My Soul to Keep is a hard book to review. I would say that this novel was definitely a game-changer – though to what extent remains to be seen. It is by far the most action-packed book in the series to date. At some points I just wanted to cover my eyes because I could not believe what was happening (though I admit, I love it when authors shake things up!). […]
Kaylee Cavanaugh is a bean sidhe (banshee), she screams for the souls of the dead. So when a young pop star at a concert she is attending drops dead on stage, Kaylee is surprised when her wail doesn’t come to the fore. It turns out that this pop star has sold her soul to a hellion damning herself to an eternity of suffering in the Netherworld (in exchange for short-term […]
This book and I have a bit of a history. I bought My Soul to Take and tried to read it when it first came out. After trying (and failing) a few times I decided that it just wasn’t for me and never really gave it much thought afterwards. Then I started hearing a lot of positive buzz about subsequent books in the series and my interest was piqued once more. I […]
This was a quirky little story of a girl called Brie (like the cheese!) who literally dies of a broken heart when her boyfriend tells her he doesn’t love her. This is only the beginning of Brie’s story however. Brie meets a boy called Patrick in the afterlife who helps her through all the five stages of grief that she has to go through in order to ‘move on’. Although […]
Whenever a new Juliet Marillier book is released I pretty much drop everything else I am doing and devour it in a single sitting and this is more or less what I did with Flame of Sevenwaters. This book is about Maeve, one of the daughters of Lord Sean of Sevenwaters, who was last seen in Child of the Prophecy. I really loved Maeve’s voice. She was prickly and definitely […]