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trin's review against another edition
1.0
This is the book that I (not-so-)famously threw at the wall, as described here. Though, in fairness, that was really a matter of proximity more than especial malice. Don’t get me wrong: this book is bad. But it’s sort of forgettably bad—to the point where I have, for the most part, forgotten it. All that’s left is a vague memory of badness, lingering on the (otherwise spotless!) walls of my mind like soap scum.
I think it was mostly typical bad romance novel badness: ooky gender stuff (actual line: "'Emily!' Michael said through clenched teeth. 'This is no time to play your female games.'"), dull and at times incomprehensible plot, characters who are too dumb to live. I read it because it’s about an angel and a human who fall in lurv, and at the time I was still rocking that narrative kink like whoa, but this book utterly failed to satisfy it. Emily is dumb as a chipped brick and Michael is really, really boring for an angel; to top off this dull cake with some disinterested frosting, their happy ending consists of him turning human but without either of them remembering that he was ever anything else. Oh, and Emily also has a ridiculously over-the-top evil politician fiancé to get in the happy couple’s way at strategically relevant points. And there are ghosts, or something. I swear, even full-length and (apparently) fully-realized, this book made no more sense than this summary.
So I think I’ll just proceed to forget its contents the rest of the way—Deveraux does appear to consider that a happy ending, after all. From now on, it will simply be known as The Book I Threw at a Wall.
I think it was mostly typical bad romance novel badness: ooky gender stuff (actual line: "'Emily!' Michael said through clenched teeth. 'This is no time to play your female games.'"), dull and at times incomprehensible plot, characters who are too dumb to live. I read it because it’s about an angel and a human who fall in lurv, and at the time I was still rocking that narrative kink like whoa, but this book utterly failed to satisfy it. Emily is dumb as a chipped brick and Michael is really, really boring for an angel; to top off this dull cake with some disinterested frosting, their happy ending consists of him turning human but without either of them remembering that he was ever anything else. Oh, and Emily also has a ridiculously over-the-top evil politician fiancé to get in the happy couple’s way at strategically relevant points. And there are ghosts, or something. I swear, even full-length and (apparently) fully-realized, this book made no more sense than this summary.
So I think I’ll just proceed to forget its contents the rest of the way—Deveraux does appear to consider that a happy ending, after all. From now on, it will simply be known as The Book I Threw at a Wall.
libkatem's review against another edition
slow-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
0.5
blodeuedd's review against another edition
2.0
Emily Jane Todd is a small town librarian who in her spare time delivers books to libraries in need around the Appalachians. She loves her work, adn she loves her town. On one of those trips she accendentaly runs over a man with her cars. He seems to be ok and he claims that he is an angel and that his name is Michael. He is incredibly sexy and even though she has a fiance she offers him a room over the night. Just to see that the poor man isn't totally insane.
But Micheal is something different, she feels calm and beautiful around him. He makes her laugh and he knows things about her that he shouldn't know. He claims that he is there to asve her from a great evil, but she has no idea what that could be. He says that her soul is a rare beauty, and she can't help fall for the strange man. She is willing to risk heaven in his arms.
I spent most of the book wondering of the poor guy has had his brain fried out, or if he really was an angel. He sure had a lot of guys after him, FBI, one crazy woman and the mob. This was then a real hard book to place, it's contemprary romance but this hint of paramormal in it. She has written it in a way that just makes you wonder.
Emily was a nice enough heroine, plain and thought herself as a bit boring. Maybe cos that was waht her ass of a fiancé told her. But Michael saw to just more than her outside, which was beautiful too, but also her inside and loved her for her pure soul.
Still this book is no where near as good as her historicals. Thoes make me ache while this one was cute enough for the ride. Nothing to cheer over, but could be read cos I do like her style and then I sure wanted to know if he actually was an angel. And not that it had any religious in puts but it did have the vibes that just made it too sweet and wholesome.
Never did think Michael was sexy either, never got a feel for him, I just wondered if he was insane.
But if you want a cute book, with some danger and romance in it then go for it. If you never have ead Deveraux then don't start with this one. Start with the lovely historicals and then come back to this one because you will enjoy it more then.
But Micheal is something different, she feels calm and beautiful around him. He makes her laugh and he knows things about her that he shouldn't know. He claims that he is there to asve her from a great evil, but she has no idea what that could be. He says that her soul is a rare beauty, and she can't help fall for the strange man. She is willing to risk heaven in his arms.
I spent most of the book wondering of the poor guy has had his brain fried out, or if he really was an angel. He sure had a lot of guys after him, FBI, one crazy woman and the mob. This was then a real hard book to place, it's contemprary romance but this hint of paramormal in it. She has written it in a way that just makes you wonder.
Emily was a nice enough heroine, plain and thought herself as a bit boring. Maybe cos that was waht her ass of a fiancé told her. But Michael saw to just more than her outside, which was beautiful too, but also her inside and loved her for her pure soul.
Still this book is no where near as good as her historicals. Thoes make me ache while this one was cute enough for the ride. Nothing to cheer over, but could be read cos I do like her style and then I sure wanted to know if he actually was an angel. And not that it had any religious in puts but it did have the vibes that just made it too sweet and wholesome.
Never did think Michael was sexy either, never got a feel for him, I just wondered if he was insane.
But if you want a cute book, with some danger and romance in it then go for it. If you never have ead Deveraux then don't start with this one. Start with the lovely historicals and then come back to this one because you will enjoy it more then.
doloresofcourse's review against another edition
2.0
An Angel for Emily is the kitchen junk drawer of novel plot fragments that weren't strong enough to stand on their own.
- Guardian angels falls in love with the woman he is guarding plotline
- Past life flashbacks plotline
- A haunted house plotline
- A man done wrong on earth who needs plodding research done to free him plotline
- Random ghosts hanging out at the library causing trouble plotline
- Townsfolk women spend multiple chapters hot and bothered over angel plotline
- Fairy creatures hanging out in the woods to make you have sex plotline
- Handsome loser fiance puts her in danger by using her to further his career plotline
- A most wanted criminal on the run with the fuzz bursting into hotel rooms but cops can't be bothered to check a home address and apparently give up the search mid-book plotline
- Look out guys, it's the mob plotline
- Someone put a bomb in her car and tried to blow her up, twice plotline
- Someone put a bomb in her car and tried to blow her up, twice - and conveniently kills off a character that would have interfered with the romance plotline
- Someone put a bomb in her car and tried to blow her up, twice - but she apparently forgets all about this because there is a dress ball she needs to get dolled up for plotline
- There's buried treasure in the haunted house plotline
- A shocking familial connection will be revealed in the final chapters plotline
- A secret society who will stop at nothing to keep her from finding out the truth plotline
- Oh hey, more buried treasure falling from the ceiling plotline
Lewisburg, WV would like to say it has no knowledge of the town allegedly called "Greenbriar" in this book.
- Guardian angels falls in love with the woman he is guarding plotline
- Past life flashbacks plotline
- A haunted house plotline
- A man done wrong on earth who needs plodding research done to free him plotline
- Random ghosts hanging out at the library causing trouble plotline
- Townsfolk women spend multiple chapters hot and bothered over angel plotline
- Fairy creatures hanging out in the woods to make you have sex plotline
- Handsome loser fiance puts her in danger by using her to further his career plotline
- A most wanted criminal on the run with the fuzz bursting into hotel rooms but cops can't be bothered to check a home address and apparently give up the search mid-book plotline
- Look out guys, it's the mob plotline
- Someone put a bomb in her car and tried to blow her up, twice plotline
- Someone put a bomb in her car and tried to blow her up, twice - and conveniently kills off a character that would have interfered with the romance plotline
- Someone put a bomb in her car and tried to blow her up, twice - but she apparently forgets all about this because there is a dress ball she needs to get dolled up for plotline
- There's buried treasure in the haunted house plotline
- A shocking familial connection will be revealed in the final chapters plotline
- A secret society who will stop at nothing to keep her from finding out the truth plotline
- Oh hey, more buried treasure falling from the ceiling plotline
Lewisburg, WV would like to say it has no knowledge of the town allegedly called "Greenbriar" in this book.
xoffelokin's review against another edition
3.0
Read this a looooooong time ago. The leading man was adorable.
But I HATED the ending. It was happy, but I still didn't like it, much for the same reason I didn't like the ending of Deveraux's A Knight in Shining Armour.
Do know, if you're thinking of reading this and want to know how "clean" it is, it's not. xD There are indeed sex scenes.
But I HATED the ending. It was happy, but I still didn't like it, much for the same reason I didn't like the ending of Deveraux's A Knight in Shining Armour.
Do know, if you're thinking of reading this and want to know how "clean" it is, it's not. xD There are indeed sex scenes.
ciannait76's review against another edition
5.0
I read this a long time ago and decided to re-read it again yesterday because I was so bored. And that is when I remembered what I loved so much about about Jude Deveraux romances. They are funny, witty, and utterly romantic, which is something rarely found in Romance books today. I was a total delight to re-read this book.
amoderndaybelle's review against another edition
5.0
Emily is too nice. Everyone says so. Even the local news channel calls her angel. She really is. When her boyfriend disappoints her plans for a romantic weekend, Emily understands.
Micheal knows exactly how nice Emily is. He needs to be close to her to protect her like he has done already for hundreds of years and numerous lifetimes. Lifetimes when he, as her guardian angel, has had to watch her be taken advantage of, be hurt, due to her belief in the goodness of people who do not deserve her, people who do not love her the way he does.
Things change when it becomes apparent Emily is in danger. Rules are bent and Michael is sent to Earth as a human to protect Emily. He gets off to a bang of a start when he manages to get himself hit by her car. Now the only thing standing between Emily and death is an angel who can't convince his charge of who he is.
Micheal knows exactly how nice Emily is. He needs to be close to her to protect her like he has done already for hundreds of years and numerous lifetimes. Lifetimes when he, as her guardian angel, has had to watch her be taken advantage of, be hurt, due to her belief in the goodness of people who do not deserve her, people who do not love her the way he does.
Things change when it becomes apparent Emily is in danger. Rules are bent and Michael is sent to Earth as a human to protect Emily. He gets off to a bang of a start when he manages to get himself hit by her car. Now the only thing standing between Emily and death is an angel who can't convince his charge of who he is.
trishmonkey's review against another edition
3.0
I can't remember, this this book come out around the same time as the whole guardian angel craze? Might have been... I'm too lazy to look. This was one of those that I remembered as being way out there but likeable. As with all books in this genre, take it for what it is and don't expect anything intellectually challenging. I definitely enjoyed the ghosts in the library. Fun times!
trishmonkey's review against another edition
3.0
Entertaining, noticed a bunch of inconsistencies, but an easy read with angels and ghosts.