She Speaks to Angels (edition 2012)

"She Seaks to Angels" by Ami Blackwelder is a Young Adult romance/paranormal. It combines the age old story of good versus evil along with Hollywood's favorite love story where the weird girl gets the ultra hot new guy. I have read Blackwelder before and liked her book "The Day the Flowers Died" much better. TDTFD was extremely well researched to the point of the telling of the story was almost in a real time sense. "Angels" seems forced. She is trying too hard on this one. Sometimes it seems like she wants to say a certain word, but has no reason to, but she sticks it in there anyway. Even when the boy jumps from the building, she fails to make me care. Ever. She misses the mark here. It's been done before, time to pick different plot. I received this book for free from www.librarything.com. ( )

Once again another angel book. This book didn't disappoint me and if enjoy reading about angels or demons in YA fiction then this is a book you don't want to miss. I enjoyed the plot and the characters very much. Give this book a try. I can't wait for the next book in the series. ( )

This young adult story held great promise and I was looking forward to reading it. Mostly, I wasn't disappointed. The first half of the book is quite slow because the author is building up the characters, however, the second half moves along at a fast rate and it becomes a real page turner.

Ali, the central character, looks on in horror as a friend plummets to their death from the school, passing by their classroom window. Was this a suicide as first assumed?

Ali's crush on fellow pupil Dameon, (clever play on a name there!) reveals more than she expects when the boy of her dreams reciprocate's her feelings for him. Ali is stunned to realise that she can see angels and not all of them are well behaved! Then there is the inevitable boy who adores her and she doesn't feel the same way....he is not all he seems either.

Yes, this has great promise and is the first of a trilogy. I could see it making a popular young adult movie series also.

This book was made available to me by the author via Librarything.com in return for an honest review. ( )

She Speaks to Angels by Ami Blackwelder Will Have You Soaring

She Speaks to Angels by Ami Blackwelder is the first book in a new trilogy. A young adult novel that brings together angels, demons, romance, and suspense into a gripping story.

Allison looks in shock as a popular football player falls to his death outside her classroom window. Unfortunately, this is not as unusual as you would expect. This begins a mystery that Allison unravels piece by piece. Angels? Demons? How could that even be possible? And more importantly, why do they want to kill her?

You will be waiting impatiently on the edge of your seat as you wait for what will happen on the next page. I am greatly looking forward to the release of book two.

Disclaimer: This book was received a member giveaway at LibraryThing. ( )

I received a free copy of this book from Library Thing to read and review. Up front, I will say that this is not the genre I normally read but I wanted to give it a try to see if I found it interesting enough to pursue. After reading the book, I have decided that this plot is beyond my interest. I found it all very unbelievable and not very interesting. The book covers areas that are of interest to teens, suicides, sexual activities and interests, bullying. However, though the book does have some merit, the author never manages to pull it off. The story starts out with a suicide at Ali’s high school—one of many to have occurred in recent years. Immediately, the principal cancels classes for the rest of the week. Why, I don’t know and the author never does tell us. I am not so sure that would have happened, not so sure the principal can just cancel classes immediately like that. Ali convinces her friends to spend the week investigating this death. Once into the “investigation”, Ali and her friends stumble into the angels and demons part of the book, by discovering angels and demons around who are each working to hurt or help people. The formatting of this book made it quite difficult to read, but I persisted, wanting to get an idea of what the author was doing here. Like many other reviewers, I found the first half of the book to move rather slowly, but I also realize the author had to develop son foundation on which to build the story. However, I think she could have done it in a shorter space and with better, tighter writing. The main character Ali came across most of the time as rather unlikable and could use some work to make her less juvenile and less bossy. Putting her crush, Dameon, in as a demon was a good idea, but the author really did not provide a good build up to their relationship. Having Ali’s brother conveniently as one of the first responders to the suicide was good and gave an opportunity to put out some inside information, though, as a policeman investigation, I am not so sure he would have so easily given her information on and on-going case. I think the author shows a lot of potential with this book, but needs to refine her skills as a writer a bit more. She should concentrate more n making her writing more believable and realistic as well as tighter and should focus on dialogue and plot development. ( )