YA Book Tour- Texas

Next stop on the YA tour is Mary Lindsey's Shattered Souls representing Texas.

Lenzi has a problem, she thinks she is going crazy.  She keeps hearing voice asking for her help, and believes she developing schizophrenia like her father. Her boyfriend Zak tries to help by getting her to take prescriptions to drowned out the voices.

On her birthday, she gets Zak to take her down to Galveston to visit her dad's grave. Here she meets Alden, who at first she believes is another hallucination, but he is real as can be and knows exactly what is going on with her.  The voices she is hearing are very real. They are the voices of hindered spirits asking for help.  Turns out Lenzi is a speaker and Alden is her Protector, and they have lived many lives together.

Only this time Lenzi's name is different, no longer Rose, she remembers nothing of their past together and has trouble accepting this whole new twist in her life.

So the description  makes it sound the big conflict in Lenzi's life is between choosing  Zak or Alden, but really it is not.  You know pretty quick that Zak is not right for her, and so does she.  Her main struggle is finding her way as a Speaker when she knows nothing about.

I felt a little bad for Lenzi with everyone expecting her to be the person she cannot remember.  I do like that she refuse to be defined by her past, especially one she doesn't remember.  She forges her own way, and makes Alden accept her the way she is now.

Alden, at times, is a little bit of a stick in the mud.  He wants Lenzi, but is afraid to accept her love because of her past as Rose.  He can't decide if he should hold her tight or at arms length.  That boy needs to get his priorities straight.

I like the interesting concept of recycling of lives as to save lost souls.  It was not your run of the mill ghost whisper.  Ms. Lindsey has made quite the interesting and complicated world that works to resolve the hindered spirits.

Sad news is that the companion novel to this one is not due out until fall 2014. Can't believe I have to wait that long to learn more about the fascinating world created in this book, but it will be a whole new couple in the book.

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Dairy Queen
by Catherine Gilbert Murdock