Saturday, August 7, 2021

Review: Last Guard by Nalini Singh

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Title: Last Guard
Series: Psy-Changeling, Psy-Changeling Trinity
Author: Nalini Singh
Read copy: eBook (Kindle)
Published: July 20, 2021
Publisher: Berkley
ASIN: B08NSVK45F

Termed merciless by some, and a robotic sociopath by others, Payal Rao is the perfect Psy: cardinal telekinetic, CEO of a major conglomerate, beautiful—and emotionless.

For Canto Mercant, family and loyalty are everything. A cardinal telepath deemed "imperfect" by his race due to a spinal injury, Canto cares for the opinions of very few—and ruthlessly protects those he claims as his own. Head of intel of the influential Mercant family, he prefers to remain a shadow in the Net, unknown and unseen. But Canto is also an Anchor, part of a secretive designation whose task it is to stabilize the PsyNet. Now that critical psychic network is dying, threatening to collapse and kill the entire Psy race with it.

To save those he loves, Canto needs the help of a woman bound to him by a dark past neither has been able to forget. A woman who is the most powerful Anchor of them all: Payal Rao. Neither is ready for the violent inferno about to ignite in the PsyNet...or the passionate madness that threatens to destroy them both.

My rating:

They met thirty years ago in a school for "flawed" Psy whose parents wanted hidden from the world, their bond forged in darkness, pain and blood...Now, they meet again, in another era of darkness, pain and blood, as the PsyNet is slowly breaking apart, held together by the resilience of the most mysterious designation of them all. A for Anchors, the Last Guard of the Psy.


Nalini Singh seldom disappoints, but I feared this might be the case in this book, since it featured main characters readers of this series have never met before. I couldn't have been more wrong and I couldn't have been more happy about it.

This was a poignant, dramatic, angsty, edgy story about discovering and finding your true self and accepting yourself flaws and all. Payal and Canto were amazing characters, their Silence (if it ever existed) fractured a long time ago, wonderfully flawed, wonderfully angry and perfect both individually and as a (power) couple they ended up being.
They complimented each other, Canto with his bearish openness and protectiveness and Payal with her "robotic" standoffish self-protection. They smoothed each other's edges and brought out the best in the other, working together, making each other stronger. I loved their romance, but most of all I loved their story of discovery and growth.

It was nice seeing glimpses of other, more known characters and the progress of the "war effort" so far. The Architect is growing into her big-bad status, delusions and all and the future looks grim. I can't wait to see what happens next, no with the Anchors finally under the spotlight and all the new revelations.

Gripping from start to finish, though these "one of the MCs is in deadly danger that's solved at the last possible moment" ploys are getting quite repetitive.

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