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3.93 AVERAGE
3.93 AVERAGE
OFF 3. kez de okudum. Bu seriyi ölene kadar tekrar tekrar okuyacağım. Lanet olsun! :D
I'll be happy when Elena can protect herself. I'm not saying she's a weakling, but if even her bodyguards can't defend against the archangels, why should she even have bodyguards? I mean seriously... every time someone was assigned to watch her, they'd get "delayed" or otherwise engaged (usually in a bloody way), and she'd be left to fend for herself with the super-powered archangel du jour. And dang... all of them want to kill her! Well the women do anyway, either because of jealousy or because killing her will destroy Raphael. I love how much Raphael loves Elena.
I figured out what Lijuan's ultimate gift would be before it was revealed. I was very proud of Elena for how she reacted to it. It could have been something to bring Elena to her knees, but she proved her grit.
Looking forward to the next one!
I figured out what Lijuan's ultimate gift would be before it was revealed. I was very proud of Elena for how she reacted to it. It could have been something to bring Elena to her knees, but she proved her grit.
Looking forward to the next one!
So redundant! Note to Ms. Singh: repeated flashbacks don't make for suspense, they just make for reader irritation, especially when the flashbacks all start in the same way "Drip, Drip, Drip." It was like "I saw something nasty in the woodshed," repeated over and over until it lost all meaning. Also, I get it, Raphael smells like rain, can we move the f'ing plot along.
This is the second book in the Guild Hunter series and in this book Elena is now an immortal who has been in a coma for a year. The upside to being immortal is that if you spend a year in a coma, you still have all the time in the world after you wake up. Elena also has wings, which the more I read about the wings the weirder it seemed to me as a lowly human. Can you even imagine? I can't figure out how I'd put on a shirt and I'd be super bummed that I couldn't sleep on my back.
It does make sense that touching someone's wings without their permission is extremely rude. Like just randomly touching someone's hair except in this case it's feathers. Nalini Singh has such an incredible imagination. This could be just another kick-ass heroine paranormal romance, but instead of settling for that--, she builds a world where Elena gets wings and becomes some sort of hybrid vampire hunter/human/angel.
As she adapts to her new life, she has to figure out how to stay alive since the newly immortal are easy to kill if you are an archangel and most of Raphael's fellow archangels do not like Elena. In this series, Nalini has changed what it means to be an angel. You definitely get the feeling that these angels could more accurately be termed demons. One of the reasons Nalini Singh is a must-read author for me is because she plays with fantasy stereotypes and expands the ideas of what can be done in a story.
It does make sense that touching someone's wings without their permission is extremely rude. Like just randomly touching someone's hair except in this case it's feathers. Nalini Singh has such an incredible imagination. This could be just another kick-ass heroine paranormal romance, but instead of settling for that--, she builds a world where Elena gets wings and becomes some sort of hybrid vampire hunter/human/angel.
As she adapts to her new life, she has to figure out how to stay alive since the newly immortal are easy to kill if you are an archangel and most of Raphael's fellow archangels do not like Elena. In this series, Nalini has changed what it means to be an angel. You definitely get the feeling that these angels could more accurately be termed demons. One of the reasons Nalini Singh is a must-read author for me is because she plays with fantasy stereotypes and expands the ideas of what can be done in a story.
After the stunning conclusion to the first book, I was very curious to see what would happen next for Elena, and how she was doing. There is a lot to learn about the new part of the world that Elena has access to, and despite her new status, a lot of dangerous lines to walk. It's intriguing to learn more about angelic society and their history, which Elena now has access to. There is also quite the fast-paced and action-packed conclusion.
I very much enjoyed this book. Did I enjoy it as much as the first...not quite. I gave the first book a 5 stars and this one would be more of a 4.5 for me....loved the tension between Elena and Raphael in the first book. I really did enjoy Elena and Raphael's growing relationship in this book, it just didn't leave me with that same feeling the first book did. Great job though...looking forward to the next!!
I don't like angels.
As soon as you put an angel in a book you've got the whole religious or mythological aspect to explain. Too many questions about Judeo-Christian belief systems click to life in my brain, and now I'm not just reading, I'm thinking, and we don't want that.
But these angels are different. I like the world Singh has built where archangels are god-like immortals at the top of the food chain. They are not servants of a benevolent god, they are IT.
Plus--for no extra charge!--vampires, zombies, conspiracies, and the looming threat of war.
Second read: June 2014
As soon as you put an angel in a book you've got the whole religious or mythological aspect to explain. Too many questions about Judeo-Christian belief systems click to life in my brain, and now I'm not just reading, I'm thinking, and we don't want that.
But these angels are different. I like the world Singh has built where archangels are god-like immortals at the top of the food chain. They are not servants of a benevolent god, they are IT.
Plus--for no extra charge!--vampires, zombies, conspiracies, and the looming threat of war.
Second read: June 2014
The first barely stayed on the right side of fantasy first and romance second. This one moved straight through romance to soft porn. There was so much sex and that couldn't hide that this was really just a novella at most.
Elana's learning how to be an Angel while Lijuan continues to go off the deep end while there's an Angel violently jockeying to be the next Archangel to fill the open spot. The best humorous bit of annoyance is that it took eight chapters to answer the question I've been wondering since the first book: How do Angels wear shirts?
Oh, and the nonsense about her remembering her childhood was just too stereotypical to care about.
Really a 2.5, but I'm feeling kind so a 3. Another one like this, though, and I'm done with the series.
Elana's learning how to be an Angel while Lijuan continues to go off the deep end while there's an Angel violently jockeying to be the next Archangel to fill the open spot. The best humorous bit of annoyance is that it took eight chapters to answer the question I've been wondering since the first book: How do Angels wear shirts?
Oh, and the nonsense about her remembering her childhood was just too stereotypical to care about.
Really a 2.5, but I'm feeling kind so a 3. Another one like this, though, and I'm done with the series.