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Allegiance of Honor (Psy-Changeling, #15)

Nalini Singh

Start date: July 1, 2016

Finish date: July 31, 2016

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Dec 18, 2015 D.G. rated it it was ok

Shelves: reviewed, paranormal-romance, favorite-series, wtf

What a dud.

I’ve been a great fan of this series ever since I read the first book, almost 7 years ago. In fact, this series is the reason why I got into the paranormal genre (I was never a fan of Twlight.) From the beginning, I loved the combination of impossible love stories with plots full of action and incredible twists. ALL of that was missing in this book.

Allegiance of Honor was completely unnecessary, a book without plot and no main couple. Instead, we’re treated to almost 500 pages of dail What a dud.

I’ve been a great fan of this series ever since I read the first book, almost 7 years ago. In fact, this series is the reason why I got into the paranormal genre (I was never a fan of Twlight.) From the beginning, I loved the combination of impossible love stories with plots full of action and incredible twists. ALL of that was missing in this book.

Allegiance of Honor was completely unnecessary, a book without plot and no main couple. Instead, we’re treated to almost 500 pages of daily scenes from the couples we’ve met in the previous 14 books (and some of the novellas) doing exciting things such as: Babysitting! Doing business! Visiting friends! Going to birthday parties! Eating! Exercising! Party planning! 9/10 of the book was boring as hell, not at all what I’m used to from this series.

The book description alludes to a threat to Naya’s life and a kidnapped changeling but both things were very peripheral to the “story”. The first was solved in ONE PAGE (I didn’t even have time to be afraid for them) and the kidnapping was secondary. Ms. Singh pretty much used this book to set up the next series and to tie some loose ends. Belatedly, she realized that she had left the humans in the lurch, pretty much at the mercy of the Psy and Changelings so she found a way around that. She also realized nobody was ever satisfied with the Riaz mating situation (more in this review) so she tried to fix that. Sadly, the new explanation didn’t work either.

Yes, there was sex and alone time between couples but there was so much sameness (everybody loved each other very much, was blissfully happy, blah, blah, blah) that there was no excitement whatsoever.

Ms. Singh also proved that she’s never been around toddlers because Naya’s not a real child, she’s a caricature. She’s smart, she’s cute, she worries about others, she behaves, she’s a strong Psy, she can shift, she never cries or throw tantrums, sleeps all night, never fights with other children, never scratches and doesn’t do stupid shit. And she’s only 1-year old! Her job is to be ADORBS to show what great parents Sasha and Lucas are (snort). I dislike spoiled children with a passion and I kept thinking that if they kept treating her like that, she would become the most spoiled kid in the universe.

Before reading this book, I would have said I was going to read the new series without hesitation but now I’m not so sure. If this is the kind of books Ms. Singh will be writing moving forward, then I’m out.

Review first posted at Badass Book Reviews. Thanks to Netgalley and Berkley/NAL for providing an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. ...more

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Sep 13, 2015 Dina rated it really liked it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, ebook, series-psy-changeling, to-blog

As Ms. Singh says in the introduction of this book, "[the previous book] Shards of Hope closed what I think of as the first arc, or season one, of the series, while also opening season two. Before we dive fully into the next arc, however, I want to take a look back and see how far the world and its characters have come since [the first book] Slave to Sensation." On that note, I think that Allegiance of Honor is a must-read to anyone who's been following the Psy-Changeling series, because we get ...more

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Sep 14, 2015 Shawna rated it really liked it

Shelves: favorite-romance-series, 4-to-5-stars, pnr-weres-cats-wolves-shifters, a-all-time-favorite-hh-couples, heroine-uber-damaged-scarred, loved-you-from-afar-or-for-years, favorite-romance-couple-hh-pairings, married-couples-married-convenience, hero-daddy-warbucks-wealthy, heartwarming

4.5 stars - Paranormal/Sci-Fi Romance

Singh continues to astonish me with this amazing, incomparable series, even after 15 books!

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Aug 16, 2020 Midu Hadi rated it it was ok

Shelves: missing-shelf, shifters, middlers, read-in-august, reviewed, psy-changelings, want-physical-copies, psy-changeling-series, series-completion-in-progress, 400-500

So, this book was the most filler book of em all. All we get to see is how life is for the various couples from the previous books in this series. Other than adults cooing at their kids and that of others, not much happens in this one. After one scene -- or ten -- like that, it begins to get on your nerves. Ms. Singh also likes to tie up things up neatly, so we also get to find out that the boy with cardinal eyes who'd saved Anne was none other than Caleb. I think the major takeaway for fans her ...more

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