Ellie has faced off against the monsters in her
nightmares, but she had no idea they were actually real.
On the night of her 17th birthday, a boy she recently met
named Will, awakens her powers. Ellie is the Preliator, an
ancient warrior, and the only one with the power to wield
Angelfire, making her the deadly enemy of the reapers she
hunts. Reapers are big, ugly creatures that kill people
and take their souls and send them to hell.
Although she is 17 in this life, Ellie's soul re-
incarnates every time she dies, but this time she doesn't
have all her memories. Will, the guardian who has stood by
her for hundreds of years, helps her to remember, but he
also awakens desire.
Ellie practices to regain her strength and abilities but
also makes time for movie night and shopping with friends:
a delicate balance. She will have to focus fully on the
task at hand to win over Bastian, a powerful reaper, bent
on killing her and keeping her soul from re-incarnation,
once and for all.
Angels, fallen and otherwise, have taken over where
vampires left off as the entity of choice in young adult
paranormal books of late. Perhaps I've read too many of
them too close together, but this one didn't stand out for
me. Courtney Allison Moulton does a nice job with action
scenes, Ellie's struggles for balance, and I really enjoy
Will's character. However, I didn't warm to Ellie who came
across as spoiled and sometimes even nasty to Will for no
reason. Ellie has a good relationship with her mother for
the most part, which I liked and enabled me to care about
her a bit more.
While there is chemistry between Ellie and Will, Moulton
gives them time to learn more about each other before
acknowledging their attraction of which I heartily
approve. Not that love at first sight doesn't exist, but
it's not always believable. ANGELFIRE has some unique plot
points as well, such as Ellie re-incarnating each time
after a death, and a couple twists that I didn't expect
near the end. Something is up with Ellie's father as well,
and I'll read the next installment in hopes of finding
that out, too.
Whenordinary seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing
reapers-monstrous creatures who devour humans and send
their souls to Hell-she finds herself on the front lines
of a supernatural war between Angels and the Fallen, and
faced with the possible destruction of her soul.
A mysterious boy named Will, who has been waiting sixty
years for her return, reveals she is the reincarnation of
an ancient warrior, the onlyone armed with angelfire, and
capable of fighting the reapers. He is animmortal sworn to
protect her in battle. Her soul has been reborn againand
again over the centuries to fight the reapers, and he's
been there for five hundred years to protect and fight
alongside her. Now that Ellie's powers have been awakened,
a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to
challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to
eliminate her-an assassin who has already killed her once.
At the same time, Ellie is falling in love with Will, even
though they know their relationship should be impossible.
While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-
hunting duties, sheand Will discover Bastian is searching
for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper.
Bastian plans to use this weapon to destroy Ellie's soul
forever, not to mention the devastating ramifications for
human souls. Now she must face an army of Bastian's most
frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from
consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past
lives-including truths that may be too frightening to
remember
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