I quote someone named Anne McCaffrey with her saying that Singer of Souls is “One of the best first novels I have ever read”. I don’t know Anne but I took her word for that and bought the book. Singer of Souls author, Adam Stemple, is son to Jane Yolen, the author of the Pit Dragon Trilogy (I read one book and loved it too). He wrote a book much more alike to his personal life — a book of rock and roll… and magic.

Singer of Souls by Adam Stemple

Douglas, the main character, tries to escape his addiction to heroin and stumbles to Edinburgh to live with her grandma. He works as a busker (street performer) and uses his ability to create unique songs for every individual to get in more money. The turning point of his life came when a young pretty woman asked him for a song. Douglas obliged and gave her her song. A vial with white powder was given in return (though he never asked for it) and Douglas was terrified it might spark up his drug addiction again. No matter how he avoided, he shot up the contents of the vial. To his surprise, it wasn’t a drug and he wasn’t high. Well he thought he was high when all the powder did was make him see all things faery — bogies, trolls, elves. In the end he learned that the woman who gave her the vial was an elf queen. Everything placed him in jeopardy when he was pulled in an ancient war between faeiries and other much unlikable creatures.

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