..::RAPTURE::..

Well i did it. I finished all 505 pages of this book and let me tell you, it was worth the late nights and the skipped naps over the weekend. I wasn't sure if i'd make it because of all the busy-ness that seems to be my life anymore!  This weekend we had an activity crammed packed weekend -- Between the Jana Kramer concert, family birthday parties, yard improvement, and my family's Obon dinner and golf with my handsome hubs i had barely a second to myself! 

But to the good part of the post... the book! 

What can i say? The book left  me with a sense of sadness for the Angels that i just can't seem to shake off. As i'd said before, there is a two-some of Angels who have "fallen" but are on their way to redemption by saving the world from evil during the last battle set up by the Maker. This book they are on their fourth soul to save.... and this soul has a history with the Angel Jim. throughout the book though you are dealing with Jim's complete lack of faith -- his compass is just spinning out of control. He is dwelling on Sissy who is in Devina's well of souls... and he just can't fathom that she's stuck there. Almost so consumed by it he is lacking his normal devotion to his soul, Matthias.

Then we have Ad, who has just lost his best friend and partner of over a millenia (Eddie, he was the third Angel who recently died) and he just can't get right. He can't put one dot to the next and he's running on pure hate and fury for most of the book.... He's a wild card -- and Eddie who normally keeps him in check, and keeps him and Jim from killing each other, isn't there to guide him. He isn't there for him to confide in and find solace in his spiritual strength. Ad has his own demons, a past with the demon Devina has has him "ruined" for eternity as he sees it. But Eddie kept him together... Eddie is gone so you can only imagine the havoc that's going on in Ad's head.

Since you have come to just fall in love with the Angels (Jim, Adrian and Eddie) it's hard  to watch them be in such torment, such sadness!! 

But then you have the soul, Mattias, and the woman he falls for, Mels. It's up and down because Matthias is suffering from amnesia. Matthias was a damned soul, the vilest of vile. Then everything changes in this book because he's given his "second chance".  See, Mattias was already a soul in question... but he chose wrong... and spent what felt like an eternity in Devina's well of souls even tho it was only mere days. But he's back and Mels has brought out everything good in him. Until she finds out the truth..... the REAL story is in Matthias and Mels... and boy is it juicy!!    Wanna hear a kicker??  I'll give you a teaser.... Matthias is..... a broken man. And i don't just mean because of the stunt in the Desert when he tried to blow himself up and left him cripple. 


Its definately an intriguing book!  Keeps you on your toes.... it jumps between the main soul, and the two Angels who are just passing through the time and the game. They both know what has to be done, but the end game just seems so far out of reach for them! And to see the play on their emotions.... its just intense.

Enjoy!