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Banished From Grace (2013)

by Aria Williams(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1490315608 (ISBN13: 9781490315607)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Createspace

series

Fall from Grace

review 1: Most people have heard about the Angel of Death but have you ever heard of the counterpoint, the Angel of Life? Meet Nardia a beautiful young woman with a very unique calling. Did I say young? Nardia was born in the fourteenth century and her talent (aside from not aging) is that she has the power to save the near dying or recently expired. This isn’t a calling she takes lightly and has actively sought victims requiring her talents in battlefields and hospitals all over the world. Through the centuries she has been no stranger to love but her situation required that she relocate ever so often and deserting her chosen partner. As time passed her partner naturally grew old while she remained the same and that would eventually be noticed. Her present dilemma started when sh... moree met A.J. at her favorite coffee shop. He was everything she wanted but nothing she could have. She feared that if she let love take its natural course, she would never be able to let him go. It is promising and refreshing to see that the passing of time hasn’t dulled her thoughts or robbed her of the ability to fall in love. The author presents a cornucopia of different dress and hair styles that read as a foreign language to me as I was not familiar with their nomenclatures. It isn’t what I expected but when the last page was read and in the time of reflection I felt short-changed; it could and should have been so much more. Well, unlike Nardia, we live in a world where things are as they are and not as we would like them to be, this book is what it is and not what I wished it to be. With that said I found it refreshing, interesting, and unique (and if this is any indication of the author’s other work; promising). This story is good but falls short of awesome. Many people should enjoy it.
review 2: Picking up Banished From Grace, I immediately felt myself warm to the main character, Nardia, and slip into the story so easily it was as though I had picked up a book in the middle of a series and had already grown to know the characters and the authors style of writing, but this is the first book of Aria Williams' I have ever read so it was a pleasant surprise. Nardia is a nurse, but she is a 400 year old nurse! She has no idea why she never ages, but she does know she has the power to heal the sick, but she cannot willingly do so, she is under orders as to who she can and cannot heal. Almost at the same time, Nardia begins to have growing relationships with two men, the dishy doctor from the hospital, who is the safe bet, then the exciting and hunky AJ, who seems to have more to him than meets the eye. Eventually, the truth comes out, about who Nardia is, and AJ, and a threat emerges in the form of a new doctor at the hospital, and it leads to an interesting opening into the next book in the Fall From Grace series. It sounds like there is a whole lot going on in this book, but it is fast paced and really easy to keep up with. As well as Nardia's work and relationships with the doctor and AJ, there is another brilliant storyline running throughout the whole book that includes a family that wind up in the hospital, and how Nardia needs to help them. I really enjoyed this part of the story. I really liked Aria's style of writing, and how easy and comfortable it was to read. The only reason I knocked a star off is because it seems on the odd occasion the author seemed to lose track of her own writing and things she had mentioned earlier in the book had changed slightly later on, and threw me into confusion at times. less

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