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Mar 20, 2011 Vivian rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2011, arc, first-in-series

This book sucked me in from the get go. Weatherly's spin on angels is unique and pretty much awesome. These are not angels you want to be touched by. There were parts of the book I really enjoyed, and a few things I wasn't crazy about, but overall a very engaging read.

Willow is a girl with some psychic abilities and Alex is an angel assassin. They meet, run from the killer angels, and ultimately fall for each other.
We get a pretty good look at who Willow and Alex are as their relationship devel ...more

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May 17, 2011 Chelsea rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: ya, uf-pnr, fae-angels, suggested-series-firsts

This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Angel Burn surprised me over and over. Admittedly, the first bit had me wondering what I’d gotten myself into, but L.A. Weatherly’s unique take on angels had me curious enough to keep going. And I’m thankful I did, because the concept is fascinating and once the two main characters connect the novel manages to become both more grounded and fantastical.

In Angel Burn, angels aren’t the good guys. These aren’t celestial beings in the traditiona This review was originally posted at Vampire Book Club.

Angel Burn surprised me over and over. Admittedly, the first bit had me wondering what I’d gotten myself into, but L.A. Weatherly’s unique take on angels had me curious enough to keep going. And I’m thankful I did, because the concept is fascinating and once the two main characters connect the novel manages to become both more grounded and fantastical.

In Angel Burn, angels aren’t the good guys. These aren’t celestial beings in the traditional sense, but creatures from another dimension who can feed off humans. While in the act of feeding they reveal themselves, and to the human it feels like a heavenly experience. Left in a state of euphoria, the human now thinks the angel saved him. But soon he’ll start developing health issues and, more commonly, mental issues.

The angels have latched on to this, creating churches and compounds where humans can come to them to experience the angels.

Alex hunts them and has since he was a child. He’ll get a text with the location of an angel, and he’ll take them out. Only he was sent to Willow, and she’s something different. He would have sworn she was an angel, but she’s also human. He has to question where his orders are coming from and why they want this girl dead.

Willow has always been different. She can see others’ futures. And it doesn’t help that her fashion sense isn’t mainstream and her mom isn’t all there. But she’s always made the best of it. When she sees a vision of another girl’s life being ruined by an angel, she tries to step in. And that’s when everything changes.

Alex and Willow are forced together to save one another’s lives. Only he treats her like something that might need to be killed, and she blames him for the hell raining down on her life. Yet somehow these two can work together. The more Alex sees Willow’s kind nature, the more he realizes he may have been given false information.

This puts them both on the run, coming to terms with liking someone you’re supposed to hate and discovering the people you’ve always trusted may no longer be on your side.

Angel Burn is part fable on the perils of blind trust, part learning people don’t always fit into some box and part teen love story. Yes, Angel Burn is largely teen Bonnie and Clyde, couple on the run. And it works because the relationship between Willow and Alex progresses naturally and honestly. Their actions, insecurities and conversations are genuine and ring true for YA characters, but are done in a way an adult audience will equally appreciate.

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Oct 22, 2011 Cee rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: young-adult, romance, angels

What would you do if you found out you were half-angel? And angels aren't the kind creatures from heaven, but mindless killers that feed on humans?

Willow has always been different. She doesn't dress like the other girls, she has other interests than the other girls, and oh yeah, she's psychic. Then she does a reading on one of her fellow classmates, that changes everything...

This is a hard book to review for me. I haven't read enough angel-YA books to properly compare Angel Burn (or Angel) with ...more

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Dec 20, 2010 Cat rated it really liked it

Shelves: ya, favourites, romance, angels, read-in-2011

Willow is just an ordinary (albeit psychic) teenager busy with life in general when she is asked by Beth the most popular girl in High School for a reading. Despite a having a bad feeling about the reading she goes ahead with it anyway. This reading changes Willow's life forever as Beth has been in contact with an angel and this brings Willow into the world of angels, angels who just so happen to feed from humans, making them ill, a world where she is in constant danger, where the only person wh ...more

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