Christmas is the season the Gingerbread Café was made for…but owner Lily couldn’t be feeling less merry if she tried. She’s spent another year dreaming of being whisked away on a sleigh-ride for two, but she’s facing festive season alone – again. And, just to give her another reason to feel anything other than candy-cane perky, a new shop across the road has opened… Not only is it selling baked goods, but the owner, with his seriously charming smile, has every girl in town swooning.
But Lily isn’t about to let her business crumble — the Gingerbread Café is the heart of the community, and she’s going to fight for it! This could be the Christmas that maybe, just maybe, all her dreams – even the someone-to-decorate-the-Christmas-tree-with ones – really do come true!
Title: Nobody's Angel
(Earth Angels #1)
Author: Stacy Gail
Release Date: January 21st 2013
Publisher: Carina Press
Source: Received from the publisher via NetGalley
Investigative journalist
Kendall Glynn is horrified when a friend and colleague signs off
permanently during a live newscast, jabbing a pen into his jugular.
Kendall's no expert, but judging by the strange white veil in the
anchorman's eyes, she would swear he was a man possessed.
A
descendant of the accursed Nephilim, Zeke Reece prowls San Francisco by
night, keeping the city free from paranormal phenomena. But even he is
no match for whatever malevolent force is behind a recent rash of
murder-suicides. And when a beautiful tenacious reporter becomes the
next target, Zeke has no choice but to stay close to her, until he can
find the evil spirit and cross it over.
The closer Kendall gets
to the truth, the more danger she's in. Fortunately, a sexy and
mysterious masked stranger keeps swooping in to the rescue. Kendall's
life depends on finding who or what is responsible for the killings,
before it finds her.
My Thoughts
Nobody's Angel was an interesting and fast paced story, although the plot did feel a little too rushed in places. I found the story to be fun, flirty and a little dark but I couldn't shut off the cheesy 1960's Batman music playing in my head and the intermitant flashes of pow, zing, and boom etc that came along with it!
Don't get me wrong, I liked the storyline and the romance, but overall it was all just a little too simple a mystery/problem to solve. The ending kind of just fell together easily and without consequences - it was just too neatly packaged and lacked impact for my liking.
Stacy Gail's writing was pretty good and it's not a bad start for a story involving my favourite characters - angels; but I'm hoping for a bit more storytelling and character depth for Savage Angel
(Earth Angels #2) which is due for a February release.
Nobody's Angel gets 3 stars from me :]
