Blaze of Memory

by Nalini Singh

Book Overview

Nalini Singh returns to the Psy/Changeling world and its "breathtaking blend of passion, adventure, and the paranormal"* as a woman without a past becomes the pawn of a man who controls her future...

Dev Santos discovers her unconscious and battered, with no memory of who she is. All she knows is that she's dangerous. Charged with protecting his people's most vulnerable secrets, Dev is duty-bound to eliminate all threats. It's a task...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425231119
• ISBN13: 9780425231111
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.3" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Five Stars

I loved this story. Even though this is a fairly lengthy novel, it moved really fast. I'm always impressed with Nalini Singh's alpha males, and the complementing females, as they move through the pages of her story. In particular this novel was interesting to me, because of the novelty of Dev's "gift." Right through to the end of the book, I was unable to make a good guess how the story was going to end. Singh's world building is wonderful, and captivating. I love the series, and the re-appearance of familiar faces from earlier stories. The world continues to expand on itself, and always manages to keep me enthralled. I really enjoyed the story of Dev and Katya's association/relationship. I especially appreciated that there wasn't any use of character deception, a too-commonly used tool for conflict in romances. Singh did a great job with Katya, keeping her honest and on the level with Dev, and potential dangers that she represented. It was another great read of the Psy-Changeling series. Dev is probably my second most favorite of her heroes, after Judd Lauren from Caressed by Ice.

Great addition to Psy-Changeling Series!

I got Blaze of Memory on my Kindle the second it came out, and stayed up all night finishing it (work tomorrow will be hard with no sleep!). This is a great addition to the Psy-Changeling series - worth the wait. Katya and Dev's story is both fulfilling and heartbreaking. It had me in tears. This was a true love story with an excellent plot and story line. I was both glad and sorry when I finished, and am looking forward to the next book. There are threads in the story that weren't completely fleshed out (Sunshine, Alaska segment), and I'm assuming these will be addressed in later books. Nalini does a great job of keeping her series 'in sync' and not leaving a lot of loose ends.

Don't forget the box of tissues!

I won't bother going into detail about the plot of this book since the other reviewers have already done an excellent job of that. I will start by stating that Nalini Singh has done it again and written another page turner with a strong story arc that just keeps getting better and better as her books in this series continue. It is obvious that she has taken a lot of time, effort and done some strong editing to make this series, and the world building within it, the best, most tightly focused and complex that it could possibly be. Obviously she has seriously thought through this current story arc which will come to an end in book 10 of the series(Hawkes YEAH!!). For that reason alone I cannot recommend this book as a stand alone, there is just too much back story that is relevant to the current book, and though enough is explained within it not to be lost, knowing what has happened in the previous books adds a richness all its own to reading this one. This author knows how to keep her world building believable(if such a thing is possible in a paranormal) and consistant throughout all seven books. I especially appreciate this since another well known author ruined any paranormal series for me for a long time with her 'swiss cheese' world building and urban fantasy switch five books into an otherwise fantastic vampire romance series. Nalini Singh has given me faith in following through on another paranormal series again and that means a great deal to an avid reader like myself. As for the story itself, I must admit that I wasn't expecting much from this one since I do have a real weakness for the changeling world and its culture(and those yummy changeling men!)and am just not as interested in the human part of the world. Well, I was proven wrong with this book. Since the hero, Devraj Santos, is actually a part of The Forgotten and not what I would consider a human, it was Katya as the heroine who proved to be the most human in her reactions even though she was a Psy. The obstacles presented with breaking Silence were not needed in this book MILD SPOILER ALERT...................................since Councilor Ming Le Bon had already torn into her mind and broken it during his torture and re-conditioning of her mind to become his mole. This made her responses to Dev much more believable since she was 'broken' already, as well as giving the story arc a chance to move along at a much faster pace than the last book (lots of changeling men and hot sex in that one so no complaints there). Overall I was truly enjoying the story, as well as the other subplots in the book (I got to see Vasic the teleporter again, when will he get his own book?), so as I neared the end I was ready to give it a solid 4 stars (no matter what it just can't be a 5 star without my changeling men I thought), when the last few chapters blindsided me. I will state right off that I rarely cry when I read books, especially romances, so it was a total surprise to find myself blubberin

Well-worth waiting for!

Are you already a fan of Nalini Singh's Psy-Changeling series, like me? Provided that is the case, I'm sure that you have been eagerly waiting for "Blaze of Memory", book 7 in the series. To avoid the suspense, let me tell you first that this book is well-worth the waiting period. As the other books that came before it, this is a well-written paranormal romance novel that combines action and interesting characters, fitting seamlessly with the rest of the series, and the original world that Nalini created. In this opportunity, the main character is Dev Santos, the Director of the Shine Foundation and a man whose main task is to protect the gifted children that some in the Psy Council seek to destroy. But what will he do when this need to protect clashes with his attraction to Katya, an amnesic Psy woman that might well be a covert assassin sent to kill him and his people? If you don`t have the faintest idea what that very fast summary was about, you are new to the series. In that case, don`t worry, you can always catch up, but I suggest you to begin by reading the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, "Slave to sensation". I suppose you could read "Blaze of memory" as a standalone, but by doing so you won`t be able to appreciate the textured world Nalini Singh created, or understand so well dynamics that are explained in the part of the story arch covered in previous books. On the whole, "Blaze of memory" is a great book in an excellent series that deserves to be read in order, so that you can fully enjoy it. Highly recommended... Belen Alcat