Stain - My Soul to Wake #1 - Tara Oakes
Sum Up: (Goodreads)
Witchcraft.
Reincarnation.
True love.
(…)
SALEM, MASSACHUSETTES 1692
She was taken from him in the cruelest way... condemned, sentenced and punished
out of fear of the unknown. How is he supposed to live without her? How can he
go on knowing that in this life, they will never be one again? There's only one
thing to do... only one option that will bring them together again.
SALEM , MASSACHUSETTES TODAY
Leah is taken on a weekend excursion with her best girlfriends to let loose,
relax and have a little fun. (...) [But] something seems familiar about the town. The trees, the winds, the feel of
everything. (…) When she meets a
handsome stranger who's eager to know her in a way no one else can, she begins
to think there just may be something more to this place, something more to him.
Will has been waiting, biding his time, and praying that she'll come back. He's
broken the natural order of things to possibly find her again, weaving their
way through the years until they can be together again. He knows he may never
find her, but he can't risk not trying. This place calls to her, just as it did
to him. It will bring her back home. It will bring her back to him.
(...)
Some scenes contain sexual contents that may offend the sensibilities of readers.
Plot:
Okay, so
this is how our story begins: you have a twenty-three year-old woman who has
been having nightmares since the day she was born. Her parents brought her to
specialists, psychologists… No one ever knew what was going on. So it remained
her family secret. She never went to sleepovers and she never let herself date
boys (imagine the situation: being awaken every night by your girlfriend who
has nightmares… You may valuate more your sleep than your girlfriend). Anyway,
her two best friends – who are the only ones to know about her nightmares –
decide to take her in a road trip in Salem. Their first night out, they meet
Will, a beautiful hot guy! Leah and Will obviously feel an attraction between
the two of them and they decide to see each other again the next day.
Also, Nina
and Courtney – Leah’s best friends – convinced Leah to go see a psychic with
them. And nothing happens as it should have happened. After all, what could happen, right?
“The truth sings, calls to bring the two halves together.”
This is when everything changes. The psychic will tell her things that Leah knows without really understanding it as a whole. Frightened, she wants to leave this awful meeting behind her but it will keep coming back to her. Ghosts will become her worst nightmare and reality. She
will hear voices, see gravestones that aren’t here. And Will seems to know more than he wants to tell her. Or maybe she doesn't really want to hear what he has to say?
“When I heard how scared you were, panicked… I thought the worst. I just found you and I thought that something was happening that would take you from me.”Opinion:
I really
did enjoy this book. I loved being taken back to Salem when witches were
persecuted. This story of lost soul mates was superbly written. First, you have
all this story around the soul mates and how they were set apart and how they
met again 300 years later. The nightmares added around the story because it is
through them that we have been taken back 300 years back.
Then, you
have the suspense around the person who is attacking Leah. She is facing
different supernatural attacks. One of the scenes I liked the most was the
scene in the cemetery. Her candle is blown, her phone is not working anymore,
all alone and she hears voices. This scene was very well written as Tara Oakes
makes us hold our breaths. Her description of the scene and Leah’s reaction
was just so true and real. I felt as if I was Leah in this cemetery.
I loved the
two crazy best friends who are always here for Leah and are so funny. They were
bringing some fun in the story.
“It’s not that bad, Leah,” Court downplays my pain
I widen my eyes at her. “I had melted wax poured on my privates. How is that not bad?”
She hands me a loaded hot dog from our tray. “The first time’s the worst. The next time won’t be so bad.”
I open up a napkin, fully expecting the contents of my heaping hot dog to overflow. “There’s not going to be a next time.”
She laughs. “That’s what you say now. Just wait ‘til he sees it. You ‘ll change your mind crazy quick.”
And of
course *sighs* I freaking loved Will. Where is MY Will? I want the exact same
one! He is just so fierce, passionate, sensitive, protective (guys! I’m just in
love!)… He has everything you are looking for. He has been waiting more than 300 years to be reunited with his love.
The first meeting with Leah is
full of sexual attraction. You can feel it, I can feel it and God knows I would
have gladly switched places with Leah (Except that I may have jumped on him and
the book would have ended there). But he is also a character who is mourning
and who has been deeply hurt by life. And he will stop at nothing to have Leah
in his life.
“Tell me no man has touched you here, seen you like this”, he asks.
The only
negative point was the end that frustrated me! Very impatient for the second
book!
“You can’t leave me, Leah. You have to come back to me. I’m going to hold tight this time, I’m never going to let go.”And trust me, little sweet readers, I am not ready to let go of Tara Oakes and her books… Not yet!
Tags: book, books, book review, blog, blogger, book blogger, book community, young adult, witchcraft, literature, fiction, Stain, My Soul to Wake, Tara Oakes
0 commentaires: