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Date read: August 28, 2025
Kinsmen
1. Silent Blade
2. Silver Shark - Kindle
2.5. A Mere Formality
3. Fated Blades
The Kinsmen Universe (#1, 2, 2.5) - Paperback | Kindle
Ilona Andrews
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.Thoughts on Silver Shark: Claire's world implodes pretty impressively in the blink of an eye. She goes from being a powerful psycher in an endless war to the war suddenly being over and she has to figure out how to hide herself from anyone who might use (or flat-out destroy) a weapon like her. So she does what any good soldier would do and stuffs her ability down so that she can survive.
In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield...and sometimes in the bedroom.
Claire Shannon is a killer…and her weapon is her mind.
Born on a planet torn by war for over 300 years, Claire is a soldier: a psycher, with the ability to read, control, and destroy the minds of enemy psychers and to infiltrate the biological network where they battle to death.
When Claire’s faction loses the war, she barely escapes extermination from both sides, as her talent brands her as too dangerous to society. By so-deeply burying her ability that she avoids detection, Claire is instead deported to Rada as a refugee, where she must find work to remain. She finds a job as personal assistant to Venturo Escana, a premiere kinsman; one of Rada’s most wealthy entrepreneurs—and most powerful psychers.
She thought she had left war behind, but now she must hide her skills and her growing feelings from Venturo…and this battle might just cost her everything…
Once on the planet Rada as a refugee, she has to continue suppressing her abilities. She's so good at it, she registers as someone with no ability which (along with some other factors) scores her a position at one of the top security firms. The fact she's oddly attracted to Venturo Escana, the man she's now working for who is a powerful psycher himself, is inconvenient, but she can deal with it.
Except she kind of can't. And once she meets Venturo psycher to psycher, there's no going back. for either of them.
A solid world, complicated family ties (of both the blood and found variety), a little danger, and two people who have to fight for what they want. Which happens to be each other. *thumbs up*
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