Review: Of Darkness and Light
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 14, 2012
The book starts off with a bang, throwing Elora right into the fray as the weird stuff starts happening.  Then we watch as she meets Raziel and things continue to get weirder.  Once he starts hanging around more often, things get safer, but not more normal as he comes clean about himself and everything Elora believed in gets tossed out the window.The best thing I can say about this book is the character relationships.  Elora and Raziel's love story is incredibly sweet and totally swoon worthy, her friendship with Thomas is adorable, and the relationship that's created between her and Barachiel and her and Lucifer are both pretty fun actually.  However, there's also a lot I didn't much like about the book.  I like that there's mystery that keeps you guessing pretty much right up until the end, but it got really frustrating at times and turned out really confusing more often than not.  There's also a LOT of philosophical musing throughout, putting a very religious undertone to it that made me personally slightly uncomfortable (but that's just me).There's also a lot of down time in the book, spent waiting and going through the motions.  One thing that really bothered me is how often Elora put herself down.  I understand the instances where it was the "angels are superior and awesome" etc etc, but still it was really brought up too often and made you want to start slapping some people around, including Elora.  That being said, the overall story is still exciting and intriguing and the book is worth checking out!