dig into the dark secrets and atrocities their predecessors hid during their time in power. Like the Psy secret compound hospitals where some unfortunate psy were sent to have their minds wiped. It was all chilling mad house torture stuff in my mind complete with a bloody serial killer and so I needed little assistance to find portions of Resonance Surge hair-raising.

I enjoy a good thriller so I appreciated that element paired with the sensational slow-burn romance between a sizzling hot and fun senior bear clan member and a lethal psy who was abused and manipulated in the past, but guilt-ridden and needing answers in the present.

Actually, make that two romances because both Yakov and his twin Pavel get their romances.

Pavel and Arwen Mercant, a powerful e-Psy have had something going through a few books now, but they finally get time in the spotlight with Yakov and Theo.

Yakov was a wonderful hero. He’s brash, dominant, and capable, but he is oh so careful with Theo who has known only darkness and pain in her life save her hidden connection with her twin, Pax. Pax was the family golden child to their sadistic Counselor grandfather and Theo was the disappointing dud that their grandfather didn’t hesitate to abuse and treat like a killing tool. Yakov’s sunny demeanor and open love and closeness with his tight-knit family and pack are exactly what she needs. I loved seeing them enjoying food, play, family, and even work together paired with the exciting or tense moments brought on by the mission she is on and danger hunting Theo.

The series arc didn’t get much advancement save for brief look-ins here and there, but I couldn’t really care because I’m such a sucker for time spent with the Stone Water bears and Mercants. That last chapter was a monster teaser leaving me needing to know what comes next in this world. I tried to take my time reading this, but there was no pumping the breaks once I got going. Love this series so much and can’t wait for each new installment.

Fascinating look behind the scene of what the Psy used to do with their unwanted. I enjoyed the book, but I couldn't quite connect to Theo and I didn't quite believe her relationship with Yakov.
Sometimes this happens for me with a series I adore. I'll read RS again and we'll see if I like it better the next time.

This review was originally posted on Books of My Heart


Review copy was received from NetGalley, Publisher. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

4.5 hearts

The Psy-Changeling Trinity the spin off series to Psy-Changeling . Overall, it is like one big series. I didn't and wouldn't read the later books without the foundation of the first series. Singh has a style which is a great blend of paranormal romance and urban fantasy. Each book has a romantic couple and we get great development of those two characters as well as their family and friends. There is also an overall story arc, the urban fantasy part of her style, which carries on throughout the series.

In Resonance Surge, we get the 2 for1 of twins and twins. We have the bear twins Yakov and Pavel. Bears! Tiny gangsters! Mischief bears! Oh how I love them. Pavel has been seeing Arwen Merchant who is an E Psy. Their relationship continues and grows.

The other bear twin Yakov is second to the alpha, and is paired with Theo Marshall when she is seeing what happened at a closed down center and in her own past. Theo is also a twin of Pax Marshall. Theo is a low gradient Psy but her brother is a 9. They each have their own problems happening. Yakov is also hunting a serial killer of blond, blue-eyed women in the area. Theo happens to fit that description.

Yakov and Theo are attracted and work well together, putting pieces together to solve both the mysteries. Theo never managed Silence so she is more emotional than most Psy who aren't showing emotion at all. She and Yakov play, tease and have fun with each other as they work on the cases.

The series plot line with the Psy Net failing, the Trinity learning to work together, the anchors connecting and supporting, and the problems with the Architect, Ming and scarabs doesn't come up in any way until the last 20%. This method seems to be the usual for the author. The bulk of the book is a romance and development of 2-4 characters and the series progresses its plot only a bit at the end. I always hope for more plot sooner, especially the scientific and medical things they learn.

I am thrilled with this series and it always captures my emotions. I love reading and learning more about all these species and their people. I can't wait for another book and more of this world.

I literally get the shivers when it’s time for a new Nalini Singh Psy/Changeling novel. I’ve loved this world and its beautiful complexity for many years. Deeply layered love with eager and drama is what Singh does best. This was no exception. Brava!

Anything written by Nalini Singh is a must-read, but RESONANCE SURGE is one that will have you lost in this intriguing world and leave you wanting more

Reviewed by Annetta Sweetko for Fresh Fiction

https://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=83067

A joint review appeared on our blog on July 23, 2023. Here is an excerpt:

Janine: I groaned when I heard this would be a bear book but I ended up really, really liking Yakov. I thought he was fun, caring and sexy, and that he was right in the happy middle between overbearing or not having enough spine for my taste.

Jennie: Which means of course that it’s our heroine, Theo, who has to be uber-tortured and convinced that she is unworthy of love. Theo does indeed have tragically traumatic background – rejected by her powerful family due to her apparent lack of psychic gifts; separated from her beloved twin at an early age and subjected to abuse from her evil grandfather, who she fears used her to carry out dark deeds. Adult Theo has a lot of anger and guilt. She meets Yakov when they are tasked with working together to uncover the mystery behind a secret “rehabilitation center” owned and operated by Theo’s family.

Janine: I really liked Theo’s anger. We don’t really encounter a lot of angry heroines in romance even now, and I haven’t seen many in Singh’s. I liked that Theo’s anger manifested in dangerous ways that were not entirely under her control, but she didn’t want to harm anyone and that tortured her.

The full review can be found here: https://dearauthor.com/book-reviews/review-joint-review-resonance-surge-by-nalini-singh/

Another strong installment in what is now a very long series. However, the main action takes place in only about 4 days, and although the timeline is nearly as brief in Storm Echo, that was preceded by the pair having a past with each other, which is not the case here. I really hope that Singh is not going to continue with these insta-relationships, which she has done several times recently (most notably the instant mating in Alpha Night).

I really liked that for once she is writing about a low-grade Psy; Theo is only a 2.7 TK. It's a good reminder that not everyone in the Psy world is a 9 or stronger, as it's so common with the other Psy she's written about.

I'll also be amused if the pattern of Trinity - so far - holds up and having had one story set in Russia, we're "somewhere else" before being back in California.

Theodora “Theo” Marshall has been raised to believe she’s worthless as a 2.7 Telekinetic Psy. The only reason her evil grandfather, Councilor Marshall Hyde didn’t have her murdered is because her death would’ve affected her twin, Pax, a gradient 9. Theo and Pax have stuck together over the years despite their grandfather’s efforts to split them up. Thankfully, her grandfather is dead and now Pax is the head of the Marshall house.

When Pax notices that a supposedly decommissioned “rehabilitation” center is still drawing money he sends Theo, the only family he trusts, to investigate. Being that it’s in the StoneWater Pack territory, she’s assigned a bear escort, Yakov Stepyrev.

Yakov has had dreams of his mate since the age of sixteen, but only lately has those dreams turned into nightmares with the woman drenched in blood, dying. Little does he know that he’s about to come face to face with her when he’s assigned to escort Theo.

My heart ached at the abuse that Theodora suffered at the hands of her grandfather, a truly evil man! It seems to me in Silence the Psy race committed the worst atrocities. The rehabilitation centers were free to lock up “defective” Psy, those who couldn’t go Silent by suppressing emotion, and do a mental wipe, or worse. Investigating the center loosens traumatic memories for Theo, and Yakov can’t hold his protective instincts back. Just in time too, because there’s danger stalking Theo.

Resonance Surge was mostly Yakov and Theodora’s romance, but we also get the culmination of Pavel, Yakov’s twin brother, and Arwen Merchant’s romance. They’ve been dancing around each other in several of the past books, so it’s been a long time coming! The bears are my favorite changelings: big, boisterous and loving and I just had to laugh at their antics! The way they care for their young cubs just melted my heart! Yakov and Pavel are labeled “Mischief Bear Number One and Mischief Bear Number Two” by their grandmother, and it was fitting! The joy, playfulness and love from the bears was exactly what Theo’s soul needed to heal after her nightmare childhood!

While things wrap up with Theo, Yakov, Pavel and Arwen, the ongoing story arc of the Psy Net crumbling, Scarab Syndrome and the evil trying to destabilize the cooperation between Humans, Psy, and Changelings continues. I’m not sure how it’ll all be solved. Pax, Theo’s twin, also has a threat brewing and I wonder if he’ll be the focus of the next installment. This is a series that’s best read in order. At the very least I’d start from the beginning of the Trinity novels.

FINAL DECISION: I absolutely adored this book. The StoneWater bears have been a highlight in the Trinity series and this book is no exception.

THE STORY: Theodora Marshall is an unremarkable low-gradient Psy, often disregarded by everyone except her fiercely powerful twin brother, Pax. But in their venomous family, Pax's trust in her is unwavering, making Theo the sole person he confides in. The only person Pax entirely trusts, he sends Theo to investigate a hidden chapter of their family's history—an unregistered rehabilitation center initiated by their grandfather.

These Centers, remnants of the Psy silent past, are infamous for inflicting unimaginable pain, psychically erasing the minds of their unfortunate victims, rendering them empty shells. As Theo delves into the truth, she finds herself accompanied by Yakov, the right-hand man in the StoneWater clan. A scowling bear of a man who bears a lineage of foreseers, Yakov is skeptical of Theo, and the fact that he has dreamed of her since he was sixteen is both attractive and dangerous for Yakov. In Yakov's visions, he witnesses Theo's fate—a chilling and relentless surge of blood that seemingly cannot be stopped. Despite the grim foreboding, Theo presses on, determined to reveal the unsettling secrets of the Center and confront the terrifying legacy of her family's past.

OPINION: I loved this book and its characters. The StoneWater bears have been a highlight in the Trinity series, and this book is no exception. Readers are treated in this book to two romances. Not only do we get Yakov and Theo, but the book continues the Trinity romance between Arwen and Pavel. As both Thea and Takov are twins, I very much enjoyed how both sets of twins are central to this story. No one does family and community like Singh. The characters are always in relation to others -- not only the romance but friends and family. These connections always give Singh's stories depth and interest. These are not autonomous people who can do whatever they want. Like all of us, they have constraints upon them if they want to live in relation to others.

This series has plenty of Changeling-Psy pairings, but it is the individuals that make each one unique. I loved Thea and Yakov. Yakov is a strong bear, but also an incredibly caring bear. His connection with Thea is deep, which is important because of her history. The Psy-Changeling series always messages that people are complex and complicated. No characters are easy stereotypes.

Thea is a woman haunted by a past that she only knows in the shadows. Damaged because of treatment by her father, Thea struggles with guilt and anger. In contrast to the era of Silence, Singh's world values characters with all their flaws and limitations. Sometimes in series with characters with amazing powers, value is placed merely upon those with power and uniquely valuable attributes. Singh's characters are often flawed and damaged by their pasts. And yet -- or because of this -- the characters are valued by those in the community.

I always am comforted by Singh's world because there is an underlying decency and goodness where these characters dwell. Love is valued, relationship is valued, and both community and individuality are valued.

The romance here is sexy, but also just feels like a warm hug. Thea needs warmth and caring, and that is what Yakov provides. Definitely strong, but incredibly decent and a man that one just wants to cuddle up with.

The overarching story of Trinity is not advanced much here. There is a sense that some of the major players (perhaps Pax Marshall, who is Thea's brother) need to move into position for the next act in the story. I'm not sure how long the Trinity movement of the Psy-Changeling series will last, but clearly, something major will be coming soon.

WORTH MENTIONING: Kaleb. That's all.

CONNECTED BOOKS: RESONANCE SURGE is the seventh book in the Psy-Changeling Trilogy series. The book is also the twenty-second in the Psy-Changeling series. This book should be read as a part of the series. While I recommend starting from the beginning, a reader can start with the first book in the Psy-Changeling Trilogy series.

STAR RATING: I give this book 5 stars.

NOTE: I received an eARC of this book via Netgalley to prepare a review. I was not required to write a review or to write a positive review. All opinions contained herein are my own.

Nothing is set in stone. The future is ours to shape.

Nalini Singh adds another installment to her wildly popular paranormal/sci-fi series with Resonance Surge. Set in a world of psychics, animal shifters, and humans the Psy-Changeling Trinty series is a spin-off that takes place after the fall of Silence (the complete supression of emotions in the humans gifted with psychic and paranormal abilities). During the Psy-Changeling series, a time when the three groups worked against each other, powerful Psy started to experience subpressed emotions, fall out of the collective “Net” (mind and information link) that they existed dually in, and find mates in the powerful animal shifter packs. This restoration of emotions caused the constrained NetMind to finally crack, shifting the balance of power and creating new alliances between the three groups along with a series of issues and conflicts, which is what the Psy-Changeling Trinity series explores.

Resonance Surge takes us back to the Russian Stonewater bear clan as twins Pavel and Yakov Stepyrev are called to assist low-Gradient Psy, Theodora Marshall, who has been tasked by her powerfurl twin, Pax, in the continued “clean-up” of the fallout from the implementation of Silence. Yakov has “seen” Theo in his dreams for years and now that he knows her in person, will do whatever it takes to help her overcome the trauma of her own brutal Silence experience to show her how to live life to the fullest.

Nalini is a prolific writer and has wonderfully crafted a overreaching story in these two series that melds shifters, science fiction, and spicy hot couples for each book. With 30 books in the original series and Resonance Surge the seventh book in this spinoff series, Nalini has extensive experience in working short-term, personalized stories into a big picture, multi-book plot. While I have enjoyed this new phase in the whole Psy-Changeling world I did think that the main conflict/struggle of the series could have been more prominent in Resonance Surge. I was surprised when Nalini included detailed intimate chapters with Pavel and his male love interest, Arwin, without an LGBTQ tag for readers. I’m sure readers would like to see Pavel and Arwin with their own build-up and relationship story in the future.

Resonance Surge is a good book but better understood and enjoyed as part of the Psy-Changeling Trinity series. Really anything that Nalini writes, especially in this genre, will captivate and entertain you on so many levels so if you haven’t already, take the dive and immerse yourself in the Psy-Changeling world.

This is my favourite paranormal series and every new book is like coming home. I love the familiarity of the world, seeing so many characters from previous books always brings me joy.

The psy and changelings are my favourites in this world and I am always happy when they make up the central couple in the book. Here we got not one but two psy-changeling couples and the first queer one. Yes, Pavel and Arwen came second to Yakov and Theo(dora) but their romance was strongly present and ||they become mated by the end|| which I loved and appreciate as a sign that this is not a heteronormative world after all.

I didn't expect to love the bears but there is so much playfulness about them, they are not the most graceful or athletic of the changelings but they are not just brute force by far. I loved being back in their den.

Theo, like most of the psy we meet has deep scars (mental and physical) from the trauma she suffered in the past. She fights viciously to confront her past, to unravel the secrets and to move forward. And I admire all this.

At the same time, I feel that the torture both physical and mental, the near total destruction of these people (psy) is getting too much. It is there in the back story of so many psy characters in the series and I find it harder and harder to read about it. Yes, they overcome it as best they can, usually with the support of their mate/human partner. There is always hope in the end of these stories. Yet, I am getting tired of the violence, extreme violence they experience in the past. I don't know if I can say it is becoming to feel gratuitous (it still makes sense to me in the psy world) but it is becoming painful for me to read. When I think back on the stories, I don't remember details of the happy ending (it is always there, don't get me wrong) but I remember details of the torture and abuse the characters went through.

This is an overall observation, not a negative assessment of this book. It just all crystalised for me with in this book.

I still love the writing, the complexity of the world, the characters, both main and secondary, are well developed and everyone stands out on there own. I just really need the main arc to take a kinder, more gentle direction, especially with regard to the psy, in the next books.

CW: abuse, violence, child abuse, mental illness

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Theo Marshall is used to being kept in the background. Being a low gradient Tk Psy, most people don't even know she exists. If it wasn't for her twin brother - and heir to the Marshall family - her grandfather would have seen that she disappeared completely. But her grandfather is dead, and Theo's brother Pax is busy wading through the various family secrets.

One such secret involves a reconditioning facility and somehow Theo's name is attached to it. So she heads to the facility's location in Moscow, and because of said location being in bear changeling territory, she gains the help of second-in-command Yakov Stepyrev.

The moment Yakov meets Theo he recognizes her from dreams he's been having for as long as he can remember. With Psy in his family tree it's no wonder that him and his twin Pavel have some kind of cognizance. But when one of his dreams shows Theo dying, he knows that it's somehow tied to the past of this facility.

I liked this installment in the series more than I was prepared to. I've always felt like the original Psy-Changeling series built up each succeeding set of characters so well that I was always excited to learn about which pair would get the next story. For me, I have not always felt this way about the Trinity series. I've enjoyed the books, but often find myself not knowing or remembering who some of the characters are or where we may have seen them previously. It's made it a little more difficult to get into the series. I understand some of this comes from this series being absolutely massive.

I'm always interested in learning about the history of this world created by Nalini Singh. I just feel like it's so rich with so many, for better or worse, unexplored areas. We get a lot of that with this one, digging even deeper into the true toxicity that Silence festered in the name of control. But it's varied with seeing the progress being made, new relationships being formed, people breaking out of Silence.

Nalini Singh gave readers a huge reveal at the end of Storm Echo, but Resonance Surge pulls back on dealing directly with many of the overarching storylines and instead is more insular to the characters. I'm a little surprised at this, but I feel like it's all part of the bigger build up for the series as a whole to get all the pieces in place.

I really liked Theo. You sympathize with what she's had to endure in her life, not quite measuring up to the Marshall standards and being wronged in so many ways. She's resilient though. Yes, her past effects her deeply, but she keeps moving forward. She wants to correct the wrongs done to others no matter how it might reflect on the family. And though he's secondary to Theo, I felt like the sibling/twin connection with Pax was deftly felt. I don't think Pax's side of the story is over, so I'm betting on Theo being a prominent component when Pax gets his book.

Honestly, I typically don't prefer the love at first sight trope. While I wouldn't necessarily specifically call it that, because of Yakov's dreams, he's already set on Theo being an important part in his life before he's met her. Meaning, pretty much upon physically meeting her, their course it set in his mind. In Resonance Surge somehow Nalini Singh gets this to work for me. Partly, I think there's a mystery surrounding it. They're dreams, they're malleable. It's figuring out how we get from the current point to the point in Yakov's dreams that drives the story for me. But there's so many moving parts that I don't know if it got the full attention deserved. Theo and Yakov are the main couple, but we also have Pavel and Arwen who I would say have just as satisfying a relationship arc here that Theo and Yakov do. We also get Pax's perspective a few times and coupled with the chapter headers which have always been another story unto themselves, and there's a lot going on. Yes it all works together to form the conclusion, but there were times I felt like the balance was off.

Overall, though, you can't go wrong with Nalini Singh and the Psy-Changeling series in particular is a great example of a long-running series done right. Of course, it ends on quite the potential twist that I cannot wait to see how the repercussions resonate throughout the rest of the series.