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Soulmate (Night World, Book 6)

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It is my opinion that Hannah and Thierry are basically the poster children for the soulmate principle (hence the title). When you read the book, you will understand why.

Hannah is a normal girl with a normal life and normal friends. She aspires to be a palaeontologist and will be quite content with her life if she dies with nothing but the knowledge that she has discovered the nest of a duckbill platypus.

Then her ENTIRE world is turned upside down when she begins to find notes in places around that only she could put them. Notes in her own handwriting, warning her of a danger, a danger that was coming. Dead Before Seventeen...

She goes to a psychiatrist, who is supposed to help, but he unlocks a Pandora's box of memories when he suggests the idea of hypnotism, and past regression. Hannah is an old soul, someone who has been reincarnated time and again, ever since people lived in caves. A stranger tore her life apart, brutally murdering her tribe out of a madness born of torture and self-denial...until, he finds his soulmate, the one who he is destined to be with, in the eyes of a dying girl.

The stranger's name is Theorn, and he is a witch...or, he was, before he was made into the second vampire to ever cross the face of the earth...full of self hatred, he runs away from his tribe, but cannot contain his hunger for blood for long. He attacks a small human girl, and in return, her tribe torture him. Only one person dares to try to help him. A human girl by the name of Hana.

Unfortunately Theorn goes insane and he regains his mind to late. Almost all of the tribe are dead, including the one person who tried to help him. Stricken with remorse, he realises that this girl, who he has just killed, is the person who is meant to love for evermore. But the Hana is not dead yet. She forgives him, and extracts a promise from him. A promise that he will never kill again.
Now the stranger is back. He has kept his promise, and searched for Hannah throughout the years, trying to make amends, waiting for her to be reborn. Now he is Thierry, the Lord of the Night World -- and nothing in heaven or hell will keep him from his soulmate again. However, Thierry's maker, Maya, the most powerful vampire in the entire world is obsessed with him, and she hates Hannah with a vengeance. She will stop at nothing to destroy her...
So, it Hannah's destiny is death, can even Thierry's love protect her?

This was the first Night World book I read, and it got me hooked. Hanna was a young girl in a prehistoric clan. She was killed by a vampire, Thierry, who didn't realize she was his one true love - his soulmate - until it was too late. Desperate, he asked a witch for help. Now, thousands of years later, 16-year-old Hannah Snow learns she is the latest reincarnation of Hanna. But Thierry's mortal enemy - the one who made him a vampire so long ago - wants to kill Hannah, and it may be that not even a powerful vampire's love can save her. She may need to save herself. This was an exciting, thrilling book that I really enjoyed and highly reccomend to teen horror fans.

The best book I have ever read! The story line is so excellent. The way it goes into the back ground of Thierry and Maya is excellent and "Old souls" the idea is very fasinating and the whole book is so interesting and captivating. L.J.Smith is a very talented writer and her books are so great. "The Night World.... Love was never so scary!"

Some of the books in this series are dismal (Secret Vampire, Dark Angel) but Soulmate is actually pretty good. Hannah Snow is a sixteen year old who is finding strange notes to herself, as well as having strange dreams of the apocalypse. To find out what's going on she visits Paul Winfield, a psychiatrist that uses hypnosis to figure out what's going on in her mind. But instead of finding answers, she begins to remember things from her past - things from her past lives that is.
We learn of her life as Hana, and of her soulmate, the second vampire ever created - Theorn who needs blood to survive. We revisit the story of the sisters Maya and Hellewise who we first heard of in Enchantress/Spellbinder, and of Maya's obessesion with Theorn. However, these three characters are soon met with diaster - Hana is killed, but because she is an Old Soul, her soul is re-carnated into another body. Throughout the ages Theorn (who re-names himself Thierry Descoudres) and Maya chase after Hannah after each re-birth- Thierry because she is his soulmate, and Maya because she cannot stand to see the two of them happy together.
Although it it set mostly in the present day there are several interesting flashbacks, as well as a large reunion from all the soulmates from the previous books. However, there are some pretty big plot-holes, mostly involving Maya. If she was the first vampire you'd think she'd be all-powerful, with a pretty big army behind her, as well as being mentioned a lot more in the previous books, especially since Thierry seems to have the Night World at his fingertips. Also, it seems a little implausible that throughout the centuries Maya manages to kill Hannah so many times without her or Thierry catching on as to what she's doing. And although the chemistry between Thierry and Maya is interesting, Thierry's little speech to her at the end - "she'll still be alive, in me" -doesn't make that much sense (you'll know what I'm talking about when you read it).
There are also some plot lines that weren't really fully explained, such as the voices Hannah heard in her head, her dreams, and how the notes were actually being written - were the messages in her subconscience or was Maya influencing her to write them?
If you can ignore the Maya-plot holes and these inconsistencies, then you'll enjoy this book, as it is quite an important one in the Night World series, drawing on more themes than just the usual boy-mets-girl soulmates getting-into-trouble plot.

This is sixth in a series of Night World books, if you haven't read the others,go and read them trust me you will enjoy this title more. Vampires,werewolves and witches exist: to protect themselves and because some are just plain nasty, humans must never find out about the Night World community. Hannah is a normal girl except that she has a worrying tendency to write death threats to herself when she sleeps. One hypnosis session later she discovers she has been reincarnated A LOT, and so begins the concept of Old Souls people connected to the Night World who have lived past lives growing wiser and more compassionate in each lifetime.

Hannah's soulmate is Lord Thierry of the Night World the second vampire. What follows is an attempt to prevent history repeating as Hannah always dies before her 17th birthday. This is an especially great nightworld book as we have a superb villain in the jealous Maya, the original vampire, she changed Thierry to keep hold of him and she's damned if she'll let a human girl stand in her way of having him! What follows is a race against time to stop Maya from murdering Hannah, and to convince hannah that Thierry was only responsible for her first death, in every lifetime since then he has tried to save her (AWWWW!)

In this novel we are told more about the origins of the Night World and the pecking order of the society. Witches were the original rulers and from Maya a Hearthwoman the ancestor to modern Harmans and Redferns, the lamia were created. The regressions to Hannah's past lives are nicely handled and believable, but the best part is the explanation of the Night World's origination. As well as an all to brief update on previous characters and their soulmates, worth buying just for that really.

Hannah's subconsciuos has been writing her notes to warn her about a man. And the man is her Soulmate, Thierry. He says he's come to protect her, to help her, that he's been searching for her forever. That he been with her in all her past lives that he could be. But then why when she's hypnotized does she see him killing her over and over in her past lives? Then another vampire comes to warn her to stay away from him, that he's dangerous and wont stop til he gets his way. After that vampire leaves, she is attacked by Thierry in her bedroom. Did he really attack her? Who should she trust? Will Hannah be able to have her first seventeenth birthday?

This book I NEVER put down. It was such a page-turner. I think L. J. Smith is a great romantic horror writer. She shows you the characters views, how they feel. She makes me feel what the characters feel. I dont think I've read one of her books when I havent cried. They just are too well written.

I have ALL of LJ Smith's book from this series and the Forbidden Game series. I have to say, I enjoy all of her books very much. I'm not the type of person whois big on supernatural books but this series was very addicting. I did not find ANYTHING corny or old, at all. This is one of many books I love to read over and over again. I loved how she brought out the history and I think it's really amusing and neat that she brought back the characters from her other stories unlike any other authors. I could definitely understand the logic behind Maya's hatred and the book really explained that in the end, so to the people who didn't think that was very realistic you OBVIOUSLY weren't paying attention. Jealousy can do that to people. It made me feel sorry for Maya. The one thing I didn't understand is, If Thierry is lord of the Night World and has a human soulmate, that why in the heck would he punish other people for it? I did love this book though. I would recommend the Forbidden game series. I have to warn it's very sad.

Soulmate is book 6 of the Night World series. It centers around Hannah and Theirry. Hannah's a great student and well rounded with dreams of becoming a paleontologist. Everything seemed normal until she starts noticing messages written in her handwriting foreshadowing her death--before seventeen. She seeks help with a psychiatrist, but through therapy she gets visions (or are they memories) of former life in another time...and of a vampire (Thierry) who realized he loved her too late. Fast-forward to now as Thierry is still alive and rules the Night World. Encountering Hannah, he realizes she is his soulmate reincarnated. He doesn't plan to lose her this time.

While I have to admit that the first book, Secret Vampire, was my favorite for the vampire-focused stories of this series, I really did enjoy soulmate as well. I like that this series has its complications and the happy endings aren't always conventional or orthodox. This book was no exception. I thought the resolution was fitting.

Like the other Night World books, we meet former characters from previous installments. I was thrilled to see Poppy and James (from book 1) make a cameo since they are still probably my favorite story, but this is definitely a solid second.

This is, by far, the most romantic book I have ever read by L.J. Smith.

We're introduced to Hannah Snow, a human girl from Montana, in the midst of seeking therapy. She's finding notes written in her own handwriting, but she can't recall writing them. And they're such strange notes, too, such as, "Dead before seventeen."

We learn Hannah is an Old Soul--a human who has been reincarnated over and over again. We're also finally introduced to the depth of a huge Night World figure we got a glimpse of in Secret Vampire, the first book: Thierry Descoudres. And, of course, Thierry is Hannah's soulmate.

What follows is a twisted tale of love, betrayal, misconceptions, and lies which span all the way back to the prehistoric ages. Hannah was once Hana, and Thierry was once Theorne, of the same tribe as the legendary Maya and Hellewise.

And who should want Thierry so much as to kill him but the first, original, and strongest vampire: Maya.

There were some minor things L.J. Smith doesn't cover--such as, being the first vampire, how Maya knew Thierry (the first made vampire) wouldn't be able to have children, before she had even turned him. But suspending those questions, these characters are so real and solid and warm (or cold, depending). You FEEL Thierry's pain when Hannah hates him, and you can't help but admire Hannah's desperation to put things right near the end, so that she puts her life in danger.

This was just before the Wild Power stories began, and turned out to be good in allowing L.J. Smith to tap into her emotional side. Her characters are always solid and believable, but this was the first time she had my heart absolutely hurting for these characters.

Forget Ash and Mary-Lynnette--Thierry and Hannah's situation is much more intriguing, far more realistic, and grabs a hold of your emotions and refuses to let go until the very last page.

This was the best book I have read in years. The book was done really well. My oringinal copy is falling apart because I've read it so many times!! Hopefully oneday L.J. Smith will continure the series. She for some reason stopped.