Main Character: Kaylee Cavanaugh
Love Interest: Nash Hudson
Series: Soul Screamers Series, Book 4
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YOU WANT MY SOUL AND MY BOYFRIEND?
Trying to work things out with Nash—her maybe boyfriend—is hard enough for Kaylee Cavanaugh. She can’t just pretend nothing happened. But “complicated” doesn’t even begin to describe their relationship when his ex-girlfriend transfers to their school, determined to take Nash back.
See, Sabine isn’t just an ordinary girl. She’s a mara, the living personification of a nightmare. She can read people’s fears—and craft them into nightmares while her victims sleep. Feeding from human fear is how she survives.
And Sabine isn’t above scaring Kaylee and the entire school to death to get whatever—and whoever—she wants.
I DON’T THINK SO.
There is going to be a lot of spoilers in this review so I’m going to hide it in plain sight, so if you want to read the review, highlight it and you’ll be able to read it. This tiny paragraph serves as your warning that in this review, there be spoilers. Lots of them.
I had to take a few days to get my thoughts (and emotions) under control before I could even think about starting this review. So much went down in this book and it left me feeling anxious, worried and annoyed. There was a lot of couple drama in this book with the introduction of Sabine and while I didn’t hate her, I certainly was annoyed with Kaylee because of her.
Kaylee’s whole self righteousness got on my nerves a bit in this book and there were times aplenty that I had to remind myself that Kaylee was a teenager because man did I want to smack her a time or two (or three or four) while reading this one but as annoyed with her as I was, never once did I want her and Nash not to work their problems out and with Sabine now in the picture and very much going after Nash, I was scared out of my pants that they would somehow end up together.
That can’t be the case. Nash has to end up with Kaylee, no matter how much drama is going down right now, in the end…Nash must end up with Kaylee. I was terribly upset after the scene in which Tod tells Kaylee what he did about Nash and Sabine. I don’t hate Sabine, I never did (even when she was being a total b word) but for me, this series revolves around Nash and Kaylee. The both of them together and I don’t agree with Tod that Kaylee doesn’t need Nash, she’s strong and everything but she leans on Nash a lot and she needs him just as much as he needs her.
This book revolves mostly around jealousy and for me, I wasn’t a fan of it. I didn’t like all of the jealousy going around and because of that, I spent a great deal of this book pissed off. I was pissed off at Kaylee and her fixation on Sabine being the killer running amock around their school and I was pissed off that Kaylee was being so selfish where Nash was concerned. While I understood why she felt the way that she did but I hated the way that she used Nash. She wouldn’t forgive him (which is okay) but she turned to him when she needed him and he came running because he loved her.
What I want to know is all of that soul mate crap that Tod was going off about with Nash and Sabine…that’s not true is it? I will be a great deal pissed off if Nash ends up with Sabine because he can’t. He belongs with Kaylee and I hate being unsure of their love for each other.
I will say that it was great to see the whole gang again. From Tod to Harmony and Kaylee’s Dad, I loved seeing them a part of the book and I’m going to keep up the faith that Nash and Kaylee will work things out. This book is another good addition to a series that I’m already obsessed with so fans of the series should read this one because it keeps the Soul Screamers series going and while there wasn’t a lot of the paranormal aspect of the series in this one, it was still good.
I’m anxious to get the novella Reaper, which tells us the story of how Tod died and after putting this book down, I’m more than a little anxious for If I Die, which is the next story in this series. I hope we don’t have to wait until 2012 for that one.
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I agree, at the beginning of the book, I was like WHAT?! Are Nash and Kaylee not going to end up together. But when I thought about it, Nash and Kaylee are kind of predictable, and after everything he’s done I don’t think she can truly forgive him in her heart. Also the problem of Sabine isn’t going to go away, and the fact that he has feelings for her makes it sort o impossible for them to truly be together. However, the possibility of Tod seems amazing. He (I think) truly loves her enough to keep silent, he is the one who is always there for her (barring the incident of not telling her about death in the netherworld) and we know when he loves someone he goes the extra mile like with Addy. I really think Tod and Kaylee should end up together. He is stronger and more interesting than Nash, so I think they should be together 🙂