Dying to Read (15)- With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent

Hey y’all thanks for stopping by to see my Dying to Read post and of course as always I have to give credit to the lovely Jill over at Breaking the Spine for the Waiting on Wednesday Meme!

This week the book I’m dying to read is With All My Soul by Rachel Vincent! I don’t care what I’m reading or doing but when this book arrives on my doorstep I will DEAR it! I’m going to be so sad to see the end of this series and I know I will probably cry through the whole book but it will be worth it!

With All My Soul (Soul Screamers #7)

Rachel Vincent

Release Date: March 19, 2013

Paperback: 304 pages

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

ISBN: 0373210663

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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 (after all, she did die), Kaylee Cavanaugh has vowed to take back her school from the hellions causing all the trouble. She's going to the find a way to turn the incarnations of Avarice, Envy and Vanity and the rest on each other. And so she–and her gang–make plans to protect her friends and finish this war, once and forever.

But then she meets Wrath. And Kaylee realizes that she's closer to the edge than she's ever been. Especially when one more person she loves is taken...

  

So what do you think? Will you be adding this to your pile? What are you dying to read this week?

Jaime's Review of Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent

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!

Soul Screamers Reading Challange

We are super excited to be participating in the Soul Screamers Reading Challenge hosted by our blogger BFF Rachel at Fiktshun.com. What makes this challenge so great is that you can be a first time reader or you can be a re-reader of this fantastic series. This challenge is also quite doable as you only need to read one book per month and it all leads up to the release of Before I Wake. 

Also in addition to reading the five currently released books there is “extra credit” entries when you read and review the 3 novellas: My Soul to Lose, Reaper and Never to Sleep.

There are some outta this world incentives such as signed copies of the books, $50 GC to B&N or Amazon, t-shirts, swag and pre-orders of Before I Wake due out in June. Aren't those just amazing? PLUS there are other incentives to come, too. WOOT!! WOOT!! 

So don’t delay…the challenge starts on Jan 15^th with the first book, My Soul to Take. So be sure to check out all the deets  HERE  and of course to sign up!! 

So what do you think? Will you be joining us in this challange? Let us know in the comments below. 

Patricia & Jaime

New Covers by Rachel Vincent & Cassandra Clare

So there has been a couple of new covers revealed in the last few days for books that we are very excited about; if you haven't seen them here they are!!


They are both absolutely beautiful. We can't wait to get our hands on both of these books. 


The first is Before I Wake by Rachel Vincent. Check out her blog post HERE. Be sure to pre-order at Barnes & Noble or Amazon.

The second cover that we wanted to share with you is City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare. This cover was released via USA Today online as well as the prologue. The prologue is wicked and takes place immediately after the end of City of Fallen Angels. Warning: If you haven't read CoFA don't read the prologue for CoLS as it's a bit spoilery for CoFA. 

You can pre-order City of Lost Souls at Barnes & Noble or Amazon. Check out Cassandra Clare's post on the cover HERE.  


So what do you think of these two covers? Let us know in the comments! 

Jaime's Review of If I Die by Rachel Vincent

No one wants to be this teacher’s pet . . .

Everyone else is talking about Eastlake High’s gorgeous new math teacher, Mr. Beck, but Kaylee Cavanaugh has bigger things on her mind. Kaylee’s a banshee—her scream is a portent of death.

But the next scream might hit too close to home. Kaylee’s borrowed lifeline has almost run out.

Yeah—it’s a shock to her, too. So to distract herself from her own problems, Kaylee is determined to defend her school against the latest supernatural threat. That hot new teacher is really an incubus, who feeds from the desire of unsuspecting students. The only girls immune to his lure are Kaylee and Sabine, her boyfriend’s delinquent ex-girlfriend. Now the unlikely allies have to get rid of Mr. Beck…before he discovers they aren’t quite human either.

But Kaylee’s running out of time, and those who love her will do anything to save her life.

Anything.

Soul Screamers: The last thing you hear before you die. Excerpt from Goodreads.

Jaime’s review….

So I have no idea how to review this one without revealing major spoilers! Like I can’t even talk about pretty much the whole second half of the book so this review is going to be short and sweet. It was fantastic the end!

Ok but seriously I’ll try to do my best here. I loved this book it’s the best in the series! We get the whole crew back and tons of sexy times I won’t say with whom. I actually started to like Sabine in this book and Nash is starting to redeem himself in my eyes which I thought would never happen.

The new teacher is an ass and I hated him from the moment he appeared on the page and I fell more in love with Tod if that was even possible. I will say at the end of the book Rachel almost gave me a stroke but you’ll just have to read it to see what I’m talking about. I absolutely love the world and the characters Rachel has created and I want a reaper of my own if he’s as hot as Tod! Go buy this book when it arrives in stores in September! I can’t wait to see what you all have to say about it and I’m patiently (not really) waiting for Before I Wake Rachel write faster!!!!