Review: Angelbound

Angelbound by Christina Bauer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3.5 Stars. Loope hole ruined the book.

I am having a hard time reviwing this book. Some books are very difficult to review because even though they miss few elements in the books there are always some flaw or loops in the books. The author took this book beautifully from the start to end.

The content is good enough to hook you up till the end but still it was a little bit unsatisfactory. The events were discribed in a very big way especially the wars but the after effects of wars was very dull. I think that was the biggest mmistake made by the authour. I cant tell what was wrong without spoling my review but i will try my best.

since its very difficult i will list the pros and cons of the book.

Cons

1) The attacks by demon on putagory was very vague, attack happened 17 years ago and within short span of 17 years the quasis forgot all about what they are and accepted everything thought by the ghouls. There were lot of questions which were left unaddressed like why angels didnt attacked to get the freedom back to the quasis.

2) The second attack was also very vague. We never got to know the after effects of war. It was more like war of only One Quasi Demon. What happened to the rest of them?

3) The politics among the five class of people was very vaguely kept. Ghouls were very strange. I dont believe that why Ghouls and Quasi alone didnt had any army?. If the Putragory was owned by the demons/ghouls why would they even allow quasi deplomats to live like the case of Zek's family?

4) The second attack shown in the book felt like as if the only quasi demons who should be left in the world has to be only 3 persons but we never knew what happened in it.

Long story short the plot had plenty of loop holes which in the end made the well written book unsatisfactory. May be the author should write a small novella of 0.5 & 1.5 to explain the two wars properly from various POV which will be better in understanding the book.
Pros.

1) The book went with its high and low like a wave due to which you will enjoy through out the book. Its not a slow start and pickup nor its a middle dry. It is well balaced and well paced.

2) Even though the book is more or less predictable but still author will keep it interested for you.

3) Like most of the High Fantasy book where authour never comes to the main plot and make a long route here we dont have no such thing.

4) The small arena fights, school pranks and romance at various bits kept the book very interesting.


If you can keep aside the loop hole which is like a ocean then you will enjoy the book plenty.

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