Review: Teen novel meets angels and demons...again
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 14, 2014
This was rather formulaic.  I could almost see the "outline" as the story unfolded. However, it had an interesting premise without shoving angels and demons and their "getting busy" and having surprise offspring, and from there, you have this story.You really have to willingly suspend your disbelief about the Abbey, the group of friends just bailing on school and somehow, having the money for a plane ticket end ending up in Italy.  Yeah, like that was my life in high school too... NOT !One of the main characters, Marcas, wonders how to break the bond between him and the main female character Dayton, but you just know, down the road in the second book or the third book, he'll have his day--either end up in love with Dayton (he's already on his way to this), or end up dead...or something.  Conor, same thing but he's already smitten with Dayton for other reasons, so who knows where that will go. Dayton's "mouth" is just for effect, I guess, so we know she's no shrinking violet.  Anything anyone wants her to do, she'll be contrary and will use her *more adult* words about it, too.  Oh, and too much about the Dum-Dum candies.  Extraneous, and I really didn't care.Overall, this is a book that was too long and could have benefited from editing--this is my opinion only. The author DOES have a lot of potential, but it really needs to be refined.  I know there is a volume 2 in this Redemption series, but I won't be reading it.