Everyone has a soul
Some are just worth
more than others
Farley Hope was
seventeen when her mother disappeared. In the last six months not much has
changed, except that her eighteenth birthday came and went and still no sign of
Moira. Her life is just as complicated as it always was. Since her father died
in a car crash before she was even born, she’s officially parentless, and to
top it all off she’s still suffering from the hallucinations. Mind-splitting,
vivid hallucinations- the kind prone to induce night terrors and leave you
whimpering under your covers like a baby.
The last thing on
her mind is boys. Farley is on break from St. Judes’ when she meets Daniel.
It’s not some casual run in at a party, or even a blind date with friends,
though. Daniel is the guy following her in his 1970′s Dodge Charger; the guy
standing at her window in the LA lunch hour traffic, trying to persuade her to
leave everything behind and follow him. And he's hot as all hell.
The moment Farley
lays eyes on Daniel, everything changes. He is cold and withdrawn, but there
are cracks in his harsh veneer- cracks that betray the secrets he is trying so
hard to hide. Farley is drawn into a world that will shake apart everything she
thought she ever knew. There are truths out there that she must learn: that a
person’s soul is their only real currency, and there are people who would do
anything to take hers; that loving someone can hurt so much more than hating
them; but, most importantly, when your future is predestined, there is little
you can do to change it.
Farley Hope is
prophesied.
Her coming has been
awaited for hundreds of years.
She is destined to
end the tyranny of the Soul Reavers.
To do so she must
die
The story begins with Farley in her car and figuring out
that she is being followed and from there on in this story zaps by. And that
was the main thing that I liked about this story. There was no pausing in the
actions and no moments were I wanted to skip to the next page. Everything about
it made me want to find out what happened next.
The villains of the story are a group of immortals called
Reavers and there human no-longer-quite-themselves minions Immundus. So guess
who our hero has to keep our heroine safe from ;).
I LOVED this heroine!
Farley was so strong willed and independent and at the same
time didn't do any of those hair-pullingly stupid things that other
heroines do (because they all seem to be exceedingly brainless and DON’T LISTEN
TO ANYONE – pet peeve there guys). That isn’t to say that she listens to
everything that she is told to do or anything but the stupidity is kept to a blessed
minimum. Although my one issue with her is that she seems to handle thing a little too well. I was waiting for a full on emotional melt down that never happened.
Daniel - our hero – goes around with a bee in his bonnet for
most of the story and he and Farley have a love hate relationship that comes
from him trying to keep some distance between them. But why we ask?
Frankie Rose did a marvellous job of holding back just enough information to have me
wanting to tear through the rest of the book to find out just what was going
on.
*Thanks to author Frankie Rose for providing this book for review*
