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Desert Angel
Nowhere is safe...
Angel is on the run. Her mother is dead, her body buried in a shallow grave by her latest boyfriend, Scotty, a ruthless, illegal hunter who is prone to violence and who wants Angel dead before she can talk to the police.
Angel has lived through more than a young girl should have but she's determined to stay alive.
But in the scorching heat of the open des...more
Angel is on the run. Her mother is dead, her body buried in a shallow grave by her latest boyfriend, Scotty, a ruthless, illegal hunter who is prone to violence and who wants Angel dead before she can talk to the police.
Angel has lived through more than a young girl should have but she's determined to stay alive.
But in the scorching heat of the open des...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
February 2nd 2
by Corgi Childrens
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Books. They’re very interesting things. You never know what could happen in them. Sometimes I think writers shouldn’t have descriptions, they give too much of the story plot away to the reader. Although sometimes it doesn’t give it away. For example, in the description of my book, Desert Angle, it states that Angle’s mother dies, and her step-dad hunts to track her down and kill her. But once you get more into the book, it goes off into unbelievable series of events. Desert Angle is a very movin...more
The book tells the tale of a 14 year old girl, Angel,running from the man, Scotty, who killed her mother. With a past filled with betrayal and no hope of having a future, Angel must decided whether to fight for her life or let others take it from her. A California desert setting, Angel desperately seeks to escape. She finds help from a Mexican-American family just up the road, who decide to keep her safe from Scotty. The family makes a plan to throw Scotty of the trail by switching her out with...more
Fourteen year old Angel has led a difficult life, moving with her drug addict mother from place to place and man to man. She and her mother live with her mother’s latest boyfriend Charlie in a trailer in a desolate area of southern California. Charlie is cruel and abusive; to avoid him Angel sleeps outside of the trailer. One morning she returns to find blood on the walls and her mother and Charlie gone. Charlie’s truck tracks lead north away from civilization, desperate to find her mother Angel...more
Angel has been dragged about by her mum her whole life. One abusive boyfriend after another but Scotty the new boyfriend has crossed the line. After a massive fight Scotty kills Angel’s mum and buries the body. Now the only loose end is Angel, She knows what he did and she knows he will kill her next She needs to run but Scotty is a hunter and Angel is now the pray. Will Angel live to tell anyone what happened?
This book started with a bang. Readers are thrown into the action. I was shocked at w...more
This book started with a bang. Readers are thrown into the action. I was shocked at w...more
Originally posted on my blog: Beneath the Jacket
I feel like it has been forever since I read a book that wasn't paranormal in some way. I kept waiting for Angel to use her super strength or her ability to see the future through dreams to get her out of her situation, but to no avail. No supernatural abilities aside (thank goodness!), Desert Angel was fantastic. It starts out with bang and keeps on going until you reach the end. I feel like it slowed a little at some point between the beginning a...more
I feel like it has been forever since I read a book that wasn't paranormal in some way. I kept waiting for Angel to use her super strength or her ability to see the future through dreams to get her out of her situation, but to no avail. No supernatural abilities aside (thank goodness!), Desert Angel was fantastic. It starts out with bang and keeps on going until you reach the end. I feel like it slowed a little at some point between the beginning a...more
A short, fairly easy read. Angel isn't necessarily LIKEABLE but as the book goes on you understand more and more why she does some of the less appealing things she does (like lying and stealing). self preservation is a powerful instinct, and she's had a lot to preserve herself from.
Even though it is fairly easy reading, it's also very dark. The book doesn't flinch from the various abuse Angel has been through. I found the timing of reading this book uncanny, as I am currently in a training clas...more
Even though it is fairly easy reading, it's also very dark. The book doesn't flinch from the various abuse Angel has been through. I found the timing of reading this book uncanny, as I am currently in a training clas...more
Nov 14, 2011
Gwen the Librarian
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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This taught and fast-paced thriller is the perfect read for reluctant teen readers of either sex.
Fourteen-year-old Angel and her mom have always lived on the outskirts of society, on the move and living with a string of abusive boyfriends. The story here opens with Angel searching for her mother's body after a particularly gruesome night. Mom's latest boyfriend, Scotty, was a particularly nasty one...a tracker, poacher, drug dealer, hitter, abuser, and, now, murderer. Knowing that he is going t...more
Fourteen-year-old Angel and her mom have always lived on the outskirts of society, on the move and living with a string of abusive boyfriends. The story here opens with Angel searching for her mother's body after a particularly gruesome night. Mom's latest boyfriend, Scotty, was a particularly nasty one...a tracker, poacher, drug dealer, hitter, abuser, and, now, murderer. Knowing that he is going t...more
An exciting young adult primer for sordid crime thrillers. Lots of violence in a deadly hunt, toned down just enough for high school libraries.
The opening pages are horrific, and essential to establish the danger Angel Dailey faces from her mother’s brutal boyfriend. She escapes through the Southern California desert. Most of the residents are Mexican immigrants: they want nothing to do with US law enforcement, but can’t bear to turn Angel away.
Price establishes a vivid sense of the baked land...more
The opening pages are horrific, and essential to establish the danger Angel Dailey faces from her mother’s brutal boyfriend. She escapes through the Southern California desert. Most of the residents are Mexican immigrants: they want nothing to do with US law enforcement, but can’t bear to turn Angel away.
Price establishes a vivid sense of the baked land...more
Some of my favorite Young Adult reads have been fast paced thrillers like Acceleration. I am adding Desert Angels to this short list of titles. Angel is a fourteen year old who has been forced to grow up too fast. Her mother drifts from place to place hooking up with men that she has just met for shelter and food. Now they are living in the California desert near the Salton Sea with a hunter, scavenger, drug dealer named Scotty. Scott starts going after Angel sexually causing a fight to break ou...more
Angel escapes from her mom's abusive boyfriend, Scotty, after he murders her mother and burns their trailer to the ground. But Scotty will track Angel from here to the ends of the earth for the mere thrill of the hunt: he wants her dead. Can she escape?
I thought this book was going to be a survivalist thriller - and by that I mean the description kind of made it sound like Angel was going to brave a desert on the run from Scotty. But in actuality she runs from house to house, trying to anticipa...more
I thought this book was going to be a survivalist thriller - and by that I mean the description kind of made it sound like Angel was going to brave a desert on the run from Scotty. But in actuality she runs from house to house, trying to anticipa...more
While I enjoyed reading this book, in the end I thought it was just okay. I was impressed with Angel's ingenuity and her survival instincts, taught by living with a mother who wasn't a mother and kept hooking up with the wrong men. And in the end, it killed her, literally. Now Angel, who finds her mother's body in a shallow grave, must fight for survival from the boyfriend who killed her. And she must learn to trust people to do it.
Here's my main beef with this book: I couldn't quite get behind...more
Here's my main beef with this book: I couldn't quite get behind...more
Mar 26, 2013
Kathryn
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1 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
young-adult,
1-star-hated
This is a book that had a great potential to be one of those books you read in one sitting. It wasn't. I found that the plot lagged and things happened slowly. After reading Dead Connection and loving it so much I dove into Desert Angel preparing to devour it the way I had with the previous Charlie Price novel. That just didn't happen. The characters seemed to all be alike with no real discerning qualities to separate one from the other. Scotty was at least mildly interesting though instead of s...more
Dubbed as a 'cat and mouse thriller', I thought that 'Desert Angel' was going to be a gripping and exciting read. Although some parts of the story were pretty tense, it didn't quite live up to my expectations. Angel is on the run, being chased by Scotty, the man who murdered her mother and then tried to kill her too. Only fourteen years old she's wise beyond her years but is now caught in a desperate struggle for survival with a dangerous killer.
There is a claustrophobic feel about the story an...more
There is a claustrophobic feel about the story an...more
It's not a bad book, just nothing like I expected! Intense creepy and crazy......can't believe it's YA but I guess there is a market for teens wanting to read about a girl called Angel who has a tough childhood and her mum finally chose the WRONGEST guy. Killing her,Angel is left to defend herself then run for her life as Scotty hunts her throughout the people she comes into contact with.not even sure how I feel about her, maybe sorry , but hope to god there isn't a relevant real life story to t...more
Oct 15, 2012
Lisa Delaine Youngblood
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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While the storyline of a hunted teenager who turns the hunter is enticing, the book's poor execution delivers instead a collection of single-dimensional characters, a string of events that do not actually build to an end, and an ultimately small scale conclusion.
*Spoiler* -- The book looked as if it was going to culminate in a satisfying end in which a small town works together to stop the wrath of a crazy man and his friends. Had this happened, then much of the characters' discussions would ha...more
*Spoiler* -- The book looked as if it was going to culminate in a satisfying end in which a small town works together to stop the wrath of a crazy man and his friends. Had this happened, then much of the characters' discussions would ha...more
I chose this book because I love to read adventurous books. This book was just right for me to read.
This book was about this little girl named Tory. Her parents were killed in a car accident. I felt bad when I read about her parents dying. I wouldn't want that to happen to my parents.
Her mother gave her a capsule of all the places they went . She lived in a small town in Phoenix Arizona as a desert for a neighbor.
One day she was in bed and she heard a voice and decided to follow it. The voice wa...more
This book was about this little girl named Tory. Her parents were killed in a car accident. I felt bad when I read about her parents dying. I wouldn't want that to happen to my parents.
Her mother gave her a capsule of all the places they went . She lived in a small town in Phoenix Arizona as a desert for a neighbor.
One day she was in bed and she heard a voice and decided to follow it. The voice wa...more
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The first part (100 pages) of the book was good (gritty, csi/svu law and order), fast paced, intense amazing surival skills and action. But the second half was an attempt to build the characters depth and it failed....read like a man trying to write a girl teen who has never met or even tried to understand how a 14 year old would feel. liked the bases of the story and descriptive scenery but it needs to be cut 160 pages....or seriously rewrite the last half of the book. I work at a preschool and...more
what i thought about the book is that it was intense. If my mother was murdered by a low life I would me very mad. The best thing I really liked about this book is that it was like mysterious and you didnt know what was goin to come next. The main character in this book was this little girl named Angel. She woke up in this desert in Arizona.
The conflict in this book was that she woke up in this desert and she didnt know how to get back home.She was worried about her family and brothers and si...more
The conflict in this book was that she woke up in this desert and she didnt know how to get back home.She was worried about her family and brothers and si...more
This is a total thriller, probably best for kids and adults 13 and up. It centers around an independent girl, Angel, who is 14. She has to run for her life to escape her mother's psychopath abusive boyfriend. I bit my nails pretty much the whole way through. There was hardly a dull moment. It starts off at a really fast pace and slows down about halfway through. Angel's focus slowly turns from survival and desperation to growth and emotion. It could be considered a book about redemption. It's re...more
The number one thing I appreciated in this book is that Angel does not have amazing, instinctual survival skills. At any moment when you (as the reader) would be tempted to point out a flaw in Angel's survival plan or something she forgot, the author is right there, acknowledging that Angel's strategies leave something to be desired, but through luck and kind benefactors she manages to stay alive.
I thought that the character of Angel was written well, if the story seemed somewhat far-fetched. A...more
I thought that the character of Angel was written well, if the story seemed somewhat far-fetched. A...more
My High School choose this book to read for our book club, from the summary it sounded like a really good book. Well I decided to see if it was, and I am sorry but I am very disappointment I wasted the time to read this. This book was at a middle school reading level, and half the things that occurred do not seem possible for a 14 year old girl to do. Half the time I was sitting there going "What the hell?!". The plot was choppy and the switch from POV's was not planned well. The characters are...more
Angel is running from her mother's newest boyfriend, Scotty, who killed her mom and torched the trailer they lived in--with Angel in it. Scotty is a hunter, and Angel knows he won't rest until he finds her. With the help of some Mexican illegals, she manages to escape, but she can't relax. Tough but kind Rita, a Head Start teacher, takes her in, but Angel fears for her and her family because Scotty will hurt them for helping her. The only thing Angel can do is find Scotty before he finds her. Th...more
Angel and her mom have moved from town to town, following the latest string of abusive boyfriends. The last one though, kills her mother and tries to kill her too. Angie escapes and runs from him for the rest of the book! By herself, she has no one to turn to and it is hard for her to trust anyone. Gradually, though, one family takes her in and helps her to formulate a plan to escape her abuser. The psychological aspect of always being on the run and how it affected her ability to form relations...more
Angel's mother has one skill - choosing the wrong man. And she really chose wrong when she picked Scotty. When Angel realizes that he has killed her mother and that she is next, she does what she must and runs. But Scotty is a hunter. Can she get away from a trained tracker and survive in the desert?
The other characters in this book are well drawn. Angel isn't always likeable, but she is believable. This title has the feel of urban fiction, but takes place in the Southern California desert. A g...more
The other characters in this book are well drawn. Angel isn't always likeable, but she is believable. This title has the feel of urban fiction, but takes place in the Southern California desert. A g...more
Desert Angel is a short and fairly easy read. It’s a story about a tough 14-year old girl with a strong survival instinct. She finds herself on the run from her latest “step-father”, Scotty, a ruthless man who is hunting her down, after he killed her mother during one of their monster fights. He believes the only way he will walk away with what he did is to silence Angel for good.
The begging of the book was quite gripping, depicting intense survivalist scenes. Then, the book makes a turn (view s...more
The begging of the book was quite gripping, depicting intense survivalist scenes. Then, the book makes a turn (view s...more
This review was originally published at Fluttering Butterflies
Desert Angel by Charlie Price isn't at all like I expected it to be, but still enjoyable. I did think when I first started it, that it would be a psychological thriller of one young girl in the desert trying to stay alive and evade her evil step-father. And it is, but instead of this being a survivalist story, Angel has a fair bit of help.
In fact, she's passed around by several families and hidden in out of the way villages. And at fi...more
Desert Angel by Charlie Price isn't at all like I expected it to be, but still enjoyable. I did think when I first started it, that it would be a psychological thriller of one young girl in the desert trying to stay alive and evade her evil step-father. And it is, but instead of this being a survivalist story, Angel has a fair bit of help.
In fact, she's passed around by several families and hidden in out of the way villages. And at fi...more
Aug 15, 2012
Krista the Krazy Kataloguer
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Fourteen year old Angel has been dragged across the country by a mother who cares about the no-good men she hooks up with more than she does for Angel. And the latest boyfriend is a real piece of work. He’s killed her mother, and now he’s coming after Angel. Can she outrun the hunter in the unforgiving desert, or can she learn to trust others?
Review: From the first page Desert Angel throws the reader straight into the conflict and danger of Angel’s life. The story was so gripping and tense that...more
Review: From the first page Desert Angel throws the reader straight into the conflict and danger of Angel’s life. The story was so gripping and tense that...more
Angel and her mother have lived with Scotty, the mother’s abusive boyfriend, for only a month before he killed the mother and buries her in the desert. He then ties up Angel and sets fire to their mobile home with her in it. She manages to escape and is taken in by a family of illegal Mexican immigrants, but Scotty is a trained tracker, so hunts her down and terrorizes anyone who helps her. The family moves her to another town where she stays with Rita, a tough Head Start teacher. Angel is glad...more
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“The beatings didn't begin until the third week of the new relationship. Scotty didn't climb in bed with Angel until the forth week.”
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“He covered her face with a pillow and lay on it. She got half a breath before he crushed her, and she thrashed like hell but in that second she knew it was foolish.”
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