Though the majority of the population is unaware, Justine Jones’ love life controls their fate. Wanting to rein in her hypochondria, Justine accepts Disillusionist Sterling Packard’s help. Justine’s angry when she realizes accepting that help committed her to a lifestyle of being an on-call non-violent vigilante to Packard’s clients and retaliates by halting their budding romance.
Justine accepts an assignment that puts her in Mayor Otto Sanchez’ path unaware of this past with Packard but very aware Otto’s secretly a high-cap with mind-bending power, his complicity in several murders and trappings of high-caps he’d deemed dangerous and Otto’s failing capacity to stabilize his machinations Feeling betrayed by Packard, Justine encourages a relationship with Otto.
Freed from Otto’s public prison by agreeing to help ensnare Mid-City’s criminals, Packard recruits Disillusionists as Justine has Otto when she’s awake and Packard in her dreams adding to the emotional soup of the read. (My kingdom for a mustache.) A good ending and the serial killing Dorks targeting high-caps thread are overshadowed by the petty jealousies of the angsty, juvenile high-cap leaders.
Should the spiteful, childish heroine in desperate need of a spanking and a nap choose the manipulative and moody heartthrob that can’t see why manipulating you is an issue or the spoiled, powerful brat that changes things to suit himself then whines about the change? The trio’s forced, messy and incestuous triangle left this reader unconcerned over the outcome of who should be with whom.
Rating:3stars
