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Don't Call Me Angel (2012)

by Alicia Wright Brewster(Favorite Author)

3.29 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1939452155 (ISBN13: 9781939452153)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Dragonfairy Press LLC

review 1: As a YA book i wasn't sure what to expect, i thought to read it with my son and daughter in mind. Personally i thoroughly enjoyed the book, as an adult it was easy reading and as a YA book wasn't very long- i read it in 2 sittings. I feel it was a good introduction to the rest of the series. I wasn't expecting the twist at the end and that has lead me to have questions of how and why. I hope that these will be answered in the next book. I love the dark and light that is explored, and the way the author has taken the story of fallen angels and written it from their point of view. It's not something i had really thought about before.Thinking of my children, this is the sort of book i can see my daughter really enjoying once she is bigger. My son- although coming to the right... more age, i can't see him reading it. I feel that this book is geared more for girls. I want to know what happens next, and would love to read the rest in the series
review 2: Mandy's Review:I have a strong affinity for books about angels and demons. I think it began with the first angel/demon fiction book I ever read as a teenager: Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness. So, when this review came across my desk, I had to say 'yes!' despite my overflowing TBR pile.Sorry waiting authors, but a girl has her weaknesses ...What I like about this book is that it is unlike others that I have read. Six is a fallen angel who manages to escape her way out of Hell. She's very open to the emotions of humans and winds up helping one almost immediately after coming to Earth. Then she winds up severing the wings from her back. Afterward, bloody, alone and destitute, she encounters a college student willing to help her by giving her a place to stay, food to eat and clothes to wear.Alden, on the other hand, has gone crazy. When Six escaped hell, Alden was right behind her. She helped him escape because she owed him a debt. Six and Alden are both amazed at how ungrateful humans are and how unsatisfied they are with everything they have. While Six is annoyed with humans, she still feels the urge to help them. Alden, however, decides he wants to kill their body and their soul.You see where this is heading ... ???Yep! Alden and Six duke it out fallen-angel-style. Of course, Six is at a slight disadvantage because she cut off her wings. Never fear ... Six can still hold her own.While reading this book, I kept seeing where other beasties and demons were afraid to confront Six and I wondered why that was. Well, near the end I found out why ... but, I'm not going to tell you because that would ruin it for you!!!Okay, now the things that made me wonder ... Six had been in hell for a long time. The summary above said that other demons and beasties escaped Hell before her. However, she had never heard of anyone escaping Hell. I'm wondering how that's possible. Six had a very prestigious position in Hell. Surely Lucifer would've gone crazy looking for an escapee and Six would've heard about it. So, I do find it a little unbelievable that she hadn't heard of anyone else escaping.Also, when Six escapes Hell, she is as naked as a human baby is born. She walks around town this way AND with wings coming out of her back yet all people do is stare?! Maybe if this was a rural, out-of-the-way town I could probably imagine that, but this was a major city! Cops should've been stopping this girl and taking her to the station for indecent exposure. That, or at the very least, some horny guy on the street definitely would've been trying to tap that ... I'm just saying ...One thing I would've like to have seen sooner was the city Six and Alden arrived in. At first, there was mention of a city park with trees and such, so I'm thinking Central Park. It's a major city, a lot of authors like to write about it ... it seemed feasible. I was happy to see that the city they landed in was actually Atlanta and I only knew that because the book mentioned The Underground (which I've been to) and Midtown. I don't believe the city name was actually mentioned until close to the end. This is a tiny infraction amidst all of the wonderful storytelling. I only mention it because when I read a book, and I'm sure a lot of you are the same way, I have a mental picture in my head of the place and setting. While NYC and Atlanta are similar in that they're both major cities, they each have their own unique aura that affects the storytelling. So it's a little disconcerting to have NYC in one's mind while reading only to have to stop and revamp the mental image when you realize it's actually Atlanta.Overall, Don't Call Me Angel is a wonderfully unique book. Even though there are angels in it, they are fallen angels, which lends them a nice/naughty air. I like my sweetness with some spice, don't you? less

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