Review: Even the heavens make mistakes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 8, 2014
I am beyond happy that I had the chance to read this book. First because the cover is gorgeous and that alone made me fell in love with the book and then because it has angels.The Souls of Rain is the first book from the Heavens Trilogy by Diana Nixon, and it’s the story of Claire, a guardian angel. It rarely happens to me to actually like the main character of a book, but I just cannot hate any of the characters from Diana’s books. I enjoyed Claire’s attitude as an angel and later as an outcast. I loved her determination and her seriousness when it came to her duty. It kind of reminded me of a badass business woman who does her job and does it well, because Claire is the best guardian angel there is in Heavens and a bunch of broken weapons are enough proof. She fights for her assignments and she fights for what she believes in…like I said…determined.And then there is Alan, which I actually hoped for him not to be the bad boy he was presented from the beginning of the story. I was pleasantly surprised to take a look in his past and discover that he had his dark reasons for which he was the way he was. We get to see his present life, full of parties and dangers and friends that underneath are not actually his friends, but that’s only the shield under he hides. I liked how he was fragile and how he needed to be protected and not only physically, because he was human, but his soul needed to be protected as well. I may be weird, but I enjoyed a male character that was not the prince charming doing all the fighting. But what I really liked in this book and the Love Lines series as well was the love story. Not the love story itself, but the fact that it wasn’t instant love and their connection started a long time ago, but they failed to recognize it from the beginning.But as much as I loved Claire and Alan, I adored Nolan and he might be my favorite character. For a former angel he is really daring and he knows how to keep his secrets. He is the mysterious, yet helpful guy in this story. It’s obvious that he knows more than he lets out, but I had no clue that his reasons were directly connected with his past. In fact, the big cliffhanger had Nolan as a center character and I cannot wait to know more about his past.The VillainI don’t want to say that the villain was obvious, because it really wasn’t. It was there, you could feel that it was something wrong with the character, but while I was reading the book I couldn’t tag it as the big bad of the story. The author did a great job camouflage it in a slightly evil person.The UniverseThe created universe was fascinating, with great details of the Heavens and Hell and angels actually had personalities. Heavens inhabitants were not described only as angels, but they were divided in various types and hierarchies.