Our society is in a total vampire hype thanks to Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. It’s ridiculous how much teen literature is out there about the living dead (however, the latest word on the street is that mermaids are going to be the next big thing. So we’re just going to have literature about creatures who don’t wear enough clothing to make socks for a flea). And I absolutely refuse to read another vampire series, because I really can’t stand Twilight. Anyway’s sometimes I just like to read brainless literature, and I thought to myself “Self, why not try this book that your kindle keeps recommending to you?” and then I found it for four dollars at a book store. Steal! And then I read it, and I face palmed myself.
So, instead of vampires this book is about angels – fallen angels. So the plot… well there’s not much of one. Nora our heroine (?) gets forced to be lab partners with a drop dead dreamy hunk (twilightish???? I think so!) named Patch. Except this hunk of a guy seems to know everything about her, and he won’t tell her anything about himself. Nora and her best friend Vee go to great lengths to find out anything about this mysterious dream guy. Nora attempts to not fall for this hunk of a guy, but she falls flat on her face. Her little heart can’t stop fluttering whenever Patch is around.
About the same time that Patch comes on the scene, two suave and debonair guys also appear. Elliot pretends to be interested in Nora, and quiet Jules shows an interest in Vee. Of course, Patch doesn’t like that and flirts incessantly with Nora. Then Nora realizes that a man in a ski mask is stalking her and her first thought is mysterious Patch. She tries to confront him, but it’s hard to confront someone with a ridiculous amount of self-confidence. Nora’s life is put in danger repeatedly and then she finally finds out the truth. Patch is a fallen angel who wants to be human. According to the book of Enoch the only way for him to do that is to sacrifice a female who is the desecendant of his vassal nephilim (which is a half human half angel being), and guess who that is? Nora. Oh yeah so he wants to kill her (sound faintly twilightish again???). Will Patch’s desire to kill Nora outweigh his lust – excuse me - love? Guess you’ll have to read and find out… or just go pick up a copy of a chick flick worth reading.
This book was relatively clean there weren’t any sexual scenes (except for a couple steamy kisses) and I didn’t catch any bad language except for one use of word h---. Patch does make a few innuendo’s toward Nora which are totally inappropriate (I would smack a guy across the face if he flirted with me the way Patch flirts with Nora). And Nora’s best friend Vee is very immoral. She basically thinks of guys like pieces of meat.
I really wouldn’t recommend this book to anyone. It’s just not worth the few hours that it will take you to read it, unless you’re in the mood for an extremely sappy romance with no plot.
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