Before I Wake
Rachel Vincent
Paperback: 352 Pages
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
ISBN: 0373210612
Source: Borrowed from Rachel at Fiktshun thank's bestie!!! <33333333
Rating: Obsessed
From Goodreads.
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....
I have so many feelings about this book! I loved If I Die and I didn’t think that Rachel could top it, no way no
how! I mean the thing that I had been waiting for forever finally happened in If I Die no not Kaylee dying but, if you’ve
read If I Die you’ll know what I’m
talking about ;)
Before I Wake made my heart
soar at one moment then ripped it out and tore it to shreds the next.
There’s
one scene in this book where I lost it. I mean literally lost it! Ugly red
eyes, tears, runny nose the works; and no I won’t tell you which scene but it
devastated me. There were also a few scenes where I swooned so much I felt like
I needed a cold shower and yeah… sorry Team Nash peeps those were between Tod
and Kay. Also I already really liked Sabine in If I Die but I came to adore her in this one she had some of the
best one liner’s and had me cracking up! I mean she actually says at one point
about Sophie…. “Yeah and hissing kittens
think they’re badass, too.” It’s so fitting! I also loved Kaylee’s dad in
this one he’s trying so hard to make sure his daughter still has a “normal”
life and he’s even trying to have an “open door” policy when it comes to Tod
and Kaylee and a curfew lol it’s so cute! Oh and Nash isn't as much of an asshat in this one so Nash fans that should make you happy!
I don’t want to talk much about the story as I feel I will go into
spoilery territory but holy crap! There’s things that I never saw coming not in
a million years and Rachel definitely ups the WTF’ery in this one. I definitely
used a lot of curse words while reading this one! I can’t wait to see how this
story all ends in With All My Soul
the final Soul Screamers book! But man am I going to be sad to see this series
I love so much come to an end!
I had a really hard time finding a passage for this one that wasn’t
too spoilery and I also had to choose from about 20 pages that I had post-it
notes on. I didn’t want to share any of the swoon worthy scenes I figured y’all
would love to wait and read them on their own….. So I think I finally found one
that is awesome though! It’s between Kaylee and her dad.
I pushed the open
the door to find him sitting on the edge of his bed in a pair of flannel pajama
pants, squinting at the alarm clock on his bedside table. “Guess what? I made
breakfast.”
“You made…?” But
before he could finish that thought, our ancient water heater groaned to life
and the sound of running water erupted form down the hall. My dad’s eyes
widened as he glanced at the closed bathroom door over my shoulder. “Who’s in
the shower?”
“Nash. We kind of…
had an impromptu sleepover.”
“You and Nash?”
My dad was out of bed in an instant, reaching for the robe tossed over his
footboard.
“No! Well yes.
But, Sabine stayed the night, too.”
“That doesn’t
sound much better, Kay…”
“Hang on, Pa, don’t
reach for yer shotgun just yet,” I said, grinning over the protective streak I
found funny, when there wasn’t actually anything to shelter me from. “We were
just circlin’ the wagons, not having an orgy.”
My dad suddenly
looked like he might be sick. “Please don’t ever say that word again.”
“Wagons?” I
teased, and he actually cracked a smile.
“Yes, you’re much
too young to be using Wild West analogies,” He tied his robe and ran one hand
through his hair that showed no sign of thinning, well into his one hundred and
thirty-second year. “So what happened? Why are we circling the proverbial
wagons?”
Add this to your Goodreads
shelves.
If you haven’t pre-ordered this one yet I highly suggest it! You’ll
want to read it ASAP!
