Dead Harvest 
The Collector Series, Book #1
By Chris F Holm
ISBN# 978-0857662187
Author’s Website:  http://www.chrisfholm.com/index/intro.html

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Angie

Synopsis:

Meet Sam Thornton, Collector of Souls.

Sam’s job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure their souls are dispatched to the appropriate destination.

But when he’s dispatched to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that’s doomed her to Hell, he says something no Collector has ever said before.  “No.”

Review:

This book is everything I would want in the first of a series. It had action, romance, mystery, sci-fi, fantasy, and most importantly an awesome plot!  I loved this book from the moment I read the synopsis to the moment I finished the last paragraph.

Sam is a soul collector whose job it is to remove the souls of the damned before their death. But unlike what we sometimes think about Angels being the soul collectors, Sam is a demon. To walk the earth, he must inhabit the body of a human. Although he can take over the body of a living person, he chooses to take over the recently deceased (VERY recently) so that the host isn’t aware of what is happening to him… what a nice demon Sam is! In fact so much of what happens in this story changed my concept of demons and demonic possession.

Sam became a collector when he “made a deal with the devil” so to speak to save someone he loved. He just didn’t realize at the time that what he was doing, and he’s regretted his decision ever since.

Normally Sam just gets his orders and does his job. It’s what has to be done, but when he gets orders to take the soul of Kate, a 17 year old who has just murdered her father, mother and brother, Sam realizes that something is very wrong and he has to protect Kate at any cost.

What happens next is an action packed story that contains all the best elements of any good story. There are car chases, foot chases, breaking and entering, an unraveling mystery and a love story. Not just romantic love, but also friendship and loyalty. The ending did not disappoint. Holm did not rush the ending and it felt like just the right amount of story was written. I didn’t feel let down in the slightest and I literally could not put this book down until I’d finished it.

And I am thrilled to find out that Book 2 is coming out in less than 2 weeks!! I can not wait to get my hands on that one!!