Review: Awkward and Uninspiring.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 30, 2012
(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Carina Press and Netgalley.)Seth is a nephilim - a descendent of angels, and has his very own wings. Seth's job is to protect humans from the Shem - evil descendents of angels.Living across the road from Seth is Abby, his friend Bill's little sister, and Seth has promised to look out for her.When Abby's ex-boyfriend Doug (who tried to kill her) is found to have escaped from prison, and Abbey's house is broken into, Seth takes his duties protecting Abby even more seriously, and he takes her to stay with his parents.Seth and Abby's feelings are not purely platonic though, and their developing relationship is causing Doug to esculate his attacks on Abby.Can Seth keep Abby safe? Can Doug be stopped before it's too late? And what will Abby say when she realises that Seth is not 100% human?This book really didn't do it for me. I thought that the blurb sounded really interesting, but the actual book was just a bit of a let-down.The writing just felt awkward to me, and while this usually abates as the story gets going, this time it just didn't, and continued to feel awkward all the way through.The sex scenes were okay, but again, felt awkward, and instead of enjoying the intimate moments I found myself cringing.The actual stuff about the nephilim and Shem wasn't all that interesting - it felt like a school history lesson or something, and when Seth thought that the Shem might be after Abby, he admitted that he had absolutely no idea why, which kind of made the suspicion a bit unfounded.The characters themselves were all okay, but I didn't fall in love with them, and I felt like I was having to force myself to keep reading to the end.I had hoped that the romance parts of the book would make up for the poor storyline otherwise, but unfortunately that didn't happen, and I didn't really like the romance parts of the book either.I sure some people would enjoy this but it really wasn't for me. Maybe if you just wanted to read the sex scenes without the storyline it wouldn't be as bad, but I couldn't recommend this as a good paranormal romance.Overall; awkward and uninspiring.5 out of 10.