{Review} Shattered Souls (Souls #1) by @marylindsey {Giveaway} @NightOwlReviews @penguinusa

Title: Shattered Souls
Author: Mary Lindsey
Series: Souls  
Publisher: Penguin  
Release Date: December 6, 2012  
Pages: 336 
Format: Print 
Source: Purchased  
Description:

A thrilling debut story of death, love, destiny, and danger

Lenzi hears voices and has visions - gravestones, floods, a boy with steel gray eyes. Her boyfriend, Zak, can't help, and everything keeps getting louder and more intense. Then Lenzi meets Alden, the boy from her dreams, who reveals that she's a reincarnated Speaker - someone who can talk to and help lost souls - and that he has been her Protector for centuries.

Now Lenzi must choose between her life with Zak and the life she is destined to lead with Alden. But time is running out: a malevolent spirit is out to destroy Lenzi, and he will kill her if she doesn't make a decision soon.

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Biography

Mary Lindsey lives in Houston with her husband, three kids, two dogs, her daughter's pet rats, an Australian Bearded Dragon and dozens of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. (The roaches are a long story. Don't ask.)

More information on Mary and her books for young adults can be found at http://www.marylindsey.com

She also writes adult romance under the pseudonym, Marissa Clarke. For info visit http://www.marissaclarke.com

So this book has been sitting on my shelf for some time.  Ok a really long time.  I think I got it new via discount from BAM.  The binding hadn't even been opened so it made noise when I cracked it. lol.  I was sent book two Fragile Spirits for reviews and was so happy to release that I already had book one laying around lol what luck.


Shattered Souls has got to be one of the best Ghost,Reincarnation stories I have read! Its up there with Incarnate, Wake Unto Me, and Hereafter.  I am so glad that I got the chance to read this as well as book two.  Even though book two is a companion book and not a sequel.  But thats ok as Rose and Alden are in it (happy dance).  Lindsey if you are reading this!! I want a sequel to Rose's and Alden's story!!!!

This was a fantastically wonderful story of finding your place in the world.  Finding what you would do for love, and finding that you have more in you than you might think you do.  I loved Rose's character. She learned to fight for what she wanted and not take no for an answer.

This book also had ghosts and reincarnation.  I can't get into that all that much without giving stuff away.  So ill just say that if you are a fan of Incarnate, Wake Unto Me, or Hereafter (book one ONLY) then this is deff something you need to read.

This one also had a romance that was great.  No love triangles to deal with really.  I do wish that the author would have aged up the romance.  This is deff G rated on the romance scale and I would have liked it to be more pg13+  lol.  Not a lot of time is spent on it as these characters have known each other for a long time.  Now don't worry no real instalove here either.

Humor- there is a little throughout the book.  But is light.  And just adds to the wonderfulness of the story.

The only real issue I had in this one was that at times I felt that the dialogue was written for the tween crowd then at others it was for the higher 16/17 crowd as is the age of the characters.  But that was ok and didn't bother me to much.

So all in all this one has a few twists, a mystery, ghosts, reincarnation, a love that crosses lifetimes, and a wonderful ending.


"*I received a copy of this book for free to review, this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own."

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