My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent is a fresh new addition to YA Paranormal. With an off-beat heroine in a reluctant Bean Sidhe, a Banshee, named Kaylee Cavanaugh who accidentally discovers what she is while still a teenager in High School. The only person willing to listen to her, and help her discover the truth, and the only person who can keep her calm, when she has the urge to scream,is  her new boyfriend Nash Hudson. While Kaylee just wants to be a normal teenage girl, with a cute new boyfriend,  she’s glad to know she’s not crazy!

However, she is curious as to why several teenage girls are dropping dead around town with no apparent cause of death. With Nash’s help, she’ll tackle talking to a Reaper (news flash- the sickle and scythe are bogus) and try to find an answer to the mystery of who is killing them, and why the girls were killed and their souls stolen. Add in her absentee father who shows up to answer questions from her past, she’ll need all the help she can get to not only find the answers she seeks, but for her family to survive.

I absolutely loved reading a book with a non-traditional paranormal story-line. Who needs witches, werewolves and vampires when you can read a story with a Banshee heroine! Rachel Vincent breathes new life into the paranormal genre with this fresh idea and brilliant and cheeky heroine. I am eagerly looking forward to the next book in her Soul Screamers series, My Soul To Save, due for release January 1, 2010. I can only hope the rest of the Paranormal genre perks up and takes up new ideas such as this enjoyable read.

You can find more about this series and the author on her website: www.rachelvincent.com