Angel Burn

Summary: Willow knows she’s different from other girls, and not just because she loves tinkering with cars. Willow has a gift. She can look into the future and know people’s dreams and hopes, their sorrows and regrets, just by touching them. She has no idea where this power comes from. But the assassin, Alex, does. Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more about Willow than Willow herself. He knows that her powers link to dark and dangerous forces, and that he’s one of the few humans left who can fight them. When Alex finds himself falling in love with his sworn enemy, he discovers that nothing is as it seems, least of all good and evil. In the first book in an action-packed, romantic trilogy, L..A. Weatherly sends readers on a thrill-ride of a road trip - and depicts the human race at the brink of a future as catastrophic as it is deceptively beautiful.

They’re out for your soul . . . and they don’t have heaven in mind.

Review: Three reviews in a week…what? What is this madness? The madness is I got a nook Tablet and Angel Burn was the first book I bought on it! :] I couldn’t stop reading and the fun part about a e-reader is I couldn’t skip ahead as much as I wanted to so I had to keep reading. I’m hoping that this awesome start to 2012 is a continuous trend. I only had five reviews last year…it was pitiful. I hope to keep this up. Anyway, onto the actual review!

Angel Burn is pure unadulterated brain candy. Enter Alex Kylar: gorgeous, sexy, kick-ass, tough, and on top of it an angel assassin. Now enter stage left, Willow Fields: blonde, slim, smart, a mechanic, a psychic, and…a half-angel (unbeknownst to her). Alex is told that this monstrosity must be killed and when he is ordered to kill an angel he does it. No questions asked. Well, upon arriving he realizes that Willow isn’t really an angel, but human and angel at the same time. It baffles him and he can’t help but notice just how pretty she is. He’s attracted to her, surprise surprise. I don’t want to give away everything, but let’s just say they end up on the road together on the run from the Angels.

For the first half of the book, Alex acts like an ass. He has watched his entire family die one-by-one and refuses to get close to anyone else. Yet he cannot deny the growing attraction he feels towards Willow and the urge to touch her at times is over-powering. Well, since he acts like an ass Willow hates him, but she also cannot help but notice how gorgeous he is. On a random tangent: why is it the guy is always the one abstaining? Why can’t a girl decide that “I’m really attracted to this person, but they’re bad for me! I need to push them away” it’s always the guy…why? Girls can deny their feelings too, ya know. Anyway, at some point they realize they love each other and Alex is transformed into every girl’s dream guy for about two chapters until the big showdown must go down.

See? Brain candy. That being said, it was good brain candy. Aside from the whole romance, the plot for the book was rather fascinating. Angels are not the heavenly beings we know them as, but instead almost demon like creatures that feed off the life energy of humans leaving them inflicted with Angel Burn. A condition that leaves them sick and dying (often with a disease like MS, cancer, Parkinson’s, and such), but believing that the Angels are beautiful and good. Only there to help them. The only way they can be killed is by being shot through their halo (their heart). These angels want to basically invade the human world and feed off humans, which of course would mean the eventual destruction of the human race. That’s a rather original concept and it’s fun to read about it. It makes for an action-packed story.

The writing alternates from first person in Willow’s POV to third person in Alex’s and occasionally Jonah’s and Raziel’s. I understand why Weatherly did this, but sort of wish that Alex’s was in first person as well and that the point of views would not change mid-chapter. Overall, the book was fun to read and I honestly can’t wait to the sequel to come out in America. It was exactly what I needed after Mockingjay.

Rating: 4/5 Brain Candy, but well-written and thought out brain candy
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Because this book was originally published in the UK I didn’t want to grab reviews from their in case it may have confused people or spoiled anything. So no reviews for this right now! Just bask in mine :]

Happy Reading Everyone!

-She Who Reads A Lot