Old Soul by Susan Barker is a terrifying novel about a malevolent, otherworldly force that is transmitted to victims via a mysterious, shapeshifting woman over decades and centuries. I am not usually someone who finds supernatural themes all that convincingly scary, but Old Soul really got me. As the jacket blurb states, Jake and Mariko meet by chance and discover that they have lost a friend and family member respectively. Both Lena (Jake’s friend) and Hiroji (Mariko’s twin brother) act erratically, cruelly, and dangerously after […]