Title: Soul Seekers
Series: N/A
Author: Jake C. Wallace
Genre: New Adult / Urban Fantasy
Length: Novel (330 pages)
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (Jun 22, 2016)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 4 ½ Hearts
Blurb: Nineteen-year-old college student Levi Reed has spent his life with hollow emotions and a darkness so deep that he’s convinced he’s losing his mind. He’d give anything to feel something, anything, real.
When a mysterious stranger appears, Levi is convinced the man is trying to kill him. When he’s near, Levi experiences head-crushing pain and something surprising—real emotions for the first time. Jeb Monroe is arrogant, self-assured, closed-off, and handsome, but he isn’t the harbinger of doom Levi assumed. Jeb’s mission: help Levi find his missing soul.
Levi is pulled into the secret world of Seers and Keepers, those born with the innate ability to manipulate souls and tasked with balancing the negative energy they can produce. Levi learns he possesses a rare gift, and he’s in danger. As Jeb and Levi grow closer, they discover a group of zealots who want to harness Levi’s power to cleanse the world of damaged souls. Everyone Levi cares for is threatened unless he agrees to become their tool of death. But agreeing could spell the destruction of humankind. With no one to trust and nothing as it appears, it’s up to Levi to save them all.
ISBN: 978-1-63477-261-7
Product Link: https://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/books/soul-seekers-by-jake-c-wallace-7177-b
Reviewer: Shorty
Review: Levi is a young man with a severe problem. He has panic attacks so strong they are debilitating. I was truly concerned for him when he seemed to have negative or no emotions at all. Jeb was a mystery at first. He seemed so cold and distant until his story is revealed. It was horrifying what happened to him.
All throughout the story I thought I had different things figured out when a twist would suddenly happen and I realized I was wrong. This book takes you on a journey with Levi as he discovers who and what he truly is and just what he’s capable of… all the while trying to stay out of the clutches of a radical righteous group hell-bent on eradicating all seers and keepers from the earth.
I was fascinated with the Seers and Keepers as one removed a soul from a person and the other kept it safe until it was time to be returned. Although this was not as simple as it sounds I was still intrigued by it.
As the story progresses we meet several characters that add to the mystery of Levi’s condition. I was truly impressed with how well the story flowed and the right amount of suspense, action, drama and mystery that had me on the edge of my seat throughout.
I will say a good portion of the first half left me frustrated but I understood the reasoning once everything began to pick up.
This is a wonderful, engaging, well written story that will pull you in until the very end when all is revealed.