Ash’s review of My Avenging Angel by Madelyn Ford
Paranormal Romance ebook published by Samhain 25 May 10

I really wanted to like this story, I love bad-ass angels, but sadly it fell short.

Tori is a witch who summons the Archangel Michael to protect her from the demon who wants to kill her. It started off good. Michael is pissed off at being called, especially by a human, since he dislikes them so much.

Then as soon as he touches her, he realizes she is his soul-mate and he becomes a completely different character. No more pissed off, sexy angel. They are now in love and must figure out a way to kill the bad guy.

It sounds good, but for a novella it just wasn’t exciting. There was hardly any conflict between them, and by the second time they meet, they seem ready to spend the rest of their lives together. It was just too soon and it had me rolling my eyes.

Tori has a huge TSTL moment and by the end of the story, I was tired of her. She isn’t very likable, and at times neither is Michael. The only character I was interested in was one who was named but never even present.

Even the demon, Asmodeus, was uninteresting. He has been looking for Tori since she was a child, to finish what he started by killing her parents. To me he never seemed like a really a big threat, so I didn’t care about him.

For such a short story, I spent the whole time reading it thinking of what I didn’t like about it.

Grade: D-

Summary:

To save her life, he must break a covenant—and lose his heart.

An Angels and Demons story.

It’s Victoria Bloom’s twenty-fifth birthday. But is she out celebrating? Oh, no. She’s in a stuffy old attic with the Three Stooges—a.k.a. her so-called spirit guides. There’s a demon who wants her dead, the same one that killed her mother two decades ago. No worries, say the Stooges. All she has to do is summon an angel. What could go wrong?

Well, plenty when you summon the wrong angel. The next thing Tory knows, she’s got one very bad-ass, pissed-off and sexy Archangel on her hands.

Michael, mighty warrior, leader of an elite team of demon killers, is shaking in his heavenly combat boots. Not because he finds all humans distasteful. But because he’d rather face Lucifer himself than the woman his soul has just recognized as his mate. Binding himself to a mortal, one who will eventually die, is the one path he’s sworn never to follow.

It’s too late now; his fate is sealed. With one touch, she becomes as necessary to him as the air he breathes. He will move heaven and earth to protect her—but against a demon as powerful as Asmodeus, heaven and earth may not be enough…

Warning: This book contains one bad-ass Archangel with a fiery, um, sword, a witch who blows things up, one nasty demon who is trying to kill them both, and ghosts who make interfering their mission. Steamy sex is had, even with the voyeur ghosts—though Tory is still blushing.

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