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Summary: ANOTHER GREAT ONE BY MRS. COLLINS!
Review: SHE DID IT AGAIN WITH THIS BOOK. I AM A BIG FAN OF THE BLUE COLLECTION AND CAN NOT WAIT FOR THE FIFTH BOOK TO COME OUT. BUT, WHILE WAITING I PICKED UP ANGELS ON FIRE AND COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN. I FINISHED IT IN 2 HOURS IT WAS GREAT. I FOUND THE IDEA OF SUCH A "CREATION" TO BE INTERESTING AND VERY ENJOYABLE. SHE HOOKED ME FROM THE FIRST PAGE RIGHT TO THE LAST. THE BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ANY COLLINS FAN. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HER TOP IT. SHE IS A WONDERFULL WRITER AND I HAVE LOVED EVER BOOK I HAVE READ BY HER. MAY YOU ENJOY THIS BOOK AS MUCH AS I HAVE AND ALL HER OTHERS.
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Summary: Nancy A. Collins at her Best
Review: The protaganist is one Lucy Bender, a 30 year old artist living in Manhattan, with childhood roots (like author Collins) in rural Arkansas. Joth, a fallen Angel, lands on her roof. With the help of Ezrael the Muse, Lucy struggles with difficulties both mundane and supernatural as her life is turned inside out.Collins again redefines old myths for the less superstitious modern world. Some very immaganative details are scattered through the tale. Good characterizations and storytelling. IMO, one of Collins' best books. -- DCM "Froggy"
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Summary: Nancy A. Collins at her Best
Review: The protaganist is one Lucy Bender, a 30 year old artist living in Manhattan, with childhood roots (like author Collins) in rural Arkansas. Joth, a fallen Angel, lands on her roof. With the help of Ezrael the Muse, Lucy struggles with difficulties both mundane and supernatural as her life is turned inside out. Collins again redefines old myths for the less superstitious modern world. Some very immaganative details are scattered through the tale. Good characterizations and storytelling. IMO, one of Collins' best books. -- DCM "Froggy"
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Summary: One of Nancy's better efforts!
Review: This book is definitely well worth reading. I was skeptical at first, but I really enjoyed this novel. I really liked her Sonja Blue books, and this one did not disappoint me.
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Summary: Finally an interesting "angel becomes human" story!!!
Review: With the deluge of gawdawful films concerning angels who fall in love with human women and struggle with the dilemma of becoming human, Nancy A. Collins rises above the Hollywood crapmongers to show us novelists have the best ideas. This was my first novel by her, and frankly I fell in love with her narrative, characters, and plot. Instead of using traditional Christian concepts, Collins creates her own universe of angels who range from drones to overseers. I'm currently reading the Sonja Blue novels, and so far I'm having the same reaction. Too bad Collins is married...I think I'm in love!!!
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Summary: Ozymandias...?
Review: With the Sonja Blue novels, Nancy A. Collins created an entire world beneath the one in which we everyday mortals lived, and then peeled back the veil to let us see its denizens. I considered her on a par with such writers of modern fantasy as Charles de Lint, and waited with bated breath for her next efforts. Sadly, she seems to have been victimized by one of her own villains. Within this novel, a "sephiroth" (kakodaemon for we latter-day Neoplatonic purists, and don't let the Qabalists find out the uses to which the word "sephiroth" has been bent) makes the observation: "But it takes a true Infernal genius - a sephiroth - to encourage an artist to pervert his gifts by wasting them on lesser pursuits." With the gender of the artist changed to fit this circumstance, this seems an excellent description of the effect that White Wolf games have had on the formerly redoubtable talents of Ms. Collins. In the Sonja Blue novels, the world which was created had a gritty realism which enticed without being overdone; an Impressionist view of the seamy side of life (both real and supernatural). This novel, however, has more in common with comic books than with Impressionism; it seems almost a parody of the former style with which she impressed such a wide range of readers. Making use of the predefined worlds created by White Wolf Games, "Angels" has a slick and glossy feel which brings back memories of the AD&D "novels" produced by TSR. Gaming companies should stick to producing games; I do not know if Ms. Collins is under contract to White Wolf to produce novels featuring their fantasy realms, but the union has done neither of them any great service. The characters in "Angels" are all two-dimensional; no effort is made to develop them as people (or whatever they are), they simply roll along from event to event like goth punkers out for an evening's pubcrawl. Unlike Ms. Collin's previous tour-de-force, this is more of a tour-de-farce, with the good so good and the evil so evil that the novel could have been written by Disney, if Disney were to employ Vampire chic to make its points about the world... the points made remain the same: Good is good, evil is evil, love conquers all. How nice.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK!
Review: You know, I have to agree with that one guy who was ticked that it didn't have the depth of the Sonya Blue Collection. I found it very entertaining and touching however. I think the intention was to get you in there fast, give you a feeling, and then get you out of there. It was very good because it was fast paced and it did its job. I know that there could have been about 20 or more pages which could have been used to give more depth (it's not a fair comparison if you compare it to THE SONYA BLUE COLLECTION"), but it's an amazing book that has to be read.
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