Mad World #2
Publisher:
DarkRoadDesigns
Date
Published: October 5, 2012
Pages:
466
Paranormal romance
After spending over
2,000 years being a lost soul looking for the angel I was forbidden to
fall in love with, I finally found him. Lucky for me he has taken up
residence inside the hot body of NYC’s local bad boy, tattooed rock
star, Shane Maxton. Turns out, not only is he absolutely perfect, so is
the whole Grace Taylor life that I’m stuck in. The only problem is
Gabriel. An archangel who wants me all to himself so he kind of kidnaps
me. Now I have to find my way back and hope everything works out…
Just a word of warning if you haven’t read the first book, Fall From Grace there are some spoilers in this review.
Just a word of warning if you haven’t read the first book, Fall From Grace there are some spoilers in this review.
Saving Grace had a lot of
potential but it fell short. Basically, Gabriel was leading a group of
fallen angels and wanted Selah or Grace to create Nephilim. The Nephilim are
offspring of angels and humans. They’re savage beings that only destroy. Why do
you ask would Gabriel want Nephilim? Well he only wants to take over the world.
After the attack Grace was in a coma
for a month, while her soul was trapped by Gabriel. Shamsiel saves her and ends
her punishment after making a deal with Michael and leaves her. She awakens from
the coma with her soul finally able to move on as this would be her last life.
However, she must live it without Shamsiel.
The relationship between Shane and
Grace continues, but it seems to be at a standstill for the majority of the
book. In Fall From Grace there was
sizzling chemistry, witty one liners and a good plot in the works. This second
book has much of the same except the plot. It takes the entire book for the
relationship to mature. I assumed that with Grace being attacked, nearly dying,
and in a coma would push Shane into handcuffing Grace to his side. Sadly it’s
the same thing over and over again. Shane was with a girl, Grace gets jealous,
Grace was with a boy, Shane was aggressively jealous. Then there’s Gabriel popping up randomly and
saying “give yourself to me” and Grace yells “never!” This happens too
many times throughout.
There wasn’t much plot and that’s the
downfall for me. Both books are heavy with romance with a subtle fantasy twist.
The main being fallen angels and the not so fallen and of course Grace’s lost
soul. It does end on a happy note, but it took far too long to reach it and with
little substance. Even with all of my problems with the book I still wanted to know what happened in the end with both Grace and Shane. My personal opinion is that these two books should have been condensed
into one book.
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
