[library addict]

Originally Posted by Blossom

I'm half way through Archangel's Storm then have to wait for the novellas which should have read before Storm to come available before continuing. So far all heroines have been severely abused or gone through something severely traumatic. I don't think your series was same way if I remember right?

Not really, at least not in the way I think you mean, but maybe. The Psy/Changeling series does have both female and male characters who have had traumatic pasts, but it fits the storyline and much of the story wouldn't work without it.

Spoiler:

The premise of the first story arc is Silence. The world is made up of three races: Humans, Changelings (who shapeshift into various animals), and the Psy. The Psy have psychic abilities, but also high rates of insanity so 100 years ago (before the start of the series) they decided to condition all emotion out of their children. But the means by which this is done, particularly for those with deadly abilities, would be considered abusive and traumatic.

Plus some of the other characters have had their parents killed and other traumatic events in their childhoods.

But it's really both heroines and heroes equally. And it's such an integral part of the plot so it's not gratuitous.

I've only read one full-length book in the Guild Hunters series (I think it was book #8), so I can't really compare the two series.