Stolen Souls by Debra Dunbar

Stolen Souls by Debra Dunbar

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book here stars both Nyalla and Boomer, two characters who are very important to the main character, Sam, in the Imp series.

Nyalla is a full biological human who is Wyatt's natural sister that Sam rescued from slavery under the control of the Elves. She's spent 18 years of her life in slavery and doesn't know much about Earth, humans (or at least earth humans), and customs and stuff.

Boomer is a dog. More specifically, and more accurately, Boomer is a hellhound - Sam's hellhound. He's been in the Imp series from the beginning, but this is the first time that his POV was shown (though there was one book where he was allowed to be more than just . . . there).

All of the above is stuff you would need to know before reading this book and some of it might even get told to you. But it, and a lot of other stuff, is somewhat expected of a reader, to be in their knowledge base, before they read this book since it is a side book to the Imp series. On GoodReads this book has the series identification of 'Imp World 7'. It would be quite helpful to read the five prior Imp series books on the Imp world series page, but the prior Imp World book, 'No Man's Land', does not need to be read before this book here. No one in this book has any connection to 'No Man's Land'.

Right, so, what's happening in this book? Well, this book falls into the time period when Sam is stuck/banished in Hel and Nyalla is adjusting to being back on earth and among humans. She's, as the book description puts it, 'house=sitting' . . . oops, no, book description has it as 'dog-sitting'. Well both - doing that for Sam while she's in Hel. While she's doing that she's also basically trying to hide inside the house and not go out and mingle with humans. Though many people and events conspire to break her free from that house. Including Michele and Candy - Sam's business partners.

Meanwhile Boomer's running around checking on his duties. Apparently part of his duties as a hellhound is to help those souls on earth to move on. Though he doesn't force them, he waits for them to decide to move on. Important information for this story because, while Boomer is making his rounds, he comes across a horrible situation - someone has done wrong. And, on purpose or by accident, raised a ghoul. Boomer decides to try to get Nyalla to help him deal with this matter.

So, that's what the book is about - a mystery and a horror type situation. A mystery of how this situation came about and how to end it while some of the more classice elements of a horror story swirl around this book - more so than normally occurs in a fantasy type book (hence my inclusion of horror on the shelves).

Quite neat book. Good solid work. Nothing that occurs necessarily needs to be read to fully enjoy the Imp series, though elements from this book are referenced in later Imp series books.

One last thing to note before I head off - books in this series, including the side books, tend to include at least minimal elements of romance. And I've only mentioned Boomer and Nyalla. Do they get it on? Do they have a romnace? Hellhound and human? No. There's also this guy named Eric, rookie cop, who Nyalla almost literally mows down with her car who helps in the investigation. And helps Nyalla learn what sex is all about.

Rating: 4.12

August 5 2017



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