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	Soulmate (Night World, Book 6) L.J. Smith Simon Pulse, 1997 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 80 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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?

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Great Addition to Night World Series

If I could take one nightworld books to a desert island this would be it. Thierry-what a great guy!He has waited for centuries for Hannah to be reborn but each time she is she dies! Enter Maya the first vampire and a absoultly evil, souless being ( just read what she did to become a vampire!!)This ebony haired vamp has wanted Thierry since when they were cave people and her single minded obsession has torn Thierry and Hannah apart again and again through the ages. Can Hannah trust Thierry again? Will Maya seek therapy for her unhealthy fixation? Can things end happily for Hannah this time around or is she doomed to die again?

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A Timeless, Heart-wrenching Love

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.

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Holy Heck!!

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.


Excellent read!

Hannah thought she was going crazy. She kept receiving notes, in her own handwriting, that told her she would be dead before her seventeenth birthday.... A great horror series for those aged thirteen and up. Each in this series is a book in itself, but all come together in a greater picture. You see characters of previous books in cameo shots which make the plot even more realistic. Excellent!

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