Showing posts with label Her Angel Series. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Her Angel Series. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2013

BOOK REVIEW - HER FALLEN ANGEL by FELICITY HEATON - HER ANGEL # 2 - PARANORMAL ROMANCE - NOVELLA

By: Felicity Heaton
Published By: Dark Rose Publishing
Released: Available Now
Details: Kindle , 104 Pages

RATING: 3.75 LUKAS STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

Annelie fell for Lukas the moment he walked into her pub three years ago. He’s stunning, his vivid green eyes lending to his otherworldly beauty, but he’s seriously out of her league. When he tells her that she’s beautiful and confesses that he wants her, she can’t resist him and his passionate kiss. She unleashes her desire and seizes the moment and Lukas with both hands. But Lukas has a secret, one that will test Annelie’s love for him and threaten to tear them apart.

He’s an angel.

Annelie can’t believe it when Lukas says that their feelings for each other aren’t a sin, but she can believe his pain when he tells her the reason he’s on Earth. He is fallen, cast out of Heaven as punishment for a crime he didn’t commit. Lukas isn’t about to give up and accept his fate though. He’s determined to prove both his innocence and his love for Annelie, and to show her that the intense passion they share is real.

When Lukas and Apollyon discover who framed him, will he be able to stop them from going after Serenity and Annelie? Will he be able to protect the woman he loves and fly away with her into their forever after?

ALL OF THE STORIES IN THE HER ANGEL SERIES STAND ALONE, JOINED BY CHARACTER AND WORLD ONLY, AND DO NOT NEED TO BE READ IN ORDER.



BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Taking into consideration these are very short reads, around 100 pages, give or take, not a lot of depth can come into a story line when you are writing novella sized reads.

I personally like some meat in my sanga and I think Felicity did add some meat into this installment. You can read these stand alone but I have a thing about reading books in order.

I had some concerns from Her Dark Angel # 1 answered in this installment regarding Apollyon which was nice to see.

“They do not let you go so easily. I speak from experience. It took long months to argue my contract with Heaven and even now, I am not wholly free to do as I please. It is only my contract with Serenity which keeps me on Earth.”

I also got that feel of the whole French thing that I thought was missing from # 1.

He said something in French and Serenity came out of his arms and looked at Lukas with wide hazel eyes. She spoke in French to him, rapidly enough that Annelie didn’t catch a word of it, and Lukas replied.

Fluently.


Annelie works in a bar in London. She has known Lukas 3 years. He frequents the bar for a chat with Annelie while she works. He is an angel. She does not know this until...

“I was banished here three years ago... and three weeks ago I went to appeal against my sentence and make them see the truth.”


Well, the poor lad has gone and got himself accused of a crime against humanity. He has been framed. Alcohol is a big no no in the angel community, but Lukas breaks the rule and gets sozzled. Courage comes from imbibing and he and Annelie get it on.

“I just want to be clear about one thing. I did not kiss you because of the drink.”He glanced away and then met her gaze again. “There is a reason I like to sit at the bar and talk to you, Annelie. There is a reason I kissed you.”

Humma! Humma!

“Your beauty puts angels to shame.”


What I liked about this second installment, and what I found missing from Her Dark Angel # 1 was, Felicity gave me the reader, more of a connection to her characters. I really liked Lukas from the get go and also Annelie.

I get their connection to each other is a friendship of sorts that is 3 years long. They are now taking it to first base, and second base and...

I believed their love because they had both been crushing on each other for 3 years. It wasn’t a wham bam insta lurvvvve. It was acceptable for them to be in love within the confines of one hundred pages.

She was so beautiful. He could look at her until the end of time and never tire. He watched her age these past three years and she had only grown more beautiful to him. Her soft features, large dark eyes and rosy sensual lips made her more stunning than any female he had ever seen.

I really do wish I felt this with Apollyon and Serenity in book # 1. I did see more of these two in this installment which added to getting that connection and believability of lurrrve. I dug Apollyon more hearing him talk in this book.

“Lukas is being kind to you.” Apollyon stepped up beside him, slightly taller and almost as handsome. He had an air of death and sin about him though, and she didn’t like it. She preferred the way Lukas looked. Kind and warm but definitely sensual and passionate, with a mouth made for kissing. “For some reason, Lukas isn’t fooling your eyes. He has made his wings disappear. It is difficult, painful and requires great concentration. His appearance to you is real.”

“That is all you need then. Love. Look past the wings to the man and his heart. Lukas must love you. He worries. I feel it. He worries you will leave and has brought you here so you will not. They are not as strong as they appear... men in love.”

A simple resolved outcome for Lukas that would have been nice to been really fleshed out over double the amount of pages, but Felicity is writing novella sized reads. I could really see the first two books being plumped up as the lads are great.

We get introduced to the next lad in the series, Einar, the Hunter.

“Heaven’s Court assigned you the best. Einar is their foremost hunter,” Apollyon said and Lukas could see it in the sharp way that Einar’s eyes took in everything.

I may have to skip and now go straight to book # 6 as I am on a blog tour in two days. But I will come back and read Her Warrior Angel # 3 and so on. I did notice the books get longer.



Michelle

BOOK REVIEW - HER DARK ANGEL by FELICITY HEATON - HER ANGEL # 1 - PARANORMAL ROMANCE - NOVELLA - SELF PUBLISHED

By: Felicity Heaton
Published By: Felicity Heaton
Released : Available Now
Details: Kindle, 103 Pages

RATING : 3 APOLLYON STARS

Blurb: Goodreads

An angel without a mission, Apollyon lives trapped in Hell guarding the bottomless pit. Surrounded by endless darkness, he longs to fly free on Earth once more but his master hasn’t called him in centuries. When the call finally comes, it’s to serve a new master, a beautiful woman he has often watched over, a woman who has always captivated him.

Serenity is shocked when a gorgeous black-winged angel shows up in her city of Paris claiming that she called him when she was only casting a simple vengeance spell. He’s no other than the angel of death! When Apollyon offers to obey her and help her have revenge on her cheating ex-boyfriend, she can’t resist the temptation, but can she resist him? Can an angel as dark as Apollyon ever fall for a mortal woman like her?

Their charade as lovers quickly becomes reality when one dance leads to another and Apollyon proves that he’s as sinful as he looks. His sensual and hungry touch brings Serenity back to life, freeing her from the hurt of being betrayed and reigniting her passion, but she can’t ignore her growing fear. Lost in their moment together, Apollyon realises that there is a reason he heard her call—he’s in love with her.

But will Serenity see past the wings and believe that Apollyon returns her feelings and won’t hurt her? When her ex-boyfriend asks her to forgive him and be with him again, will she take the easy route or will she find the courage to fly away with her dark angel?

Dark, passionate and erotic, Her Dark Angel is a tale of intense desire and deepest forbidden love guaranteed to get your heart racing.


BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

This was a good start to Felicity’s series . I am on the blog tour for Her Wicked Angel , Her Angel # 6, so I thought I had better read some of this series. They can be read stand alone.

Before I tell you my thoughts on this first story in the series, I want to say that these are just my one opinion. Other readers will think differently to me. I am rating my thoughts on how I felt about the book.

I am going to give it a generous 3 stars. I have my constructive thoughts on why. I can see on Goodreads others have given 4 and 5 stars and loved it. That is awesome.

Her Dark Angel is a novella sized read which I did enjoy reading but,  I felt that more could definitely have been said. I wanted characters fleshed out more. I have read novella sized reads before that have kept me very satisfied. I accept they are a shorter read, so I rate my reading experience taking this into consideration.

I enjoyed Felicity’s story about Apollyon, an angel who protected the bottomless pit in Hell, and Serenity a witch.

I don't know a great deal about Serenity's character, and I know little more about Apollyon. They are in Paris, but they could have been anywhere as I didn’t feel the French influence to give the story a more convincing location. Sure I got told about the Paris tourist spots they flew to, but even some words spoken in French would have made me connect more to their location, after all Apollyon is speaking in French to her for her to understand. I think that would have been a nice touch to remind us and French is such a sexy language.

I really like Apollyon, I love his name. I liked how he felt conscious of his beautiful wings. I loved how he let us know he loves to fly and he hadn’t got to do that much. It brought him joy. I liked his honesty about not having had a sexual relationship in waaaayyy to long. He had an openness he was willing to show in front of Serenity.

I didn’t really understand why they wham bam loved each other. I think with a story like this about angel warriors and other paranormal characters, I needed more pages filled to be totally convinced.

From the many angel reads I have read, I can’t see how Apollyon can just drop his eternity job so easily because Serenity in the end commanded him to. I'm out, next dude can take my place. I could have had that fleshed out.

The revenge/vengeance issue of an ex boyfriend was a bit wobbly in plot depth. Edward was a wanker, cheated, bit of a ladies man. Truly , he wasn’t worth it in the first place. Not when you compare him to Apollyon. Chalk and cheese.

I really would have loved some depth in the story line squeezed into this novella.

I know Apollyon’s day job, but I know nothing of Serenity other than she is a witch with great potential.

“What are you then?”

... “I told you. Apollyon, the great destroyer... angel of the Apoclaypse, responsible for raining hell down on Earth when everything comes to an end.”

That wasn’t comforting at all.

“You’re not a good angel then?”

He smiled and there was a sexy sort of darkness in his look. “I am good, if by that you mean I do not work for the Devil, but I can be very bad.”



This was a nice easy read, with all the right smexual * fans oneself * moments. Coffee had an effect on Apollyon. Heheheee!

He found a cup and poured some of the coffee into it. It was hot but it didn’t stop him. He blew on it a few times and then sipped it. The effect was instantaneous. His cock twitched and he groaned at the thought of showering with Serenity. He took a mouthful of coffee, grimaced as he swallowed down the hot liquid, and then went after her, his erection growing harder with each step.


I would have loved to have gotten to know both characters more and had a dangerous moment or two. Apart from a punch up in an exotic bar, it was pretty smooth sailing.

Nobody had to work for love, it just came.

He really had been watching her. Her own guardian angel. He had seen her pain and then he had heard her call, and he had come to her, to ease her suffering and make her feel better.


Looking forward to picking up Her Fallen Angel # 2 . Another novella sized read and seeing where Felicity’s writing takes me.

Michelle