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    Lost Souls
    Lost Souls
    Lost Souls
    Audiobook7 hours

    Lost Souls

    Written by Delilah Devlin

    Narrated by Natalie Ross

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    About this audiobook

    Fan favorite Delilah Devlin delivers her second paranormal romantic thriller featuring unforgettable heroine, Caitlyn O’Connell. This time, the psychic PI joins her police detective ex-husband to find a demon pulling women into the past to commit their murders in a seedy Memphis hotel.

    Private Investigator Caitlyn O’Connell is tapped by Memphis PD to discover who has been using a Memphis hotel as his killing ground. Women are going missing, and their bodies are found inside the walls of the hotel. But the bodies themselves? They appear to have been murdered in the distant past. With ghosthunters and cops crawling all over the crime scene, Cait and her detective ex-husband Sam Pierce race to find the demon responsible before he kills again.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJun 25, 2013
    ISBN9781480522541
    Lost Souls
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    Delilah Devlin

    Always a risk taker, Delilah Devlin lived in the Saudi Peninsula during the Gulf War, thwarted an attempted abduction by white slave traders, and survived her children’s juvenile delinquency. In addition to Saudi Arabia, she has lived in Germany and Ireland, but calls Arkansas home for now.

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    • 4/5
      I went into this book with relatively low expectations. I had expected an extended epilogue to the Frankenstein trilogy and some of the reviews had not been kind. I was pleasantly surprised to find the start of a new series with the villians more refined and an interesting new setting. Victor Frankenstein is back as his clone but nastier than the original. The cliffhanger of a book left me wanting the next installment and wondering how many more novels Koontz is planning for this series. Another trilogy?All in all, a terrific read.
    • 3/5
      This was my least favorite of the Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series. I loved the other 3 books that came before this one, but this particular one was much less interesting. I also did not like the way I was left hanging at the end with no closure at all. It's obvious there will be at least a 5th book to close out the series, if not more. There should have been some type of closure to this book, though. It seemed to me like it just ended with nothing being resolved. I am not sure if I will read any others in this series after the disappointment left by this book.
    • 5/5
      At the end of the last Frankenstein book the trilogy wrapped up with the end of the despicable and dastardly Victor Frankstein. There was one outstanding thread which lingered and now that is exploited to offer a new angle. The central characters return and new ones emerge as the first of this series launches a fresh attack on humanity. The supreme OCD of the replicants provides plenty of entertainment as they wage a quiet war upon the unsuspecting town of Rainbow Falls. If you enjoyed the previous entries then Lost Souls recreates the same energy and vibe, whilst slowing building a tangled web of characters which must confront evil in its various guises. The only missed opportunity is from its marketing, which never states that it is a part of an ongoing series and as a result the mind keeps projecting potential finales, when there is not one to be read (yet). This is somewhat distracting. Overall though - another recommended read from Koontz.
    • 4/5
      Kristi Bentz, daughter to New Orleans Detective Rick Bentz is heading back to college. She has enrolled as a student at All Saints College. A college that has been made famous not for the teachers or classes but because four women have all gone missing in a eighteen month span. The police believe the women are runaways. Kristi wants to write a true crime novel. When she hears about the missing women, she decides to do some investigate work. Kristi learns that all of the women attended the same class with Dr. Dominic Grotto. Dr. Grotto teaches a class on vampyrism. One of Kristi's old classmates, Lucretia Stevens tells Kristi about how she suspects one of the girls...a Rylee was in a cult. Now Kristi is really intrigued. What is Dr. Grotto's connection to the missing women and could he be a vampire? The only person Kristi can get to believe her that the women did not go missing on their own is her ex-boyfriend, Jay McKnight. As Kristi gets closer to uncovering the truth, it brings her just one more step closer to evil himself. It was great to see Kristi and Rick Bentz back again. Detective Bentz is one of the most famous and one of my favorite detectives around. He may come off hard as nails but that is only because he really cares about the ones around him and would do everything he could to keep them protected. Lost Souls still featured Rick but this time he stepped out of the picture to let Kristi shine. Kristi definetly takes after her father. I liked this more supernatural approach that Mrs. Jackson took with Lost Souls but with still keeping in her usual fashion of producing a good thriller. All I have to say is when Rick Bentz is involved, no one inculding vampires stand a chance. Lost Souls leaves the reader with a cliff hanger that leading right into Malice the next book from Lisa.
    • 5/5
      One of her best! A great audio! Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive. Not many people her age have nearly died twice at the hands of a serial killer, and lived to tell about it. Her dad, New Orleans detective, Rick Bentz, wants Kristi to stay in New Orleans and out of danger. But if anything, Kristi's experiences have made her even more fascinated by the mind of the serial killer. She hasn't given up her dream of being a true-crime writer--of exploring the darkest recesses of evil--and now she just may get her chance. Four girls have disappeared at All Saints College in less than two years. All four were "lost souls"--troubled, vulnerable girls with no one to care about them, no one to come looking if they disappeared. The police think they're runaways, but Kristi senses there's something that links them, something terrifying. She decides to enroll, following their same steps. All Saints has changed a lot since Kristi was an undergraduate. The stodgy Catholic college has lured edgy new professors to its campus and gained a reputation for envelope-pushing, with classes like the very popular "The Influence of Vampirism in Modern Culture and Literature," and elaborately staged morality plays that feel more like the titillating entertainment of some underground club than religious spectacles. And there are whispers of a dark cult on campus whose members wear vials of blood around their necks and meet in secret chambers--rituals to which only the elite have access. To find the truth, Kristi will need to become part of the cult's inner circle, to learn their secrets, and play the part of lost soul without losing herself in the process. It's a dangerous path, and Kristi is skating on its knife-thin edge. The deeper she goes, the more Kristi begins to wonder if she is the hunter or the prey. She's certain she's being watched and followed--studied, even--as yet another girl disappears, and another. And when the bodies finally begin to surface--in ways that bring fear to the campus and terror to the hearts of even hardened cops like Detective Bentz and his partner Reuben Montoya--Kristi realizes with chilling clarity that she has underestimated her foe. She is playing a game with a killer more cunning and bloodthirsty than anyone can imagine, one who has personally selected her for membership in a cult of death from which there will be no escape.
    • 2/5
      This book was absorbing, but the plot was over-the-top (completely unbelievable, unrealistic) and for the most part it moved very slowly. I have to knock off a star, too, because there were wordo's in the book that suggested sloppy writing and editing. I also didn't like some of her negative characterizations of fairly minor characters, which suggests a worldview that's not very compassionate. I didn't get much of a sense of place, which is important in a book set in Louisiana.

      ***SPOILER ALERT***
      The character of Mai, the amazingly ineffectual FBI undercover agent, was simply not convincing. That she/they would leave in place a video camera that the apartment manager was using to spy on his tenant makes no sense. And why would Mai return to Kristi's apartment to uncover the lens? I thought Hiram was spying on Kristi, not Mai.

      The "obvious" bad guy, Dr. Grotto, made no sense at all. His complicity, as well as that of Mathias, are ridiculous.

      The romance between Kristi and Jay was interesting. Kristi's visions were distracting and unexplained.
    • 4/5
      I am so glad book 3 ended up not being the last in this series cause i was so disappointed after reading Dead and Alive. In Lost Souls you will be reacquainted with some of the characters of the other books. I love Jocko! and Dean Koontz manages to make me laugh something I do not like when reading a thriller or a horror book normally but did not mind this time. I am enjoying the story. Maybe only negative thing is that there are to too many brave people in this book who instead of trying to flee, fight but it makes for a more interesting read I guess. Well now that I've wrote about book 4 guess what I am going to do? Go to bed with book 5! The Dead Town.
    • 3/5
      A pretty decent romantic thriller - not my favorite book, but entertaining mind candy. Admittedly, the thought of our heroine now targeted three times by serial killers strains credulity, but it doesn't do so any more than Patricia Cornwell's books where Kay Scarpetta and team are constantly being beaten, burned, or otherwise mutilated by same. If you're willing to go along with Scarpetta then this shouldn't be a problem. My only other quibble is with location. This is labeled as part of the author's New Orleans series, but it takes place in Baton Rouge - definitely not New Orleans. Aside from the fact that they are about 80 miles (or an hour and a half or so) apart, they are also very different in feel and in culture - among other things Baton Rouge didn't really start growing until 1910 so it's a much younger city.All told, though, this was a decent read in the category of what I like to call grocery store books. These are the cheap paperbacks that they sell with the magazines at your local grocery store. You buy them because you want something trashy and entertaining to read - the literary equivalent of sour cream and onion potato chips.
    • 3/5
      I like the Brother Odd books better. Would have been great to know it was a triology before I got to the end. May have just missed that!!
    • 4/5
      Interesting followup to the first books. Nice start to another series, but the ending seemed a little rushed.
    • 5/5
      Book #4 in the Koontz Frankenstein series and the best one yet. This one is the first to come out in hardcover and it ended way too soon and with nothing resolved. Leading me to look up the date of the next one! This is a fantastic re-imagining of the classic story which starts out for our police officer partners in modern day New Orleans. The first 3 books culminated in what appeared to be the end of the series. But no -- it continues and has been improved upon. The trademark Koontz mixture of humor with the other worldly lends itself to this story in a way no one else can.I'm breathlessly awaiting the next installment!
    • 3/5
      As a thriller this book serves its purpose. The killer might not be a unique spin on the serial killer archetype, but the Four girls have gone missing at All Saints College, but none of their bodies have been found so the police can't call foul play. So instead we get Kristi Benz, two-time almost-victim and wannabe true crime writer, playing detective. I'm sorry to say this, but Kristi is TSTL (too stupid to live). Seriously, her motive for getting near a serial killer, even though she knows the danger, is so she can write about it. Doesn't she know the best true crime novel, IN COLD BLOOD, was written after the killers were behind bars? While Kristi's motive may be dumb, it's straightforward. Unfortunately, Vlad's interest in Kristi is inexplicable. He seems to have a history with her, but she certainly doesn't recognize him. (Perhaps I'm missing something from an earlier book - I've never read any of Jackson's work before.) Also, his victims are all "lost souls," girls without close friends or family. Serial killers tend to be picky. So why would Vlad be interested in a woman with a loving father (who happens to be a famous detective) and a close boyfriend? I cannot condemn the book though. Even with my dislike of the protagonist, Jackson kept me turning the pages. LOST SOULS is a serviceable thriller, but it could be much better.
    • 4/5
      A lovely suspense story. Read the book in one night. It was fun to read and I would read it again.
    • 4/5
      You may remember that Viktor Frankenstein created a mechanical monster in which he inserted the spark of life, and that this monster frightened an entire generation of Transylvanians, and that the myth has lived on. Except it is no myth. In fact, Frankenstein created a second monster only a few years ago in New Orleans. Carson and Michael, two members of NOPD, put an end to Viktor then, and saw him meet his death in a New Orleans landfill. But now, rumor has it that Frankenstein is alive again, and plans to take over the world by replicating each person with one of his engineered robo-beings.This is a delightful read. Well, maybe not that--parts certainly are yucky if not horrific. It's filled with intriguing characters, starting with Carson and Michael, now married, who fear that the birth of their baby daughter may have taken the edge off their work. And then there's Erika Five, the fifth wife that Frankenstein built. And her friend / sidekick / child Jocko, who was a tumor that developed a life of his own. In these characters we often find humor, in spite of the dire straits in which they find themselves.Never a dull moment It's a fast read, and teens are going to love it. However--although one needn't have read the previous titles to enjoy this one--oh, no!--it's acliffhanger! To be continued in The Dead Town, coming in Spring 2011. Although this ending is not quite as sudden as some, still the reader really wants to know what's going to happen next. Lost Souls stands as a highly entertaining reading experience--we just haven't heard the end of the story yet.
    • 4/5
      I'm not sure what to write on this review. I like the premise of the story and it hasn't completely lost me yet but the story is kind of losing it's punch. This book seems to be directly leading into the final battle that will presumably take place in the fifth and last book. I really hope it is worth the wait.
    • 3/5
      Lost Souls was not the utter disappointment that I was dreading after the total and absolute let down of Dead and Alive. But it was not the engrossing, can't-put-it-down, what's-going-to-happen-next success of Prodigal Son and City of Night, either. When Koontz decided not to collaborate, the series lost something essential for me. I did a lot of fast forwarding on the Playaway. Some of the humor was just dumb. I wish he'd get a partner again and go back to the style of the first two novels. :(
    • 5/5
      I can't believe I'm the first one to post a review for this. OK, here goes. Reading this was like getting to hang out with your really good frieds who you haven't seen in a while. If you liked the characters from the first few books you will love this one: they're all there again plus some really funny new ones. I have been disappointed with alot of the recent Koontz books because I feel like he's been half assing it and writing just to get a check. Koontz is a great descriptive writer with a wonderful vocabulary and great characterization. But when you compare recent books like The Husband to great Koontz works like The Face you might get the impression that he runs hot or cold. I started reading him and got hooked on those thick, small typed paperbacks. The Husband felt like some hack wrote it on a cocktail napkin and Koontz signed his name to it. But enough kvetching, this review is about Lost Souls. It's probably a good idea to have read the previous books in the series to get the most out of this one. Victor is alive! Well sort of. Like the other books this one made me LOL. I love Jocko. And there is a funny new character named Nummy. It's well written but not as descriptive as some of his best stuff. The writing style is much more like vol.3 than vols. 1 and 2.Spoiler Alert:The book, like vol. 1 ends at the halfway point. You get the buildup, but no resolution. It's short too, and I kind of felt cheated hence the lest than 5 star rating. Oh well, I'll just have to wait til Spring like everyone else.