the very first page Hellsbane had my attention! With an amazing plot that keeps you turning the pages and nonstop action this is a book that I could see as a movie.
If you're looking for a book that you won't be able to put down, Hellsbane is the book to read! This book sent me on an emotional roller coaster ride! It started out so interest.
I loved the concept of her being a half angel demon fighter! And things were building up so nicely, I liked all the characters, the plot was moving at a good speed I was a happy girl, Then, right about half way through the book Paige Cuccaro did something that ripped my heart out! I was so crushed, and I thought for sure that something would miraculously happen later on to fix this incident.
So I kept reading, partly because I was so invested in the characters and partly because I wanted her to undo what she had done.
Now I'm not going to tell you what happened or how the book ended, but I will tell you this: read Hellsbane and finish it through to the end because I was so glad that I did! I really enjoyed this book, and while I am still not quite over the heartbreaking parts, the story line and the characters make up for it.
I have to know what is going to happen next, I have to know more about Emma Jane, So much was hinted at and I want to know what it all means,
Emma Jane is a really cool character, You know she has all this power, but I really liked that she didn't just pick it all up over night like a natural.
She needed help killing demons for a while and there were people there to watch her back, I like that she didn't just pick up a sword and go at it like a pro, She had to work for it, And I also like that there is still so much that we don't know about her, I can't wait to find out what other secrets Emma Jane has! Bring on bookplease!!
Another thing, Emma has potential guys galore.
Seriously, they are everywhere she goes, and I'm not sure who I like best with her, Eli is so mysterious and hot, but he is an angel so I'm not sure I would want that for him, And then the other guys have issues too, I can't wait to see what is going to develop on the love front for our pretty little Emma Jane,
So what is my final take on Hellsbane Were there things I would have changed about the book YES! Well, maybe only one thing.
and it might have something to do with a certain wanna be pitcher, . . But I really, really liked this book! I love how everything was described, I love the character development, I love the writing, and I love Emma's last name! Overall, Hellsbane is a well written book with an awesome plot and characters that seemed so real.
I thoroughly enjoyed it! I was very disappointed, the action scenes were shortened to make room for what was essentially repetitive fluff, The characters did develop personality but it seemed false they seemed more of a description than actual people, I got this book to review from NetGalley YAY FOR NETGALLEY!!! : ok let me say I am NOT really an angel fan, I dunno why, but I rarely like that part, I like the demons lol BUT I WILL make an exception! This book had me wanting to learn how to fight and get a sword and hack things and totally made me wanna be a half angel! Fantastic! I prefer fantasy over romance anyway, and boy oh boy, the action in the book made me wanna blow something up LOL ok enough crazy talk : and there is a little romantic side and it's a fun little twist : This book was so well written that I didn't care if it was an angel, demon, cat, dog or tree : I loved it!! It's got so much action and intrigue that you can't help but become involved!
Emma takes character selftalk to a whole new level, and by this I mean she has the best inner monologue of thought!! I love her! I also will say that by the end I was very sad for her no I won't tell you, go read it : At first, I felt bad for her and wanted things to be normal for her, just like she wished.
amp even before she finds out about crazy beings, she has a power that she has accepted, but boy, she has no idea how much that could mean for the future!
I cannot wait to get my hands on book! Heaven and Hellsbane will release in August of.
. . Well done!!.big paws from me! Wow, This book was so good! Its been awhile since I read a good fallen angel book and I loved the twist in this one of the nephilim having to kill their angelic father in order to get entrance to heaven.
Of course thats not hard for any of these nephilim since the fallen angels are basically totally evil and keep sending demons after their children.
I really liked this book and everything in it was very interesting, There wasn't really a lull in the story or a boring bit for me at all, The wait for the second book is definitely too long!,
Book source Many thanks to Entangled Publishing for providing a review copy in exchange for an honest review,
Emma Jane Hellsbane has always known she was different from other people, She can sense and experience their emotions as if they were her own and it took some serious practice to block them out.
Though there are times she doesnt always succeed, When former schoolmate, Tommy Saint James, shows up unexpectedly on her doorstep and hes wielding a sword, wounded and jumpy she wonders what the heck is going on.
Tommy had disappeared his Senior year, eight years ago and yet here he is not looking a day over, With a big ass sword, I mentioned that, right And when Emma lets in the mailman whos not a mailman, but a demon Tommy uses the sword to defend himself, but when hes disarmed by the demon, Emma picks up the sword to protect him and in that very moment her life is changed.
Emma thought her life was weird before, She aint seen nothin yet,
Emma is a nephilim, part human, part angel and when she picks up Tommys sword against a demon she becomes an illorum, or warrior for God.
Her mission now is to kill demons and the Fallen, but if she can kill her own Fallen father then her life can go back to normal.
Easy, right Um, not so much, In addition to Tommy were introduced to Tommys and now Emmas magister, Elizal or Eli, another illorum named Liam and Officer Dan, Mihir, Emmas friend from Commencement is not in this book and I was disappointed by that fact, For a first full book in the series it does a good job of bringing everyone up to speed about Seraphim, Fallen, angels and other things that Emma
needs to know in order to survive her new life.
Allinall a great book with lots of action involving swords, I love swords.
Today's review is on Hellsbane by Paige Cuccaro
Though Hellsbane is not technically a YA novel the character's are not in their teens, the amount of romance was more that speed, but the fantasy portion was fantastic.
My only gripe is that Thomas was removed from the love triangle to early,
Emma Jane Hellsbane has been living her life as best as she can, Living in the house her grandmother left her and working as a "psychic", She's not really psychic though, She's not even human! She doesn't know this however, she just knows that she can feel the emotions of the people around her and she uses that to her advantage.
When there's a knock on her door and her school crush Thomas "Tommy" Saint James is there, her life is thrown into chaos.
Tommy is bleeding and is badly beaten, She lets him in and the next thing you know, there is a clovenhoofed demon attacking him right in her living room, When it seems that Tommy is about to lose the fight, Emma grabs the sword Tommy was using and ends the demon's life and by doing so, marking herself as a fighter against the Fallen.
Tommy and Emma are both half angles, They are the children of the Fallen angles and human women, They are charged with killing all of the Fallen until they end the life of their father's, This "calling" however will not be easy and lives will be lost, They do have an angel on their side though, Eli, His hands are tied though, If he interferes he could start a war, If he Falls, he will have to be killed,
All in all Hellsbane is a pretty good book, I would have liked to see more of a romance between Emma and Tommy and was a bit annoyed that he was killed so soon in the series.
I'm curious as to how Cuccaro is going to develop Emma and Eli's relationship too, I guess I will have to keep reading the series to see how everything ultimately pans out,
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I've started likeor so books, but I really wasn't feeling any of them, With Hellsbane I was HOOKED before the first page was over! I admit, I haven't read many books about angels/demons, but I felt the story was very original and I couldn't put it down.
I love Emma, she's strong but not unbelievably so, I never really believe the heroine's who are all mouthy from the start, Emma is real. She's funny and fun to read : This novel was a hundred times better than the novella into this series, In fact the novella into this series doesn't even fit with how this novel shaped up, I really thought this was a great read and I wish the second novel was already out, I was super impressed! Emma Jane Hellsbane learns who she truly is in Hellsbane by Paige Cuccaro,
Like her name Hellsbane, Emma Jane strives to find who her fallen angel father is, so she can destroy him and regain a normal life.
Emma is sarcastic, driven, strong, and intelligent, I just love Emmas snark, Eli, her magister, is kind, caring, and smokin hot, Their temptation for each other boils just under the surface, From demons to angels and the mortals in between, Cuccaro breathes life into the characters,
The fastpaced plot speeds along in this wellwritten novel, I feel for the characters, especially Emma Jane as her life goes from quirky to horrific, Like her main character, Cuccaro holds back no punches when it comes to the world shes created,
Paige Cuccaros Hellsbane packs a punch into the angel/demon books out there, I highly recommend it! I was offered a review copy of this book from the publisher and on the whole I found it an enjoyable read.
This is a story that ticks all the usual paranormal romance boxes: attractive heroine thrown into a paranormal world, temptation from coworkers/allies, evil to defeat, salvation to find.
However, unlike some books in the genre, this one acknowledges it's following a formula and does so with gusto,
Emma is a decent character, I found her a tad annoying on a couple of occasions, but mostly she works well in the tale with her smartaleck attitude and clever retorts.
Tommy and Eli also come across well as secondary characters and there was enough background on them to bring them to life for the reader.
The prose/writing style is better than in some other paranormal romance I have read and the pacing was also pretty good, keeping me happily reading from start to finish.
I felt the ending was slightly rushed, but there was enough of a conclusion to satisfy readers who hate cliffhangers while still maintaining a few loose threads for the series to continue with.
I certainly would be happy to read the next instalment when it comes out, Emma Jane has always had the ability to know what a person feels or thinks, an ability that has allowed her to make use of it as source of income.
While maintaining the facade is sometimes grueling, Emma is content with the way her life is going, Granted, her family and some of her friends don't quite understand why she insists on 'pretending' to be a psychic, but she's content on letting them believe whatever they like of her as long as they let her do what she wants to do.
Her entire world is thrown into limbo when an old high school friend suddenly shows up on her very doorstep, Suspicion sets in as he tumbles inside, never once letting on as to what his true purpose for being there is, A lurking danger soon rears its ugly head, goading the pair in hopes of making a meal of them, When Tommy becomes injured, Emma's only thought is to come to his aid, never once imagining what happens next, Becoming an Illorum is not what she had in mind when she accidentally picked up his sword,
New powers and a new understanding are awakened within her, something she tries hard to deny, It doesn't help that she also finds herself attracted to Tommy's protector who further enlightens her to the task at hand, In order to be absolved of the sins their fathers, the Fallen angels, have commited, they must do all they can to bring them, and their own demons, down.
Emma soon learns that the task at hand isn't as easy as it sounds, Anything, and everything, is intent on killing her, yet she refuses to give them what they want, She loves the fact that she's still alive, Even better is the fact that Tommy is by her side, As time continues to dwindle, she knows they must do everything in their power to cull the opposing forces and restore the balance between good and evil while trying to stay alive long enough to do it.
A truly unique and quite intriguing story, I enjoyed it immensely. Set on such a historical theme, the idea of an Illorum, or the offspring of a Nephilim and a human, trying to take down the Fallen angels was quite thoughtprovoking.
Ironically, if you try to do a little research on what they are, you'll never find anything on them, But there's plenty on the Nephilim and all angels in general, All in all, this was quite an awesome read, The pace throughout the book was fast and consistent, The theme of the story certainly keeps the reader glued to every page, Looking forward to more of this series soon,
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