L. A. WeatherlyRezensionen

3.5 Stars

Angel Burn was a fun read. I liked it, although the romance took over midway and made eveything kind of, well, cheesy. Typical of these types of YA novels. Recommend for its.romance appeal and unique premise.

Angel Burn was a fun read. I liked it, although the romance took over midway and made eveything kind of, well, cheesy. Typical of these types of YA novels. Recommend for its.romance appeal and unique premise.

4.5

Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEu34h5Bkg

Wow that was Wow wow wow! A spoiler-free and spoiler-y video review to come. For sure.

3.75

Watch my spoiler-free review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRws4qJ40s

Spoiler-free review for the prequel Broken Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHjOBj-BZLo

Really enjoyed this book. It was fast paced and had enough twists to keep me interested. I guessed some of them but not all and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens in the next book especially after the cliff hanger we're left on at the end.

The middle book of a trilogy is usually quite dead and not a lot happens, but this book really drives the story forward and has some exciting action. I enjoyed seeing a lot more character development and I especially liked getting to know Ingo better.

The narrative jumps around in time a lot, which is an interesting choice. You might think this would be confusing but I think it works really well. It ensures there's always mystery and keeps you reading to find out the details that have been hinted at.

All in all I really enjoyed this book and I'm looking forward to the final book!

eAngel Burn by L.A. Weatherly.

Willow Fields is a junior in high school who is great at fixing a car and is psychic. She lives with her Aunt Jo and her mother in a small town named Pawntucket. She had gone to find a school mate, Beth, which she had done a reading on and found out about Angels, only to end up on the run with Angel Killer, Alex.

minor spoilers below

Overall, I enjoyed reading this book, but there were some minor cons.

I felt as if the book was too predictable and sometimes too cheesy at times. For example, when Raziel had said that the picture of Willow looked somewhat familiar, I had instantly known that Willow was his daughter. This could have been a great plot twist for the author to use to make readers shocked and the characters stunned as well.

The romance between Willow and Alex could have been better. Both Willow and Alex already had an attraction to each other from the moment they saw each other. When Alex had told Willow that he had liked her since breaking into her home had made me a bit confused as he was trained to 'detest' and view angels as the enemy. I would have enjoyed a bit of slow burn in this book to show the readers the struggle the characters in getting along when they were opposites.

The villain himself (Raziel) had no characteristics or depth and overall, was a boring character/villain. He had no real emotions or character traits and it seemed as if the author had put him in to let Willow and Alex spend time together hiding. It would have interested me if there was a story behind his character and if he wasn't all "find the girl. kill the girl."

The multiple POVs had not bothered me but it had made me annoyed a few times. I had really enjoyed the POV of Alex and Willow, it had an importance to the book as it described the conflicts our main characters faced but the POV of Raziel and sometimes Jonah wasn't really necessary and had seemed to act like 'filler chapters'. The information used in their POV's could have been used and manipulated by the author to create more suspense and to have the readers questioning and guessing.

Some things I had enjoyed about this book:

The idea of angel burn and angels feeding off of humans had fascinated me. Angels drained the energy of human beings to survive. Afterwards, the human would feel fatigued and tiredness wash over them but would believe that the angels were helping them. If a human had been fed on too much, illness or disease such as cancer would slowly form. The idea was very creative/fresh and I thought that it was well explained in the book.

Willow was a good female lead and had a character development. Usually, in YA novels, I can't seem to stand the protagonist because they had no characteristics, but I felt as if Willow was a well-balanced character who I was able to relate with. When learning that she was half-angel, Willow had been terrified of herself and she had a lot of fears, but at the near end of the book, she had accepted her angel and became selfless and brave. It was a joy to read her struggles and how she had matured as the story progressed.

The scene between Willow, Alex, and Cullen was probably one of my favourite scenes. It showed the struggle Alex was facing when he had already lost so many loved ones and it showed how much he has grown from 'disliking' Willow to protecting her at all cost. It had me anxious and on the edge of my seat when I was reading.

The storyline was well written with detail. The author had put small details in the story to make it likeable. Such as using Willow using her mechanic skills for when their car had run down. It was a joy for me as a reader to see the author still incorporate something from her 'past' life. There was a good amount of fantasy, romance, and sadness in the book and I thought it had evened out.

In the end, I rate this story 4/5 stars. It was an enjoyable YA novel that had romance, fantasy, and adventure.

Go to Confessions of a Book Freak for my thoughts

Kylie and family have had to move due to her step-dad's violent actions. When K starts school she notices Jaz is the queen of the school yard. To get in with Jaz, Kylie starts pulling tricks on a boy called Adam who believes that Kylie hears voices in her head. But when the pranks get meaner Kylie knows she has to stop them. Easy reader about family, friendship and bullying.

Time travel romance. Girl Iris compelled to travel across US to meet her soul mate Nate. Goes through gate of run down house - but evil presence trying to tear them apart. SPOILER : Nate is from the 1920s and time stands still in the house.

Arg! Okay, I just read Angel Burn and Angel Fire and loved them, but if the wolrd ends before the next comes out, I'll cry. and i don't usually say that about books. I usually say if the world ends before (insert whatever I'm talking about) I'll be Mad.
But no, with this book, I'll cry. And I don't cry often.

Edit March 21st
Wait a minute... wait one freaking minute! I thought that is had APRIL 23rd.
Now it's NOVEMBER?
No, no, no. NOT COOL.

ACTUAL REVIEW:
This book was just... the best ending to the trilogy that could have happened. I read it in a night, and around eleven I was getting sort of tired and loopy and deep.

A year passed within a night. More than a year passed within a night, actually.

Now, when you have a book and it covers a large amount of time (Like a year) you can either focus on the year that passes (Like [b:Wither|8525590|Wither (The Chemical Garden, #1)|Lauren DeStefano|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1341532430s/8525590.jpg|13392566]) or you could could give a brief overview of how much time has passed but not a lot has happened because the main character is consumed with grief (like [b:New Moon|49041|New Moon (Twilight, #2)|Stephenie Meyer|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1361039440s/49041.jpg|3203964]). This book went more of the New Moon route, and I understand why.

I felt a little detached from it though, but it came out alright because when stuff started happening again, the changes to Willow's character were there.

When the whole Alex being 'dead' thing happened, I sort of knew it wasn't possible. Like, c'mon dude. How often do YA authors Kill off main characters NOT at the end of the book do that? (Also, when characters that I don't want to die "die" I slip to the the last page just to make sure that person's is on it.) But he was still definitely dead so I was trying to figure out how he could be both at once.

Schrodinger's Cat.

Of course I knew he'd ended up in the angel's world, which in my Schrodinger's Cat analogy was both the box AND the poison, and until he left the angel's world he could be considered both alive and dead

Also, I knew Kara hadn't died. At the end of the last book, they'd made too big of a deal about her being disappeared to be dead.

Best of all, one of the things I wanted MOST in this book was to see Nina again so that relationship could come to fruition where so often in YA books the best friends are ignored and forgotten.
I got what I wanted.
Also, Jonah was there, which just made even happier.

There was a point in there where Willow wasn't getting along with Alex OR Seb and Seb and Alex weren't getting along with each other, which hurt me. But they worked it out.

Best series ender I’ve read in a long time.

FIRST READ: July 24, 2012
This is seriously one of the most amazing books I’ve read in a long time. Of course, most of the books I read are amazing, but this one stands out.
Tell me if you’ve heard this one: a boy who’s an angel hunter meets a half-angel girl and they inevitably fall in absolute, so-sappy-it-makes-me-sick love.
Now tell me if you’ve heard this one: Angels are bad guys. And not even fallen angels; just your run-of-the-mill, average Joe, un-fallen angel.
Yep. I had to love this book. It was fate.
Any fans of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments will note a familiar name: Raziel. But instead of the beneficent creator of the shadow hunters, he’s the arrogant leader of a new evil angel empire here on earth. Only thing he has in common with Raziel from TMI is he helped create Nephilim. Except, in this book, they haven't discovered the term Nephilim, so they just call her a half-angel.
Speaking of TMI, since we all know it’s impossible for me to choose just ONE favorite book of all time, I do have a system where I choose my favorite book (series) within a certain genre. The half-angel genre is currently ranked so:

Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
Angel Burn by L.A. Weatherly
Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

And I’m telling you, Alex and Willow ore seriously working on nudging Patch and Nora out of their long-time throne.
By the time I finish Angel Fire, who knows?
Anyway, I love this book and firmly believe it should be read while listening to Breaking Benjamin, Linkin Park, and Disturbed.
I feel it’s only fair to inform you that this book is told half in first-person (Willow’s POV) and half in third person (Alex, Raziel, and Jonah’s POV’s) I didn’t fid it at all confusing, though, it rather made a lot of sense.

Now, for some of my fave quotes:

Though he’s hardly even touched Willow, he didn’t think he’s ever be able to forget her face, no matter what happened to him.

He was just comparing Willow to a bunch of one-night stands he had with girls whom he can’t even remember what looked like.
Aww.

She was half angel.
Alex let out a breath. God, what did that even mean?

That means any kids the two of you might have will be quarter-angel, duh.

And now she was a thousand miles away from her home and might never see her mother again… with only some guy she hated for company.

Some guy whom she met while they were escaping a mob after he’d been sent to kill her, no less.
And still gorgeous.

I was in love with him.

Well, you don’t get much more obvious than that, do you? Personally, I hate it when this happens in a book and the character just announces “I’m in love with him!” by that point in the story, we can usually already tell.
Take Sydney and Adrian from Bloodlines for instance. At the end of the Golden Lily, they are so in love and everyone knows it despite Sydney insisting that she’s not, cuz she can’t be in love with him because he’s *gasp* a vampire! (Sydney’s totally in love with him. There’s no use denying it. Everyone knows.)
Same situation here. We already know she’s in love with him. When you just say it like that, it’s kind of redundant.

And I thought—even if he’s never going to feel the same way I do, it doesn’t matter. I still want to be with him.
I never wanted to be without him.

Okay, see, I’d’ve liked this as her declaration of “I love Alex” better. Is it still redundant? Yes, especially since this is essentially Alex’s “I love Willow” declaration nearly word for word, but it better than just saying “I love him.”
Also, um, Willow? I’m not sure if you’re just unobservant or something, but he does feel the same way. He feels the same way a lot.

No matter how human I felt when I was with Alex, I wasn’t. It wasn’t a boy with a girl; it was a boy with something not human.

Jeez, Willow, you’re really bringing me down here. it’s a happy moment, but you have to go and complain about being part monster.
But this is one of things that makes this series stand out so much. In some series being half-angel is annoying when butts into your love life (Unearthly), sometimes it makes you badass (Mortal Instruments), sometimes it’s just plain dangerous and makes people want to kill you (Hush, Hush) but this is the first book where it’s been a BAD thing because you’re related to an angel, and angels are BAD people.

But just then, it was Alex I was crying for. All that he’d been through, all those deaths of people he loved—and now he was having to experience it again, with me. thinking of what he was going through was like being beat up inside; it was even worse than imagining whatever might happen the next day.

I kind of love that this insight into Alex’s character comes from Willow’s pov, not his. But at the same time, I’m saying:
Bull SHIT, Willow. You’re going off to your possible death, and no matter what pain he’s gone through, no matter what excuse he might have for feeling the way he does about it, gives him NO EXCUSE to act the way he did to you.
No freaking excuse, I tell you.

One last quote:
Sadness touched me as I thought of the cabin—all the hours we’d spent there, playing cards, holding each other. But it was only a place; it wasn’t important. The important thing was being together.

I love this realization. “It was only a place; it wasn’t important” touched my heart. I think that this is probably one of the most beautiful things I’ve read, ever.

And with that, I leave you.

I assume this is set somewhere in England, based on the author's bio. It's written from the perspective of Emma, a 13 (or possibly 14?) year old girl who realizes that she was likely the last person to see her former best friend Abby before she disappeared. She reports their encounter to the police and is forced to think about a time in her life that she thought she'd left behind and that she desperately hopes no one at her new school will ever find out about. Although a part of her wants to try to continue with her life as normally as possible, she can't stop thinking and worrying about Abby, Abby's last words, and the events that eventually drove them apart.

This was aimed a bit younger than the YA I normally read, and some of my issues with it stemmed from the fact that I was too old for this book - definitely not the book's fault. Emma was concerned with how others viewed her in a way that made perfect sense for her age and experiences but that I found extremely frustrating. For example, back when she was friends with Abby, Emma loved sci-fi, fantasy, writing stories, and playing make-believe games in which she and Abby were adventurers fighting against an evil witch named Esmerelda. Some horrible bullying eventually led to her cutting herself off from Abby and attempting to completely remake herself, right down to her hobbies and interests (this isn't a spoiler - it comes up pretty early on). It struck me as a huge and emotionally draining amount of work for something that seemed likely to cause a new set of problems later on.

Although Emma's actions and thoughts often frustrated me, I could see where she was coming from. Every time she considered taking the route I wanted her to take - talking to an adult about her plans to find Abby, talking to her friends about the bullying she went through - something came up that made that route seem, to Emma, potentially more dangerous and/or difficult than the alternative.

This was a more realistic take on a "missing persons" mystery than I was expecting. Emma wasn't smarter than the cops, although she had knowledge, through her past connection with Abby, that turned out to be helpful. Also, there were no 13-year-olds battling adults in adrenaline-fueled climactic moments - instead, Emma mostly battled her own emotions and the reactions of some of Abby's friends.

I appreciated the scene between Emma and her friends near the end, and I liked the way the relationship between Emma and Abby's friends progressed, once I got past Emma and Sheila's horrifically awful first encounters. Unfortunately, one sore spot for me was the way Weatherly wrote about counseling. It wasn't so much Emma's reaction to the idea of it - horror and anger that her family thought worrying about Abby was crazy - but rather that her reaction was never really challenged. One character told Emma that she'd been to counseling before and that it wasn't what Emma thought. In the end, however, Emma's dad decided that it'd be better to just talk and listen as a family more. Readers were never shown that Emma's ideas about counseling were false.

All in all, this was pretty good, if occasionally frustrating and exhausting from an adult perspective. I did wonder how dated certain aspects were, though. This was originally published in 2004. The parental controls on Emma's internet seemed to be extremely strict - at one point, she mentioned that there was really only one site that she could go to that at all interested her. And is it still believable for that many parents and teens to be weirded out by teens who play Dungeons & Dragons and like sci-fi and fantasy?

(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)½

Angeli tentatori. Angel fire, diL. A. (Lee) Weatherly, è il secondo volume della trilogia YA urban fantasy paranormal romance Angels Trilogy, tutta incentrata sulle creature angeliche.

Diversamente dagli altri romanzi del filone angelico, la Angels Trilogy Series presentava un anno fa un fattore innovativo piuttosto apprezzabile, soprattutto dopo una scorpacciata di paranormal romance stucchevolemtne romantici e pieni di angioletti del tutto devoti al bene: una genesi innovativa della figura angelica e, soprattutto, la malvagità dei suddetti angeli.

Un anno fa, con il primo volume Angel, la Weatherly era riuscita senza dubbio a conquistare una buona fetta di lettori, soprattutto grazie alla scene cariche d’amore e azione. Il finale poco chiaro non aveva intaccato troppo l’opinione generale del libro, limitandosi a lasciare un po’ di amaro in bocca al lettore.

Angeli Tentatori riparte esattamente da dove avevamo lasciato Willow e Alex: in fuga da tutto e tutti e braccati a vista dagli Angeli che avevano tentato di fermare e distruggere.
Nel frattempo però viene presentato anche un nuovo e pericoloso (unicamente per gli amanti della coppia Willow&Alex) personaggio: Seb. Anch’egli semiangelo come la nostra Willow, Seb è alla ricerca spamodica di una ragazza semiangelo, la sua ragazza semiangelo, ragazza da lui sognata e cercata da anni.

Alex e Willow, alla ricerca di un modo per sconfiggere gli angeli, si recheranno, guidati da una visione della ragazza, a Città del Messico dove incontreranno vecchie conoscenze e niente meno che Seb. Cosa accadrà? Seb si metterà fra Alex e Willow dando il via ad un altro dramatico triangolo? Si unirà agli Angel Killer sopravvissuti lasciando Willow ?

Come Angel, anche Angeli Tentatori si presenta come una conferma. La Weatherly, infatti, continua a tenere incollati i lettori, pagina dopo pagina, con il suo stile, la cura dei personaggi e soprattutto con questo sua versione “cattiva” degli angeli.
Willow, Alex e lo stesso Seb che abbiamo appena conosciuto sono stati caratterizzati bene dall’autrice, con particolare attenzione Alex che mostra molte più sfaccettature caratteriali rispetto che in Angel.
Altro punto a favore dell’autrice è la cura dei particolari che non lascia nulla se non il necessario all’immaginazione del lettore, mostrandosi a volte prolissa ma sicuramente accurata. E’ piacevole per una volta leggere qualcosa classificato “per giovani” ma allo stesso tempo ricco di particolari, è evidente che “per giovani” non sia un sinonimo di superficialità. Peccato che non tutti gli autori lo sappiano, questo.

Il romanzo risulta scorrevole e piacevole, nonostante i numerosi elementi inseriti in più dall'autrice che hanno dato un tocco più complesso all'intera vicenda, triangolo amoroso a parte che, invece, risulta piuttosto scontato.

Una lettura da ombrellone ma non solo, anzi, visto la piccola "mole" del tomo è consigliabile gustarselo al fresco di un ristorante, e quanto mai essenziale, ventilatore...

Una novità fresca e frizzante per la Giunti Y che, assieme a "Paranormalmente", approda nelle librerie italiane con due urban fantasy decisamente giovani e godibilissimi. "Angel", primo di una trilogia (l'ennesima, purtroppo), si presenta al pubblico come un piccolo mattoncino di 560 pagine rivestito con una sovracopertina molto carina, se non fosse per il soggetto scelto che ricorda molto la famosa - e inquietante - bambina di The Ring. A parte questo aspetto, nel complesso i colori scelti, nonchè la stessa copertina (rigorosamente rigida, compatta e di un bellissimo color oro) sanno come catturare l'attenzione del lettore, decisamente più della trama.

Non appena letta la trama il lettore potrebbe essere portato a non dargli molta fiducia, soprattutto un lettore assiduo che non si è lasciato sfuggire le ultime novità immesse sul mercato. Infatti, questa appare scontata e non spicca molto fra le dozzine di trame messe a disposizione dagli editori nelle librerie italiane, visto soprattutto che la nuova moda sembra proprio essere quella angelica.

Alla fine però ci sono alcuni elementi che colpiscono e ci spingono a leggere il romanzo e, a fine lettura, direi: per fortuna!

Angel Killer, CIA e angeli crudeli ed egoisti alla stregua dei tanto decantati vampiri, creature da combattere e uccidere. Ecco la novità di questo romanzo che ci presenta una genesi angelica decisamente intrigante e diversa dai soliti angioletti buoni e carini e sempre pronti ad innamorarsi della fanciulla di turno. Niente cuoricini che battono all'unisono questa volta, la Weatherly ci presenta dei veri e propri succhia anime, se così si può dire, sempre pronti a servirsi dell'umanità come un immenso banchetto di Natale. Gli uomini, d'altro canto, finiscono per lasciarsi assorbire interamente da queste creature ben contenti di servirli e nutrirli, ingnari di tutto e convinti di aver visto "la luce" e di essere stati prescelti e protetti. Cornuti e mazziati, insomma.

In questo contesto alquanto inquietante spiccano le figure solitarie degli Angel Killer, persone che vagano per tutto il paese a caccia di questi esseri, dietro ingaggio della CIA, da tempo resasi conto della condizione quasi disperata in cui verte il genere umano. Gli Angeli sono un cancro che sta consumando il genere umano, una specie di allucinogeno in grado di stordire e consumare lentamente ottendendo, oltretutto, anche l'approvazione del succube.

Sarà a questo punto che incontreremo Willow, ragazza giovane con delle strane capacità precognitive che, a causa di questo suo potere, finirà al centro delle mire degli Angeli, ben decisi ad ucciderla perchè, a quanto pare, in grado di distruggerli. La sua vita non è mai stata perfetta e da sempre considerata niente meno che stramba, Willow vive praticamente per proteggere la madre, da anni rinchiusa in se stessa alla stregua di un vegetale. Almeno fino a quando un'amica non si recherà da lei in cerca di risposte e Willow vedrà, nel suo passato e nel suo futuro, eventi assolutamente inspiegabili e inquietanti... Il suo tentativo di salvare l'amica attirerà su di lei lo sguardo degli Angeli e da quel momento tutta la sua vita si trasformerà in un rocambolesco incubo.

Alex, giovanissimo Angel Killer, è stato incaricato di uccidere Willow tramite uno dei soliti ordini della CIA e si reca senza indugio a svolgere il suo compito. Gli anni di addestramento e di lavoro in solitario l'hanno reso diffidente, ruvido ma sicuramente molto indipendente, anche mentalmente. Sarà proprio questo particolare che lo spingerà, in preda al dubbio, a risparmiare la vita a Willow. Perchè uccidere una ragazza apparentemente normale, lui che si occupa esclusivamente di Angeli? Che ci sia qualche infiltrato presso le file dell'organizzazione? E se sì, da quanto tempo tutti loro erano stati manipolati?

Il romanzo procederà veloce sulla scia di una viaggio, intrapreso da i due ragazzi, che assomiglia molto ad una fuga d'amore costellata da sparatoie, inseguimenti e continui colpi di scena. In alcuni punti un po' ingenuo, soprattutto per quanto riguarda Alex che con la sua giovanissima età appare un po' troppo "uomo", resta comunque un libro godibilissimo e molto carino.

Un romanzo per giovani che regala al lettore esattamente ciò che promette: una ventata d'aria fresca, poco impegnativa e tanto amore. In definitiva un romanzo apprezzabile e che si fa leggere con molta facilità (nonostante le 560 pagine si legge in un baleno), che resta indirizzato ad un pubblico giovane e che sconsiglierei ai più adulti; a meno che non si approccino alla lettura con disimpegno e consapevolezza.

Angel story with a twist.

I haven’t read a lot of Angel related fantasy stories because the two that I did read were generic and a bit off putting. When I started reading this story I was worried that it would fall into that class, however, I was pleasantly surprised that it did not.

Angel Burn follows Willow and Alex. Willow lives with her aunt and her sick mother. She a gift - she can see the life and possible futures of others. She’s also unaware of the part of her that allows for this gift.

Alex has been trained for what seems his entire life to hate Angels. He is part of an assassin group who calls themselves AKs; their sole purpose is to kill Angels.

By itself, it might seem a bit campy, but the idea that these “angels” came from a different realm and are dangerous to humans - who think that they are the most wonderful beings to exist - is different from most of the stories I’ve heard of so that was the first thing I enjoyed. Secondly, I enjoyed the character and relational development of Alex and Willow. While they were dancing around their feelings, it felt natural that this would happen and not forced drama. I liked the flow of the action, just enough to keep me interested, but at the same time, not overwhelming.

Without being too spoilery (read this as it might be spoilery!) somewhere in the middle, Alex and Willow’s relationship developed into romance and not a lot was left to the imagination. While this might have been doable for the middle of the book, in the very end, right after the conflict point. we were once again told about their romance with little left to the imagination. I felt as though wrapping it up right after the conflict might have been better than drawing the end out.

Overall I enjoyed this story and I’m looking forward to the second book. I’d like a few answers regarding these otherworldly beings and would like to see what happens to Alex, Willow and the world they occupy.

[review of arc via Netgalley]

So predictable.

I had a copy of this book back home but never had enough time to read it, now that I moved to Kuwait, I found that this series is popular here, so I bought the first book and I just started reading it, after finishing the first chapter I told my husband: "When can we visit the library? I'm getting book 2 & 3." Yup, this good.

I had a copy of this book back home but never had enough time to read it, now that I moved to Kuwait, I found that this series is popular here, so I bought the first book and I just started reading it, after finishing the first chapter I told my husband: "When can we visit the library? I'm getting book 2 & 3." Yup, this good.

I had a copy of this book back home but never had enough time to read it, now that I moved to Kuwait, I found that this series is popular here, so I bought the first book and I just started reading it, after finishing the first chapter I told my husband: "When can we visit the library? I'm getting book 2 & 3." Yup, this good.

The book Angel by L.A Weatherly is a thrilling, beautiful novel about a girl, Willow, that has always found herself different from other girls. When she runs into the mysterious and charming Alex Kylar, she realizes why she feels so different; she is only half human. Alex knows what Willow is and helps her find her true character as they run from their death. Through the novel, the reader will be left crying, smiling and laughing. This is a great book and any reader that enjoys Teen Fiction and a pinch of Romance will fall in love with this book.½

Amazing! I love the world Weatherly created in Angel Burn and Angel Fever did not disappoint! I recommend this book to anyone who loves to read angel books, but also anyone who loves to read fantasy and paranormal as well.

Angel Fever: The third and final instalment of L.A. Weatherly's "Angel" series

I AM SO GLAD THIS BOOK BROUGHT THIS SERIES BACK TO LIFE!!! DEFIBRILLATORS AND ALL!!! After the second book "Angel Fire" and the way it dragged me through what felt like years of my life, THIS BOOK was a delight to read!
Action was coming at me left, right and centre and I was having a love/hate relationship with the edge of my seat!

Most of the unanswered questions from the previous books are answered and wrapped up nicely, some a lot more emotionally traumatic to experience than others, and the pace barely left you time to catch your breath which is something I personally had problems with during "Angel Fire".

There was a lot more in the way of character development with new and semi-old characters in this book too and very heart-wrenching moments... (There were tears for a certain Texan D: and a certain amazing mother figure- I love you M!! 3)

Raziel's part in this book was a lot more interesting too with his mental battle and the relationship with other angels. His parts still weren't as enjoyable as others to read but you really got to understand him on a different level in this book.

All of the different points of view were intriguing and made me fly through the book!! We continue to see through the eyes of Willow, Seb, Alex and Raziel but with all the drama explosion it doesnt break up the story too much at all - great storytelling!

Seb - I will love you forever and ever I swear! You MADE this series for me and I felt so incredibly bad for all the poop Willow (and life) put you through... You are so so precious!! Meghan you're a hero!

There was so much I loved but not much I can say without spoilers so here are the slight niggles I had which took this book down to 4 stars (and considering my score for the previous book there's surprisingly little!!)

Willow - liked her in the first book, became slightly irritated in the second book and in this book I highly disliked her for her juvenile way of speaking and acting, her growing arrogance and her dramatic self-pitying that just ruined the character for me. She became spiteful to nearly everyone around her, hurt Seb and blamed him for what felt like, well, everything and just, man she just came in like a wrecking ball worse than Miley Cyrus for me :/ I understand she was going through a rough time but she started being like this in book two before she even had reason to be. She kinda really needed to get over herself in many places.

Up to a certain point I was getting fed up with Alex too, then what happened happened and I got the break I needed and he wasn't so bad after that though I still feel he became a little... Well, like Willow so at least they suit each other :D

So other than a high dislike for two of the main characters, I loved the twist and turns in this book and the emotional roller coaster. It was enjoyable to read and really gripped me. It reminded me why I liked this series in the first place :).
A really great end to the series and YAY JONAH :D

This is the second book in the "Angel" Trilogy by L.A. Weatherly. The series follows Willow Fields on a path of self-discovery and relationships in a world inhabited by evil angels that suck the life force of humans leaving them damaged for life. This second book continues straight on from where the first book left off with Willow and Alex running once again for their lives...

This might be a bit long... I did not enjoy the majority of this book. For a huge number of reasons.

1. The book is way too long for a story where not much actually happens in the way of action as you would expect from the plot. Over 700 pages which could easily be halved and the story would flow just the same. The pacing was too slow, dull and boring at times, and it was a huge struggle to carry on reading (the only reason I did was because when I start a series, I have to finish it). The important action scenes were crammed into a small number of pages each and it was just EUGH. A LOT of the story content was just not needed and dragged the whole thing out until it was nearly unbearable.

2. THAT love triangle
I'm normally all for love triangles but this was just unnecessary and awkward to read and seemed like it was just there for well, just because.
After the whole epicness of the love between Willow and Alex in the first book (which happened way too fast), the chucking in of this love triangle just made their love even more unrealistic and ruined the underlying intimacy of the book. It also made me emotionally distance myself from both Willow and Alex because they became immensely annoying. Alex especially... Just... Eugh... I had such high hopes for him and now he's hypocritical and pathetic.

3. Repetition
This is one of my pet peeves when reading... I understand if repetition is used as a device to help demonstrate characteristics and such but this books just... It was tiring reading how many times the male characters shoved their hands in their pockets, how much I wanted to chop off Seb's curls over his forehead, how Willow felt Seb's love for her (yeah we got it the first 4 times...) and it just felt like I was reading the same conversations over and over again just like "DUDE WE'VE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD DAMNNNN". This of course doesn't help the overall drag of the book.

4. The metaphysical aspect.
There are four different viewpoints in this book: Willow (1st person), Alex, Seb and Raziel. In the first book, the chapters divided the viewpoints up but this book switched randomly in chapters and sometimes made it hard to keep up or understand plus some entries were just not needed. At all.

5. Things that make you scream at the book until you run out of oxygen

Endless supply of money, however little? Unrealistic
How much sex is references in the book as if it's the most important thing between Willow and Alex (which it probably is, thats how little chemistry I feel between them) even on the brink of impending doom...unrealistic (and then it happens but it's over in a few words... Anti-climactic.
Willow needs to find herself a backbone and soon... Damn girl.
Both Alex and Willow have become so juvenile it's annoying. They're supposed to be 17/18 not 15/16. The way they speak and act in their POVs and towards each other is just "Get over yourselves. Please." It's like who they are now is the complete opposite of the promise they showed with Alex being an assassin, Willow fixing cars, it just makes connecting with their characters very difficult when you don't believe them.

All these new characters with no back stories or development? Please don't just add characters simply for story progression, WE NEED A CONNECTION WITH THEM TO CARE. It made me indifferent to the new characters and I pretty much disliked them anyway for their prejudice towards Willow but at the same time, their views on her were more realistic than how quickly Alex fell in love with her. Wesley was the only one we started to connect with out of the new AKs but that was shortly lived.

Ok I'm going to stop now because there are some good points to this book too and they helped me finish the book so here are the redeeming qualities:

1. Seb
He had a backstory you could believe in and he became somewhat the "Voice of Reason" in the book for me. Good character development and such a sweet guy! I felt sorry for him time and time again. Although I feel his part in the "love triangle" was pretty much unnecessary, I probably would have quit this series half way through without him. I actually believe his love for Willow and believe in him as a person but I just wish he wasn't shoved so much into the background and was made more prominent.

2. Crusaders
I liked that this anti-angel group was added to the book. I like the new twist they bring but again, like Seb, they could have/ should have had a more prominent role and it all felt rushed. When the whole series highlights how the AKs are the only ones fighting the angels and then this group comes out of nowhere it kinda makes the AKs look pathetic even though the AKs are the only ones who can kill the actual angels. So why doesn't Alex recruit some of the Crusaders to be AKs? Oh because there's a full scale war on their hands; ain't nobody got time fo' dat.

3. Action sequences
When they happened, for however little time, the action sequences were pretty gripping and kept you turning the pages. These were fairly redeeming but I just wanted more action and less of the lovey-dovey which it felt it all centred on.

I don't know... I just found this book irritating and slow-paced in places, mostly unnecessary new plot devices were used and development in all aspects of the book were kind of lacking in comparison to the first book.
Didn't connect with the characters and became disconnected to those I had in the previous book and actually had trouble getting through it.

I'm giving three stars for the action sequences and for Seb :) I also like Weatherly's writing style, I just wish the focus was more on the action than on a hazy love triangle.