I'm honestly torn on whether I liked this book or not. I'm gonna say I'm leaning towards thinking it a pretty good story, but many elements of the way it was written just didn't sit well with me.

Half-human, half-angel Willow, unaware of her true nature, quickly finds herself catapulted into a world she never imagined possible. Using her psychic abilities, she discovers the existence of Angels. But they are not the friendly creatures she and the rest of the world thought them to be. They feed off of human energy, sucking away their life force and leaving them damaged and diseased.

Startled by this discovery, Willow sets out to the the Church of Angels to try to uncover the truth and to help those that the Angels are using as human cattle. But as soon as the Angels become aware of what she is, a being that shouldn't be possible because Angels can not breed, they order her death.

Cue the cute hero: Alex, Angel assassin extraordinaire!

Forced to go into hiding with Alex, Willow learns about a secret war that has been going on for years, one that pairs AKs (Angle Killers) against Angels. But the battle has only just begun, and the humans are already losing. A second wave of Angels is expected to arrive on earth, devastating more human minds with their glamour and ending humanity as we know it.

When it is revealed that Willow may be the only one able to defeat the Angels, will she risk her life and her love for Alex to do it?

Despite the middle that lulled and stalled, I thought the story was interesting. It opened with some fast action and ended much the same. Plus, the very idea of Angels feeding off of humans added a chill factor that you just couldn't shake. I found myself wanting to race through the slower parts to find out if the humans will be saved.

Some details were too incredible to be believable or too predictable, like Alex being seventeen and working for the CIA as an assassin or him learning accept what Willow was and falling helplessly in love with her, but still, it worked in an entertaining sort of way. The romance, despite the insta-love, was sweet, and took some time to develop, and by time I mean about 5 days. That's a lifetime when you are discovering love for the first time, eh? And, let's face it, nothing spells love faster than taking a dangerous road trip with a hot guy. Plus, there was something aching beautiful in the way that Alex and Willow both had haunted pasts that really did draw them to each other. So, yeah, I liked the story.

But, what really irked me was the fact that the prose was all over the place. Please, please, dear author, stick to one narrative style!

I'm really not sure if Weatherly was trying to be artsy or unique, but the constant switch from third person to first person really irritated me. It was over-stylized. Just as I was finally becoming comfortable reading from Willow's first person account, Bam! A swooping shift would occur in a way that ripped me away from how engrossed I'd become in the tale. More appalling/baffling was that this usually happened from one paragraph to the next, instead of from chapter to chapter, which is a bit more common if it is to happen.

Yet, Weatherly didn't stop there. Not only did I have to endure the unrelenting change in narrative mode, I also had to deal with narrator shifts as well when the story alternated from Willow to Alex to Raziel and finally to Jonah's perspective. It was just too much.

Really, this is a matter of personal preference. And though I like point of view shifts between my characters and could have dealt with that better had it stopped there, I just couldn't appreciate anything about the constant changes in mode of narration. I would have enjoyed the story much more if it hadn't alternated like it did.