Review: Was Hesitant but Now Im Hooked!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2012
My ReviewOkay, at first, I was really hesitant about reading this book because I thought the cover didn't look all that appealing, that I shouldn't have signed up for this book tour because I'd probably have a hard time getting through it, but I was really wrong. At first when I picked it up, I was extremely wary, but then I just lost myself in the story really easily. In case if you didn't know from an earlier tweet, I read forty percent of this eBook at the postal office. Okay, I admit it was because my mom left one of her papers at home and stranded the rest of my family at the post office to get it.This book picks up really fast and you just zip through the book like that. *Snaps fingers* You meet Kyra and how guarded she is because she was abandoned by her own mother and then sent to live with people in the foster system, who, frankly, didn't like Kyra at all. They were practically begging for her to leave and go to a different foster family. One family even abused her and beat her and hit her. So Kyra starts off really strong and a really interesting character to learn about because she's closed off to even herself and you really have to connect the dots about her personality or wait until she reveals what really happened.The action in this book was really intense, and it was all about angels and the different rung rankings there were and I found that really fun to learn about because you could tell that the authors really put a lot of effort into this book and did a lot of research to beef on on angelology and demonology. The action was non-stop and I never found a slow part because Kyra was always finding "clues", let's call them, or there was always some type of fight scene.The problem I did have with this book was that sometimes when Kyra was in a dream or something, it was hard to tel. I wished they had put the dream in italics or the visions in italics because I have the most horrible habit of skipping lines that I don't feel are necessary but really are, and when I get to the dream, I have to do a little double-take and regroup. And some parts were just confusing because I kept forgetting who Kyra was talking to. That's a really small problem, and the rest was really good, especially the romance.Kyra basically falls in love with her guardian angel, Ashur--I really hate that name, by the way--but she also has another guardian angel, Ethan, who seems to develop feelings for her throughout the book, only she doesn't know it yet. And she still doesn't know it, but I could totally pick up on the "I care for you" feelings.This review was provided via The Hollow Tours>[...]Sining and Reading in the Rain>[...] and The Guardian of the Crossroads> [...]