Angel Burn review

Angel Burn by L.A. Weatherly

3 out of 5

In the world of Angel Burn, angels are horrible creatures from another dimension that drain human energy to feed. Angel Burn, as the result is called, causes sickness, mental illness and even death in the humans, who don't realize that the angels are harmful. There are only a few that know about it and fight by killing the angels.

When Alex, an Angel Killer, gets a text about his next target, he doesn't know it's anything out of the ordinary. But then he gets there and finds Willow- not quite angel and not quite human. Apparently, she's the one and only half-angel and the angels see that she is a threat to them all. Alex is repulsed by Willow's angel side, but is determined to protect her seeing the angels see her as such a threat.

With the angels and their followers from The Church of Angels on their tail, Alex and Willow make the long trek across country. This is actually the majority of the book. They travel. They hide. They bond. They fall in love.

Spoilers ahead

But Willow is the only one that can stop the angels. With an insider in the church and the help of a CIA group called Project Angel, Willow is set to try and stop a second wave of angels from arriving in the human world, even though she's pretty sure she's going to die. She doesn't die, but she doesn't stop the angels from arriving either. Now there are thousands more angels to make food out of the humans. Willow and Alex book it down to Mexico to try to train more Angel Killers.

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This was actually kind of boring. I'm just not interested in a road trip book, which was all this really was. So much time was spent with Willow and Alex in motel rooms or in the car, wondering about each other and realizing that they like each other.

I'm also bothered by the 1st person/3rd person switching. I don't see why Willow needed a first person POV and everyone else was in third. It would have been better if it was all third. Willow wasn't such a great narrator that her inner most thoughts needed to be lived in first person.

But overall the characters were likable and that made the book better than it could have been. I especially liked reading what the angel and what his assistant had going on. Apparently this is supposed to be a trilogy and I will probably read the rest of it. I like the idea that the angels are bad.