"Soulmatch"

Book Review

Thanks to NetGalley and Simon and Schuster for this free copy of "Soulmatch" by Rebecca Danzenbaker.

If you like "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August," you'll enjoy this book. Although it's marketed as Young Adult, the themes and plot twists will definitely appeal to "older" readers.

At 18, all people go to the Kirling Institute to learn their soul ID, choose a soul name, find their soulmate, find their vocation based on their past lives, and get their inheritance from their previous soul.

Their biggest fear is that their previous soul was a criminal, where they'd be forced to fulfill any remainder of their previous soul's sentence. (The administration has this as an incentive for people to follow the rules so they won't be subjecting their next souls to punishment....)

So I won't spoil any of the plot, but the idea of "free will" versus predetermination was very prevalent and timely.

And the ending was a whirlwind..!!