Title: My Soul to TakeAuthor: Rachel Vincent
Summary:
She doesn't see dead people. 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
My Thoughts:
I really have had a difficult time compiling my thoughts for this review, simply because I had so many mixed emotions while reading this novel. I guess I should start by saying that I began reading My Soul to Take with fairly high expectations.I think the plot is an interesting, and unique concept that stands out among the many Y.A. paranormal books currently on the shelves, and the writing from the sample was very good.
I was a little disappointed to find that Kaylee wasn't as decisive as of a character as I thought she would be. Other than her enlightenment on what she is and what that could mean for her and her family, I felt that she wasn't very developed, which I tend to expect out the first installment of a series.
While I believe this book had a lot of good things going for it, I also feel that it was almost like overload between the two main characters Kaylee and Nash, as well as their paranormal status, on top of their relationships to everyone else, and the mysterious deaths of several young girls. That being said the writing was terrific I thought, and the story still had a lot of potential for further development, so I will be reading the second installment of this series to see how it elaborates on the first novel.
