I went into The Reflex expecting a moody romance and came out feeling like I’d survived a covert operation, heart racing, slightly breathless, and questioning literally everyone’s motives. This book is a wild mix of passion, paranoia, and psychic chaos, and somehow it all works. The bizarre love triangle is the emotional engine of the story. It’s messy, a little dangerous, and tangled up in years of history that the characters don’t even fully understand themselves. You can feel how deeply they care about one another, yet they’re constantly hurting each other in the name of protection and secrets. It has that “we’re family but also something more complicated” vibe that makes every interaction charged. Then Denison layers in the secret past lives and espionage plot, and wow. Hidden identities, government shadows, people trained to lie as easily as they breathe. Just when I thought I knew who the villain was, another twist hit. The constant sense of danger kept me glued to the pages; these characters don’t just fall in love, they survive missions, betrayals, and near-death moments together. My favorite element, though, was the telepath mind hacking. The way they jump into each other’s thoughts, share memories, even fight inside mental space? SO cool. It adds intimacy to the romance and a terrifying edge to the action scenes. Consent, control, and loyalty all get blurry when someone can literally live inside your head. At its core, this is a story about people who were weaponized learning how to be human again, while bullets are flying and feelings are very inconvenient. If you love romance wrapped in espionage, found family with sharp edges, and psychic powers used for both love and war, you need this on your shelf!!