Showing posts with label Rachel Vincent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Vincent. Show all posts

Monday, January 3, 2011

Book Review : My Soul To Save (Soul Screamers, #2) by Rachel Vincent


Product Details
  • Reading level: Young Adult
  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Harlequin Teen; Original edition (December 29, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0373210043
  • ISBN-13: 978-0373210046
  • Available at: Amazon / Barnes & Noble


When Kaylee Cavanaugh screams, someone dies.

So when teen pop star Eden croaks onstage and Kaylee doesn't wail, she knows something is dead wrong. She can't cry for someone who has no soul.

The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad's ironclad curfew and putting her too-hot-to-be-real boyfriend's loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls: a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld—a consequence they can't possibly understand.

Kaylee can't let that happen, even if trying to save their souls means putting her own at risk….


In My Soul to Save, Kaylee Cavanaugh finds out that she cannot scream when a a teen pop star dies abruptly onstage. She and her boyfriend Nash Hudson eventually realizes that things are not so simple as it seems - the pop star has sold her soul to the demon of avarice. When Tod approaches them and begs them to help in saving his ex-girlfriend (now also a teenage pop star) Addison, they have no other choice but to agree, because Tod is Nash's already-dead-but-not-quite older brother.

BUT, I don't know why do Kaylee and Nash risk everything to save Addison's and her idiot sister's souls whose name I have forgotten. Addison made her own choice, and she's stupid for not reading the contract before signing it. But she's even stupider (is there such a word?) for going against the out-clause of the contract. Really, is losing your career worse than dying without your soul and suffering for eternity in Hell?

And her sister, I don't know what to say about her. She is such a spoiled little girl who dreams about being a singer like her older sister and she is dying to sign the agreement even when Addison begged her not to. And like her sister, she is stupid enough to not bother reading the contract. I have a doubt, though. Why doesn't Addison show her sister her all-white eyes and tell her what will happen if she sells her soul?

And being the girl with the superhero-complex, Kaylee once again let herself in danger to save two ignorant girls. However, at the end of the novel, I felt that Addison has redeemed herself by sacrificing herself and saving her sister, even though she knows that she has to suffer endless torments in the hands of the hellion of avarice since then.

I have mixed feelings for this book, but still, I enjoy reading the parts where Kaylee crosses over to the Netherworld. The words used by the author are descriptive and well-placed. The romance between Kaylee and Nash is sweet, but I'm very against Kaylee's behaviour of ignoring and snapping at her father at times. I'd give this book 4 stars because it has a good, exciting plot and an unexpected ending.

You will like this book if you're a fan of:
  • Morganville Vampire Series by Rachel Caine
  • Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer
  • Dark Elite Series by Chloe Neill


4.000



This book has some graphic kissing scenes. Recommended to readers aged 15 and above.

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UK version of My Soul To Save:
My Soul to Save (Soul Screamers, #2)

Thursday, December 30, 2010

My Soul to Steal Trailer + Contest on Rachel Vincent's Blog!

My Soul to Steal (Soul Screamers, #4) by Rachel Vincent hits shelves on January 1st 2011!

My Soul to Steal (Soul Screamers, #4)YOU WANT MY SOUL AND MY BOYFRIEND?
Trying to work things out with Nash—her maybe boyfriend—is hard enough for Kaylee Cavanaugh. She can’t just pretend nothing happened. But “complicated” doesn’t even begin to describe their relationship when his ex-girlfriend transfers to their school, determined to
take Nash back.

See, Sabine isn’t just an ordinary girl. She’s a mara, the living personification of a nightmare. She can read people’s fears—and craft them into nightmares while her victims sleep. Feeding from human fear is how she
survives.

And Sabine isn’t above scaring Kaylee and the entire school to death to get whatever—and whoever—she wants.
I DON'T THINK SO.


Available at:

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  5. IndieBound

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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Book Review : My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers #1) by Rachel Vincent

My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers, #1)

Product Details
  • Reading level: Young Adult
  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Harlequin Teen; Original edition (August 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0373210035
  • ISBN-13: 978-0373210039
  • Available at: Amazon / Barnes & Noble

She doesn't see dead people, but she senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally.

Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who'll be next.


After Kaylee Cavanaugh experiences a grieve so frightening and the abnormal, powerful urge to scream when she sees a black shroud over a girl at a bar, she discovers that the girl is dead the next day. She questions her own sanity because of her ability to predict death, only to find out that she is not so normal after all. Kaylee soon discovers that she is a bean sídhe [bʲæn ˈʃiː], an omen of death.

My Soul to Take has an entertaining, refreshing plot and nice, likable characters. The author keeps me guessing who is the perpetrator / culprit behind the untimely deaths of young, beautiful girls, giving me a shock at the end. Together with Nash Hudson, the hottest boy in school who actually has a secret identity, and grim reaper Tod, Kaylee investigates the matter to prevent innocent lives from being ended.

This book will appeal to those who have a preference for Irish mythology and folklore, as well as paranormal YA lovers. It's a delightful twist in the paranormal genre which stands out from the overflowing abundance of vampires and werewolves. I enjoyed reading this book and I'm sure you'd like it too!

Rating: 4.000

You will like this book if you're a fan of:
  • Morganville Vampire Series by Rachel Caine
  • Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer

Notes: This book has some graphic kissing scenes. Recommended to readers aged 15 and above.

Thanks to Alyson Beecher from Kid Lit Frenzy for helping me to order this book. *Hugs!*

rachel vincent
BLOG :: WEBSITE
Rachel Vincent has a BA in English and an overactive imagination, and consistently finds the latter to be more practical. She shares her office with two black cats (Kaci and Nyx) and her # 1 fan. Rachel is older than she looks—seriously—and younger than she feels, but remains convinced that for every day she spends writing, one more day will be added to her lifespan.

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