Book Review – My Soul To Keep

My Soul To Keep by Rachel Vincent.

The lovely and talented Rachel Vincent was kind enough to send me this book for review, thank you.

This is book 3 in the Soul Screamers Series. Soul Screamers is a young adult urban fantasy series narrated by teenage bean sidhe (banshee) Kaylee Cavanaugh. Join Kaylee as she tries to balance a normal high school experience with the threat of the Netherworld, a terrifying, hidden world full of reapers, hellions, and countless other mythical monsters out to possess her, body and soul.

Description: WHEN KAYLEE CAVANAUGH SCREAMS, SOMEONE DIES AND KAYLEE IS ABOUT TO SCREAM HER HEAD OFF…

Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them.

Until something does.

Demon’s breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The Netherworld kind. The kind that really can kill you. Somehow, the super-addictive substance has made its way to the human world. But how? Kaylee and Nash have to cut off the source and protect their friends—one of whom is already hooked.

And when the epidemic hits too close to home, Kaylee will have to risk everything to save those she loves.

Review: I really enjoyed this book, having not read the previous two books in the series I wasn’t sure what to expect, but it was a pleasant surprise and I will now be going to buy books 1 and 2.

Kaylee is a strong female lead, whom has a hot boyfriend, Nash. Both of whom share a supernatural power and secret.

One of Nash’s friends is acting weird, he is high. Not on a drug as we know it but Demon’s breath. This a highly addictive and the withdrawal is literaly hell. It may be too late to save him, but Kaylee’s not so nice cousin’s boyfriend also appears to be addicted to Demon’s breath.

Both Kaylee and Nash are warned of the effects of Demon’s breath but they are unable to fill their friend in, so they take matters into their own hand to try to stop the supply at the source.

What I like most about the book is that it shows the ups and downs of teenage life in reality but through the method of fiction. It shows the risks of drug taking and the horrors of addiction. Peer pressure and friendships. What I found most inspirational about this book was the ending, I don’t want to spoil it but it didn’t end how I would have expected but how I would have wanted. Every teenage girl should read this book, follow Kaylee’s example and keep your beliefs.

Rachel, uses great imagery throughout the book. Her world building comes together nicely and you feel like you are right along there with the characters. My favourite quote “His eyes reflected pain, and regret, and guilt, and horror, swirling as madly now as they’d sat calm moments earlier.”