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Angel Burn is a nice, lightweight teen romance set in a vastly more interesting world. The very nature of YA stories includes a lack of mental and emotional depth, but all the teenage blushing, stammering, and then getting irrationally mad and hurt was not amusing for me, although probably realistic.What was *great* about this book is the very excellent world-building. The theme is truly original and is carried through in a completely believable way. The details were thought out carefully and created some real tension for the characters. Very nicely done!
Where I felt let down is 1) when the author uses Spanish phrases or sentences and doesn't translate them. At all. I studied a few years of Spanish, but the words weren't familiar to me, and that was annoying. Another character could easily have responded in English so the reader would know what was said, as in, "Okay, if any buzzards end up picking my bones, it's not your fault." Or something. This happened several times and was equally irritating each time.
***SPOILER ALERT***
And 2) No happy ending. Everything they've fought for, all their struggles and suffering, fails, and the world is now much worse off for it. The guy who put his life on the line to help them from the inside is brushed off. ("Better get out of here, they're gonna kill you." He has inside knowledge of the bad guy's plans, he's in danger just like you and you don't take him with you?!) Even a partial success would have been better than a total, unmitigated failure. I don't know if younger readers would find this satisfying; I didn't. Looking at the next books, it appears the two characters have to somehow face this huge, thousand-times-worse problem, war with several thousand super powerful beings, virtually alone.
3) The big mystery of the heroine's very existence is not addressed, except to say numerous times, via numerous characters, that "it isn't possible." Maybe this is explored in more depth in subsequent books.
Engaging world combined with unanswered questions and a climactic ending that delivered only vast disappointment = not for me. I won't be reading the next books to find out what happened.
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Angel Fire Playaway Young Adult L A Weatherly Cassandra Campbell 9781455845064 Books Reviews
My bar for ranking new angel books is admittedly low--I mean, look at the comps and see the lack of competition. Until Unearthly, I was beginning to think it may be impossible to write a decent angel book. Out of all paranormal creatures, angels have received the worse treatment in YA books BY FAR. I won't go into the examples--we all know what they are.
With Angel Burn, I was pleasantly surprised. The wearisome elements plaguing other angel books (TSTL heroines, creepy obsessive love interests, shoddy mythology) were largely absent. Both Willow and Alex are unique and likeable. While they are immediately attracted to each other, the actual romance builds for much of the book, and the insta-love is kept to a happy minimum. Yes, it was the hunter-falling-in-love-with-his-prey we've seen done before, but the chemistry between Willow and Alex and the way the author let the attraction simmer for chapter after chapter had me hooked.
Although Angel Burn has a slow start, the pacing picks up immediately once Willow and Alex begin their road-trip escape. The story does descend into gooey teenage love about 2/3 of the way in, but at least the author let Willow and Alex spend time together and get to know each other first.
While I'm not sure why these creatures are called angels (they're certainly not angelic in the traditional sense and don't seem to come from Heaven) they were the perfect villains--sufficiently creepy and evil. The mythology is developed enough to make sense, and it's definitely unique.
I'm happy to say that with its original mythology, likeable main characters, and simmering romance, Angel Burn far surpasses many of its angel book competitors.
One of the best angel stories I've ever read. Angel Burn is nothing like I thought it would be. I never thought of Angels as essence sucking being but this story had me convinced.
I loved the back and forth between the two main characters Alex and Willow, and then the other two perspectives Jonah and Raziel.
This book has amazingly strong characters, even through their weaknesses they prevail and don't let their weaknesses stop them.
This is a big book. Almost 500 pages. Angel Burn is filled with mass amounts of suspense, description, inner dialogue as will as lots of multiple character interactions. All the characters that give their perspectives meet, and have some sort of interactions at some given point in the story.
Both Alex and Willow's lives clash after one of Willow's psychic readings. From the moment the characters see each other they are instantly attracted. Both of them try and fight their feeling for each other until finally they come together. Their feelings for each other were so similar it was amazing. I thought both or their personalities were strong, and they completely complimented each other with their strengths and weaknesses.
The action in this story was awesome, I love me some action scenes. I loved the scene where Willow fights with her Angel self.
There were also many heart wrenching moments where I'm pretty sure I start crying every time I read them.
Alex although has a sensitive side, a side of him that is in every way vulnerable to hurt and pain. That vulnerability doesn't make him any less sexy. Actually I think it makes him sexier. Even while he was being a total butt face he was still swoon worthy. I think Angel Burns cover is soo beautiful.
Angel Burn has turned out to be one of my favorite books so I hope you end up loving it too.
Favorite Quote
""Hey, he's not using a holster," I said, glancing at Alex's on the dresser.
He laughed out loud. "Yeah, I guess he must want to shoot something off. It'd be so great if these things were true life-the next scene would show him in the hospital, like, clutching himself in agony.""
Angel Burn is a nice, lightweight teen romance set in a vastly more interesting world. The very nature of YA stories includes a lack of mental and emotional depth, but all the teenage blushing, stammering, and then getting irrationally mad and hurt was not amusing for me, although probably realistic.
What was *great* about this book is the very excellent world-building. The theme is truly original and is carried through in a completely believable way. The details were thought out carefully and created some real tension for the characters. Very nicely done!
Where I felt let down is 1) when the author uses Spanish phrases or sentences and doesn't translate them. At all. I studied a few years of Spanish, but the words weren't familiar to me, and that was annoying. Another character could easily have responded in English so the reader would know what was said, as in, "Okay, if any buzzards end up picking my bones, it's not your fault." Or something. This happened several times and was equally irritating each time.
***SPOILER ALERT***
And 2) No happy ending. Everything they've fought for, all their struggles and suffering, fails, and the world is now much worse off for it. The guy who put his life on the line to help them from the inside is brushed off. ("Better get out of here, they're gonna kill you." He has inside knowledge of the bad guy's plans, he's in danger just like you and you don't take him with you?!) Even a partial success would have been better than a total, unmitigated failure. I don't know if younger readers would find this satisfying; I didn't. Looking at the next books, it appears the two characters have to somehow face this huge, thousand-times-worse problem, war with several thousand super powerful beings, virtually alone.
3) The big mystery of the heroine's very existence is not addressed, except to say numerous times, via numerous characters, that "it isn't possible." Maybe this is explored in more depth in subsequent books.
Engaging world combined with unanswered questions and a climactic ending that delivered only vast disappointment = not for me. I won't be reading the next books to find out what happened.
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