The Society

by Lilith Saintcrow

Book Overview

Will she be the Society's salvation . . . or its downfall?

The black-ops government agency called Sigma broke Justin Delgado, trained his psionic talent, and turned him into a killer. Then he escaped and joined the Society, an underground resistance movement of psions determined to use their talents to bring Sigma down. Competent, cold, and cruelly efficient, he's the best operative the Society has, a legend among the psions who fight...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933417587
• ISBN13: 9781933417585
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Imajinn Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Once you start to read this book, you can't stop!

Fast paced book. Good charactor development. I just was going to 'look' at it before I went to sleep. I didn't put it down until the finished in the wee hours. Purchased sequal the next day.

keeps you on edge

Rowan Price is a nurse in a mental health hospital. She has a remarkable ability to calm the most agitated patients. And she'll do anything to hide her 'special' ability from the outside world. On her way home from work one night, she runs into some people in an abandoned house, and starts a chain of events that starts tumbling like dominoes. Justin Delgado was one of the people investigating the 'haunted' house. When he sees Rowan Price, he knows, immediately, how special she is. He saves her from an abduction in the grocery store parking lot, and once again from a home invasion. Rowan goes with Justin in a state of shock, part of it that she can't believe there are other people like her in the world, people who belong to The Society. The Society works against a government agency called Sigma. Sigma recruits (or kidnaps) people with psionic talents and trains them to use their abilities - not always for the best. Justin knows this, from experience, as he was trained by Sigma to kill with his talents, but he was able to escape. Rowan has the strongest psi talent anyone has ever seen, and she begins to wonder which side is the good side. Just when Rowan begins to trust Justin and The Society, their stronghold is overtaken by Sigma operatives... Pretty good novel, followed by HUNTER, HEALER, which I haven't read yet. Lots of suspense, not cozy.

Deserves more than 5 stars

This book blew me away! Rowan Price always thought of herself as a freak due to the feelings she'd get. One night coming home from her job as a nurse at a state mental hospital, she stops to investigate a light in a supposedly empty and haunted house. Instead of ghosts, she finds members of the Society who recognize her as an individual with incredible psionic talent. The Society decides to voluntarily recruit her in order to save her from Signma, a black ops government agency that forcibly recruits their members. Unfortunately, Sigma tries to kidnap her first and Society member Justin Delgado has to intervene. Justin was formerly a member of Sigma and knows how far they will go to keep those of psionic talent under their control; while in Sigma, he was tortured and addicted to the drug Zed. Justin trains Rowan but she begins to heal his heart. Sigma still wants Rowan, however, as she has powers beyond any previously tested. A trap is set and Justin is captured. The book ends with a cliffhanger and thankfully the next book in the series is already out so I can see what happens! Lilith Saintcrow has written a very powerful story that deserves far more than five stars. Highly recommended!

More people should be reading this author!

What is a psion? Do you feel things differently? Can you move things with your mind? Can you set things on fire just by thinking about it? If you can do anything like this then you are a psion and the government wants you! In fact they will pretty much do anything to get you. Kill your friends, family, and pretty much anyone that gets in the way. Rowan Price knows that she is different. She feels the pain of it every day. She tries her best to live a normal life though and even becomes a nurse because she knows that somehow she can help people. A secret government organization known as Sigma wants her though. They are evil and want to train her to be one of their operatives. Their version of training is getting her hooked on drugs and combining that with electric shock therapy. The Society is Sigma's counterpart. They want to find psions and save them from Sigma; training them and giving them the choice for how they want to live their lives. Rowan is brought in to the Society by Justin Delgado, a former Sigma operative. The Society saved him and he wants to save Rowan. Read this book to find out how he does it. Their story is crazy, romantic, suspenseful and best of all it isn't over!

A keeper you can't put down

The Society is a keep-you-up-too-late book. I couldn't put it down until I finished it. It's an urban fantasy, set in the real world, about people with inherent psychic powers. A covert arm of our government kidnaps these people and coerces them by drug addiction and torture to use their powers as formidable weapons. The heroine knows shes "different" but has denied it all her life. She lives a quiet life working as a psychiatric nurse and doesn't realize the existence of Sigma, the covert government black ops organization. But when she meets a man who wants to recruit her for an organization that opposes the secret government operation, The Society, danger threatens her former life and everything in it she cares about. The book ends on a cliffhanger. I was so into the story, I wanted more! I can't wait for the sequel. Saintcrow stands with the best as far as narrative drive, and her characters are real and often flawed.