Title: With All My Soul (Soul Screamers #7)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Published: April, 2013 by Harlequin Teen
Thanks: Harlequin Teen, AU
Pages: 377
Rating:  
Purchase: The Book Depository

What does it mean when your school is voted the most dangerous in America? It’s time to kick some hellion butt…

After not really surviving her junior year (does “undead” count as survival?), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble. She’s going to find a way to turn the incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity against one another in order to protect her friends and finish this war, once and forever.

But then she meets Wrath and understands that she’s closer to the edge than she’s ever been. And when one more person close to her is taken, Kaylee realizes she can’t save everyone she loves without risking everything she has….

Final Thoughts:
I finally finished this one. Not that it was bad. It was great. GREAT. I just found getting time to actually read it the struggle. It’s so easy to procrastinate, even in regards to something we want to do. Anyway, review time. The seventh book. The final one. It’s here. (Spoilers for the previous books, btw) Kaylee, a girl who started out in a mental ward, unable to tame the screams bursting free of her, has come so far since then. For starters, she’s dead, sort of, and unlike before, she’s no longer waiting around, she’s taking the fight to them. With her now-wide group of friends, she’d ready take down the demons that lead to her demise.

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• Team Human by Justine Larbalestier & Sarah Rees Brennan (purchased)
• Kamikaze Boys by Jay Bell (won)
• Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent (purchased/thanks to publisher)

So it’s been a few weeks, but I haven’t been getting many books lately–couple that with moving house again, and an utter lack of reading time that came with that and you end up with absence of things to post. I actually got both of those Before I Wake‘s the week before and moved it to the top of my pile. I really like that series–especially If I Die, so it was good to come back to Kaylee and her gang. I’ll probably be starting Team Human in the next few days. It’s co-author by Sarah Rees Brennan–one of my favourites–so I’m pretty excited to see what she’s come up with. A girl trying to stop her best friend from dating a vampire…yes, I wanna read that! Also, thanks to Jay Bell for sending me a signed copy of his book. It carries the pink theme along nicely. Anyway, that’s about it for me this week. Happy reading 😀

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Fukuda, Andrew The Hunt #1, The Hunt
Green, John, Looking For Alaska
Vincent, Rachel Soul Screamers #6, Before I Wake

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Title: Before I Wake (Soul Screamers #6)
Author: Rachel Vincent
Published: June, 2012 by Harlequin Teen
Thanks: Harlequin Teen, AU
Pages: 339
Rating:  
Purchase: The Book Depository

I died on a Thursday-killed by a monster intent on stealing my soul. The good news? He didn’t get it. The bad news? Turns out not even death will get you out of high school…

Covering up her own murder was one thing, but faking life is much harder than Kaylee Cavanaugh expected. After weeks spent “recovering,” she’s back in school, fighting to stay visible to the human world, struggling to fit in with her friends and planning time alone with her new reaper boyfriend. But to earn her keep in the human world, Kaylee must reclaim stolen souls, and when her first assignment brings her face-to-face with an old foe, she knows the game has changed. Her immortal status won’t keep her safe. And this time Kaylee isn’t just gambling with her own life….

Final Thoughts:
After the book that basically remade the series, I was wondering what to expect. While not packing as heavy a punch, Before I Wake still kept me enthralled with the day-to-day demon-infused lives of the characters I’ve come to enjoy. While almost all them are supernaturally charged in one way or another, it’s a wonder that when I think of these guys, I think of their personal struggles, the drama, and not the Netherworld crisis currently befalling them. Becoming less self-contained, the plots have grown across the six books, playing more on the human qualities, yet managing to do so in a way that doesn’t let the book fall into the dreaded ‘paranormal with no paranormal’ territory.

Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

Titles link back to Goodreads
• Ashes by Isla J. Bick (library)
• Touch Of Frost by Jennifer Estep (library)
• Looking For Alaska by John Green (library)
• The Bonehill Curse by Jon Mayhew (thanks to Publisher)
• Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent (purchased)
• Ascend by Amanda Hocking (purchased)
• Stefan’s Diaries: The Compelled by Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec (purchased)
• Dawn Of Darkness by Daniel A. Kaine (purchased)

I tried reading yesterday, but only got through about 80 pages of City Of Lost Souls before I got distracted and let procrastination take over the rest of my Saturday. I’m going to try and get back to it today, though. Just watching the PopAsia music video show at the moment, then time for reading. I’m really liking the cover for Shadow Bound, plus it’s a Rachel Vincent book, which is another big turn on–love her stuff. I’m hoping I can find time to read John Green’s book before it’s due back at the library, because I really loved The Fault In Our Stars. I haven’t read my copy of Torn yet, but I saw a heap of copies of Ascend on the end of a rack at the shops this week and grabbed myself one. I also got a tub of gummi bears as well, but that’s beside the point. Anyway, time to get back to my Sunday kpop. What did you get this week?

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Lord, Gabrielle Conspiracy 365 #10-12, October to December

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Touch Jus Accardo	Warm Bodies Isaac Marion	Dawn Of Darkness Daniel A. Kaine
If I Die Rachel Vincent	Stick Andrew Smith	Burn Bright Marianne de Pierres
Forever Maggie Stiefvater	Black Swan Rising Lee Carroll	All These Things I’ve Done Gabrielle Zevin
Raised By Wolves Jennifer Lynn Barnes	The Demon’s Surrender Sarah Rees Brennan	White Cat Holly Black
Alpha Rachel Vincent	City Of Fallen Angels* Cassandra Clare	Unraveled* Gena Showalter

* Review not available

In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by The Story Siren, which allows bloggers to share what books they’ve received in the past week. They can be from stores, contests, tours or publishers!

• Soul Screamers: Vol 1 by Rachel Vincent (purchased)
• Reckoning by Lili St. Crow (purchased)
• Under The Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (purchased)
• Unleashed by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie (purchased)
• The Return: Nightfall by L.J. Smith (library)
• The Return: Shadow Souls by L.J. Smith (purchased)
• The Return: Midnight by L.J. Smith (purchased)
• Stefan’s Diaries: The Ripper by Kevin Williamson & Julie Plec (purchased)

Lots of The Vampire Diaries this week. I read books two to four of the original series after getting a random craving and ended up getting sucked back in. I had to get more so that’s how I ended up with the next three L.J. Smith books and the fourth book in the Stefan spinoff. I double dipped and bought the Soul Screamers omnibus because I wanted the My Soul To Lose prequel in print. I’m guessing that’s their selling strategy. I still haven’t started the Strange Angels series but at least I have them all now for whenever I get around to it. I wasn’t intending on purchasing this cover for Under The Never Sky, I was going to get the pink and white one, but when I saw it instore early here in Australia I couldn’t wait. Finally, Unleashed was one I ordered a couple weeks ago. I haven’t read a lot of werewolf books, I’m more into vampires myself, but the cover intrigued me. It reminds me a bit of Fallen.

Here are my latest reviews if you want to check them out:
Barnes, Jennifer Lynn, Every Other Day
Smith, L.J. The Vampire Diaries #2, The Struggle
Smith, L.J. The Vampire Diaries #3, The Fury
Smith, L.J. The Vampire Diaries #4, Dark Reunion

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In My Mailbox is a meme hosted by The Story Siren, which allows bloggers to share what books they’ve received in the past week. They can be from stores, contests, tours or publishers!

• Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi (purchased)
• Blood Bound by Rachel Vincent (purchased)
• Angel Arias by Marianne de Pierres (purchased)
• Smoulder by Brenna Yovanoff (thanks to Publishers)

Can’t wait to get into Angel Arias, I’ve been checking my local store for it since its release, and they finally had it in stock. I also found Shatter Me and thought I might as well get it while I was there. I already had the US Blood Bound, but when I saw that the Australian one was regular book size and not tiny like the US one, I gave in a bought myself a second copy. I probably should get around to reading it soon, I’ve already read Rachel’s other 11 books this year and loved them. Thanks to Simon & Schuster for Smoulder. Daughter of hell, sounds like my kind of book. And sorry to those I didn’t get back to last week, I was in crazy cram-mode for my exams.

Here’s my latest review if you want to check it out:
Marion, Isaac Warm Bodies

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