Review: Extremely inventive style, plot wobbled some
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2013
This book is written as a series of blog posts, with the author being a teenage angel.  It's really, really well written and I was especially impressed at how artfully the author created blog comments, along with the blog posts themselves.Given that this book circles continually around the fundamental battle between good and evil - the two main characters are an angel and a devil - the author could easily have gotten really hokey.  He didn't do that.  He stayed on the side of authorly musings, without diving off into preachy Christian doctrine.  That said, there were a couple times I was afraid he MIGHT take a deep dive into preachy Christian doctrine, and at those points I braced myself for having to throw the book down in disgust.  It didn't happen; but having to brace myself for it took away from the pleasure of reading the book somewhat.Also, the plot deteriorated about 2/3 of the way through.  It became just a really bad teen romance with a number of rather unbelievable elements, and nothing that made the book sizzle the way the beginning had.But the beginning was strong enough - and the style creative enough - to earn it 4 stars in my book.