Release Date: December 29, 2009
Publisher: Harlequin
Genre: Paranormal
Available Formats: Paperback and
eBook
My Shelf: Want to Buy
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...
Review:
Oh,
my disappoint runs deep. After having loved the first book, maybe my
expectations were too high for this one? Regardless, I am disappointed. I
enjoyed this book, but that is about the extent of it. I have no resonant feelings
or thoughts concerning the story, making My Soul to Save just….forgettable. It’s
a decent read and a passable sequel, but nothing more.
I
think the thing I am most dissatisfied with is the change in character personality
and dynamic. Was Kaylee always that infuriating and headstrong? Did she always come
across as a grating know-it-all, and this is just my first time noticing? I
really liked her in the first book, but she seemed to have undergone a change
for the worst in this one. Nash is much the same as before, but seeing as how I
did not really care for him before says little. However, the person that
changed the most was Tod. Seriously, Tod’s personality did a complete 180. What
happened to his snarkiness and snubbery that I loved in the first book? Also,
he never striked me as a character who would lie and risk Kaylee’s life,
especially when he went out of his way to save her and her family last time. In
this book, he just seemed uncaring and stubborn, and not at all like the Tod I
was hoping to see more of. I was also hoping for some more reconciliation/emotional
bonding moments between Kaylee and her father, but there was little to none of
that either.
However,
the one thing that irritated me the most in this book was Nash and Kaylee’s ‘love.’ While
I never particularly cared for Kaylee and Nash’s relationship in My Soul toTake, this book quickly turned my mundane feelings for their romance into
hardcore resentment and hate. There is no depth to their feelings for one
another. They do not have any heartfelt discussions, no exchange of feelings.
Kaylee wonders a few times what Nash wants from her and what he sees in her,
and that question is never answered, which made me even more disenchanted with
their ‘romance.’ They just seem like hormone-filled, lustful teenagers whose
relationship only consists of (heavy) pawing at one another. For me, their
relationship has become intolerable.
I
also never understood why they tried so hard to save Addison. I could not see
why they would risk everything, especially their lives, to save a pop star they
hardly knew. She made her bed, so she should lay in it. I know it seems uncompassionate
of me to say these things, but even at the end of the novel, Nash was yelling
at Addison to quit thinking of herself and to get her head out of her rear. So
why, WHY, WHY, would you risk your
life to save someone like her? It made no sense to me, and I was not buying it.
Like
I mentioned in the beginning, this book is a decent read, just not was I was
expecting. (Please excuse all my ranting.) The story did have some good points,
such as delving into the idea of selling your soul for fame and fortune. I also
liked discovering more of the Netherworld and its components/inhabitants. I
hope the next book in the series, My Soul to Keep, proves to be better than
this one. I am going to try and lower my expectations this time around.
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