Have been in love with this title since the first time I got to read it two years ago. Now, I have an opportunity to share it with the world. I'm honored and very pleased to offer it for publication on November 20, 2012. I hope you enjoy it every bit as much as I did.

On the surface A Shimmer of Angels seems like a typical Angel book, but actually it's anything but.

Rayna can see Angels and as a result she's been in a mental health institute for the past 3 years of her life. Finally free, she longs for a normal life, but a normal life doesn't seem to be in her destiny. Not long after leaving she begins seeing Angels again - first there's Cam, the new student with bright, shimmery wings and then there's Kade the Angel with a bag of secrets. But that's not all, More...

3.4 stars

Maybe it's because I haven't read any angel books before but this book felt fresh to me. I've been oversatured with shifters and vampires so a book about angels was a nice change of pace. The story centers around a 16 year old girl named Rayna who has been seeing angels for years. Convinced these angels are figments of her imagination or worse, she comes to accept that she is insane. Certifiable. As a result, she has been locked up, off and on, for the past 3 years in a mental instituat More...

A Shimmer of Angels was a fantastic debut from Lisa M. Basso. It had a great plot and although some parallels may be drawn between A Beautiful Dark and Dark Kiss, A Shimmer of Angels is solely it's own.

The novel starts out with Rayna 'Ray" Evans leaving a mental institution on remission, she was initially admitted because her Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder, aka her sightings of angels. About a month after her release Ray runs into problems when she sees an angel in her school and later a falle More...

First, sorry for the mini hiatus.

Second, I will try my hardest not be bitchy with this review.

So...

...are you looking for a typical angel book? With classic good angels and bad angels? Good as in the usual guardian angels and bad as in the usual fallen angels? Do you crave for more lame good vs evil battle where human lives are the price to pay should the evil wins? Do you mind another trashy love triangle where somehow the girl is dumb enough to choose the heartless wimp over the friendzone gu More...

Ok ok, so I got this ARC and I've only now got round to reading it, but now all I have say is.. Guys it's out in 10 days and you bet you better go out and get it!

I've read some other reviews and some say its unoriginal. Yes there are book out there similar to this but not THE SAME I mean c'mon, there are a gazillion books out there not every one of them is going to be so different there's not one thing similar in it to another book. Stop being so picky!

I found this book thrilling and captiva More...

A Shimmer of Angels was a fantastic, extraordinary book from Month9Books. I adored it! Every single page i turned, I kept being pushed and grabbed into Reyna's world, full of angels, and maybe a few murders in between.

Plot: The plot was something I can hardly explain. It was thrilling, romantic, mysterious and everything in between! Rayna truly showed her true side of things with hearing her thoughts and living her "hallucinations". As I read the first page, I immediately was pulled into the st More...

I wanted so badly to like A Shimmer of Angels. I’m not a huge fan of angel-themed YA, but since my great experiences with The Mortal Instruments and Unearthly, I’ve been more open to the genre. Sadly, A Shimmer of Angels didn’t bring anything new to the paranormal romance genre and only served to remind me why I usually avoid angel books.

My problem with A Shimmer of Angels was that really, there was nothing original about it at all. One-dimensional heroine with a tragic past? Check. Bland but at More...

"The thing about beliefs? Even the strongest can be shattered by the simplest of things."

3.5 stars

People usually freak out when they see unusual things. Well, seeing guys with shiny wings are counted as unusual. Too bad it was too much, it landed Rayna into a mental health clinic.

This was the first book I've read about pretty boys with wings and it was a good start. I loved the book! The plot was definitely new to me but it wasn't confusing at all. I love the mix of making it like one of thos More...

I really considered the idea of not writing a review about this book. As easy as it may be, writing 'negative' reviews about a book always makes me sad (I mean it) and I feel bad about offending an author's work, considering all the work he/she has put to it, BUT, I always have to be honest about my opinions and thoughts on a review, and this book is not an exception. So here goes nothing.

When I received the ARC for this book I was so excited, because the cover is gorgeous and just beautiful, More...

Originally posted at The Solitary Bookworm
RATING: 2 1/2 stars

Ray has been seeing things before. Things that she alone has the ability to see which results to her being labelled as a nut case an kept in the crazy facility. Three years of being kept in the facility, Ray is now free to prove them all wrong - she is not crazy.

She's not crazy but apparently, she can see angels.

First of all, I didn't hate the book. It was actually enjoyable and intriguing but A Shimmer of Angels didn't provide me with More...

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3.75/5 stars
I loved the cover of this book, it actually was the reason that I decided to get the book, and I'm glad to say the next two covers look beautiful as well.
I guess part of me is conflicted, while I wasn't extremely fond of the first half of the book, after a while I started to get into the second half, more towards the end of it. I know there is a good chance that I'll like the next book much more than this one.

Rayna, th More...

Sixteen-year-old Rayna sees angels, and has the medication and weekly therapy sessions to prove it. Now, in remission, Rayna starts fresh at a new school, lands a new job, and desperately tries for normalcy. She ignores signs that she may be slipping into the world she has tried so hard to climb out of. But these days, it’s more than just hallucinations that keep Rayna up at night. Students are dying, and she may be the only one who can stop it. Can she keep her job, her sanity, and her friends More...

I requested this ebook from the wonderful website NetGalley.com but I only just got around to reading it an I’m really not sure why! This was a wonderful book to read. while it leans more to the darker side it can still be light hearted and fun and I really enjoy that in a book. What I really, really liked about this book is that I can see an earlier aged teen who doesn’t really enjoy reading pick this one up and after reading it they want to read more! I absolutely love books that make people w More...

With all of the novels coming out these days about angels, I'm really looking for something that will stand out of the crowd. In some aspects, A Shimmer of Angels really did that and in others it followed the now typical expectations of the YA genre. The main character cannot seem to make good decisions, or stand well on her own, and refuses to believe in the things that would aid her while she's fighting the bad guys. There's a love triangle, of course, with a bad boy and a cookie-cutter good o More...

When I first started reading A Shimmer of Angels, I was having a slightly difficult time getting hooked into the book. But I thought the premise was interesting. A sixteen year old girl who keeps getting thrown into mental hospitals because she sees people with wings? Hallucinations at that. So her family is trying to get her better.

Meanwhile, she gets out, things are going good, then it starts happening again. Coincidentally the same time students start killing themselves. Can it be related? A More...

The world says Rayna is crazy because she thinks she sees wings. The doctors tell her it is her way of believing her mother went to a good place after she passed away. She convinces herself, and everyone who has control over whether she stays in the mental health clinic, that she no longer sees wings. Being in remission, they allow her to go back to school. Her family struggles to rebuild their relationships. Her father thinks she is very fragile and doesn't want her to even go back to school, More...

This was the first book I've read about pretty boys with wings and it was a good start and maybe because I haven't read any angel books before but this book felt fresh to me.
The story centers around a 16 year old girl named Rayna who has been seeing angels for years. Convinced these angels are figments of her imagination or worse, she comes to accept that she is insane. Certifiable. As a result, she has been locked up, off and on, for the past 3 years in a mental institution. However, when a new More...

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I really enjoyed this book and it was one I found hard to put down. A Shimmer of Angels was fast paced and full of action. Seriously, there was never a dull moment reading it as something was always happening. I liked the fact that Rayna was the only one who was able to see the angels as it gave a different twist to most angel books I have read. The main POV was human, and it was nice to gain a different perspective in the genre. Also More...

I received this ARC in exchange for an honest review through NetGalley and Month9Books, LLC. Thank you to the author for the opportunity to read her book.

Spoiler Alert:
A Shimmer of Angels is a supernatural YA read about a teen girl who after the death of her mother begins to hallucinate people with "wings" and over the years is committed by her father to a mental hospital numerous times; she is released again and in "Remission" only to find out that her hallucinations may not be hallucinations More...

A Shimmer of Angels by Lisa M. Basso decribes Rayna, a teenager who was commited to a mental asylum because she can see angels. Out, and desperate to be normal, she meets the new student at her school, Cam, who has wings. After convincing her that she's not crazy, Cam and Ray start looking for the fallen angel who is murdering her classmates. When Rayna stumbles upon Kade, she immediately suspects him. But is he the killer, or an ally?


I enjoyed the little bit of reality that is in this book. It More...

Full review on Ballad's Reviews.

A SHIMMER OF ANGELS is a strictly mediocre book. And I mean that in the nicest of ways. Okay, so maybe 'mediocre' doesn't have many positive connotations to the word, but it aptly describes this book for what it is: mediocre.

To make things easy for all of us, I'll put things in a nice, succinct table. It'll make this review easier to read, hopefully.

PROS:

Very simple use of language
Simple-minded character
Easy, uncomplicated plot
Formulaic YA novel

CONS:

Very simple us More...

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This book started really well for me, I was quite into it from the get go...but then it began to feel like it was dragging on. Then, when we get closer to the end I began to like it again.
This might be because of my tiredness, but I kind of felt the book was repetitive in places, especially with some of Rayna's "issues."

Now, don't get me wrong, because I really did enjoy reading this book, and I would like to continue with the rest of the series, I just fe More...

This is a netgalley read.

The cover on this book is stunning and this is one of those books where you can judge the book based on the cover. I cannot wait to pick the next book up and see where the story leads.

The mix of characters in this book kept me engaged and interested in what would come next. Rayna was a very well done 16 year old. I liked the fact that despite Rayna's history, she was still a 16 year old that was trying to pull her life together. I loved how loyal she was to Lee, but she More...

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I would like to give a huge thank you to Netgalley and Month9Books, for providing a free copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. This did not influence my review in any way.

Okay, first things first - the cover. My god, it's so beautiful. Who edited this? Someone give him a promotion right now! The colors are absolutely mesmerizing! This has got to be one of the best covers I've seen. The model is beautiful, too, and the overall package totally give More...

Since around the time of the death of her mother, Rayna has been able to see angels. When she discovered that others were thinking she was nuts for seeing them, she tried to hide her ability, but it never quite worked out.

Now she's out of the mental health clinic again after multiple stints over the last three years and she thinks she finally has this beat. Maybe now, with her meds and multiple therapy sessions, she'll finally stop seeing them.

But fate doesn't give Ray a break.

Not only is she se More...

Original Rating: 3.5/5

This review can originally be read at The Twins Read.

If we had to compare A Shimmer of Angels to another series, we think it would have to be Michelle Rowen's Dark Kiss/Wicked Kiss, only better. Now books featuring angels and demons are a dime a dozen and it's not exactly easy to come across angel books that are a cut above the rest. A Shimmer of Angels is not exactly that but at least it didn't have your ever-present whiny girl and love at first sight.

Ever since her mothe More...

This book was good. A little cliche for my taste and it was slow paced but I enjoyed reading it.

Rayna can see angels. But who would believe her? Her family thought she was crazy and they sent her to a mental hospital saying it was all for her good. She had a very traumatic life. After five years she got released.
She thought she was no longer crazy when she sees another angel. The following events made it clear for her that she wasn't crazy and that her being able to see angels made them drawn to More...

I received a digital ARC of this novel from Netgalley on behalf of Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA).

I loved absolutely everything about this book. There is not one thing that I can complain about other than the fact that I finished it and I have to wait another year for the second book to come out! Boo!

It begins with Rayna going back to school and getting her life back on track after being in and out of a mental institution. She was sent there because she could apparently see wing More...