Review: The Soul Stealer?  More like the Time Stealer
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 10 23, 2013
I really wanted to like this book.  I thought the premise of the alternate reality person in the human reality of the world was going to lead to fun.  I was bitterly disappointed.Malia Smalls is an independent businesswoman who runs a vintage clothing store and appears to be your typical human.  Hunter Oberon is a half human/half faery from another dimension of reality who knows that Malia holds the other half of his soul, and the only way he can come into his full power is to steal it from her, which will kill her.She rescues him when he collapses on the side of the road, and the book goes downhill from there.  For example, his first contact with her is a grip to her wrist so hard that he leaves a mark, along with anger that she's looking at his things (she's looking for his address to take him home).  Hunter is overbearing, scheming, secretive, has absolutely no problem ignoring any question he doesn't want to answer and frequently just lies to her.  Here is where my ability to suspend reality stopped.  Malia KNOWS he's lying to her, even calls him on it on several occasions, but she just can't seem to stop her attraction to him, falling ever further into his web, despite his claim that his strongest magic was unable to persuade her to want to be only with him.  Within a matter of a few days she's in love with him?She also overlooks his lies as a case of 'oh, he must not want me to ask; I'll just shut up so I don't make him angry, because then he might leave me'.  I can suspend most of my reality for a well-written paranormal romance, but there wasn't anything romantic about the supposed hero's manipulation, scheming, lies, etc., and the heroine continually accepting it all because apparently she has zero self-esteem and even less common sense.The only part I actually enjoyed was the setting in Hawaii.  It was lovely, and it was a nice change from the LA and New York settings you see so frequently.I apologize to Ms. Willett, who I'm sure put a great deal of time and effort into this project, but that doesn't excuse the fact that Malia is a spiritless, acquiescent ninny who ends up deserving everything she gets, and Hunter deserves to be beheaded and put out of everyone's misery.  I cannot, in good conscience, rate this higher than a one.  I feel like I wasted several hours of my time.Disclaimer:  I received this e-book free from Story Cartel in exchange for my honest review.