SOULLESS

Robin Leigh Miller

Ellora’s Cave

ISBN: 978- 1419923111

August 2009

Ultimate Paranormal Romance

Robin Leigh Miller’s release, SOULLESS is an interesting tale about soulless monsters and the hunters created to fight them. Quinn has been on her own for much of her life.  Living as a hunter does not make for community living and white picket fences; you have to travel to find the Tuplas and destroy them.  Tulpas are beings which are created by humans and have no soul.  The problem starts because with no soul, it is a perfect medium to house the evil floating in the world.  More often than not, the Tulpa kills its creator and wreaks havoc on the unsuspecting humans; serial killers and such.

Quinn has just finished killing a Tulpa when she realizes that she is being watched.  Confronting her attacker she finds a scrawny street kid, Tyson, whom she takes under her wing.  Little do they know that more is afoot in their city and other hunters are gathering.  Usually solitary, they are finding that banding together and using modern technology to fight the evil afoot works better than random wandering.

Quinn meets up with Garen, Ruth, Donald and Sabrina, fellow hunters.  She is not used to dealing with others and all of a sudden she is dropped in with 5 of them.  Adjustments and raging feelings of lust for Garen take their toll on Quinn.  Add to that previous lives, demons, and personal baggage and you have her life.  Garen is also a hunter, and is surprised by his feelings toward Quinn.  As they start fighting the Tulpas they grow closer and closer, something they are going to need to survive.

On the whole, I enjoyed reading SOULLESS.  In the tradition of Urban Fantasy, we have the kick butt lead characters defeating the bad guys.  Whether those bad guys are vampires, demons, were’s, they have somewhat become interchangeable in today’s books. With SOULLESS, I will give credit to Ms. Miller for trying to build a new enemy, a new protagonist.  On a strictly technical level, there were parts to the story that dragged a bit to me, and some character and plot development which could have been made to make reading the story a little more enjoyable. Everything had its place in the story, which made it predictable, but overall I thought it an interesting read.

Reviewed by Sarah Silversmith

Rating 3