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Kiss of Snow
by
Nalini Singh
It is part of the Psy-Changeling #10 series and is a paranormal romance in Paperback edition that was published by Gollancz on May 31, 2011 and has 432 pages.
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Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Must Love Hellhounds, An Enchanted Season, Archangel's Blade, Angels of Darkness, Lord of the Abyss, Desert Warrior, Angels' Flight, Tangle of Need, Play of Passion, Archangel's Storm, Wild Invitation, Heart of Obsidian, Archangel's Legion, "Hide and Seek", "Making Dinner", Shield of Winter, "A Conversation", "Home", Angels' Pawn, "New Year's Kisses", Night Shift, "Weapons Training", "Zoë's Workshop", "Wild Night", Archangel's Shadows, Archangel’s Enigma, Shards of Hope, “Fairy Balloons”, “An Unexpected Guest”, Allegiance of Honor, "The Song of the Wolf", Silver Silence, Archangel’s Heart, Archangel’s Viper, Ocean Light, "Elena's School of Horror", Cherish Hard, "Ain’t No Party Like A Bear Party", Archangel's Prophecy, "One Night At The Refuge", "Secret Things", Rebel Hard, Rock Hard, Wolf Rain, "Clean and Dirty", "Wolf School", "Naya’s Most Important Visitors", "Grocery Shopping", "The Cannibal Princess", "A Gift for Kit", "Movie Night", "Kaleb and Sahara’s Meeting with Sascha and Lucas", "Housewarming at the Orchard", "Christmas in the Kitchen", "Stalking Hawke", "Romancing Drew", "Sunday Morning", "Rowan", "Baubles & Ben", Wild Embrace, Love Hard, Rock Addiction, "Music Awards", Rock Courtship, "Rock Courtship Memo"s, Rock Redemption, "Sunshine", Rock Wedding, "With This Memo", "That Lip Ring…", A Madness of Sunshine, "Beary Tiny Ghosts", Alpha Night, "A Wedding Breakfast", "Poker Night", "Knives and Sheaths", "Seedlings", "Star Kissed", "A Walk on the Cliffs", "Wild Cat Blues", Slave to Sensation, Caressed by Ice, Visions of Heat, Kiss Hard, Angels' Blood, Archangel's Kiss, Archangel's War, Archangel's Sun, Archangel's Light, Archangel's Resurrection, Last Guard, “A Perfect Moment”, "Music in the Rain", Storm Echo, Resonance Surge, "Mate", “New Year’s Eve”, Archangel's Lineage, Visions of Heat, Mine to Possess, Hostage to Pleasure, Branded by Fire, Blaze of Memory
Tenth in the Psy-Changeling paranormal romance series set outside a somewhat futuristic San Francisco.
In 2012, Kiss of Snow won the DABWAHA Romance Tournament for Best Paranormal/Urban Fantasy/Science Fiction Romance; in 2011, it won the Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award for Best Paranormal.
My Take
Oh man, if you like a dominant male…you MUST read Kiss of Snow — Hawke could rival Curran from Kate Daniels or Bones from Night Huntress for hotness…!
Lots of fighting in Kiss of Snow. Hawke is fighting his attraction to Sienna. Walker is fighting his attraction to Lara. There is polite friction amongst the Arrows as the debate between Psy and Pure Psy heats up, as Silence begins to fall.
Hawke fights and struggles with his attraction to Sienna and she knocks down every one of his excuses. Sometimes with reason. Sometimes with attacks on his possessive side when she taunts him with the males she attracts to her. It’s a fascinating combination of dominant alpha and playful wolf. Too much fun to be missed!
When Scott’s attack does come, Sienna’s final actions are very confusing. Once she enters fugue, she cannot tell the difference between friend or enemy and her control has been failing for days now. It takes forever [or seems like it] before we learn what did happen.
What does save them all is amazing.
The Story
Henry Scott has plotted and planned, determined that his vision of Pure Psy will prevail. He is determined to destroy everyone in San Francisco: the Psy and the SnowDancer and DarkRiver clans.
The Characters
There are three species in the world: the Psy, the changelings, and the humans. The Psy have been the power in the world for years, but now the changelings are defying them, and that just doesn’t fit in with the Psys’ vision of the world.
Sienna Lauren is Psy, X-Psy to be exact. She and her family defected from the PsyNet and sought refuge with SnowDancer.
SnowDancer is…
…the wolf pack led by Hawke, their Alpha.
DarkRiver is…
…the cat pack. Both packs formed an alliance early on in the series to protect themselves from the Psy. Since that initial alliance, they have formed more.
The Psys are…
…taught almost from birth to be emotionless. They call this the Silence. Henry Scott is one of the psy on the council.
The Cover and Title
The eye candy, er, I mean the hunky torso on the cover with its gleaming six-pack and the hands undoing the top button of those jeans…drool…along with the wolf howling are perfect. The title, Kiss of Snow, makes no sense until the last three words of the story…no peeking!
