REVIEW UP 
 Story: 2 stars 
 Characters: 3 stars 
 Overall: 2.75 stars 
 I didn't love it. 
 And I tried, I really did. 
 I didn't hate it, I just didn't ....love it either. I'm struggling on how to rate this to be honest. The idea of this was kinda interesting. But the execution overall left a lot be desired for me. This kind of futuristic PR/UF isn't really my thing (at all) but I keep seeing her books everywhere and so many of my Goodreads friends praise her work that I finally caved. My first attempt I didn't get very far and stopped. The second time was more successful, initially. It started off fine but things just petered out quickly and I think both the writing and characters didn't help. I just wanted more overall. There were so many elements used here that I'm generally not a fan of so already the deck was stacked high. 
 For me the whole Psy thing was very challenging and hard to find interest in. 
 They are a clinical, blunt, emotionless race who are conditioned and monitored to not show emotions or feelings of any kind. Psy can't feel anything or react in anyway, the more detached you are the more "pure" you are considered. The more psychic ability? (still not sure) you have, the stronger you are considered. They don't even believe in having sex, especially for procreating. 
 Such an incredibly bland and tiring way to live. I kept thinking of A.i Artificial intelligence with the robots while reading this. 
 But without the emotional punch. 
 The mysterious flawed Psy who is suddenly feeling things is interesting on paper but not so interesting in how Singh went about it. With the Psy race you are already given blank canvases to start off with, but even with that, I needed a little more humanity and depth to it. Even with the 'glitches' and abnormalities that our heroine Sascha was dealing with, I struggled to feel anything for her besides frustration. And it's not entirely her fault. A good 80% of this book is just this: 
 Those who felt any emotion were the enemy....and enemies were to be shown no pity. 
 If he even suspected that there was something not quite right about her, then she might as well sign her death warrant. Internment at the Center was nothing less than a living death anyway. 
 The Psy were very, very careful that the world never saw their mistakes, their flawed ones. No had ever successfully fought the Council after being slated for rehabilitation. 
 She didn't protest. No real Psy would. He knew the way so it made for him to drive. But she wasn't a normal Psy and she wanted to tell him to keep his autocratic commands to himself. 
 But she was Psy and she wasn't allowed to laugh. 
 Copy, paste and repeat. Literally this is all you keep getting on every single page. Repetitive info dumping with no change or new information. She can't feel this, she can't feel that, she wishes she could express this and express that...so on and so on. I get it....but why keep telling me? It just became monotonous really fast and slowed the pacing to a turtle's pace. The only thing that made me keep reading was the fact that a 'perfect' Psy was showing glitches and something was wrong with her. But I failed to see Sascha come to life beyond learning to flirt and lusting after a sexy Panther changeling. Her personality (and lack there of) never really developed further than a strained laugh. 
 And the villain who is kidnapping and torturing changeling women was so obvious and predictable from page 1, I'm amazed there was no twist. Like....really? 
 That's it? 
 The whole PsyNet network was way too abstract and muddled to follow along. I mean overall it made sense but when it came down to the nitty-gritty details like the heroine navigating the Net and "shadowing" someone else's mind or mimicking a Changeling mind I felt the writing really fumbled to illustrate what exactly was going on. It just came off too hazy, extremely tedious and convoluted. I kept losing my patience with it. The escape scene where Sascha is trying to escape the killer in her mind, which is supposed to be the suspenseful apex part of the book is perfect example of that. It was so anticlimactic and fell flat. 
 I'm not a fan of shapeshifters. I'm not. Maybe because the thought of a human being attracted to an animal just wigs me out (like bears, tigers and panthers oh my!). But the hero Lucas wasn't bad, just not interesting enough. I found him two dimensional to be honest. He's a typical pack alpha as you'd expect with a sob story to go with it of losing his parents at a young age but he never stood out to me or won me over. I found him cliche and unoriginal. And his panther side came off strangely like an afterthought. The physical form that is, we get plenty of his thoughts & reactions from both his human and panther side but seeing him physically shift to his panther form wasn't as amazing and fantastic as I thought it would be. It was entirely glossed over. I mean the heroine gets to see him shift finally in the epilogue. WTH? The epilogue? Really? Why? I found that underwhelming and so late. I guess this is why I struggled with the overall world building Sigh created here, I found it thin. All the fundamental important interesting details that make the world standout were kind of missing. I mean you have guys shift from human to panther during a stakeout but somehow manage to make calls on cellphones from up in random trees?? How? They are buck naked with no clothes on once they change forms. So how does that work? And who has actual houses on the ground and who lives in trees? Lucas has his lair up in a tree (with running water, kitchen and shower and all) but the others live in houses on the ground? Why? Explain to your readers the rules you set up for your world, I shouldn't have to guess. 
 So overall wasn't crazy about this but willing to give Singh another shot. The Psy aspect still worries me but I will give a few more books a try. Vaughn and Hawke have caught my interest enough to keep me sticking around for now. I definitely want to read Hawke's book, just crossing my fingers I can read a few books before jumping ahead to get to his book. :P