Title: My Soul to Save
Author: Rachel Vincent
Pages: 279
 

In the middle of reading the second installment of the Soul Screamers series, My Soul to Save, I doubted Lindsay Lohan erratic behavior. Is she like Addey, a victim of circumstances known as hellion of greed, Avari? (nice intro huh?)

In this book Nash and Kaylee helped Tod’s ex girlfriend (who dumped him for stardom) Addison Page. After they’ve witnessed Eden’s death, they were introduced to the evil scheme within the showbiz industry. What make this popstars’ skyrocketed fame is due to their soul – they sold their soul to the hellion. Addy sold her soul for her career and she wasn’t aware of the circumstances brought by this deal. A soul sold to the hellion has a fate of eternal torture. Since they don’t have a soul in their body, they’re living on a demon’s breath, this act as a replacement for their soul. The evident feature of human who have demon’s breath for a soul is the lack of irises. It may sound creepy but it is, their eyes are all white but they still can see. They use special contact lenses to cover it up. According to Tod, when a person who sold their soul died, their body will be brought back and merged again to their soul, it may sound good alright but it’s not. Once back, the hellion will play with it by burning it alive, peeling the skin, playing with your internal organs, etc; you know the sickening and gruesome way of torture (that goes on and on forever, what a terrible fate). The trio (Nash, Kaylee ad Tod) helped Addy get out of the contract but it became more complicated when her Addy’s sister Regan gets in the picture – she’s about to sell her soul too. Upon the contract signing, they managed to find out the reaper who acts an accomplice for the hellion. Since soul pouching is illegal hence punishable by death (when I say death, I mean eternal death, as in a complete goner). With a reapers soul (which is equivalent to two human souls) in hand they decided to negotiate with hellion of greed, Avari in the Netherworld in exchange of the souls of the sisters. And you know bargaining with the bad guy (much more a demon) is going to be very tricky.

This one is better than the first book; the plot is nice, fast paced and mystifying, who could have thought that this popstars actually sold their soul for fame? And according to Addison those who get out of their contract will only lead to ruin career and eventually wreck lives. Now you get my point with the intro? I heard an urban legend before of a guy who sold his soul and now multimillionaire, though that might be a nasty rumor his competitor had made up. After I read this book, when sometimes I see these teenage stars I got this doubting look; but of course this is fictional, so this is a hundred percent not true (convincing myself? Yup). There are a lot interesting things in this book; like Levi for instance. I was really surprised to find out that Tod’s boss was in fact a child. Kinda remind me of Koenma from YuYu Hakusho (position wise) and Killua and Gon from Hunter X Hunter (character wise). So I told my sister that this series is a total kick ass because it reminds me a lot of manga elements. He is my next favorite character after Tod (that’s why I love the companion book Reaper (which I will post some time soon) my two favorites are there). The Netherworld description is super cool. Learning more about the reapers job is really well, cool. They are definitely better than Ichigo with their swords and black kimono or Ryuk and his icky and ulgy face. Bottom-line, there is a lot of good (and awesome things) introduced here, when it ended you feel like you wanted more that’s why I immediately dive in to the next book. And I must say that the third book is my favorite among the three. And hopefully the fourth one will be engrossing as the third book. Oh crap, why am I talking about the third book here? I’ll write it once I’m thinking coherently.