Review: More Nolan, please!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 27, 2014
This is a beautiful romance and a struggle between following one's heart or striving to be pure. Alan and Claire were beautifully done and I adored Nolan with his cavalier attitude - he was definitely my favorite character of the story (though I did get irritated with his always saying he couldn't tell her stuff or running off at inopportune moments which just seemed contrived to not reveal key elements to the audience. Admittedly, I prefer characters laying all their cards on the table and working from there). This piece does raise a lot of questions (like if kissing and love was a sin, this world wouldn't be populated, which seems problematic). The other problem I had with this was that it felt like too many titles/labels being thrown at the audience - pastreens, deerdons, ledons, graidens, etc. and too much politics - as in, she kept having to report to heaven, but the question is what was supposed to happen to her charge when she has to go to regular meetings normally had she not had a best friend to watch her assigned person?) This piece is definitely not a stand-alone novel. It leaves off, at what feels like almost a halfway mark leaving the story (rather than giving us a climactic mid-season finale before working up to the season finale) to be picked up in the next book. It isn't easy to create strong, vibrant characters, and Nixon has done that in spades. And this is a very sexy, stirring story, which I would recommend to anyone interested in sweet, innocent romances with a dash of angel magic and swashbuckling demon slaying.