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Bezig met laden... SOUL PROTECTOR (editie 2011)door Amanda Leigh Cowley (Auteur)
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Gracie doesn't know she's a Soul Protector. After being dragged on a night out to celebrate a friend's birthday, she discovers she can switch into other people's bodies. Within minutes she manages to switch back, but doubting her sanity, decides to keep it to herself until she can work out why it happened. On a second switch, unaware she has a visible aura, she gets abducted by a monitor, Dan. It's his job to hunt down corrupt Soul Protectors who steal bodies for their own benefit. Once he establishes Gracie is innocent, he helps her switch back and looks after her during recovery. Dan explains to Gracie how Soul Protectors are bound by a code to only switch for the benefit of vulnerable people. Gracie falls in love with Dan, but finds he has hang-ups of his own. Finally understanding the rules, Gracie switches for a third time to help someone in need. During this switch her past catches up with her, and a chain of events unfold which shock her to the core. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Soul Protector reminds me of a cross between ‘Men in Black’ and ‘Quantum Leap.’ Only in QL, Sam had no control over when he left the body he was in, or which body he travelled to next. It’s also a story about betrayals, lies, accepting responsibility for your actions and forgiveness.
I have mixed feelings about this book. The concept of soul protectors is an interesting idea and I was hoping that I would learn a lot about them in this book. Instead the author lightly touches on the subject and chooses to focus on Gracie and her romances.
The story is told in first person through the eyes of Gracie an insecure, single woman who has recently been dumped by her boyfriend. For the first part of the book we are subjected to Gracie moaning about the loss of her boyfriend, until she meets Dan a Soul Monitor, and Gracie falls in 'love' with him in about fifteen minutes because he's so devastatingly handsome. I really dislike ‘instant love’ stories. Those kinds of stories tell me that the author couldn’t take the time to think of scenarios that would help the main couple fall in love. Instead the author chooses ‘love at first sight’ as the simple solution.
So, after mourning over her previous breakup for quite a few months, Gracie falls in love with Dan, and then worries if Dan feels the same way about her. When Dan eventually stops seeing her, Gracie again falls into mourning, she is nothing without a man. However toward the very last part of the book, Gracie finally grows the balls to stop being a doormat and stop moaning about not having a man in her life.
What I also didn't like about this book, was that there was lots of internal dialogue with Gracie describing her feelings, her environment and her thoughts rather than action or dialogue between characters. Despite all the internal chatter, I never really got a good feeling of Gracie's personality other than she was needy, insecure and tended to be a doormat.
I think the best part of the book involved the situation with Terry, Gracie’s mother’s boyfriend. I won’t review the spoiler, but that event definitely surprised me.
I can only say that this book is average, simply because the author wasted the opportunity to really get into the meat of the idea of soul protectors and instead chose to focus on the romances of an insecure woman. I’d give this story two stars, but the soul protector idea is too interesting for that, so I’ll give 2.5 stars rounded up to three stars since I can’t give half stars.
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