Name: Angel
Star Author: Jenifer Murgia
Year: 2010
loan from Latin girls Book Tour (thanks)
Synopsis:
Teagan McNeel, de 17 años, cae perdidamente enamorada del cautivante Garreth Adams y pronto descubre que su chico tiene una estrella de ocho picos grabado en la palma de su mano derecha, la marca del ángel. Pero dónde hay luz hay oscuridad, y ella y Garreth de pronto se encontrarán vulnerables ante el malicioso plan de un ángel oscuro que amenaza no solo su vida, si no la de las personas a su alrededor, y ahora estará dividida entre el sacrificio de un ángel y la viciosa ambición de otro (Sinopsis tomada de Latin Books Tour)
Opinion:
Podría resumir todo en una palabra: Meh!!.
Ok, la historia tenía potencial: Angeles negros y blancos, una guerra que involucra el control human total conviction and not by "free will" but control in every sense of the word style puppets. Guardian Angels (an area not fully exploited when speaking of angelic wars), past lives, the brother of Lucifer and angels completita community. Sounds interesting and could have been extremely interesting ... (In the wise words of Phil, Hercules) "But that maldiiiiiito heel!" has so many blunders in regard to 1) characters 2) plot 3) VILLAIN (siii!! a villain seems pathetic ... A MI I love the villains) 4) context and a thousand and one things more ...
The early chapters the story sounds enganchante, attractive character and the different strands are potential ... but thereafter the story falls: full chapters as Teagan wanders complains or something (no other character), meaningless descriptions that if made to eat, if under the stairs, if it was the bath and clean with paper pachonsito ... much "blablabla" and anything interesting.
Ok, let's talk plot. Actually could have had a lot of potential, but gives the impression that the author took all of the manga. As in those dreams that are so interesting that when you wake up you look great material for your next book, but when put on paper are in the air too much (Do you have past?). I mean there are so many inconsistencies and contradictions in this "angels becoming human" do not know where to start: How is a guardian angel might be Arcangel? Are not they supposed that the guards are a different species of angels? How the heck is transmitted through human biological inheritance "blood" guardian angel? So you do if I've lived my life and had eight .. no .. say 20 children in total, how are the children of my guardian angel and the guardian angel of his father? Are not they supposed that angels are beings of light that do not play? Garreth Why wait until the "last life" of the tart if passed and seven previous lives watching my back? Why when I was seventeen? If you have been millions and trillions of people throughout human existence, in the words of Hadrian, some have more of an angel How CARAMBA get this angel be the first to fall in love with a human and, worse, as CHIHUAHUAS God gets in his magnanimity, leaving the human becoming, momentarily, to the tart in question without guardian angel? simply makes no sense How the heck can a human to cross from one world to another? Are not they supposed that angels can do because they are beings of light, but humans could not because they are corporeal? Is there a dimensional gate the world of angels? Why no one crossed before?, and so could continue with hundreds of inconsistencies in the book, but I will not spoil the surprise.
characters: are flat, bland, no joke. Garreth, the "hero" of the movie instead of evolving involution (the brute force lost); Teagan does not evolve, but his personality seems to change radically now, the villain ... oh please dont get me the villain ... to say who is the brother "good" Lucifer that after millennia discovers that wants to be bad and in one chapter as "mature" (and what a brat HUMAN expires 17 years !!!).
the author's style is not so bad: it is readable and I suppose that is well for the audience it is directed, but nothing special, nothing that so and so many authors "Debut" Americans have not shown before.
The cover ... I do not like. It has no joke, not attractive, does not say much about the story and cause I really do not want to read it.
And the final ... THE FINAL !!... is not only confusing but ends up twice or so: S. .. when I read the end I thought "finally !!".. but oh misery! still missing 50 pages of extra final: S where the story continues with more "bluff" and an end to "make the emotion" for the second book ... and over, not even made sense!! xS ... it was awful
In a nutshell:
1) Do not read again
2) do not recommend it unless it is a very very VERY young readers who are just looking and mellow love scenes between human pegosteosas paranormal
3) The second part is off my list defintivamente "books to read"
4) The author is in my red (so, a step away from the black list)
5) I give it a rating enormisimo 2:
I slept (literally). Would never read even in jest.
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