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Dec 24, 2011

Kira rated it:

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Dec 25, 2011

Frankenstein rated it:

WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN??? This has to be one of the WORST books ever written. Everything in this book annoyed me. It was terrible in every way: badly thought-out plot, hypocritically religious, with really (and I mean really) shallow characters. Did I mention it is was a hypocritical book? Can I emphasis on hypocritical? I'm not even a Catholic! But this book, it just... ARGGHHH!!!It is so frustrating, I cannot describe it in words.

To be honest, it was the Catholic's version of More...

37 comments like (97 people liked it)

Oct 13, 2011

Brigid *Flying Kick-a-pow!* rated it:

*Takes a deep breath* It's been a long time since a book pissed me off so much. To be perfectly honest, I am bitter. Very bitter. So if that makes me biased, so be it, but I can't help myself. I'm the same age as Alexandra Adornetto, and I've been trying to get published for about three years now. I've been working my butt off, writing and rewriting and editing and submitting to agents. And by now I've received more rejections than I can count, so I'm feeling pretty discouraged right now. Then I More...

253 comments like (107 people liked it)

Dec 21, 2011

Paige rated it:

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a Goodreads original! If you would like the see the polite H.Y.P.E. review I wrote for this book, it's right here. I recommend you also read the quotes section after the review and all 124 of my status updates.

Reader, my brain is broken. Halo did it. Everything that follows will prove it.

Venus Cove is ~~supposedly~~ under attack by Agents of Darkness, so warrior Gabriel, healer Ivy, and ~~itty bitty baby angel~~ relatively young angel Bethany are More...

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Jun 29, 2011

Katya rated it:

Edit: June 2011

Mac Mcclelland is a humanitaries journalist who experienced PTSD after working with rape survivors in Haiti. She was never sexually assaulted, but nevertheless experienced panic attacks, sickness, and got drunk every night in order to deal with it. Afterwards, she went through a tough period.

She and her fellow journalists who go to 'hot zones' like Haiti, Egypt, Syria and Lybia are under enormous pressure and are reluctant to report cases of sexual and phy More...

16 comments like (53 people liked it)

Nov 11, 2011

Lily rated it:

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Aug 19, 2011

Cait rated it:

Honestly, I think when I read this book, my brain cells died a little bit.

First of all, Bethany is a total idiot and is so clueless that I don't know how she even remembered to breathe when she woke up every morning.

Bethany: *wakes up in the morning and starts turning blue and thinks, ohhhh what am I supposed to do? It's really important...... *

Me: yes! Die, Bethany, die!

Bethany: *body begins to spasm as it's deprived of air it's on the tip of More...

53 comments like (80 people liked it)

Oct 24, 2011

Enna Isilee (Squeaky Books) rated it:

Review first posted (8-26-10) on http://www.squeakybooks.com/2010/08/halo...

Review: The little evil voice inside of me was really hoping this book would be badly written. Why? Because the author is younger than me. Yup. I was jealous. I'm gonna have to come to terms with the fact that I'm growing up. (ew.)

And it was well written, very well written. This wasn't well written "for a seventeen year old" this was just well written. So why only 2 stars? Three reasons: More...

4 comments like (23 people liked it)

Jan 04, 2012

Taneika (Flipping Through The Pages...) rated it:

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A taxi I caught recently had the craziest driver I have ever met. The minute I got in the taxi, he asked me if I was interested in politics, I said yes, I've studied it and I still try to keep up with the latest... He took that as an invitation to start preaching to me about the political party that he supports. He gave me the party's newspaper in which this political party compares the QUEEN to HITLER. They also have the ne More...

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Oct 27, 2011

Rose rated it:

Please God, tell me your angels aren't like this!

You know how a song plays through your head when you read a book, and the lyrics remind you of the story? Well, the song was "Angel Of Light" by Dark Lay Still, and one line in particular stuck with me.

"Haunting beauty masks your ill intent."

The cover of this book is beautiful. What's inside is ugly.

The message I got from this book was: be a good Christian, go to church every Sunday, a More...

10 comments like (21 people liked it)

Dec 05, 2011

Jasprit rated it:

When I first saw the cover to Halo I was immediately drawn to it, what a beautiful cover! My instant thoughts were beautiful cover, beautiful story too right? This wasn’t entirely true. I had several issues with this book, hopefully my review won’t come across as a rant but explain the reasons behind me giving Halo only 1 star.

For what its worth Halo did start off pretty well, it told the story of three angels sent on a mission to “perform good deeds, acts of charity and kindness, t More...

25 comments like (19 people liked it)

May 03, 2011

Teresa (Read All Over Reviews) rated it:

(Originally posted on Read All Over Reviews)

I was so excited when I landed a spot on Good Golly Miss Holly’s ARC Tour for Halo. I’m all about some angels and the premise for this book sounded promising. And then I actually read it.

I seriously worry about the future of women (and feminism) when there’s things like this and Twilight guiding our youth … and adults. I know that may be harsh, but I’m losing my patience. Halo was practically Twilight, but with wings.

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Jan 14, 2012

Donna added it

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DNF with a big, fat, capital RETCH. When I first got this book I thought it sounded really interesting and not too long after the ARCs were distributed rave reviews were coming out about it. Great! Then the article came out that made modern women's ovaries die. And then the revelation came that this novel is ~~a TWILIGHT fanfiction~~ heavily influenced by TWILIGHT. Add in Christian moralizing and 19 More...

8 comments like (10 people liked it)

Oct 18, 2011

Ghirardelli rated it:

*There are spoilers somewhere. Whatever.*

I don’t have enough snark on Goodreads. Granted, snark has been around and around and around this site and my addition of snark into the Halo series will drown in the other snark-filled reviews that will have clearly better points than me. Even so, I felt that I had to read this so I could join the Snark Army and contribute to the world and try to save fellow readers from this big, fat, ugly mess.

Mess....

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Aug 20, 2011

Anila rated it:

Halo is a truly epic tale. Set in a dystopian world which has been ravaged by war, it follows two people: Bethany, an angel sent to riot-torn Los Angeles to save as many of the remaining citizens as she can and Xavier, a damaged boy she struggles to befriend and heal of his emotional wounds. As she works, another war is brewing - this one highly localized and poised to set the city ablaze yet again, ruining all of her efforts.

Oh, no, wait, that's not it. Let me try again... oh, More...

76 comments like (74 people liked it)

Dec 11, 2011

Kaia rated it:

Disclaimer: There are no SPOILERS in this review, because you can't spoil a book in which nothing actually happens. However, in the interest of forestalling any screeching and whining on the matter, consider this your SPOILER warning. Screech and whine at your own peril. I am cranky, and I bite.

There are bad books. There are awful books. There are books you want to hurl across the room or light on fire. There are books that make you want to cry and scream, claw your own eyes out, and More...

23 comments like (31 people liked it)

Dec 25, 2011

Anna rated it:

Yep, that was me while reading this book. Sad, no?

Oh, and before I forget:

Dear Alexandra Adornetto,

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Aug 16, 2011

Mocha ღ Latte rated it:

There was a lot of hoopla about Halo when it first came out. What I thought of it?

TOO INNOCENT, TOO SLOW PACED.
Don't get me wrong, i liked it but i also like butterflies,flowers,birds,turkey etc. Like doesn't really mean much in my vocabulary. I like a lot of things.

After 10 pages I was questioning the mentality of my friend. She purchased it for me as a gift thinking i would 'LOVE' it because she 'LOVED' it. She and many other people made it sound like something it wasn More...

6 comments like (7 people liked it)

Aug 30, 2010

Nic rated it:

Disappointment was hiding behind that pretty cover. I couldn't finish Halo. I usually love stories about angels and the cover is beautiful (I'm a bit of a cover slut) but I found this book boring, so in the end I gave up. I felt like I had to force myself to read on. There has been so many angel books out recently that I was looking for that something special and unfortunately this wasn't it for me. I don't know if I gave it a fair chance reading only 100 pages so maybe one day I'll come ba More...

30 comments like (33 people liked it)

Oct 18, 2011

Lisa rated it:

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May 15, 2011

Cheese rated it:

Severely disappointed, to say the least. Will update later.

Update:
Ok, finally I will update this particular review. First, I can't believe I even gave it 2 stars. Let me preface this by saying that I'm not the world's best book critic or reviewer, and I'm ok with that. Most of the time, I'm easy to please and there's rarely a book I truly dislike. I had assumed that there couldn't be a book I'd dislike more than the Vampire Kisses series.

I stand corrected.

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5 comments like (11 people liked it)

Jul 17, 2011

Jahlia ( (the lovely abnix, thing 10 Evil 1)) rated it:

This is the single most annoying piece of ~~shit~~ literature that i think i've ever read. For the first 250 pages i was so pissed off that i every time i read a couple pages i got off my computer and walked into the living room to do something far less annoying and more entertaining. Talk to my mom about soap opras. Yeah, i'm serious. This book had me shaking my fist at my computer screen, telling it how lucky it wasn't a hard copy. Because halo, was irritating me so much that i wanted to throw it More...

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Nov 30, 2011

Emma rated it:

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Nov 20, 2011

Krista rated it:

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Nov 14, 2010

Krystle rated it:

This book has me raging like you wouldn't believe.

First of all, the pacing of this book was extremely, *extreeeeeeeeemely* slow. I bet watching the faucet run would be more exciting than this. And why is this? The insane massive amounts of info-dumping in the beginning. Like, seriously, you get the WHOLE deals about EVERYTHING you needed to know in the angel history and on and on and onnnnn. Then there's PAGES and PAGES where there consists of actually NOTHING happening and it's main More...

14 comments like (32 people liked it)

Nov 13, 2010

Melissa rated it:

The cover is the best part of the book. I really wanted to like this book. I've always liked reading books with angels in it, but this book was so bad that I had to finally give up after around 270 pages because I couldn't stand it anymore.

The beginning was okay, but after that, it was so long and draggy and I was getting ticked off by Bethany. Her sudden [and most of the time irrational] mood-swings and clinginess to Xavier, and general helplessness really made me not like her. I m More...

0 comments like (13 people liked it)

Jan 15, 2011

Adriana rated it:

Halo was a fascinating book to read. Bethany is the youngest of the three angels that were sent to the small town to do good. It's her first experience as a human. I found it interesting how she was fascinated with human life and wanted to experience life as an ordinary teenage girl. Her character is very childlike, exploring life with innocence and curiosity. She falls in love and I think her relationship with Xavier was well developed and very pure. Just like how first loves are usually like. More...

29 comments like (15 people liked it)

Nov 03, 2011

Aly (Fantasy4eva) rated it:

I'm just going to get down to it.

A lot of hype. A pretty cover. And unfortunately, it just ended up being as predictable and cliché like most paranormal out there. Shame since I had hope for this one.

0 comments like (4 people liked it)

Nov 12, 2011

♥Izzy (aka Iza-chan)♥ rated it:

Okay...*Takes deep breath* This was honestly one of the worst books I have read. Just in case you didn't catch that....
I....HATED....it. Now, I really don't normally hate books. It is really rare that I do. Sooo...WHY did I hate it you say? Pfft. if you read the first 20 pages, you SHOULD know. But, just in case you don't, I'll tell you.

NUMBER ONE- Bethany was a boring goody goody weakling. I mean, the whole time I was thinking., "GIRL. YOU IS A FREAKIN' ANGEL You should More...

3 comments like (5 people liked it)

Jan 09, 2012

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