Through the Static by Jeanette Grey
Released: January 20, 2015
Paranormal Romance
Samhain
Reviewed by Mandi
I liked the idea of this book but I needed much more world building. Aurelia is a scientist who has been studying how to link people together. Bad guys come and steal this information and start what is called “The Threes,” Basically, forcing people to erase all memories and link to two other people – creating a trio who can be controlled to kill or attack or anything else needed. These three that are linked together hear each other’s thoughts and can communicate wordlessly with each other. When this book starts, Aurelia is being chased and ends up hiding in what she thinks is an abandoned house. But when a set of The Three, come home, and realize there is someone sleeping on one of the beds, they go into assault mode.
Jinx is the hero – he is part of a Three along with someone named Curse and Charm. Their link is starting to have problems and it is disintegrating a little bit. Charm and Curse are having romantic feelings towards one another, an emotion I don’t think you should be able to feel. When Jinx sees Aurelia, instead of seeing her as a threat, he has an instant, and big attraction. He breaks away from Curse and Charm’s link and runs off with Aurelia to figure things out. They fall for each other hard and quick, but his link to Curse and Charm is not 100% severed, leading to drama and conflict towards the end.
I like the concept of this book – with the futuristic scientific brain linkage. I also appreciated that the author didn’t info-dump on us early in the book. I didn’t always know what was going on but had enough tidbits for me to keep going. The problem is that I didn’t get enough overall information about the world to really feel like I had a good grasp . I needed more background on the history of how this kind of link came to be. Who all is affected? What is society really like? Who is this bad guy and just how evil is he?
Another thing that bothered me is the insta-lust. Jinx and Aurelia fall hard for each other. I guess the link being intimate in knowing each other’s thoughts opens them up to more emotions – but I wanted at least one of them to have a more jaded side. It became very mushy-gushy romance and it didn’t fit with what I thought their personalities were.
Cool concept but I needed more.
Rating: C
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