Review: interesting
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 18, 2013
3.5Angelfire is an interesting addition to the angels versus demons collective. Alyx is a strong-willed heroine who has no problem standing up for herself. Though she does seem to float aimlessly from one chaotic near miss to the next, but maybe that's actually the hand of destiny at work. Israel is imminently likeable and I adored the pirates.The writing was admittedly pretty choppy in the beginning, jumping from seemingly random event to random event, giving a lot of detailed technical explanations, and introducing a lot of extraneous characters who played no significant role in the book. As a result it took a long time to figure out what exactly was going on, but it evened out eventually and became a pretty good read. I did find the info-breaks really disruptive though. I would have really preferred a glossary at the end to interruptions in the story.As much as I enjoyed the story, this is not a stand alone book. It is obviously book one of what is going to be a big series. A lot of ground work is set here, but there is no sense of completion, no satisfying conclusion. I look forward to it's continuation.On a possibly irrelevant side note, and I don't think I'm the first to mention this, the book has a really cool cover with a winged angel on it. But the angels in it don't actually have wings. The only mention of anyone having wings is attributed to a demon. That irks me. It feels wrong.