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kathydavie's review against another edition
3.0
First in the Renegade Angels paranormal romance series set in Southern California. The couple focus is on Adrian Mitchell and Lindsay Gibson.
My Take
A good story with lots of complex plots within it. And it's that which makes me want to read the next installment, A Hunger So Wild. Day's writing lacks maturity with some of her sentences making me cringe.
I do love the sacrificing she has created between the primary characters, Lindsay and Adrian. A nice, complex twist for which I would have preferred a more drawn-out end. It was too easy at the very last.
The situation Day has created with the lycans...whoa… She's blown me away with those twists and turns and used very few words doing it! This is what I want to know. Elijah is so torn up and I have to know what happened? Where did he go? Who is pulling the strings? Who took Lindsay? I definitely have my suspicions of Jason and his crowd!
The whole lycan indenture seems pretty unfair. They don't live forever and here their children's children's children are being punished for what their ancestors did.
The battle over Shadoe's soul confused me. Syre and Adrian seem to have Shadoe's best interests at heart, but they don't trust the other...which is reasonable, all things considered.
In some ways, I don't blame Syre. it doesn't seem evil to fall in love and one shouldn't be punished for it. Adrian is certainly caring and supportive even if he is also dictatorial.
No, Day doesn't handle Lindsay's outing herself to Adrian's crew well at all. I suspect Day gave up on trying to segue into it.
Adrian will throw it all away for her, but Lindsay refuses him. Yes, she's falling in love, but she also understands the greater issue and all the angels and lycans are curious about this woman who so obsesses their captain.
Nope, I am not buying Lindsay choosing with so little information on what is entailed in becoming a vampire. It's what? An hour into waking up and meeting Syre and Torque. When she knows of the rivalry between Syre and Adrian? Nope, just put me off.
Whose decision was it really to force all the packs to Navajo Lake? And Jason is just using Eli, taunting him. The Jason who hates lycans.
The Story
Adrian has loved and lost and lost his beloved Shadoe lifetime after lifetime. Always she is taken from him, but now… It has been two hundred years and she's back.
It's a delightful agony to have her back, yet, he must win her all over again. The injunction against their love? Adrian doesn't care, she completes him.
His life, though, will be complicated. Unknown forces are plotting. Turning each side against the other. It doesn't help Adrian or his Sentinels that Lindsay is so fiercely intent on killing her mother's murderer that her attacks could start a war the world has not seen for eons.
The Characters
Adrian Mitchell, the captain of the Sentinels, is in love with Shadoe, a love that is forbidden. It's the same crime for which he punished her father. The world, however, sees him as the owner of Mitchell Aeronautics—think Howard Hughes. With Phineas' death, Jason moves up as Adrian's second-in-command. He has NO empathy for lycans. Other Sentinels include Damien, Aaron, Reese, Siobhán, Oliver, Malachai, and Geoffrey.
Helena Bardon is another angel and in love with one of her lycans, Mark. It's Mark's point that lycans, vampires, and demons are not mortals which is the only love that is forbidden. So why is it wrong for her. I get Adrian's argument that he can't encourage her even as he is falling, although if the rule is only about mortals??
Lindsay Gibson is the reincarnation of Shadoe and, jesus, is she ever trigger-happy. I think she's related to Princess Adele in Greyfriar. She has accepted a job working for Raguel as the Belladonna's assistant manager.
Elijah is a lycan suspected of Alpha traits. It's an unspoken rule that lycans look to the Sentinels for leadership, but the lycans are raging for freedom and Elijah is torn. Assigned to guard Lindsay, they become friends. Other lycans include Micah, Jonas, Rachel, and Rage.
Raguel Gadara heads up Gadara Enterprises and is an earthbound archangel. It seems that being an angel does not preclude wanting to one up another.
Syre is the first Watcher punished for taking a mortal to mate. He became leader of the Vampires. Shadoe is his daughter and Torque is the son remaining to him, one he protects. Torque does run Syre's spy networks. Nikki is Torque's wife; she's also the rabid vampire who tried to kill Adrian. Vashti is second-in-command of the vampires and the woman whom Lindsay believes killed her mother. Viktor is another vampire.
Sentinels are an elite group of the Seraphim and are charged with policing the Watchers. Watchers are angels charged with observing humans. They were forbidden from taking mortals as mates. Should they fall from grace, their wings and souls are stripped from them and they will have to drink blood to survive nor can they have children. They become Vampires, the Fallen. Lycans are a subgroup of the Fallen. If they agreed to serve the Sentinels, they are not turned into vampires and they can shapeshift into wolves. But they are not werewolves. Nephalim are children born of a mortal and a Watcher. They require blood to survive. The archangels police demons.
The Cover
The cover is primarily the blues of a night sky and and the buildings of a city with a kneeling angel in a tan T-shirt and light brown pants, his crimson-tipped wings flaring behind him as they frame the title, one knee to the roof of the building, the other a rest for his forearm.
The title refers to A Touch of Crimson on Adrian's wings. A reminder of the first blood he spilled. The blood of a fellow angel.
My Take
A good story with lots of complex plots within it. And it's that which makes me want to read the next installment, A Hunger So Wild. Day's writing lacks maturity with some of her sentences making me cringe.
I do love the sacrificing she has created between the primary characters, Lindsay and Adrian. A nice, complex twist for which I would have preferred a more drawn-out end. It was too easy at the very last.
The situation Day has created with the lycans...whoa… She's blown me away with those twists and turns and used very few words doing it! This is what I want to know. Elijah is so torn up and I have to know what happened? Where did he go? Who is pulling the strings? Who took Lindsay? I definitely have my suspicions of Jason and his crowd!
The whole lycan indenture seems pretty unfair. They don't live forever and here their children's children's children are being punished for what their ancestors did.
The battle over Shadoe's soul confused me. Syre and Adrian seem to have Shadoe's best interests at heart, but they don't trust the other...which is reasonable, all things considered.
In some ways, I don't blame Syre. it doesn't seem evil to fall in love and one shouldn't be punished for it. Adrian is certainly caring and supportive even if he is also dictatorial.
No, Day doesn't handle Lindsay's outing herself to Adrian's crew well at all. I suspect Day gave up on trying to segue into it.
Adrian will throw it all away for her, but Lindsay refuses him. Yes, she's falling in love, but she also understands the greater issue and all the angels and lycans are curious about this woman who so obsesses their captain.
Nope, I am not buying Lindsay choosing with so little information on what is entailed in becoming a vampire. It's what? An hour into waking up and meeting Syre and Torque. When she knows of the rivalry between Syre and Adrian? Nope, just put me off.
Whose decision was it really to force all the packs to Navajo Lake? And Jason is just using Eli, taunting him. The Jason who hates lycans.
The Story
Adrian has loved and lost and lost his beloved Shadoe lifetime after lifetime. Always she is taken from him, but now… It has been two hundred years and she's back.
It's a delightful agony to have her back, yet, he must win her all over again. The injunction against their love? Adrian doesn't care, she completes him.
His life, though, will be complicated. Unknown forces are plotting. Turning each side against the other. It doesn't help Adrian or his Sentinels that Lindsay is so fiercely intent on killing her mother's murderer that her attacks could start a war the world has not seen for eons.
The Characters
Adrian Mitchell, the captain of the Sentinels, is in love with Shadoe, a love that is forbidden. It's the same crime for which he punished her father. The world, however, sees him as the owner of Mitchell Aeronautics—think Howard Hughes. With Phineas' death, Jason moves up as Adrian's second-in-command. He has NO empathy for lycans. Other Sentinels include Damien, Aaron, Reese, Siobhán, Oliver, Malachai, and Geoffrey.
Helena Bardon is another angel and in love with one of her lycans, Mark. It's Mark's point that lycans, vampires, and demons are not mortals which is the only love that is forbidden. So why is it wrong for her. I get Adrian's argument that he can't encourage her even as he is falling, although if the rule is only about mortals??
Lindsay Gibson is the reincarnation of Shadoe and, jesus, is she ever trigger-happy. I think she's related to Princess Adele in Greyfriar. She has accepted a job working for Raguel as the Belladonna's assistant manager.
Elijah is a lycan suspected of Alpha traits. It's an unspoken rule that lycans look to the Sentinels for leadership, but the lycans are raging for freedom and Elijah is torn. Assigned to guard Lindsay, they become friends. Other lycans include Micah, Jonas, Rachel, and Rage.
Raguel Gadara heads up Gadara Enterprises and is an earthbound archangel. It seems that being an angel does not preclude wanting to one up another.
Syre is the first Watcher punished for taking a mortal to mate. He became leader of the Vampires. Shadoe is his daughter and Torque is the son remaining to him, one he protects. Torque does run Syre's spy networks. Nikki is Torque's wife; she's also the rabid vampire who tried to kill Adrian. Vashti is second-in-command of the vampires and the woman whom Lindsay believes killed her mother. Viktor is another vampire.
Sentinels are an elite group of the Seraphim and are charged with policing the Watchers. Watchers are angels charged with observing humans. They were forbidden from taking mortals as mates. Should they fall from grace, their wings and souls are stripped from them and they will have to drink blood to survive nor can they have children. They become Vampires, the Fallen. Lycans are a subgroup of the Fallen. If they agreed to serve the Sentinels, they are not turned into vampires and they can shapeshift into wolves. But they are not werewolves. Nephalim are children born of a mortal and a Watcher. They require blood to survive. The archangels police demons.
The Cover
The cover is primarily the blues of a night sky and and the buildings of a city with a kneeling angel in a tan T-shirt and light brown pants, his crimson-tipped wings flaring behind him as they frame the title, one knee to the roof of the building, the other a rest for his forearm.
The title refers to A Touch of Crimson on Adrian's wings. A reminder of the first blood he spilled. The blood of a fellow angel.
cala_p's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 Stars
I am not sure what to say about this book. I liked the story line, the writing was pretty good, but while reading I found myself to be enjoying it, then bored, then enjoying it, then bored, etc. This book didn't keep me enamored the whole way through like I wish it did.
First off when I started it I was immediately reminded Fallen by Lauren Kate, in the sense that he has loved this girl for centuries and due to something he did regarding her, he has Fallen and now goes through life always missing her. Only for her to show up as a reincarnation for a short time before dying again. Both this and Fallen have that same idea.
I noticed while reading that Sylvia Day never actually explained how she keeps dying. To compare it to Fallen again, Luce died once her and Daniel kissed (or sometimes merely touched) but Day gave no such explanation. I had to assume fate took each of her lives. One maybe a car accident. Another illness. Another maybe a vampire attack. But the fact that I have to guess this (which may be even wrong) is not something I enjoyed about this.
I was hooked with the beginning and the final few chapters at the end. But a large chunk of the middle I found myself trying to hurry through.
It's not a terrible book. I'm not sorry I read it. It's just not one I'll ever reread
I am not sure what to say about this book. I liked the story line, the writing was pretty good, but while reading I found myself to be enjoying it, then bored, then enjoying it, then bored, etc. This book didn't keep me enamored the whole way through like I wish it did.
First off when I started it I was immediately reminded Fallen by Lauren Kate, in the sense that he has loved this girl for centuries and due to something he did regarding her, he has Fallen and now goes through life always missing her. Only for her to show up as a reincarnation for a short time before dying again. Both this and Fallen have that same idea.
I noticed while reading that Sylvia Day never actually explained how she keeps dying. To compare it to Fallen again, Luce died once her and Daniel kissed (or sometimes merely touched) but Day gave no such explanation. I had to assume fate took each of her lives. One maybe a car accident. Another illness. Another maybe a vampire attack. But the fact that I have to guess this (which may be even wrong) is not something I enjoyed about this.
I was hooked with the beginning and the final few chapters at the end. But a large chunk of the middle I found myself trying to hurry through.
It's not a terrible book. I'm not sorry I read it. It's just not one I'll ever reread
mamabears_fabulous_book_finds's review against another edition
4.0
absolutely amazing.. I have a feeling ill be snatching up the rest of Ms Day's books
samanthamarie's review against another edition
2.0
The lore alone was insane and hard to follow. I don't usually mind a mishmash of preternatural beings but I don't feel like it was presented in a way that really made any sense. That took away from the story for me because it made the rest of the story really difficult to follow.
joshalyn_reva's review against another edition
1.0
I must say after reading her cross series i was sorely disappointed. This book was a supreme let down. It jumped all over the place then it ended poorly. It started out interesting enough but it faded out. Normally I'm an avid fan of my same authors but she just lost me on this one.
booksplantsandtea's review against another edition
4.0
I gave this book four stars even though I didn't care for Adrian for a couple of reasons. One, I loved the world Sylvia Day created. Two, I was intrigued by the events that were happening, I wanted to know what was going to happen next. Three, I love Elijah and can't wait to read his book. Four, I loved the friendship between Elijah and Lindsay, it made me smile more than once. And last but not least, the ending made me dislike Adrian a little less and let's be honest, I did not see that coming!
However, I am quite disappointed too... I have read multiple reviews saying they've been waiting on the third and last installment of this series since 2012! I didn't know this before I started reading, or else I would have waited until the third book came out (if it ever does) to start reading this series.
However, I am quite disappointed too... I have read multiple reviews saying they've been waiting on the third and last installment of this series since 2012! I didn't know this before I started reading, or else I would have waited until the third book came out (if it ever does) to start reading this series.
ellyrose15's review against another edition
1.0
Poorly written, I didn't really care about the characters so I gave up after a bit! Not for me
bookloverchelle's review against another edition
3.0
I haven’t read many Sylvia Day books, previously only a historical, so this was a bit of a jump in writing styles from what I was used to. Even though this is the first in the series I felt a little lost at the beginning of the story, like I missed a novella that gave a little more background and world building. Other than that, I really did enjoy the story and the romantic build up between Adrian and Lindsay, I loved the introduction to secondary characters for books later in the series, and I liked the fresh take on angels/lycans/vamps. I did start to get confused once the action picked up. I felt that some of the action was left unsaid and unfortunately I wasn’t able to read between the lines so I felt a little lost. It’s possible that I just needed to read a little closer. Other than that I was entertained and interested in what comes next in this battle.
aimeelio's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars would have been most accurate. this was way less smutty than some of day's other books, and i liked it more than i expected to like it. if you've read and enjoyed jocelyn drake's dark days books then you will probably like this one. lindsay is a strong likeable main character, and adrian (i adore this name!) is the perfect combination of hotness and moodiness. the side character, elijiah, was an unexpected good surprise. the next book, which is not out yet, appears to be about him.
tawanda_fgt's review against another edition
4.0
I liked the story, the characters, and the background of the angels, vampires, & lycans. I didn't like the ending. I get that the story will continue but it just kinda cut off, but overall I really liked it and look forward to reading the next in the series!