Review: Great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2014
THE RAVE WORTHY: Confession time: this is the first "angel" romance that I really enjoyed.  I think its a really difficult subject to write.  You don't want to completely defile the image of divine winged beings, but you still have to give them some heat to keep it from getting boring.  Lori Adams did a great job of balancing the two.  The story begins at the right point, just when Sophia is starting her adventure so there is no first chapter lull to push through.  Her description of Hell is fascinating and unique from anything I've ever read.  Lori takes a wonderful path with her story in the way that soldiers of both dark and light (and everything in between) battle it out in plain sight without being seen by the ignorant mortals.  The ending had me clawing at my eReader, hoping if I hit refresh just one more time another page would appear.  Torture, Lori.  Most of all though, I absolutely loved the raw emotion that she was able to push into my heart.  I felt the pain, the love, and the passion as if it were my own.  That's really hard to do, and Lori has done it incomparably well.  Side note:  Dante is the guy I felt the most for.  Imagining myself in his situation was shattering, even if he is supposed to be the "bad guy".THE GRUMBLE WORTHY:  The first chapter was great, but the next couple of chapters were a little difficult.  I understood the need for back story, but it felt like a really slow info-dump.  In the beginning, the banter between the teens seemed a little clumsy and awkward, but it did become much more natural as the story went on.  The only thing that really bothered me was Sophia's father being a pastor without it being played on more. There weren't any scenes in church, or really anything else in the story that made him being a preacher so important to have included it.  My mother is a minister, so maybe its my proximity to the profession that makes it so significant for me.