Review: Awaken by Lori Adams

Check out my review of Forbidden (The Soulkeepers #1) I enjoyed the first novel, Forbidden, and I wanted to see what happened with the characters. Awaken picks up where Forbidden left off after Dante has been sent back to Hell and Sophia has been united with her body. Unfortunately, I had high expectations for this novel and Awaken did not quite meet them. The pacing in this novel wasn’t nearly as great as that of the first. I often found myself skipping parts and having to go back to reread them. The plot didn’t get really interesting until the end, and even then it was easy to predict what was going to happen. I was able to predict the cliffhanger with 10% left in the book. It was a pretty uneventful read for me which was disappointing because I loved the plot of the first novel so much. Sophia was different in this novel. I’m not sure if it is just that I’ve come to judge main characters more as I read and review more books, but she was a bit whinier to me as a character. For the first half of the novel she was acting like she was hyped up on crack hoping to become a spirit walker, completely disregarding her normal life. She was also a complete pushover when it came to not wanting to let people […]