This was a random top-of-the-science-fiction-shelf used bookstore find. The dreary spine lured me in, the cover interesting, the tagline promising. How am I almost always wrong? 
 We're promised some sort of science fiction political thrills-what delivered is a trainwreck of stream-of-conscious writing. Sira is missing vital memories and her only hope is to follow the compulsion in her mind to find Jason Morgan, who may have a key to unlocking what was hidden. Unfortunately, Sira has a knack for getting captured. The entire book follows the pattern: 
 Sira falls asleep 
 Sira is captured 
 Plot device to escape 
 Sira falls asleep 
 Sira is captured 
 Plot device to escape 
 That's it. You know the entire book now. Sira goes from one set of hands to another; sometimes she escapes of her own power, sometimes Morgan swoops in from nowhere. Oh, but don't worry, it's explained how he can always find her. Morgan is a human with telepathy... oh, and Sira can use telepathy too! So they start an Edward/Bella bond where Sira is compelled to be around Morgan, but wait, she's a strong independent woman! What she doesn't understand is that her biology is hardwired to find her soulmate, because although she looks human, she's actually Clan. Yeah, it doesn't make much sense in the book, either. Let me share this, though. Apparently when a Clanswoman finds her man, her body transforms from a waifish stick to a full figured woman. Mhmm. It's a thing, I guess. 
 Anyway, the writing is stiff and unnecessarily formal. The characters are boring and one dimensional. Sira is, not surprisingly, a boring narrator. Nothing really jumps from the book except in the final seventy pages when things get interesting. When the other characters are left behind and the real Sira revealed, and why she had to take this trip, it's pretty smart. The ending was pretty darn good compared to the rest but then the "Plot device to escape" comes back and it's dragged down into mediocrity. 
 Czerneda had a good idea but it wasn't fleshed out enough. Page count does not equal quality; half of the pages could have been cut and made a tighter plot. Maybe next time? 
 My one absolute favorite thing about this book? No sex. It's obvious it would turn into a romance somewhere, but even the relationship between Sira and Morgan is stiff enough that nothing ever comes from it-there's no random sex scene!