Showing posts with label Rachel Vincent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rachel Vincent. Show all posts

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 20th March 2013




Here's a round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x



Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 27th February 2013




Here's a round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x



Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 13th February 2013




Here's a round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x



Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 28th December 2012






Here's a weekly round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x


Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , , , , ,

Review: Before I Wake (Soul Screamers #6) by Rachel Vincent






Before I Wake (Soul Screamers #6) by Rachel Vincent

Publishers: Harlequin Teen
Published Date:  June 26th 2012
From: Bought
My rating: 4 out of 5
Synopsis:
I died on a Thursday-killed by a monster intent on stealing my soul. The good news? He didn't get it. The bad news? Turns out not even death will get you out of high school...

Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected. After weeks spent "recovering," she's back in school, fighting to stay visible to the human world, struggling to fit in with her friends and planning time alone with her new reaper boyfriend. But to earn her keep in the human world, Kaylee must reclaim stolen souls, and when her first assignment brings her face-to-face with an old foe, she knows the game has changed.

Her immortal status won't keep her safe. And this time Kaylee isn't just gambling with her own life...
Review:
The Soul Screamers saga has to be one of my favourite series of all time. Kaylee is such an awesome heroine and grows continually from book to book.

This time she has the unfortunately downside to deal with in that she's dead. Not zombie dead --she looks alive, eats and drinks, although she doesn't have to--but she's dead. Just like Tod.

The gang are all reunited. Sabine, Nash, Emma, Alec, and all the other characters that have passed Kaylees way from time to time. Kaylee has a new job as a Restoration Agent but she still has to attend school. Well, she doesn't have to but its all about routine. And routine tells her that to cope with her demise she must continue for the sake of her friends to openly appear normal.

The problems start heading Kaylees way sooner than she'd like. A hellion from her past is intent on making her adjustment difficult. And soon complications get involved with emotions. Nash, Kaylees ex, is still dealing with his own problems which relate directly to Kaylee. Her father is coping in his own way. But her rock, the only one who truly knows and understands her is Tod. I didn't like Tod initially (in all the first 5 books actually) but in this one he really shines through. There is a lot of romancing with Tod but its all good.

Once again the story reaches a gripping climax that wasn't expected in any way. Expect tears, laughter, pure class Sabine moments and a whole lot of sorrow.

But at the end of the day Kaylee Cavanaugh is amazing, and there are no words more meaningful to categorize her other than 'A true Hero'.

I now can't wait for the next installment thanks to a nail-biting cliffhanger...grrr, damn you Rachel!!!

-CB x
You can reach Rachel Vincent here:
Facebook: Profile
Facebook Page: Soul Screamers

Posted by No comments:
Tags , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 11th June 2012


Here's a weekly round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x





Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 1st June 2012


Here's a weekly round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x





Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite YA Authors - 22nd May 2012


Here's a weekly round up of blogs from our favourite YA authors:
x





Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by 2 comments:
Tags , , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite Authors - 8th May 2012



Here's a weekly round up of blogs from our favourite authors:





Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , , ,

Latest Blogs from our Favourite Authors - 1st May



Here's a weekly round up of blogs from our favourite authors:





Is there an author you'd like to see updates from?
Just let us know and we'll add them to our list!
-CB xx
Posted by No comments:
Tags , , , , , , , , , ,

Review: If I Die by Rachel Vincent




My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Synopsis:
The entire school's talking about the gorgeous new math teacher, Mr. Beck. Everyone except Kaylee Cavanaugh. After all, Kaylee's no ordinary high-school junior. She's a banshee—she screams when someone dies.

But the next scream might be for Kaylee.

Yeah—it's a shock to her, too. So to distract herself, Kaylee's going to save every girl in school. Because that hot new teacher is really an incubus who feeds on the desire of unsuspecting students. The only girls immune to his lure are Kaylee and Sabine, her boyfriend's needy 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 borrowed lifeline is nearing its end. And those who care about her will do anything to save her life.

Anything.
Review:
Wow! Wow! Wow! This one took me down me down a road I didn't think I'd travel on! From the first book I've been rooting for Nash. Even when he showed signs that he'd do anything for Kaylee to make up for the wrongs that he'd done. But I always knew that would take a miraculous event for her to finally forgive him.

And when she finds out that she has six days to live there is no way on earth that a make up is possible. And finally she realises that if its not possible to fix, then leave it alone for someone else to.

In this whole book, Kaylee acts selflessly trying to fix all of the problems including the new teacher preying on young girls.

Ultimately the more you try to fix things the worse the problems actually become, and for Kaylee the clock keeps ticking.

I've never been a Tod fan. I've always found him too annoying and interfering to be good for Kaylee. But in this story he's the only one she can turn to who isn't more screwed up than her.

As her family and friends try to find a way for her NOT to die, it all comes down to her own testiment of determination and past actions to prove to the makers that her being on the planet is better for everyone...although it might not be exactly how she planned.

With the title of the book being different from the other ones in this series this is definitely a curve in the whole dramatic storyline that is Soul Screamers.

I can't wait for the next one to find out what happens now....

CB

X
Here's the Book trailer! Enjoy!
X
X

You can reach Rachel Vincent here:
Facebook: Profile
Facebook Page: Soul Screamers


Posted by 6 comments:
Tags , , , ,

Review: My Soul to Steal by Rachel Vincent



My rating: 4 of 5 stars




Synopsis:
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.
Review:
Oh boy! Vincent does it again with another fantastic episode in the Soul Screamers saga.

Not only do we have Kaylee, who is slightly broken underneath, but Nash is back to his normal almost-amazing devotion of Kaylee. That is despite the withdrawl from his addiction to Demon's breathe, and the fact that he was aware that evil bad-guy Avari was using Kaylee's body (something she still can't forgive him for - and who would?)

Kaylee knows that if it was just the addiction she probably could have helped Nash more through his withdrawl but for Avari to use her body and Nash know about it, thats something that goes way beyond the laws of loyalty and trust. Something she probably can't do either of with Nash again.

Kaylee is clearly just about coping with life without Nash, and its now up to Alec (rescued from the Netherworld in the previous book) and Tod to hold her together with an enormous amount of help from Emma, her BFF.

I must admit that I hated Sabine from the start, probably because I was supposed to. I really wanted Kaylee and Nash to have a chance again but either Sabine or Tod always got in the way. Tod for better and Sabine for worse.

Staring Kaylee straight in the eye is jealousy. Everytime she sees Sabine with Nash she gets wound up. But she doesn't understand why because she turned him away. Right? Wrong...there are worse forces of the Netherworld at work which is driving all of the kids at school nuts. Suddenly best friends are fighting one another, maiming each other and causing chaos and mayhem at the school.
Kaylee is convinced its Sabine when she finds out that Sabine is actually a Mara, or Nightmare. She can pick out your fears and bring them to the surface, making you unable to control yourself.

While Nash and Kaylee get pushed further apart, and while Sabine pushes all of Kaylees buttons Tod makes more of a show of his affection towards Kayley, which in my mind has been a long time coming. I loved the way that she was finally able to see that Tod would do anything for her, whereas Nash is still under the cloud because he gave all their 'firsts' away to Avari.

Sooner than later all of their lives get so messed up that Kaylee is 99% sure that something in the Netherworld is responsible for it. And she goes to investigate with terrifying consequences.

Once again, I loved every single page of this book. I just keep wanting to read more and more!
X
 Here's the book trailer! Enjoy!

You can reach Rachel Vincent here:
Facebook: Profile
Facebook Page: Soul Screamers

Posted by No comments:
Tags , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)