Sixteen-year-old Rayna sees angels, and has the medication and weekly therapy sessions to prove it. Now, in remission, Rayna starts fresh at a new school, lands a new job, and desperately tries for normalcy. She ignores signs that she may be slipping into the world she has tried so hard to climb out of. But these days, it’s more than just hallucinations that keep Rayna up at night. Students are dying, and she may be the only one who can stop it. Can she keep her job, her sanity, and her friends from dying at the hands of angels she can't admit to seeing?
Title: A Shimmer of Angels (Angel Sight #1)
Author: Lisa M. Basso
Publisher: Mont9Books, LLC
Publication Date: 1/29/2013
Thank you for the egalley to read and give an honest review. I wanted to like this, I really did. I had high hopes. Great summary, I saw some good stars when I scrolled through Goodreads (not reading any of the reviews because I want to come up with my own thoughts and stars). So, yes, I dove in and thought, hey, this is gonna be great. And I love angels, I do. But I didn't like these angels. Good versus evil? Sure. But insta love and icky romance and choosing the wrong guy and so many cliches. I just could not grab on and get through it. Superficial characters who I could not connect with. An interesting story line that didn't hit its potential. Little to no backstory (why was she locked up?). Suspension of disbelief shattered. Just not my thing. So I DNF'd, sorry to say.
Lisa M. Basso was born and raised in San Francisco, California. She is a lover of books, video games, animals, and baking (not baking with animals though). As a child she would crawl into worlds of her own creation and get lost for hours. Her love for YA fiction started with a simple school reading assignment: S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders. When not reading or writing she can usually be found at home with The Best Husband that Ever Lived ™ and her two darling (and sometimes evil) cats, Kitties A and B.
Review:
Thank you for the egalley to read and give an honest review. I wanted to like this, I really did. I had high hopes. Great summary, I saw some good stars when I scrolled through Goodreads (not reading any of the reviews because I want to come up with my own thoughts and stars). So, yes, I dove in and thought, hey, this is gonna be great. And I love angels, I do. But I didn't like these angels. Good versus evil? Sure. But insta love and icky romance and choosing the wrong guy and so many cliches. I just could not grab on and get through it. Superficial characters who I could not connect with. An interesting story line that didn't hit its potential. Little to no backstory (why was she locked up?). Suspension of disbelief shattered. Just not my thing. So I DNF'd, sorry to say.
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