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This book has me raging like you wouldn't believe.

First of all, the pacing of this book was extremely, *extreeeeeeeeemely* slow. I bet watching the faucet run would be more exciting than this. And why is this? The insane massive amounts of info-dumping in the beginning. Like, seriously, you get the WHOLE deals about EVERYTHING you needed to know in the angel history and on and on and onnnnn. Then there's PAGES and PAGES where there consists of actually NOTHING happening and it's mainly just "let's give our obnoxious couple more love-love" times. The plot was practically non-existent.

Second, the main girl is an insipid, useless, and pathetic caricature of a teen-aged female. Not only does she go gaga in love for Xavier as soon as meets him, but once they hook up, she becomes clingy and overly obsessed. Even an hour apart and she's all wailing about how much she needs him, or talks about how much she thinks about him, or every moment away from him is agony. I am being straight up with this, man, it ain't no joke. Don't make me vomit.

And the plot? WHERE WAS IT? It had a brief flash of it in the beginning and then... NOTHING for like 300 pages. It's only in the last 100 pages or so that something actually happens, and all your action that was missing so badly in the beginning and middle pops up. You could've cut out more than 1/2 of this book and still have a better story than what you have now.

I'm not a religious person and don't know much about the bible, angels, and what not but... their portrayal feels so limp-dicked. (Yeah, I love saying that). I mean, Bethany doesn't do anything but mope around about how much she wants to see Xavier or goes out and sees him. For some angel who helps shepherd souls to the other side or heals them she did a whole lot of NOTHING of that in the story. And then, Gabriel? I don't know what he's actually supposed to really be but when I found out he's the, you know, *archangel* I thought he'd be some bad ass dude. No. All he does is teach class, cook, sing, and basically sit around and act pretty. Another thing that got me going really good and I couldn't help but scoff, laugh, and every ridiculing adjective in the book, was that they *glowed* in the dark. I kid you not. Glowed. Complete with halos. Strangle me now.

Xavier was different from other ya male leads by the fact that he's *nice* and well... sweet. But that didn't help make up for his flat and boring character portrayal. He was such a whipped puppy throughout this whole book.

And after reading this article she wrote, I couldn't help but have a more nasty flavor in my mouth.



What a ridiculous, sexist, shallow, and HYPOCRITICAL piece of trash this article is. Ugh.

Bethany's other girl friends are nice and supportive of her but could the blonde bimbo stereotype be pushed any further? I highly doubt people think the Middle East is somewhere in AFRICA, people. Come on! And everyone else in the school is broken up into some over done cliched "group" type I couldn't help but roll my eyes.

And I forgot what other good things there was about this book and I just finished reading it too. Bleh. Oh, right, the beautiful cover that's wasted on this book. What a shame. Don't even get me started on the writing that had MANY cringe inducing descriptions that just overflowed to the max, and the saccharine mess of dialogue. Just no, no, no.

Man, I'm still raging.