Kaylee Cavanaugh is a bean sidhe. She screams when someone [with a soul] dies. When queen of pop Eden dies onstage and Kaylee doesn't scream, she doesn't know what's wrong. She finds out from a reaper that Eden didn't have a soul. That she sold it for fame and fortune. What came out of Eden wasn't her soul, but demon breath instead. A hellion replaced her soul with it to keep her alive.
Her, Nash and Tod find out that Addison Page, another singer and an ex of Tod's, is going to dies in five day without her soul. Tod, Kaylee and Nash are going to try to get Addy's soul back with the out clause, so Kaylee must travel to the Netherworld to find out which hellion has Addison's soul. Things get complicated and Kaylee ends up having to break curfew a few times.
Kaylee is risking her own life for the soulless pop star and her younger sister. And all might not turn out as planned...
Poplit Journal:
In this book the issue of selling one’s soul comes up. The pop princess Addison Page has sold her soul because she was being black mailed with the threat losing her job. The pop star Eden who died on stage at the beginning of the book sold her soul for fame and fortune. In this book, when someone sells their soul to a hellion, their soul gets replaced with the hellion’s demon breath. The demon breath keeps them alive until their time to die. When someone becomes soulless, their eyes go completely white without an iris or pupil, but they can still see. It is said that the eyes are the windows to our souls, but in this book it means it literally. They would give you special contacts so your eyes look like they used to before. Without a soul, you wouldn’t have windows to see it through.
If you die without your soul, you may be given form in the Netherworld and be tortured by the hellion your soul belongs to for all eternity. So are a few years or decade of fame and fortune worth an eternity of suffering in your after life? I think not. That is why there’s an out clause, but it’s not a very good one. To get your soul back you must recruit another person to sell their soul. Once they become soulless, and you become soulful again, everything’s better, right? Not. Not only do you have to live with the guilt of condemning someone else to a horrifying fate, but your life will become a living hell via tabloids. You will suffer in embarrassment, or maybe get sent to rehab or an insane asylum or even jail. You get punished because, hey, you were the one who made the choice to sell your soul in the first pace, so maybe you deserve it. It could never be nearly as bad as it would have been if you never got your soul back.
Hellions are basically demons that feed off of pain and human emotions, so once you become his slave, he feed off your pain that he gets through emotional torture. There’s a demon of greed, of love, of anger and even of hope. They can twist emotion into something terrible. The good emotions and the bad ones. Hellions also have another ability. They can change their appearance, look anyway they want too. This hellion of avarice (greed) in the book chose to look like a normal human being, though he had completely black eye. He also could leave the Netherworld, so a reaper helped take recruits from Dekker Media on our plane to him in the Netherworld.
~*Haley*
