Atonement Sky is the ninth novel of the Psy-Changeling Trinity Series (or the 24th novel of the Psy-Changeling Series) by Nalini Singh.
Finshed on: 7.8.2025
[Here are my reviews of the other books.]

Plot:
Eleri is a J-Psy, a Justice Psy, tasked with entering the minds of the worst offenders and retrieving their memories. She has been doing this for a while now, and she knows that she won’t be able to do it much longer before her mind will give out on her. She wants to use the time she still has left to atone for a mistake that has been haunting her her entire professional career. She gets the chance when a serial killer hunt leads er into the territory of the changeling Falcon clan led by Adam. Adam and Eleri met many years ago and had an instant connection. But Adam knows he can never forgive Eleri for what happened that same day. But he will do everything he can to help her work.

Atonement Sky delivered what I expected, nothing more, nothing less. There were some interesting tidbits regarding the larger world-building, but unfortunately still no movement on the grand scheme of things, a nice romance that followed the usual M.O. and a good time to be had.

I have been saying for a while now that we really need to get moving on the overarching plot of the series. Atonement Sky does not do that, but it isn’t quite as noticeable as in other books because it feels like not so much like it is idling in the middle of the highway when you expect it to move at great speed, but rather that it is taking a back road, aware of the traffic jam on the motorway, but not immediately concerned by it. And while we are taking the scenic route, why not explore this bit of the world we never gotten around to and that thing we have been wondering about?

Also, Eleri and Adam worked pretty well for me. I loved the idea that they had this immediate connection and then things happened and they were pushed apart – very far indeed – and now need to not only figure out how to move all of that, but also it it is worth it in the first place to try. Even more so, I loved Eleri and her J-Psy colleagues though.

I like the changelings best, so it’s always a bonus for me when the book is concentrated on a pack. While the bird society is slightly different from the other changeling packs, it is still recognizably like the others to give you a good mix of familiarity and newness. I also liked getting a glimpse of some familiar faces we haven’t heard a whole lot about in the recent years.

But still, in the end the series can’t quite reach the same heights for me as it did in the beginning. We still need that overarching plot to finally go somewhere.

Summarizing: despite a lot of things, a really good read.