The Many Lives of Samuel Beauchamp

I received this book from Goodreads as part of the First Reads program.

It isn't in sequence with the first book in the series, A Warm Place to Call Home, but I found it to be a much stronger and interesting story.

It provides a new twist on the concept of demons. Rather than being some evil creature, the term is used here to describe a wandering soul that can inhabit peoples' bodies temporarily before returning them or choose to live out entire lifetimes.

Samuel Beauchamp is introduced to this world when he is killed as a child. Rather than see his soul or spirit or daemon move on, it continues to be earthbound. He's forced to learn what he is, how to function, and the pros and cons of his new existence as he continues to live on in various forms.

After his life becomes pretty routine, he meets another of his own kind. Then things get really interesting....