Wings of the Wicked
Author: Courtney Allison Moulton
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: January 31, 2012
Pages: 528
Series: Angelfire, book two
Source: ARC from Pageturners Blog for blog tour, ARC picked up at NCTE
About the Book: Life as the Preliator is harder than Ellie ever imagined.
Balancing real life with the responsibility of being Heaven’s warrior is a challenge for Ellie. Her relationship with Will has become all business, though they both long for each other. And now that the secret of who she really is has come out, so have Hell’s strongest reapers. Grown bold and more vicious, the demonic threaten her in the light of day and stalk her in the night.
She’s been warned.
Cadan, a demonic reaper, comes to her with information about Bastian’s new plan to destroy Ellie’s soul and use an ancient relic to wake all the souls of the damned and unleash them upon humanity. As she fights to stay ahead of Bastian’s schemes , the revelations about those closest to her awaken a dark power within Ellie that threatens to destroy everything—including herself.
She’ll be betrayed.
Treachery comes even from those whom she loves, and Ellie is broken by the deaths of those who stood beside her in this Heavenly war. Still, she must find a way to save the world, herself, and her love for Will. If she fails, there will be hell to pay.
My Thoughts: When I first got this ARC I was a bit daunted by the size. Five hundred pages is a lot of book. Once I started reading I quickly remembered how much I enjoyed book one and the story flew by. The action starts on page one. This sucked me in immediately and kept me breathless until the end. We’re also introduced to some new characters right away. This was helpful to me because it took me a bit to remember what happened in book one. Adding the new characters worked in some reminders from book one without a boring recap.
One of the things I really appreciate about these books is the way the author works in humor. Every time something good happens or things start to look up disaster follows. This has the potential to be quite depressing. Thankfully Ellie and company are fluent in sarcasm and joke around with one another. I mean, high school is hard enough. Throw in a little thing like saving humanity and you need a little humor!
Wings of the Wicked brings up the good versus evil issue as well. Are things/people/decisions/whatever inherently good or inherently evil? Is there gray area? Can there be good in evil or evil in good? These are all questions that I found my self pondering while reading Ellie’s story. I appreciate a book that entertains me and gets me thinking.
This book is more than a great follow up to Angelfire. Yes, there is another cliff hanger ending but Wings of the Wicked isn’t just filler between books one and three. There is a lot going on in the book without being overwhelming. My major questions from book one were answered. I got more of Caden and Will (I’m more torn between the two than ever!) Ellie still kicks butt. Basically it had everything I hoped for and more. I’ll certainly be picking up book three as soon as I can! If you were so-so about Angelfire you need to give Wings of the Wicked a chance!
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