Slave to Sensation was, surprisingly, decently written despite the fact that it's a "romance" novel. There's lots and lots of bits about nipples and thrusting and rippling muscles. Fortunately those parts are mercifully brief. There's relatively little romance though, in the sense of exploring a growing and interesting relationship. The male lead is a brute pirate, the female a repressed librarian, although both roles have been updated to "science fiction". Both of them even have magic eyes, a staple of the Mary-Sue writer. 
 Go into this book expecting a bodice-ripper rather than a thoughtful SF novel. I was put off by how unlikeable both societies (shape-shifter and psy) were, which works well in YA dystopian writings but not so much on the swooning circuit. Despite that, the book was a quick read, relatively enjoyable, but I doubt I'm going to seek out the other half dozen or more in the series.