Title: Soul
Storm (Soul #3)
Author:
Kate Harrison
Publisher:
Hachette Publishing, 304 pages, (August 1st 2013)
From:
Bought for me as a gift
Format:
Paperback
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Goodreads
Synopsis: Someone is stalking Alice Forster. She's sure it's her sister's murderer, but her parents think she's cracking under the stress of Meggie's death. Only in the virtual world of Soul Beach - an online paradise for the young, the beautiful and the dead - can Alice feel truly free. But there's trouble in paradise . . .
Clouds are gathering.
A storm is brewing.
The killer is about to strike.
The final gripping thriller in this paranormal romance trilogy.
Review: 5
Stars – I will start off by saying I am a huge fan of Kate Harrison’s Soul
series- so Soul Storm has been an eagerly anticipated read.
Also,
this review may contain spoilers if you haven’t read the previous 2 books in
the series- Soul Beach and Soul Fire.
Back in
2011 when Soul Beach was published we met Alice Forster whose reality TV star
sister Megan ‘Meggie’ had been murdered.
On the
day of Meggie’s funeral Alice received an email invite to Soul Beach. Alice
initially thought this was a hoax email but after clicking on the invite she
was transported to a paradise island where colourful birds sing throughout the
day, the sun’s always shining and the people there with their model-like
physiques and golden tans are always happy. Or are they?
As Alice
soon realises these beautiful people aren’t happy at all. They are the souls of
people whose deaths are unresolved. That’s why Meggie’s here, she was murdered
and Alice is the only one who can find out who Meggie’s killer is.
We join
Alice at the start of Soul Storm taking driving lessons, finishing school for
the summer and thinking of spending her 7 weeks summer break on ‘The Beach’. Alice
receives a bouquet of flowers on passing her driving test. She thinks they’ve
been sent by her sister’s killer. No one believes her and they think she must
have a secret admirer. When they are traced back to her mum’s credit card.
Alice’s parents think she’s sent them to herself and needs psychiatric help; that
she still hasn’t accepted Meggie’s death. They arrange a meeting with a
therapist, ban her from using the internet and want to know where she is at all
times. This means Alice’s only way to escape to Soul Beach is gone; taking her
way of contacting Meggie and boyfriend Danny with it.
With Cara
and Lewis as the only ones on her side, Alice must pull out all the stops to
find the killer; even if her mission does take her to the other side of the
world.
The
ending.....what can I say? I thought I knew who the murderer was, but then
there was a twist that made me suspect someone new, and then another twist. But
when the murderer was revealed my suspicions were correct. It definitely kept
me on my toes.
I love
the idea of Soul Beach. I have to say I would love to think we go on somewhere
else after we die, but I’m a little sceptical about it. Why couldn’t there be
somewhere that lost souls went to after death and in this age of everything
being computerised why can’t they contact you via email. Granted I would
probably think it was a scam like Alice did. However, I think this is a fresh idea and I commend
Kate Harrison for taking the life after death idea a step further.
With
intrigue, murder mystery, an unexpected twist of an ending and just a smidge of
a love story, Soul Storm is everything I wanted for the final book in this
series. I’m just sad it’s come to an end.
Thank you
to Kate for writing characters you really care about and baddies you really
hate!
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