Review: Grabs You Right Away
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2013
have to give props to the way this book started. Bang right off the bat with mystery, intrigue and a guy dropping dead.Oh, and to make things even better, the bad guy in this book is a pirate ghost. Let that sink in for a moment. And before you start shouting, "Pirates of the Caribbean did it", those weren't ghost. Go back and watch the series and here's a slap on the hand for getting that one wrong!I like reading about teenagers and there mishaps. (Does that make me sound creepy?) It's because everything is so much more dramatic through the eyes of a teenager. I remember my teen days,and what an annoying human being I was back then, but the world was so traumatic simply because I had weird hormones and no concept of reality.Fact #1: Teenagers think they're brilliant and invincible.Fact #2: This makes them do really stupid stuff.And that's why YA novels are better.In example, if I were on vacation and the locals told me no one dares go outside after dark, I'd make sure my ass was in before the sun went down. I don't care if there aren't any ghosts on the island and it's all a bunch of hoodlums making mischief THAT'S SO MUCH WORSE! I'd need my gun and some flood lights if I were going to take that on. But Alex, the main character in Souls of Darkness, takes on the evil night with his bike... because he's a teenager. It's like the kids who run around my hometown in 20 F weather wearing shorts and T-shirts like, "Screw you weather! Imma gonna wear what I wants to! My superior metabolism and need to fit in trump hypothermia any day!".Teenagers...And now, some bullet points:The characters are likable and their interactions make senseThe action is well pacedThe story develops in a manner that pulls you, the reader, inThis book kept me turning pages to see what was going to happen next