Incarnate

Today's post is on Incarnate by Jodi Meadows. It is the first in her Newsoul trilogy. It is 374 pages long and is published by Katherine Tegen Books. The cover has a young woman on it with butterfly wings around her eyes. The intended reader is someone who likes YA and unusual fantasy stories. There is some mild foul language, no sex, and violence in this book. The story is told from first person perspective of the main character Ana. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the back of the book- New soul
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.
No soul
Even Ana’s own mother thinks she’s a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she’ll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?
Heart
Sam believes Ana’s new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana’s enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else’s life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all?

Review- An interesting start to a fantasy series. Ana is the first new soul in thousands and thousands of years. No one knows why she was born and the previous person Ciana was not reborn. Some are afraid of her, some are interested, and some just don't care. Ana, herself, just wants to understand. So we have the beginning of our story. Ana leaves the woman who gave birth to her to travel to the Heart where all the knowledge of her civilization is to try and discover what created her. There is talk of child abuse in this novel from Ana's mother Li and it is never explained why Li treated Ana like that. Li could have given Ana up to be raised by someone else but she choose instead to raise and abuse her. We see some of that. But the main part of the story is about Ana just trying to find herself and a little bit of a romance. I really like the setting and I am curious about what is going on in the tower and the god-like thing that lives in there.

I give this book a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this book with my own money.