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A review by bodagirl
Blood and Feathers by Lou Morgan
2.0
The premise was so promising, but the execution was lacking.
The premise: Alice was raised as an ordinary human, but when she comes home to two angels (a fast-talking, hard-drinking Earthbound, named Mallory, and an uptight Descended, named Gwyn) it is revealed that she is actually half-angel courtesy of her mother, and that she is going to be a powerful force in the fight against the Fallen who have begun to upset the balance between Heaven and Hell.
Great idea right? Sure the battle between the ultimate good with a sprinkling of hellmouths (yes, Buffy fans, you heard right)and some snarky angels, sound like a good time.
What killed this book for me was the choppy pacing, lack of motivation for the heroine (the angels are like "You have to march into Hell," and she says, "Ok," with no real deliberation), lack of detail and back story (it is never stated where Alice lives (probably the UK based on dialogue)and the method of traveling, especially when mystical, is pretty sparse), and the typos (not a lot, but enough to annoy me).
I might still read the next book in the series, because the ideas are there.
The premise: Alice was raised as an ordinary human, but when she comes home to two angels (a fast-talking, hard-drinking Earthbound, named Mallory, and an uptight Descended, named Gwyn) it is revealed that she is actually half-angel courtesy of her mother, and that she is going to be a powerful force in the fight against the Fallen who have begun to upset the balance between Heaven and Hell.
Great idea right? Sure the battle between the ultimate good with a sprinkling of hellmouths (yes, Buffy fans, you heard right)and some snarky angels, sound like a good time.
What killed this book for me was the choppy pacing, lack of motivation for the heroine (the angels are like "You have to march into Hell," and she says, "Ok," with no real deliberation), lack of detail and back story (it is never stated where Alice lives (probably the UK based on dialogue)and the method of traveling, especially when mystical, is pretty sparse), and the typos (not a lot, but enough to annoy me).
I might still read the next book in the series, because the ideas are there.