Two things why I picked up this book: One - Angels; and two - Reincarnation. The title says Angel's Fury and also the synopsis at the back talks about a fallen angel who wants to bring world destruction. But as I was reading the book, I began to doubt if this is really a fallen angel novel. The Reincarnation theme was very evident since there is no doubt that Cassie is dreaming of what happened in the past or in her previous life. The big question is who the hell is the "fallen angel"? Could it be that Cassie is the fallen angel? Nope, definitely not. I've been reading and reading and it felt like Angel's Fury is just a Reincarnation themed novel and maybe the one who wrote the synopsis was mistaken about the fallen angel thing.
Until Cassie saw an image of a boy with mismatched light and dark brown eyes, which she later knew as Seth - another patient in Orion. When she saw the image before falling asleep at the doctor's office, I thought maybe it was my long awaited fallen angel in the novel. But then, as the story went on, it seemed like he is also not. And then it felt like reading a psychological thriller.
Until finally, I realized that maybe I was just reading too much romantic YA fallen angel novels. Maybe the fallen angel that I've been looking for is not necessarily romantically involved with the main character which is Cassie. I felt stupid for that especially that the synopsis did not say anything about the main character falling in love with a fallen angel. At the back it says - "he has come to torment one girl's dreams." And then it hit me. If you are paying attention closely, who is the closest thing to a villain in the story? No one else but the doctor! And so it turned out that my suspicion was right when they found the book with the story of Shemhazai and Azael. Stupid me. And so finally the book got my full attention.
Until Cassie saw an image of a boy with mismatched light and dark brown eyes, which she later knew as Seth - another patient in Orion. When she saw the image before falling asleep at the doctor's office, I thought maybe it was my long awaited fallen angel in the novel. But then, as the story went on, it seemed like he is also not. And then it felt like reading a psychological thriller.
Until finally, I realized that maybe I was just reading too much romantic YA fallen angel novels. Maybe the fallen angel that I've been looking for is not necessarily romantically involved with the main character which is Cassie. I felt stupid for that especially that the synopsis did not say anything about the main character falling in love with a fallen angel. At the back it says - "he has come to torment one girl's dreams." And then it hit me. If you are paying attention closely, who is the closest thing to a villain in the story? No one else but the doctor! And so it turned out that my suspicion was right when they found the book with the story of Shemhazai and Azael. Stupid me. And so finally the book got my full attention.
Actually, the book was well written. And it somehow gave me a break from all the fallen angel romance novels that I've been reading. I love the story but it did not leave me a mark. Actually when the book ended, I was like "Ok... I'm done. Next book please." Still, I was glad that I read it because of the story of Shemhazai and Azael. Because you know, stories of fallen angels really interests and intrigues me.
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