Review: A charming and lovable summer read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2013
Tha Halo Effect is a charming, touching and totally entertaining contemporary romance that sucked me in immediately. It offers a generous paranormal helping in the form of two angels who work behind the scenes to help smooth the path for the two wonderfully drawn human lovers. Braelyn is a gritty, optimistic and compelling woman who has had more than her share of tough breaks. A single mother, she spends her days administering to the elderly at a nursing home, and she does it with a  gutsy energy that comes across as completely believable. Noble, a man whose heart is full of pain and whose personal resume (he can't read and he can't forgive the past) would at first glance seem an unlikely hero, but his sexiness, generosity and sweetness wins over the reader, as well as our heroine and her son, the excellently drawn teenager, Tristan. Noble unknowingly works with the two angels, Michael and Ariel, at a tattoo shop. Noble drives a big motorcycle and seems gruff and standoffish, but he's a real doll with the restless Tristan. The angels, complete with the hilarious AA meetings (that's Angels Anonymous...HA!)are well drawn and never made this reader feel preached at. There is plenty of tension and intrigue in the form of an ex-husband and back story. This is the second book in the Cupid Chronicles. I just bought the first one and can't wait for the third because Shauna Allen is an excellent writer, one I'm adding to my must buy books from now on.