Review: I LOVE THIS SERIES!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
RATING: 4.5 starsAwaken is book two in The Soulkeepers trilogy by Lori Adams. First of all, I want to comment on the covers of both books one and two. They are both beautiful and draw me in. I am a total sucker for an awesome book cover. But, what is within these pages is just as awesome. The emotions I experienced, though, while reading this book were completely all over the place. I went from sighing from the beautiful love between Michael and Sophia, to anger, to fear, to pride, then, the ending, when my jaw hit the floor. Let me try to explain.We start out right where book one left off. Sophia is ok. Dante and his friends have been sent back to hell. Sophia is so excited to begin her awakening as a spirit walker. In the mean time, she is in love with Michael. What they have together is secret, no one can know. But their love is so deep and wonderful.“Loving a guy like Michael is like swallowing the moon; I’m glowing on the inside.”Michael is a little frustrated as well. He is waiting to find out if he has been selected to train for the esteemed position of being a member of the Halos. But, he has Sophia. This is the first time Michael has ever experienced love. But here is where the anger comes in. Michael has no control of his love. He is overwhelmed with it. He does NOT want Sophia to become a spirit walker. He thinks it will be too dangerous. I feel like he actually bullies her to an extent. He takes Sophia on a wondrous date to a frozen waterfall but even then, he tries to manipulate her love for him and then ends up leaving her there when he gets the call to save someone’s soul. I was really frustrated with the way he was treating her.“I don’t care what you call it. Just remember it was the night you became mine. Do you understand, Sophia? You…are…mine.”Dante and Vaughn are back. They have found a way to escape back up to the surface and Dante is willing to do anything to help Sophia remember a past life he is convinced they experienced together. He wants to take Sophia back to hell with him. Ok, Dante is the bad guy, right? He wants to take Sophia to hell. But, I couldn’t help but fall for him just a little bit this time. His devotion to her is so overwhelming and just kind of cute. He’s like a puppy dog. So even though I don’t want her to fall for him, I still developed a soft spot for Dante.Fear: The big guys down in Hell are very, very angry that Dante has escaped. So they send Wolfgang back up to kill Sophia. But, Sophia has not even completed her training. How can she defend herself against such an evil and powerful beast?Pride: Sophia has begun her training. She has a comical spiritual trainer, Rama. And she has two other trainers for the physical parts. I felt so proud of Sophia every time she completed another aspect of her training. Against all odds, she perseveres through everything and she had no one there to cheer her on and support her. But I couldn’t have been more proud.And, the ending. Just when you think you know how it will end, you get a shock. So consider yourself warned. There is a cliff hanger.So now I’ll just have to wait until the final book comes out to see what happens next. Thank you to Lori Adams, Random House Publishing and NetGalley for giving me the opportunity to read this book. If you haven’t given this series a chance, I hope my words will convince you to do so.