Review: Cliffhangers Galore!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 3, 2013
This book was on my "To Read" list but I decided to move it up when it was being offered for FREE!  I couldn't resist a good deal like this.  I know I could've waited to read it, but I didn't want to.  So there!  :-pEthereal is the first in the Celestra series and has produced a few offspring of it's own.  Celestra is the name of the type of angel that the main character in the series is.  There are several other types: Countenance, Noster, Deorsum and Levatio.  The Celestra are the highest form of angels and the Counts (as they are referred to) hate them and are trying to eradicate them.  The Counts are sort of like the Mafia of the Angel world.  They don't want anything to come between them and power.  Celestra will do that. But, I seem to be getting ahead of myself!Skyla is a junior in high school and has just moved to Paragon, Washington with her mother, sister, stepfather, stepsister and stepbrother.  They have moved from Los Angeles after her father dies and her stepfather relocates for a job.  She actually likes Paragon because the weather matches her moods - gray and depressing.  She moves into the house of a recently deceased girl and begins to learn that her death wasn't normal.  Skyla herself isn't normal; she can read peoples' minds just by touching them.After Skyla meets Logan and Gage Oliver, she learns that she is not the only one with mind-reading capabilities.  Logan is a Celestra angel and  Gage is a Levatio angel.  Logan is the one that tells Skyla what she is because he can read minds too.  Logan tries to tell her what he knows but most angels do not know the whole story about their world until they are 30 years old.  But, there are a lot of things that Logan knows that he doesn't tell Skyla.This book is pretty fast paced and it's a fairly easy read, mainly because you don't want to stop reading.  Addison Moore LOVES to end the books on a cliffhanger (frustrating!).  So don't be surprised if you find yourself reading them one right after the other.  OH! And she likes to put the first chapter of her OTHER books into the back to get you hooked onto those!  I am warning you now: Read these at your own risk when you have time to immerse yourself in Skyla's world and the world of the angels.  Addison Moore writes these stories in such a way that you will forsake all other books (and possibly your domestic and work duties as well!) to keep reading them.  She knows how much I like these books and just laughs at me when I tell her she's killing me!I have read other angel series and this series is very different.  This series seems to make the angels more human like and sometimes you forget they are angels because of that.  It's not a downside or even a bad thing because you seem to connect with them more.  I just finished book 2 (Tremble) and I cannot wait to start reading the next one (Burn).  I will definitely be reading all of the books in this series and the spawns of this series as well as any other books that she has written.  I like her writing style and the descriptive way that she writes.  She also doesn't get too heavy into the teen angst so you have sections where there is just a series of whining and drivel.  I like that.  It makes the characters seem stronger.  And I like me some strong characters!!