This review was first posted on http://www.rubysreads.com. 
 Let me put your mind at rest: Kiss of Snow is worth every second of the wait. When a title is as highly anticipated as this one, the possibility of disappointment is high. Hawke and Sienna's romance has been building since book one. That's five years, and it feels like longer. In the meantime, we've had some awesome installments in an amazing series, and just when the stories started to lose a bit of their allure for me, Nalini Singh hit it out of the ballpark again with Play of Passion. Just in time to act as a good omen for KoS. 
 Few authors create alpha heroes and consistently pair them with equally strong heroines. Nalini Singh is the mistress of this feat, and Kiss of Snow was no exception. If you've been following the series--and honestly, I doubt you be interested in this book if you weren't--you know the basics. Hawke is the alpha of SnowDancer, and when was young, he met the girl he thought would be his mate. Before either of them were of an age for a romantic relationship, the girl died. Because wolves mate for life, Hawke believes that the only relationship he can now offer a woman isn't much to offer at all. 
 Meanwhile, Sienna has her own problems. She's the only X-Psy to live into adulthood, and none of the ones that did had Sienna's cardinal designation. Sienna's control is tenuous, at best. The jumble of feelings she has for Hawke don't help her mental situation at all. She basically figures it's only a matter of time before she self-destructs. And with Hawke playing push-pull all the time, she doesn't have much of a chance to live out what remains of her life. 
 In any Nalini Singh novel you know the hero and heroine belong together. The question is how they'll get there. For Hawke and Sienna, it's delicious. There's a particular bar scene where the endearment "baby" is used that I've reread so many times the ink is starting to fade. Hawke and Sienna's courtship alternates between playful and intense. Well, no, I take that back. It's intense at all time. I enjoyed how the buildup (and there's a lot) was about more than foreplay--or, rather, that the spending of time together in non-sexual situations was part of the foreplay. Not that any of the time they spent together was non-sexual, strictly speaking. 
 I did have a few quibbles, and I want to mention them, but they're a tad spoilery, so watch out. For one thing, Hawke comes scarily close to sleeping with another woman, especially since I abhor it when the hero thinks he has to sleep with someone else in order to "save" the heroine, or "for the good of the pack." Luckily, Sienna nips that in the bud, and I don't think Hawke would have been able to go through with it, in the end. I was also frustrated when Hawke decided that they can be together but Sienna will never be his mate. The cheek! It's like telling someone that you'll be with them forever, but don't expect more than that. Finally, I wish the moment when the mating bond finally snaps into place had been given a little more attention. I was more eagerly anticipating that moment than their sex scenes. I wanted to know what Hawke was thinking, and feeling, rather than have him explain it to Sienna later. 
 In all, though, I can't praise Kiss of Snow highly enough. I loved it, I will continue to love it and I want to get down on my knees and say a prayer of thanks for being on the same planet, at the same, time as Nalini Singh. 
 Now that I'm finished with my review, I can give you the most awesomely awesome news ever: Tomorrow, I'll be posting my interview with Nalini Singh. Are you so excited? Yeah, me too.