Hellsbane is a thrilling read with just enough fast-paced action and excitement to leave you hanging onto the edge of your seat!

Emma Jane can read emotions and she's made a career out of it. She's always known that she isn't normal, but it never really occurred to her that she might be something more than human. That is until Tommy, a boy from her past comes knocking at her door covered in Demon blood. On the verge of death Emma helps Tommy by picking up his sword (all the while not knowing that More...

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Emma Jane Hellsbane can feel people’s emotions, the good ones like the bad ones. She’s a psychic, more precisely an “Intuitive Consciousness Explorer”. With this strange gift Emma Jane has made her livelihood. She receives clients at home and practices sessions as well. She didn’t expect her new client: Tommy St. James, a former school friend! More than anything, she didn’t More...

Emma Jane has always had the ability to know what a person feels or thinks, an ability that has allowed her to make use of it as source of income. While maintaining the facade is sometimes grueling, Emma is content with the way her life is going. Granted, her family and some of her friends don't quite understand why she insists on 'pretending' to be a psychic, but she's content on letting them believe whatever they like of her as long as they let her do what she wants to do.

Her entire world is t More...

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In the process of helping an old friend fight off a demon, Emma Jane becomes marked as a soldier in the fight against the Fallen, Angels who’ve been cast out of heaven for sinning (seducing/raping women, who then bear their children, but don’t remember it at all). The only way she can get out of it is to kill her Fallen father, but she has no idea who he is.

So, Emma comes out swinging. She has these new superpowers that help her heal quickly, move faster, and gene More...

Emma Jane Hellsbane has got to be one of the most entertaining heroines I have read about in a very long time. Her humor and her dedication to an ideal make her perfect for the job ahead of her.

She is much more than she appears and through an “accident” she has become much, much more than human. She is now what amounts to a Heavenly Bounty Hunter complete with magical sword.

The appeal of this story is multifaceted and includes the humor (usually at very inappropriate times), the action (a lot of More...

The main character, Emma Jane Hellsbane, can sense emotions. That, along with her degree in psychology give her background she needs to be a phone-in psychic and advisor. When an old high school acquaintance, Tommy James, knocks on her door she is a little confused. They were never friends in high school. He was Mr. Popularity and she…wasn’t. He arrives sporting a gruesome wound and carrying a huge sword dripping with something black and tarry. When a demon disguised as the postman enters her ho More...

Emma Jane has the unique gift of sensing and feeling emotions. After her grandmother died, she inherited her house and from there, she's set up a home-based business of telling customers of what they want to hear. By feeling their emotions, she can get a sense of what is troubling them or what they desire.

When an old high school chum, Tommy James, comes knocking on her door she is a little confused. They were never friends in high school. He was the football quarterback and she wasn't exactly Ms More...

Hellsbane Book Review
Emma Jane is the new and unsuspecting Illorum on the scene. From a mystic psychic to God’s power on earth this certainly gave this tough cookie a fright. When delivered in the package of your high school crush and his sword, no his actual honest to God Touch-me- and-awaken-new-powers, sword no good can come from that especially when you’re told you’re half angel your mom was raped and you’ve gotta cut off your family so they don’t get killed. There is SO much was going on i More...

I wasn't too sure what to expect going into a novel that was about a half angel demon fighter who has the ability to feel others emotions a psychic if you will, who has made a living with this ability, but I am so glad I read this book, wow, Right from the very first chapter this book caught my attention right to the very last page. Paige Cuccaro created a cast of characters I really enjoyed and felt connected with. Tommy the ever high school dreamy guy everyone wishes to have as a boyfriend, I More...

When Emma Jane finished with her last client of the she had no idea that the next person to knock on her door was about to change her life and there was no looking back. She had no idea when high school acquaintance Tommy swept across her threshold he was being tracked by deadly demons who wanted nothing more then to kill him and her.

After picking up Tommy's sword to help in the fight against a mailman/demon she inadvertently invited into her home - she is marked. After Tommy explains just what More...

Emma Jane is minding her own business, living her normal life when fate comes knocking at her door…literally. Now Emma Jane has to learn all about being a sword carrying half angel. I enjoyed Emma Jane’s character so much. She is one of those kick butt heroin's that you get to watch grow into their gifts. I loved that she battled with who she was and where her power came from, it made her seem more real to me.

Emma Jane has help figuring out all these new angelic changes: Tommy, a half angel warr More...

Hellsbane by Paige Cuccaro was not quite the book I thought it would be. It didn't have near enough romance to make the mark as a paranormal, and was neither gritty enough nor did it have enough of an urban or detective-y enough feel to be an urban fantasy.

The premise was interesting enough. In Jane Hellsbane's world, there are a few people who are the offspring of human women and fallen angels. Those children are called nephilim. Our heroine, Jane, is one of those chosen few.

Jane has always bee More...

I wasn't really sure if this was going to be a book that I would enjoy. I'm generally not one for angel books, but I was surprised by this one.

I liked Emma. She's young and somewhat naive, but she has a snarky sense of humor that I could appreciate. She had a lot thrown at her once she found out she was a naphilim, but she took it much better than I know I would.

Eli was a bit of a surprise. He has the superior quality that one would expect an angel to have, but he was also down to earth. Chalk More...

Today's review is on Hellsbane by Paige Cuccaro

Though Hellsbane is not technically a YA novel; the character's are not in their teens, the amount of romance was more that speed, but the fantasy portion was fantastic. My only gripe is that Thomas was removed from the love triangle to early.

Emma Jane Hellsbane has been living her life as best as she can. Living in the house her grandmother left her and working as a "psychic". She's not really psychic though. She's not even human! She doesn't know More...

Emma Jane has never really been what you would call normal. She's always been able to read the emotions of others... she's even made a career of it, as a psychic of sorts. But it never occurred to her that she may be anything other than human. Until Tommy came back into her life, dripping blood, with a demon on his heels. He nearly lost his fight with the monster in front of her eyes. He would have been killed -- if Emma hadn't picked up his sword to help him. Those were the actions that trigger More...

3.5*s

Hellsbane is an urban fantasy named for the main character Emma Jane Hellsbane and that is exactly what she becomes. After opening her door one day to a wounded young man and her next visitor turns out to be a demon disguised as a mail man and intent on killing the wounded man. Emma Jane does the only thing she can, she picks up the man’s sword and tries to defend him from the demon. Little does she realise what picking up that sword will do to her, she feels the burning as the swords hilt More...

I was offered a review copy of this book from the publisher and on the whole I found it an enjoyable read.

This is a story that ticks all the usual paranormal romance boxes: attractive heroine thrown into a paranormal world, temptation from co-workers/allies, evil to defeat, salvation to find. However, unlike some books in the genre, this one acknowledges it's following a formula and does so with gusto.

Emma is a decent character. I found her a tad annoying on a couple of occasions, but mostly sh More...

Emma Jane Hellsbane has always had the ability to sense other people's emotions, and she turned that into a comfortable career as a "psychic." All that changes when the cute jock from highschool who mysteriously disappeared halfway through senior year lands on her doorstep with a clawed stomach. She swiftly finds out that he's a nephilim--half human, half fallen angel--and so is she. Without intending to, Emma Jane finds herself swept into the war between the angels and the fallen, as well as at More...

Emma Hellsbane thinks she is just a little abnormal as a psychic. Little does she know that when she opens her door, that the truth about how abnormal she is, is about to come out. As a half angel warrior, an illorum, her only job is to destroy the Fallen who rapped human women to produce the nephiliams. With the help of Tommy, another half angel, and Eli, her "handler" angel, she must face the truth about angels, demons, and God.

Wow! I loved this book!

Emma has always felt different, but when More...

This book sent me on an emotional roller coaster ride! It started out so interest. I loved the concept of her being a half angel demon fighter! And things were building up so nicely. I liked all the characters, the plot was moving at a good speed- I was a happy girl. Then, right about half way through the book Paige Cuccaro did something that ripped my heart out! I was so crushed, and I thought for sure that something would miraculously happen later on to fix this incident. So I kept reading, pa More...

Emma Jane is one tough cookie who is already living a crazy life as a psychic, when her life takes a drastic change after meeting up with an old high school friend, Tommy. Suddenly her life becomes something you only read about, but kind of explains her emotionally psychic abilities. She has never really believed in God, but she has been sort of thrust into his world after her angelic half awakens.

I loved that Emma Jane takes on this new role of Illorum with a passion. She is a little hesitant More...

I got this book to review from NetGalley- YAY FOR NETGALLEY!!! :) ok let me say I am NOT really an angel fan. I dunno why, but I rarely like that part, I like the demons lol BUT I WILL make an exception! This book had me wanting to learn how to fight and get a sword and hack things and totally made me wanna be a half angel! Fantastic! I prefer fantasy over romance anyway, and boy oh boy, the action in the book made me wanna blow something up LOL ok enough crazy talk :) and there is a little roma More...

I liked this book but I just was not in love with it. I have really gotten into Angel books lately but a lot of the things on how the world works was just not something I really liked. Like how the children of a Fallen Angel and a human must pay for their fathers mistake and still are not guaranteed to go to heaven, most Angels seem them as scum and yet God wants them to fight the demons while the Angels do nothing. I was just not liking that.. It was too mean. There was also a part in this book More...

Review from my blog: The Word Fiend

The moment I read the blurb for Hellsbane I couldn’t wait to get my hands on a copy – here was a book promising me something different from the usual stories involving half-angels. Sadly, I didn’t feel that Hellsbane lived up to its potential.

Hellsbane’s cover art is great. The statue of the angel holding the sword is a very effective way of linking in Emma Jane’s job as Heaven’s bounty hunter. I also love the figure’s pose, it screams sassiness and attitude an More...

La ventitreenne Emma Jane Hellsbane ha appena scoperto di non essere umana: o meglio, non solo umana. È per metà angelo, e ora il Cielo ha un lavoro per lei: radunare tutti gli angeli Caduti e i loro sottoposti demoniaci cornuti e dalla pelle rossa, per poi ricacciare tutti nell’Abisso. L’unico problema? I demoni e i Caduti contraccambieranno il favore… e non combatteranno con onore.

Per fortuna, Emma potrà mettere la parola fine alla continua minaccia di morte, la sua, se riuscirà a scoprire qua More...

( 4.5 star Top Pick Review for Night Owl Reviews | Read & Reviewed by Talina Perkins)

First Line:

I couldn’t breathe. My heart slammed in my chest like a caged animal and sweat chilled down my back. Muscles all over my body tensed, and instinct screamed through my mind, telling me to run. Run. RUN!


Teaser:

Then it was gone. Darkness engulfed us, with only the distant stars twinkling in the vast emptiness. My hands leached around Eli’s neck, brought us cheek to cheek. “You’re safe in my arms, Emm More...

Emma Jane Hellsbane could easily be Buffy the Vampire Slayer's counterpart minus the vampires!

Never truly fitting in has always been part of Emma's life. As an intuitive, she makes her living as a psychic and tries to keep to herself. Her world is turned upside down when her old high school crush, Tommy St. James, shows up at her doorstep seeking refuge from a demon. Emma doesn't know what to think but gets all the proof she needs when she witnesses the battle between Tommy and the demon in her More...

Wow. This book was so good! Its been awhile since I read a good fallen angel book and I loved the twist in this one of the nephilim having to kill their angelic father in order to get entrance to heaven. Of course thats not hard for any of these nephilim since the fallen angels are basically totally evil and keep sending demons after their children. I really liked this book and everything in it was very interesting. There wasn't really a lull in the story or a boring bit for me at all. The wait More...

I'm not usually a big fan of angels. Don't ask why I'm just not, but there was something about this book that caught my attention.
While yes it does have it's share of haughtier than thou angels. Emma and her witty repartee make up for it. I loved seeing Emma evolve into a kick butt, character. As well as unraveling the mystery along with everything else.
I actually enjoyed all the mythos, wrapped into the story. It gave it creditability, even though you knew it was fiction. I just wish the romanc More...

was send this to review and to be honest had mixed feelings as the 'threatened by demons must save the earth' theme isn't one of my favorites but was I glad I read it- well drawn characters- tension form the onset and enough mayhem and drama and keep me turning pages. Can't wait to read the sequel