Reggie also has a major crush on Quinn the football jock with an amazing body. Thinking it's just an innocent horror book, she reads it to her younger brother Henry. One day Reggie finds a journal called The Devouring in the book shop where she works.

There's nothing like a good, gory, horror flick for this fifteen-year-old high school girl. They can also cause you to hallucinate and make you feel as if it is truly happening. Vours have the ability to sense what you fear in both human and non-human form. The human host's consciousness is forced into a nightmare world called a fearscape.

When outside of the human victim, they manifest as a black oily smoke but can only hold that shape for a limited time. However, a few key signs are: they cannot cry, they hate the cold, and they have a fixation with heat and sweets.

It's hard to spot a person who has been taken over by a vour. They also have access to the host's personality and memories. Vours: Vours are creatures that inhabit a person's body on Sorry Night, December 21, and assume the host's body. In the process, she must face all of her worst fears, along with all of Henry's. Realizing what's happened to Henry, Reggie tries to learn more about the Vours and somehow rescue Henry. He even attempts to murder Aaron in cold blood. When he's hit by a snowball, black marks spread across his skin like a rash. He becomes super-sensitive to the cold and spends his time in front of the fireplace, something very out of character for him. Once a happy-go-lucky kid, Henry becomes violent and rude, destroying his favorite stuffed animal and drowning his pet hamster. Discouraged, the teens forget about the Vours until Reggie's little brother Henry starts acting strange. However, neither one of them becomes a Vour. Reggie lets a spider crawl over her body and Aaron stays underwater for a period of time. To summon them, they decide to face their worst fears not realizing the bravery drives the Vours away. Reggie and Aaron think that Vours are just a silly legend so they try to summon them on the Winter Solstice. The entries refer to demonic creatures called Vours who steal people's souls on the night of the Winter Solstice, known in the book as Sorry Night. The story follows Reggie and her best friend Aaron, two horror buffs who discover an old, anonymous journal written by a woman believed to be crazy. The Devouring is the first in a series the second book, titled The Devouring #2: Soulstice, was released September 1, 2009, while the third book titled Fearscape was released in 2010. This book was published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers on September 1, 2008. The Devouring is a teen horror novel by author Simon Holt.

Soulstice by simon holt