Book Review- If I Die

I started and finished If I Die by Rachel Vincent on my honeymoon.

From Goodreads:

No one wants to be this teacher’s pet . . .

Everyone else is talking about Eastlake High’s gorgeous new math teacher, Mr. Beck, but Kaylee Cavanaugh has bigger things on her mind. Kaylee’s a banshee—her scream is a portent of death.

But the next scream might hit too close to home. Kaylee’s borrowed lifeline has almost run out.

Yeah—it’s a shock to her, too. So to distract herself from her own problems, Kaylee is determined to defend her school against the latest supernatural threat. That hot new teacher is really an incubus, who feeds from the desire of unsuspecting students. The only girls immune to his lure are Kaylee and Sabine, her boyfriend’s delinquent ex-girlfriend. Now the unlikely allies have to get rid of Mr. Beck…before he discovers they aren’t quite human either.

But Kaylee’s running out of time, and those who love her will do anything to save her life.

Anything.

Soul Screamers: The last thing you hear before you die.
 
Ooh..this book was a roller coaster of emotions. Sad and depressing one minute then happy and giddy the next. I couldn’t put the book down. I wanted to know if Kaylee was really going to die and if so, how! The ups and downs with Nash continued and there was one moment where I really didn’t like Nash again.
 
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I had thought about Kaylee and Tod together before but I wasn’t really sure how I felt about them as couple. But after seeing how Tod felt about Kaylee and her reaction to him, I’m glad that they came together. I didn’t particularly like HOW they had their first kiss, since I am extremely against cheating. But I loved how Tod always protected Kaylee and put her first. And the ending. Wow! I kept saying “No, Kaylee can’t die! It can’t be over!” But I should have known that death is never really the end. I liked the ending. It fit well and was sort of a happily-ever-after (with the whole Tod thing, minus the whole Nash thing).







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I sure hope there is going to be a next book and I can’t wait to read it! I finally downloaded My Soul to Lose and Reaper onto my Nook and I’m off to go read them now!

I gave this book a rating of 4/5.

If I Die will be relased on September 27, 2011.

This book fulfills items in the following challenges:
2011 100+ Reading Challenge: 51
2011 ARC Reading Challenge: 43
2011 Young Adult Reading Challenge: 38
*FTC Disclosure:  I received a copy of this book for free from the publishers for an honest review.

Book Review- My Soul to Steal

I finished up My Soul to Steal by Rachel Vincent while I was on my honeymoon this week.

From Goodreads:

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.

It’s been a while since I read the previous book in the series, so I don’t remember how I left off feeling about Nash. But in this book, I felt so bad for him. He wanted Kaylee to forgive him and for them to be back together. And then throw in his ex showing up, who is still fighting for him and who he has to defend—both against her actions and against himself.

And I really didn’t like Sabine, the ex-girlfriend. What a *itch to show up again fighting for Nash back. It’s not her place. I get that she loves him and thinks that only she can be good for him, but I’m not one of those people who buy that whole “Alls fair in love and war” thing so I didn’t like her character at all.

I really want to know what’s going to happen between Kaylee and Nash. Tod gave some very good advice, although I’m not sure I liked it and I want to know if Kaylee is going to follow it or not.

Thank goodness I have If I Die in my hands to start right now!

I gave this book a rating of 3.5/5.

This book fulfills items in the following challenges:
2011 A to Z Challenge: V
2011 100+ Reading Challenge: 50
2011 ARC Reading Challenge: 42
2011 Young Adult Reading Challenge: 37

*FTC Disclosure:  I received a copy of this book for free from the publishers for an honest review.

Book Review- My Soul to Save

I just finished reading My Soul to Save by Rachel Vincent.

From the back cover:

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 from 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 for a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld--a consequence they can't possibly understand.

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

I was so excited when I got the ARC of My Soul to Save in the mail.  And it didn't let me down.  This was a second great installment of the Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent.  Just as in her last book, My Soul to Take, I loved all of the main characters in the book.  I love Kaylee and Nash together.  Aside from the fact that they are both bean sidhes, they seem like a very real in-love teenage couple.  And I like the fact that we get to see a softer, more real side of Tod in this story. 

We also get to see what the Netherworld is like.  And the creatures in that world gross me out!  They are the stuff of my nightmares!  But I like the concept of the alternate world and its relation to ours--its pretty neat.

The ending surprised me.  I expected it to go one way, and it only half went there.  But it fit and I liked it.  I can't wait to read My Soul to Keep!

I gave this book a rating of 4.5/5.

This book fulfilled an item in the following challenge:
Paranormal 999 Challenge: Misc (bean sidhes)

*FTC Disclosure: I received this copy of the book from the publisher for an honest review.