Book: Soulstice (The Devouring Book 2) by Simon Holt
It’s been six months since Reggie first discovered and fought against the Vours, malicious and demonic beings that inhabit human bodies on the eve of the Winter Solstice.
The Vours still haunt Reggie, but only in her dreams-until one night, when an unexpected visitor turns her nightmares into reality.
The battle against evil continues in Soulstice, the second book in the thrilling The Devouring series, which School Library Journal called, “Comparable to books by R. L. Stine and Stephen King….A must-have for horror fans.”
SPOILER ALERT: If you haven’t read the first book in the series there will be spoilers.
The first thing I want to say about this is that it is probably my new favorite series! I loved both this and the first one. They were both the perfect mixes of scary, funny, and cute. I definitely never really thought that I would like the books when I started but I was so wrong.
Soulstice begins six months after the ending of The Devouring and I really got into it from the very first page. Reggie’s visions from the Vours are getting worse but she doesn’t know who the Vour is. She knows Quinn is gone but she also knows that there are more Vours in her small town and they continue to torment her, her brother, and her friend. And things seem to be getting more intense for all of them and Henry is finally getting his memories back. And Reggie gets an unexpected visit in the middle of the night that I really did not see coming. The book really took off from there.
The one thing that tore me up about this book was how sad I felt for Henry. He was only eight and he had no clue what had happened to him or why he wanted to hurt people that were mean to him. He thought he was the monster when it was just the Vour inside him. I felt so bad for him. He was too cute. =]
Oh and I will warn you that the end is a total cliffhanger. I never expected it and there were so many other things that I couldn’t have predicted would happen in the book. It was just so great! But yeah if you don’t like waiting you might want to hold off on reading this one until we know when the next book will be released.
Overall, I think you can tell what I think about this series. Check it out because it is purely awesome and like I said, right in time for Halloween!
Awesome review! I really need to read the Devouring soon(: