Daniel Beazley

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

(Spoilers within)

I finished this book a few days ago but I was too busy to write a review. To summarize it quickly, this book is about angels and fallen angels. Sepherene is an angel who fell and is seeking redemption by carrying out His orders and killing fallen angels who choose not to repent. Since there's a rule that she can't show her true form on the surface, she uses the body of a man named Lucius. They live in a futuristic world with space travel and such that Sepherene doesn't seem to be familiar with.

It's not bad. It kept my attention well enough and it's a good setup for a story. It's like a sci-fi/fantasy mix. The action scenes were enjoyable and some eerie fighting locations were set up, including a catacomb and a 'haunted' forest.

This is one of those books that's really not quite a complete book. There's no conclusion to anything. It's more like a beginning and middle. This is becoming common these days and I haven't been a fan of it because without an end for a book I think it's just chopping up one book into many pieces in order to sell them separately. There's nothing that separates this book from the next book. I believe I said before that this should be like TV episode. You can have an overarching plot for an entire season, but each episode has to be able to stand alone by itself.

If you were watching TMNT (everyone knows ninja turtles, right?) and they were in the middle of the story, then Leonardo got knocked out and it just ended abruptly - not a 2 parter, nothing in the episode had been solved - it would be a little weird. I'm of the mindset that if people pay for a book they should have a full book. They shouldn't just get the start of a book. I think authors who plan on making a series should ask themselves this: why am I separating these into different books? Is it because a story arch has been completed?

In this book we meet Sepherene and Lucius. The setting is established, and they go hunt down a few fallen angels. The writing was solid and it moved along well, but not too much beyond that happens. Sepherene has some regrets and they continue moving on from one to the next. We get the exposition and the rising action.

The two main characters, Lucius and Sepherene, work well off each other. I did notice one thing that I found amusing. On one of the planets he visits, Lucius claims to be a hunter. He's told that most of the forests have been cleared so he won't find much work. But, not much later and not even trying to find anything to hunt, he sees a deer springing away into trees. I just thought it was a bit funny that the story establishes that the planet is nearly devoid of wildlife to hunt and the main character almost instantly bumps into wildlife to hunt. It wasn't really a big deal, just something that struck me while I was reading it.

Other than that, I don't really have too much to say. There isn't much explained in the book yet so it's hard to talk about it. It's mostly: "We hunt fallen angels. [Commence hunting some fallen angels]. End". I don't even have many notes. If the premise looks interesting to you, go for it. I give it a 8/10, a bit with the assumption that the next parts are good.… (més)