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4.0
Soul Slam is a fun action adventure story told with Egyptian history and magical mythology woven in. Allie Burton starts the story off with a bang...or should I say, slam. (I couldn't resist) Olivia is trying to steal an ancient amulet from the middle of a museum, (likes that's no big deal!) and she ends up interrupting a magical ceremony gone wrong and somehow she ends up with King Tuts soul, and powers, inside her body. All within the first 20 pages or so. It was then that I knew this book was going to be past paced excitement. And I was very right.
Olivia is spunky and has energy to spare. There are so many people after her, and she is on the run pretty much from page 1. Even though she is fiercely independent and has a take no prisoners attitude, she also has a soft part to her personality. It is just buried deep down inside of her most of the time, because she is so used to always having to be tough. You could see her softer side peek out sometimes around Xander. Not all the time mind you, because even I didn't always know what was going on with him, so she was guarded a lot, but sometimes you could really see them connect and it was sweet in the midst of everything crazy going on. There is not an overwhelming romance in this story, which was good because there was already a lot going on. But what romance there was, was a nice complement to the action.
Olivia has to learn how to master her powers, while running all over the city was pretty cool. There was never a dull moment. I liked the infusion of Egyptian mythology into the story. I thought Allie Burton did a great job with details in the story. I felt like I really got to know all of the characters, even some of the minor ones that we just met on the journey had decent backstories. One thing I wish was explained better were Olivia's powers. They seemed kind of all over the place. But overall, I enjoyed Soul Slam. I liked the ending and I think it set up the next book nicely. This book is great for people who like action adventures with a bit of magic and mythology mixed in.
Olivia is spunky and has energy to spare. There are so many people after her, and she is on the run pretty much from page 1. Even though she is fiercely independent and has a take no prisoners attitude, she also has a soft part to her personality. It is just buried deep down inside of her most of the time, because she is so used to always having to be tough. You could see her softer side peek out sometimes around Xander. Not all the time mind you, because even I didn't always know what was going on with him, so she was guarded a lot, but sometimes you could really see them connect and it was sweet in the midst of everything crazy going on. There is not an overwhelming romance in this story, which was good because there was already a lot going on. But what romance there was, was a nice complement to the action.
Olivia has to learn how to master her powers, while running all over the city was pretty cool. There was never a dull moment. I liked the infusion of Egyptian mythology into the story. I thought Allie Burton did a great job with details in the story. I felt like I really got to know all of the characters, even some of the minor ones that we just met on the journey had decent backstories. One thing I wish was explained better were Olivia's powers. They seemed kind of all over the place. But overall, I enjoyed Soul Slam. I liked the ending and I think it set up the next book nicely. This book is great for people who like action adventures with a bit of magic and mythology mixed in.
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