Unearthly (Unearthly, #1) in All Challenges All The Time

Jul 17, 2010 Lizz (Beer, Books and Boos) rated it it was amazing

I loved this book and i'm in love with Tucker.I like this authors take on angels and fallen angels. With the color of the wings and with their perpose.I want to find out more about Clara's mom's perpose and about her brother's wings. ...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Megs rated it really liked it · review of another edition

So far in my reading and blogging career, I haven't had the best luck with angel books. Sometimes, they come off a bit too religious for my taste and sometimes the author takes the whole fallen angel thing too far (Hush Hush was a trainwreck for me because Patch was way too creepy and gross). However, Unearthly is the best angel book I've read yet! I really enjoyed the angel lore included in it and I also found the characters very real and relatable.

Clara wishes she was just an average girl, not So far in my reading and blogging career, I haven't had the best luck with angel books. Sometimes, they come off a bit too religious for my taste and sometimes the author takes the whole fallen angel thing too far (Hush Hush was a trainwreck for me because Patch was way too creepy and gross). However, Unearthly is the best angel book I've read yet! I really enjoyed the angel lore included in it and I also found the characters very real and relatable.

Clara wishes she was just an average girl, not an angel-blood put on earth to serve a single purpose and I'm right there with her! Clara struggles with the feeling that her life isn't entirely her own and I totally get that! She's super relatable and likeable. While she can be very stubborn, she also deals with the challenges with strength and grace.

I really enjoyed the concept of an angel-blood's purpose. Being put on earth to perform one task, but still living life around that purpose is such an interesting concept. I really sympathize with Clara as she is forced to make decisions based her purpose and sometimes go against her personal desires (such as moving to Wyoming). I think that Unearthly took an interesting view at the conflicting concepts of fate and free-will, which I really enjoyed.

Unearthly also have a fun cast of secondary characters. I immediately loved Wendy and was a bit bummed that she didn't appear more in the story (although I can foresee her being part of Hallowed for sure). I wasn't a huge fan of Angela. I'm not sure why, the girl gives me the creeps. Christian is such a typical YA-hero: popular, insanely-good looking, liked by all, that sort of thing. And then there was Tucker. I was team Tucker almost from the start (and definitely after the prom). Maybe it's because I'm a farm girl, but any real-life cowboy gets bonus points with me. Any guy who can ride a horse really, which we don't see enough of in YA.

And that leads me to my next point (not the cowboy stuff). Unearthly had two YA tropes that are so overdone it makes all of us crazy. 1. A we're-destined-to-be-together, sparks-when-we-touch, instant connection and 2. the dreaded love triangle. The first one comes thanks to Clara's purpose and is understandable, although I could have done without the whole sparks thing. And the love triangle was actually really well done! I'm not usually a fan of love triangles (Twilight gave me my fill years ago), but Cynthia Hand did a really good job developing Clara's feels for both boys and I found myself enjoying it. Her relationship with each boy is different and I appreciated that.

Overall, I really enjoyed Unearthly and am excited to read Hallowed (I'm waiting until the paperback comes out in December). Angel books are looking up for me!

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Jan 17, 2011 Jenn rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2012, young-adult

AHHH! After finishing this, I had to no more. Thank goodness that the library had the second book available. Clara is an angel-blood. That means her mom was part angel and her dad is human. Angel-bloods have a purpose and Clara's purpose means rescuing Christian. Along the way she falls in love with Tucker. Will loving Tucker get in the way of her purpose. Man I hope not, because Tucker is my favorite new YA guy. He's so amazing. I won't spoil what Clara's purpose is and whether or not she fulfi ...more

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Jul 06, 2019 Asmaa rated it really liked it

Shelves: young-adult, need-to-read-it

The story is a solid 2.5 stars maybe 3 since the roles were reversed and for once it was the heroine who was the supernatural being and struggling to keep her secret well hidden.

I added one whole star for old times' sake because this book reminded me why I loved reading YA books so much. It's a breath of fresh air from textbooks and thesis and scientific articles and all what I've been reading these last few years.

Looking forward continuing the series and reading other books from the author ❤ ...more

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