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My Review:Title: The Soul Summoner (The Soul Summoner, #1)
Author: Elicia Hyder
Series: The Soul Summoner #1
Published by: Indie
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 268
Genres: Paranormal Romance
Reading Challenges: CC's Goodreads Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:Blessed–or cursed–with a connection to the souls of others, Sloan Jordan can see the best in people… and the worst. For twenty-seven years, she's kept her ability a secret, but eleven young women have been murdered in the mountains of North Carolina, and Sloan may be the only hope of finding their killer.
She has just agreed to help Detective Nathan McNamara with the case, when a stranger—who is as alluring as he is terrifying—shows up at her doorstep with a dark past and another puzzling mystery: she can't see his soul at all.
Now Sloan is on the hunt for a deadly psychopath with two irresistible men. One of them would die for her, and the other would kill to keep her safe.
First off, I think the blurb is very misleading. It seems like she is very aware of her power when in fact, she pretty much ignores it until she can’t anymore. Also, the stranger with his alluring dark past is never really talked about either.
This one was kinda confusing in that we don’t really go into what EXACTLY it is she can do. Can she sense dead souls? Can she locate them? Does she herself have no soul? these are all questions that never really get answered. Usually I am a stickler for loose ends but in this one I kinda just rolled with it and it wasn’t that bad. She had some vague unexplainable power and didn’t try to overanalyze it.
The romance is where it went kinda downhill for me. I was rooting for Sloan and Nathan to get together but then Warren swoops in with his vague unexplainable powers and :BAM: instant attraction. It felt a bit like a drug withdrawal when they are apart, which I found to be a bit weird. I’m still not sure about Warren actually. He came in too hot and fast for my tastes.
The murder plot was a bit exciting and really kept my interest when the romance waned so it had a nice balance in that. Actually there are a lot of things that go unexplained in this book. I doubt I will be reading the next book right now, but maybe in the future. We’ll see.
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