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| Goodreads Barnes & Noble Amazon Source: Library Published: August 2009 Harlequin Teen |
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.
I've been hearing so much about the Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent and finally had a chance to pick up the first book. I've read a lot of faerie books, but nothing specifically about bean sidhes. I found this to be a very fresh and quite enjoyable read. Also, I learned how to pronounce bean sidhes. Huh. Who'da thought it wasn't BEAN SID? I fully admit that I totally pronounced it that way before. Now I know that it's BANSHEE. You can see where I'd have never known that, right? :P
I liked the story here. I can't imagine having death premonitions and feeling like there's nothing you can do. Vincent portrayed Kaylee's agony over that very convincingly. She really was distraught and I could feel that. It threatened to bubble over even when someone else was trying to help her control the screaming. I liked watching her grow stronger, even with a potentially debilitating urge. She really had to work at it.
I mostly liked the relationship progression. At first, it was kind of just there. BAM. 'I have never spoken to you before but now I want to be with you'. It threw me and I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. Luckily, that was explained later on and the explanation made a lot of sense to me. After that, it was like, 'Okay, you're not quite the same insta-love that I thought you were and I'm good with that'.
I liked the characters and liked their interactions. I know I'm coming to the series late in the game, so some of the reviews for later books have been confusing and/or intriguing to me. There's very little mention of some characters, while others are taking center stage. I'm very interested in finding out what's going on with that, so I'm picking up the next books for sure.
My Soul to Take is a 3.5 Eiffel Tower read for me.
Content Advisory:
Language: Moderate
Sexuality: Mild
Violence: Mild
I liked the story here. I can't imagine having death premonitions and feeling like there's nothing you can do. Vincent portrayed Kaylee's agony over that very convincingly. She really was distraught and I could feel that. It threatened to bubble over even when someone else was trying to help her control the screaming. I liked watching her grow stronger, even with a potentially debilitating urge. She really had to work at it.
I mostly liked the relationship progression. At first, it was kind of just there. BAM. 'I have never spoken to you before but now I want to be with you'. It threw me and I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. Luckily, that was explained later on and the explanation made a lot of sense to me. After that, it was like, 'Okay, you're not quite the same insta-love that I thought you were and I'm good with that'.
I liked the characters and liked their interactions. I know I'm coming to the series late in the game, so some of the reviews for later books have been confusing and/or intriguing to me. There's very little mention of some characters, while others are taking center stage. I'm very interested in finding out what's going on with that, so I'm picking up the next books for sure.
My Soul to Take is a 3.5 Eiffel Tower read for me.
Content Advisory:
Language: Moderate
Sexuality: Mild
Violence: Mild
