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Angel Radio
It is on the cusp of summer that strange angels of eyes and wings appear throughout the world, and a week later all of humanity is dead. Except one girl. Months later, Erika Cantor continues to wander her desolate hometown without purpose or answers—until a strange radio broadcast sends her into the dangerous world outside—a world past civilization, whose only inhabitants are monsters and demons.
There, Erika meets Midori, a naive girl with a cryptic connection to the angels, and Gav, a boy who seems to have knowledge he refuses to share with Erika. The appearance of the mysterious Fex raises even more questions. Can he be trusted?
As Erika travels across Vermont searching for some remnant of society, she learns that there’s a reason she survived—that the angels, horrid creatures that they are—have a plan for her.
There, Erika meets Midori, a naive girl with a cryptic connection to the angels, and Gav, a boy who seems to have knowledge he refuses to share with Erika. The appearance of the mysterious Fex raises even more questions. Can he be trusted?
As Erika travels across Vermont searching for some remnant of society, she learns that there’s a reason she survived—that the angels, horrid creatures that they are—have a plan for her.
250 pages, Paperback
First published December 31, 2015
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A.M. Blaushild
6 books120 followersA.M. writes, usually about angels.
Also on Youtube as Crow Caller. Inexplicably.
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May 24, 2018
Interesting concept handled beautifully by freshman writer
I first heard of Angel Radio on a tumblr post, and picked up the ebook. The world presented in this novel is dire, bleak, and desolate, with a catastrophic event that plagues the world into post-apocalypse. The main character Erika is a sarcastic, short-tempered character who suddenly finds herself all alone in the world. Or so she thinks, until she heard the voices of other humans on a radio show at night. With new resolve, she sets off to find these remaining humans with the hope and the confidence that now she's no longer alone.
I'm going to get into spoiler territory here so don't read on if you haven't read this book yet!
As per usual, I'm going to start with the negative things I felt about this book so I can end the review on a high note with the positives.
The second act of this book feels a bit of a mess. There were a couple things that were set up in the first act, namely the titular Angel Radio, that never really came to a satisfying conclusion, at least for me. Near the end of the first half of this book, it's revealed that only Erika can hear the Angel Radio. Naturally, we find out later that it's because the angels were broadcasting it to her telepathically, only using the radio as a jumping off point, likely to make it feel more natural to Erika's own worldview. There are characters introduced through the Angel Radio, Emil, Ada, and Naomi, and two of them we see in person, Ada and Naomi. Granted, I think we do see Emil at one point but it's still not clear to me if that was a hallucination or not. Naomi is an Angel that can only speak to Erika by screeching at her, and Ada is an Angel that has bonded with a dead deer and has been following Erika around. Nothing really seemed to come of these scenes, and they seemed to have no real influence on the plot. Then I want to talk about the aforementioned hallucination scene. When Erika and Fex are gathering supplies to enter Eden, Erika wants to contact the Angel Radio hosts for some reason. What an up happening is Emil comes on the radio and talks to Erika, sort of, and then begins to manifest a body through the radio. Erika rightfully freaks out and stabs the half-corporeal body, and when she reopens her eyes, all that's left is the radio with a knife in it. And while I want to preface this by saying that this was easily one of my favorite scenes in the book, it's never really explained. Was it a hallucination? Was it real? Why did Emil come out of the radio in the first place? Is he dead now? What purpose did this serve to the overall plot? Maybe it's just that my expectations weren't met, but I was expecting the radio hosts to have a little !it's relevance.
My next problem is the character of Midori. While I love Midori as a character, I found myself really confused about what exactly her deal was? We find out shortly after her introduction that she's most likely an angel. She then tells Erika that she met an angel before the angelpocalypse, and Erika infers that said angel has possessed her. Midori, at this point, expresses concern and confusion over this, and the fact that she no longer needs to eat or sleep. Later, we find out that Midori wasn't possessed by an angel, at least not in the way that we though. The angel killed Midori and inhabited her body. She doesn't remember anything about her Angel life except that she was disgraced and lost her memories that she was retrieving for the Metatron. But if that's the case, why did she talk to Erika as if she were Midori, expressing confusion about her encounter with the angel, ignorance to the fact that she transformed and killed Kasos at the first camp, and seemed genuinely confused and concerned by the fact that Erika was presumably hearing things and going crazy? It doesn't really seem to add up, and sort of feels like Midori was only written to be an angel inhabiting a corpse when the twist came up. I might be missing something, however.
There's also the case of Gav. He's introduced early on and definitely has an air of mystique about him. We find out that he's an angel, or part angel, or whatever, like he's being possessed by an angel sometimes but not always. Then Fex later reveals that this is all a rouse, Gav is just a trickster, lying and messing around with Erika for fun. This makes everything he's told us rather pointless, and is kind of a let down to the audience. I went the whole first two thirds of the book expecting some big reveal about Gav, and for him to be a big part of the climax, seeing as he called himself the "game master" at one point.
The only other actual complaint I had was that sometimes the prose could get a little dull, particularly during action scenes. But that may not be the fault of the writer and may lie more in my overall disinterest in action sequences.
Okay, I've torn this book apart enough. Here's what I LIKED about the novel:
Outside of the aforementioned action sequences, this book was an extremely fun read. The opening sequence contains a lot of bleak descriptions and philosophical lines and it just oozes creativity and character study. A lot of the scenes in this book contain a lot of dialogue, and while that usually might get in the way and be boring to read, the dialogue is all incredibly enjoyable. The characters are so well-rounded and dynamic. Erika is a joy to read as, with both her internal monologue and dialogue. As I said earlier, I love the character of Midori, as well as Fex and Gav having really interesting personalities. Fex even has a fair amount of character development throughout the novel.
Oh, and that "hallucination" scene I mentioned earlier. I said it was one of my favorite scenes in the book, and it definitely definitely is. The atmosphere is creepy, the way everything is described is done really interestingly. It gave me the same kind of feeling as something like Five Nights at Freddie's or Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Another thing I liked about this book: Erika is bisexual. She never explicitly says she's bisexual, but she's shown having a clear attraction to men through most of the book, but also it's clear how she feels about Midori, even ending up with Midori in the end. Speaking of the ending, I really liked how it was kind of hopeful, but still somewhat bittersweet. Erika loses a part of herself, and doesn't really know what, but she feels fine, happy, even. And how Midori is essentially human now, with enough angel energy to keep her alive for a number of years, basically making her live the equivalent of a human life alongside Erika.
The entire concept of this novel is imaginative, creative, and intriguing. You can tell it started from a core idea (Angels come and smite most of the living population and a young girl follows the voices on a radio that confirms other humans exist) and it just expanded from there. The characters are all interesting and dynamic, and the plot had me guessing and craving more with every page. Definitely would recommend!
I first heard of Angel Radio on a tumblr post, and picked up the ebook. The world presented in this novel is dire, bleak, and desolate, with a catastrophic event that plagues the world into post-apocalypse. The main character Erika is a sarcastic, short-tempered character who suddenly finds herself all alone in the world. Or so she thinks, until she heard the voices of other humans on a radio show at night. With new resolve, she sets off to find these remaining humans with the hope and the confidence that now she's no longer alone.
I'm going to get into spoiler territory here so don't read on if you haven't read this book yet!
As per usual, I'm going to start with the negative things I felt about this book so I can end the review on a high note with the positives.
The second act of this book feels a bit of a mess. There were a couple things that were set up in the first act, namely the titular Angel Radio, that never really came to a satisfying conclusion, at least for me. Near the end of the first half of this book, it's revealed that only Erika can hear the Angel Radio. Naturally, we find out later that it's because the angels were broadcasting it to her telepathically, only using the radio as a jumping off point, likely to make it feel more natural to Erika's own worldview. There are characters introduced through the Angel Radio, Emil, Ada, and Naomi, and two of them we see in person, Ada and Naomi. Granted, I think we do see Emil at one point but it's still not clear to me if that was a hallucination or not. Naomi is an Angel that can only speak to Erika by screeching at her, and Ada is an Angel that has bonded with a dead deer and has been following Erika around. Nothing really seemed to come of these scenes, and they seemed to have no real influence on the plot. Then I want to talk about the aforementioned hallucination scene. When Erika and Fex are gathering supplies to enter Eden, Erika wants to contact the Angel Radio hosts for some reason. What an up happening is Emil comes on the radio and talks to Erika, sort of, and then begins to manifest a body through the radio. Erika rightfully freaks out and stabs the half-corporeal body, and when she reopens her eyes, all that's left is the radio with a knife in it. And while I want to preface this by saying that this was easily one of my favorite scenes in the book, it's never really explained. Was it a hallucination? Was it real? Why did Emil come out of the radio in the first place? Is he dead now? What purpose did this serve to the overall plot? Maybe it's just that my expectations weren't met, but I was expecting the radio hosts to have a little !it's relevance.
My next problem is the character of Midori. While I love Midori as a character, I found myself really confused about what exactly her deal was? We find out shortly after her introduction that she's most likely an angel. She then tells Erika that she met an angel before the angelpocalypse, and Erika infers that said angel has possessed her. Midori, at this point, expresses concern and confusion over this, and the fact that she no longer needs to eat or sleep. Later, we find out that Midori wasn't possessed by an angel, at least not in the way that we though. The angel killed Midori and inhabited her body. She doesn't remember anything about her Angel life except that she was disgraced and lost her memories that she was retrieving for the Metatron. But if that's the case, why did she talk to Erika as if she were Midori, expressing confusion about her encounter with the angel, ignorance to the fact that she transformed and killed Kasos at the first camp, and seemed genuinely confused and concerned by the fact that Erika was presumably hearing things and going crazy? It doesn't really seem to add up, and sort of feels like Midori was only written to be an angel inhabiting a corpse when the twist came up. I might be missing something, however.
There's also the case of Gav. He's introduced early on and definitely has an air of mystique about him. We find out that he's an angel, or part angel, or whatever, like he's being possessed by an angel sometimes but not always. Then Fex later reveals that this is all a rouse, Gav is just a trickster, lying and messing around with Erika for fun. This makes everything he's told us rather pointless, and is kind of a let down to the audience. I went the whole first two thirds of the book expecting some big reveal about Gav, and for him to be a big part of the climax, seeing as he called himself the "game master" at one point.
The only other actual complaint I had was that sometimes the prose could get a little dull, particularly during action scenes. But that may not be the fault of the writer and may lie more in my overall disinterest in action sequences.
Okay, I've torn this book apart enough. Here's what I LIKED about the novel:
Outside of the aforementioned action sequences, this book was an extremely fun read. The opening sequence contains a lot of bleak descriptions and philosophical lines and it just oozes creativity and character study. A lot of the scenes in this book contain a lot of dialogue, and while that usually might get in the way and be boring to read, the dialogue is all incredibly enjoyable. The characters are so well-rounded and dynamic. Erika is a joy to read as, with both her internal monologue and dialogue. As I said earlier, I love the character of Midori, as well as Fex and Gav having really interesting personalities. Fex even has a fair amount of character development throughout the novel.
Oh, and that "hallucination" scene I mentioned earlier. I said it was one of my favorite scenes in the book, and it definitely definitely is. The atmosphere is creepy, the way everything is described is done really interestingly. It gave me the same kind of feeling as something like Five Nights at Freddie's or Bendy and the Ink Machine.
Another thing I liked about this book: Erika is bisexual. She never explicitly says she's bisexual, but she's shown having a clear attraction to men through most of the book, but also it's clear how she feels about Midori, even ending up with Midori in the end. Speaking of the ending, I really liked how it was kind of hopeful, but still somewhat bittersweet. Erika loses a part of herself, and doesn't really know what, but she feels fine, happy, even. And how Midori is essentially human now, with enough angel energy to keep her alive for a number of years, basically making her live the equivalent of a human life alongside Erika.
The entire concept of this novel is imaginative, creative, and intriguing. You can tell it started from a core idea (Angels come and smite most of the living population and a young girl follows the voices on a radio that confirms other humans exist) and it just expanded from there. The characters are all interesting and dynamic, and the plot had me guessing and craving more with every page. Definitely would recommend!
January 15, 2019
This was a weird and wild one, a really fantastical fantasy that was never quite what I expected. I'd give it 5/5 except for a couple moments and a couple questions I didn't get answered (though I understand there's a sequel).
[Review content notes: describes an instance of sexual harassment; intersexism; trans and nonbinary erasure/-misia]
The premise is about the angelpocalypse, and I won't even try to explain it but you'll have to trust that it makes sense when you read it. The plan of the angels, what the angels as a whole and as individuals are, and what they want with the main character is revealed little by little in a way that feels natural and gradual. While I still have so many questions about things, it's in a good "I want to know more" way, not in a bad "what is even going on?" way.
Psychologically, ANGEL RADIO does a good job of exploring what happens to the mind of the last person on Earth if she's left alone for...well, a very long time. After witnessing the slaughter of the rest of the human population. She has inside jokes with herself, habits, and even protective fantasies and delusions that shield her from the trauma of her situation. Before she confronts the horror of everything in a cathartic release towards the book's end, she's able to adjust her mentality towards violence or compassion as the situation demands. She does think this over, often arguing about it with a friend she encounters along the way. I'm not sure what the mental health aspects are like in terms of accuracy, even having experienced an overlap of certain symptoms, but the book seemed to handle her situation and her mental state with a lot of compassion.
Her isolation and solitude for so long also make her decisions to ally with, befriend, and even protect angels (at least, some of them...) make way more sense. She's starved for interaction and change in a lonely world. The unlikely friendship between her and Fex made me extremely wary at first, but developed into one of my favorite parts to read. Likewise, the twists and turns of her relationships with Gav and Midori/Sarah were engaging.
[Spoilers ahead!]
I initially read this because I saw there was an asexual character. Gav/Gavin/Gavreel is an angel in a human body who plays the role of a mysterious trickster character, games-master/puppetmaster, and guide to the protagonist. Who he deliberately misleads on a number of occasions. Gav isn't evil so much as amoral, which I realize sounds like a contradiction in terms, but which I mean to mean that angel and human morality aren't compatible. Gav has a different framework for morality. In a way, this is also just his personality; meanwhile, another angel, Fex, spends more time with the human protagonist and develops more of a human worldview.
The only time Gav mentions he's asexual is in the context of sexual harassment, in order to excuse himself from responsibility. He's still masquerading as human at this point, and watches two female characters as they bathe nude. When he's seen, one of them calls him a creep. I don't remember if he apologizes, because the line that stuck in my brain was, "If it helps, I am quite asexual." Nope! It does not help. Being queer doesn't negate gender privilege in a situation like that, or mean that it's ok to make people sexually uncomfortable just because you aren't attracted to them. Why was the reveal of his asexuality chosen to be as an excuse for an accusation of sexual harassment, anyway? Not super great. Him watching them read like a power play to me (and made way more sense later after finding more about his character); I also think it's harmful to imply that people sexually harass others due to sexual attraction as opposed to establishing power over someone.
This book is Very Queer in general, which is lovely, but it was pretty intersexist and had binary gendered worldbuilding. At one point, an angel mentions that the angels go between worlds looking for a male or a female to be the chosen one. Their last choice was a male, so now they need a female. The protagonist asks about other sexes on other worlds, to which the angel replies that nope, there are just those two. The protagonist speculates that she had assumed there were more "interesting" sexes on other worlds and was bummed that there were only male and female.
I felt this digression was needlessly harmful and not needed from a plot standpoint, either. It didn't have to be part of the angels' requirements, or if it did, some other reason could have been given apart from NO ONLY TWO IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. The protagonist's thoughts also erase the presence of people outside a male/female sex binary right here on Earth.
So anyway, intersex people are erased by this worldbuilding. What happens to them in the angelpocalypse? What about trans people, for that matter? The angels are hyperfocused on sex to the point where one has to ask the butch protagonist if she is "biologically female" (a question she justifiably finds offensive). I have a hard time believing that they would accept the genders of trans people if everyone who survived the apocalypse is chosen for their """biological sex.""" While it's great that that moment is textually challenged by a cis girl, it still left me thinking, ok, what about trans people? This book is Very Queer in wonderful ways and clearly has some understanding of gender and gender presentation. What's up with these weirdly binarist parts? I keep thinking I must have missed something.
Having spent some paragraphs complaining about what I didn't like in probably more detail than you wanted to read, If you got this far: I only complain so much because it kept me from enjoying fully what was otherwise as fascinating and wonderful novel. On reflection, I'm more regretful due to feeling that these could have been changed easily to minimize harm. It remains a wonderful f/sf novel that intrigues me and makes me want to share it with others. I would still recommend it, with the appropriate content warnings.
[Review content notes: describes an instance of sexual harassment; intersexism; trans and nonbinary erasure/-misia]
The premise is about the angelpocalypse, and I won't even try to explain it but you'll have to trust that it makes sense when you read it. The plan of the angels, what the angels as a whole and as individuals are, and what they want with the main character is revealed little by little in a way that feels natural and gradual. While I still have so many questions about things, it's in a good "I want to know more" way, not in a bad "what is even going on?" way.
Psychologically, ANGEL RADIO does a good job of exploring what happens to the mind of the last person on Earth if she's left alone for...well, a very long time. After witnessing the slaughter of the rest of the human population. She has inside jokes with herself, habits, and even protective fantasies and delusions that shield her from the trauma of her situation. Before she confronts the horror of everything in a cathartic release towards the book's end, she's able to adjust her mentality towards violence or compassion as the situation demands. She does think this over, often arguing about it with a friend she encounters along the way. I'm not sure what the mental health aspects are like in terms of accuracy, even having experienced an overlap of certain symptoms, but the book seemed to handle her situation and her mental state with a lot of compassion.
Her isolation and solitude for so long also make her decisions to ally with, befriend, and even protect angels (at least, some of them...) make way more sense. She's starved for interaction and change in a lonely world. The unlikely friendship between her and Fex made me extremely wary at first, but developed into one of my favorite parts to read. Likewise, the twists and turns of her relationships with Gav and Midori/Sarah were engaging.
[Spoilers ahead!]
I initially read this because I saw there was an asexual character. Gav/Gavin/Gavreel is an angel in a human body who plays the role of a mysterious trickster character, games-master/puppetmaster, and guide to the protagonist. Who he deliberately misleads on a number of occasions. Gav isn't evil so much as amoral, which I realize sounds like a contradiction in terms, but which I mean to mean that angel and human morality aren't compatible. Gav has a different framework for morality. In a way, this is also just his personality; meanwhile, another angel, Fex, spends more time with the human protagonist and develops more of a human worldview.
The only time Gav mentions he's asexual is in the context of sexual harassment, in order to excuse himself from responsibility. He's still masquerading as human at this point, and watches two female characters as they bathe nude. When he's seen, one of them calls him a creep. I don't remember if he apologizes, because the line that stuck in my brain was, "If it helps, I am quite asexual." Nope! It does not help. Being queer doesn't negate gender privilege in a situation like that, or mean that it's ok to make people sexually uncomfortable just because you aren't attracted to them. Why was the reveal of his asexuality chosen to be as an excuse for an accusation of sexual harassment, anyway? Not super great. Him watching them read like a power play to me (and made way more sense later after finding more about his character); I also think it's harmful to imply that people sexually harass others due to sexual attraction as opposed to establishing power over someone.
This book is Very Queer in general, which is lovely, but it was pretty intersexist and had binary gendered worldbuilding. At one point, an angel mentions that the angels go between worlds looking for a male or a female to be the chosen one. Their last choice was a male, so now they need a female. The protagonist asks about other sexes on other worlds, to which the angel replies that nope, there are just those two. The protagonist speculates that she had assumed there were more "interesting" sexes on other worlds and was bummed that there were only male and female.
I felt this digression was needlessly harmful and not needed from a plot standpoint, either. It didn't have to be part of the angels' requirements, or if it did, some other reason could have been given apart from NO ONLY TWO IN THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. The protagonist's thoughts also erase the presence of people outside a male/female sex binary right here on Earth.
So anyway, intersex people are erased by this worldbuilding. What happens to them in the angelpocalypse? What about trans people, for that matter? The angels are hyperfocused on sex to the point where one has to ask the butch protagonist if she is "biologically female" (a question she justifiably finds offensive). I have a hard time believing that they would accept the genders of trans people if everyone who survived the apocalypse is chosen for their """biological sex.""" While it's great that that moment is textually challenged by a cis girl, it still left me thinking, ok, what about trans people? This book is Very Queer in wonderful ways and clearly has some understanding of gender and gender presentation. What's up with these weirdly binarist parts? I keep thinking I must have missed something.
Having spent some paragraphs complaining about what I didn't like in probably more detail than you wanted to read, If you got this far: I only complain so much because it kept me from enjoying fully what was otherwise as fascinating and wonderful novel. On reflection, I'm more regretful due to feeling that these could have been changed easily to minimize harm. It remains a wonderful f/sf novel that intrigues me and makes me want to share it with others. I would still recommend it, with the appropriate content warnings.
July 24, 2024
One of the most unique premises / sets of universe-conditions I’ve encountered in a book, I’m really excited by Blaushild’s imagination. Not especially polished in execution, but certainly worth a read for the world building alone.
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October 14, 2022Well, this was quite interesting. The story follows a girl, Erika, who's left alone as potentially the last human alive after everyone else is yoinked/murderized by weird flying angels with lots of eyes and wings a la those biblically accurate angel memes. One day she turns on a radio and hears people talking, figures there must be other survivors, and sets out to find them; action ensues. It's a solid premise.
Overall, did I like it? Yeah, I think so. It definitely feels different, like a vector that has a bit of a z-direction when most of the stuff out there is just x and y. Some things resonated with me, but not everything (more details below). The book is split into two halves, and I personally favored the second half over the first, as it felt more directed and had some excerpts I thought were lovely.
Note: LOTS of SPOILERS below. Don't click unless you want spoilers.
Overall, did I like it? Yeah, I think so. It definitely feels different, like a vector that has a bit of a z-direction when most of the stuff out there is just x and y. Some things resonated with me, but not everything (more details below). The book is split into two halves, and I personally favored the second half over the first, as it felt more directed and had some excerpts I thought were lovely.
Note: LOTS of SPOILERS below. Don't click unless you want spoilers.
June 2, 2025
I really loved the premise. The concept of a post-apocalypse setting, where (alien??) angels have destroyed the world, is very cool. Most angel stories I know seem to be angel-human romances so I appreciated that, while there was angel-human romance, it was not the focus of the plot. The concept of the angel radio?? love that. The wlw plotline? *chef's kiss*. However, the execution was really not there and I found it hard to really connect to the main character or understand her motivations (she seemed to not have any??). I was also pretty bummed with the twist that .
Based on when this was published and my knowledge of the author now, I'm guessing this was published when she was quite young, maybe in her teens, which makes me more sympathetic to the story's flaws. I do think it's a fun concept, I just wish it had undergone another revision or three.
Based on when this was published and my knowledge of the author now, I'm guessing this was published when she was quite young, maybe in her teens, which makes me more sympathetic to the story's flaws. I do think it's a fun concept, I just wish it had undergone another revision or three.
September 2, 2023
A book about Angels. That surely is what this was.
The angels themselves were fascinating. Some inspiration taken from the bible, but also just such weird and novel ideas. You could see this was written by someone who has a lot of love for them. So, once again, the worldbuilding is what does it for me.
The problem I had with this book tho was the writing. While I did have a sense of the characters, their dialogue was a bit stilted at times. In general, some things just moved too quickly and seemed disconnected, and while I was able to somewhat fill in the gap, it was just... It didn't flow as well, I guess.
Also I feel like a good bit of set-ups was left unresolved or just resolved in a rather... Dismissive manner?
All in all a fascinating book with good Ideas, but not too hot writing
The angels themselves were fascinating. Some inspiration taken from the bible, but also just such weird and novel ideas. You could see this was written by someone who has a lot of love for them. So, once again, the worldbuilding is what does it for me.
The problem I had with this book tho was the writing. While I did have a sense of the characters, their dialogue was a bit stilted at times. In general, some things just moved too quickly and seemed disconnected, and while I was able to somewhat fill in the gap, it was just... It didn't flow as well, I guess.
Also I feel like a good bit of set-ups was left unresolved or just resolved in a rather... Dismissive manner?
All in all a fascinating book with good Ideas, but not too hot writing
September 6, 2023
I thought the premise of this was fantastic! I love the idea of an apocalyptic angel setting. The characters were a bit confusing, especially the lead, who was the only non-angel in the whole book and the only one without an excuse for being unpredictable (an literally an arsonist??). I was pretty disappointed by the outcome of the Angel Radio plot - it's the title of the book, but it was just a hallucination, I guess.
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May 12, 2023
The ending really pushed me to that 3.5 star rating. Very satisfying and made me laugh out loud! An enjoyable read all around.
December 31, 2016
1.5 ( .5 for the gorgeous cover).
Okay, this book is really interesting in its strangeness.... unfortunately for me, I was digging my heels and nearly gave up reading this one (despite the cool dystopian world with angels premise. I mean it was strange to the extreme and I didn't get the "twist".
I didn't know why Erika did anything, her actions and thoughts were inconsistent (even she says that she has no sort of motive for what she does). It seemed like a weird free for all and I didn't feel for any of the characters and the kisses were ??? And the ending ? It left me bereft and incomplete.
Okay, this book is really interesting in its strangeness.... unfortunately for me, I was digging my heels and nearly gave up reading this one (despite the cool dystopian world with angels premise. I mean it was strange to the extreme and I didn't get the "twist".
I didn't know why Erika did anything, her actions and thoughts were inconsistent (even she says that she has no sort of motive for what she does). It seemed like a weird free for all and I didn't feel for any of the characters and the kisses were ??? And the ending ? It left me bereft and incomplete.
January 29, 2016
This is one of the strangest books I've ever read, and I honestly can't say if it's good or bad. It's undeniably interesting and unique, though, and the visuals it created are stunning. Also all the twists were cool.
Full review in Swedish here
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