There was her sickness that we're introduced to early on that I thought would play a bigger part but actually just disappeared for the whole middle part (which is the same thing that happened with the idea that Clay was close to going rogue, which was introduced and then never came up again).

I like that we finally got a human love interest and she was the catalyst for introducing us to new parts of the world that seems like it will be really interesting. I don't actually have that much to say about Tally she mostly washed over me. Since Tally's trauma is really wrapped up in sex and a lack of control in sexual situations, I just couldn't give Clay's boundary pushing the benefit of the doubt like I could in previous books and that made me really dislike Clay. Clay is genuinely angry at the fact that Tally has many past sexual partners and that just made me feel really bad considering why Tally did that. However with Brenna, Judd also had reasons to be hesitant of forging a connection where in this book, Clay had no such reservations and was also really judgemental of Tally's past sexual history. They both have gone through a trauma that makes them really reluctant to be physical. Brenna from the previous book is probably most similar to Tally. In the past books, some of the main characters, typically the Psy character, were convinced that they physically wouldn't be able to handle a physical relationship and that's why their partner had to push them. It didn't bother me in those books but it did bother me here and I'll try to parse out why. Almost every book in this series thus far has the male character sort of pushing the female character past where they say their comfortable. To get into the romance a bit, I was trying to work through why I didn't like this romance as much. Also as a note, this book deals with abuse of a child. Normally, I don't really care about spoilers and am totally fine with finding out plot points about a book prior to reading but I think in this case I was more annoyed because the book spoiled itself. This intro basically gave the plot away, at least in my opinion. The mystery element also was really watered down but this books own introduction. As I said in an update, I just could not get into the romance and I really didn't like our male lead, Clay. This was definitely my least favorite of the series so far.

Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh