book review (envy)

SEVEN DEADLY SINS. SEVEN SOULS TO SAVE. 
AND A MAN AND A WOMAN TREADING THE LINES OF DANGER, DESIRE AND DELIVERANCE...

(read: 9/Oct/11)

                       Envy

Prod dets

Fallen Angle series, book three

Pub: 2011, New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., New York

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: Paranormal romance/ angels

Format: paperback (mid);454pp w/ 52 chapters

Whose: Veck & Reilly

Age range: adult 7

Synopsis

As the son of a serial killer, homicide detective Thomas ‘Veck’ DelVecchio Jr. grew up in the shadow of evil. Now, on the knife-edge between civic duty and blind retribution, he atones for the sins of his father—while fighting his inner demons.

Assigned to monitor Veck is Internal Affairs officer Sophia Reilly, whose interest in him is both professional and arousingly personal. And Veck and Sophia have another link: Jim Heron, a mysterious stranger with too many answers to questions that are deadly. When Veck and Sophia are drawn into the ultimate battle between good and evil, their fallen angel saviour is the only thing that stands between them and eternal damnation. 

                my thoughts (review)

so a note to start off with (a slice of how my brain works) ; normally when I just can’t get myself interested enough in the book I actually want to read, I’ll flip to near the end, the last hundred pages or so, where its normally started to get to the climax of the story. and I read a page or two—really this is all I normally need before the, who, how, what the hell happened to get them here starts to play in, and so then I start the book, needing to know, craving it to a point that I can’t think of anything else but the book. This did not happen in this book; really I started at about page 320 something and within two pages I had pretty much figured out what was happening in the book. So that sucked. Still it got in interested and I read the rest of the book, once finished I had a thought that I couldn’t write a review on a book I have only read the end of so I flipped it to the start and read the rest of the book.

all that being said, I actually like these books, but then Ward does them good, still my thoughts on the female characters being to ‘male’ in there spoken voice for my liking, especially when it comes to the food chain they are meant to be from, but it’s also something I don’t like about the Brotherhood series, only it makes a lot more sense on those characters than these ones.

Anyway, the main part, and I’m talking, Heron and the angels with them fighting the war on all that’s there, is heating up, and upsetting all the same. I would love to go more into it, but I’m afraid that will pull out to many spoilers and I wouldn’t want to ruin it for you, if you like the books based on that half of the story. Still, it should be mentioned, Along with the fact that we all get to know Ad more, which I always wanted to from the last book.

Then there’s the demon, but she’s still mulling along, trying to win, and not only the souls that will make her the all over winner of the war.

And the angels up high in the heavens, they’re there, mulling around, doing their thing, bickering between each other as well as trying to keep their paws clean when the other side isn’t interested in doing the same.

and then the main characters of the story—yeah, there’s a reason that I thought of doing it this way, these books are all so full and even though all the parts are walking in the same direction it’s still a mouthful for everyone. Not saying that I can’t keep up, they are just very full books for the limited amount of pages in them.

So Veck, he’s the usually male character, and honestly Reilly the usual female. I actually found there story a bit of a bore and predicable and read too many times in Wards style. Honestly. There wasn’t anything all that new in the characters themselves or the story of their falling in love, though this book did have more of a crime twist to it, it still lacked something in that main love story that truly pulled you in. honestly I just couldn’t care one way or another in what would happen to them.

But still the book was good, though I’m more of a brotherhood novel fan, this one comes what has happened in Lover Unleashed, not that you need that book understand anything that was going on in this one, it was still the consequences that fall on the humans when vampires do their thing in front of them.

I really liked most of all, the angel’s part in the story. All four parts of it, and I felt it was what really pulled the book together and made it worth a parse. 

   the series

Covet, Crave, this book, [yet to be named]