Format: ebook provided by Bewitching Blog Tours for review
It’s been almost a year since Abby Shepard’s once-perfect life crumbled into little more than a nightmare. Dumped, bullied and abused, the seventeen-year-old has all but given up hope. Little does she know that her father died protecting a family secret; a secret that has the forces of good and evil battling to claim the power lurking just beneath her skin.
Abby is a teen girl, not unlike Cinderella. She lives with her stepmother and twin
stepbrothers. Her dad has died. Her step family is horrible to her, and her
brothers even extend their retched treatment to school where she is bullied on
a daily basis. And we’re not talking
teasing and such, we are talking hardcore mean, down and dirty, make you feel
worthless bullying. In fact, that’s what
sparks this whole story off. The
bullying has become so horrible that Abby is going to do something about
it. She is done dealing with everything that
is awful in her life and she is going to just…give up.
Reading Abby’s story I really felt so badly for her, it was
so emotional and raw. I wished I could
just reach through the pages and tell this poor girl that is does get better and life isn’t always as
it is in high school. That bullies are
not as strong, cool, pretty, smart, popular and terrific as they want people to
think they are. I wanted to tell her
that there is always hope and help, and if you give up you are
making a permanent decision on a temporary situation. The authors (yes,
plural!) did a wonderful job portraying Abby’s sadness and despair. Her character leaped off the page and I could
see her right in front of me.
But the universe has different plans for Abby, and she most
certainly is not alone. Sure, there are
evil forces on Earth that are working against her on a daily basis, making sure
that her bad days become worse days. But now the angels are going to get
involved, and Gabe is coming to help her.
Sorry Raph! You might be a bully (and a demon), but now you are going to
have to pick on someone your own size!
This story was really wonderful. It had so many terrific elements, I’m not
even sure where to start. I’ve gone over
Abby, so lets move on to Gabe, her guardian angel. He’s going to enter high school and help her
realize all is not lost, then its on to the next mission. Right?
Right, cause its so cut and dry and all that easy. Sure.
Yep. Heheheh. Oh Gabe, I love how much you are going to learn
while on Earth.
The characters in this book were all fantastic. Seriously.
Not just Abby and Gabe, but Raph (short for Raphael) and Satan and
Lucifer and Mammon, Gabriel and Michael… Sara and Becky, the authors, did such
a thorough job with these characters; I can’t wait for the second book to be
released so I can get back in touch with them all. Oh, and here is something
that I thought was utterly fantastic and perfect and awesome…. Satan is a woman! Ta-da!!!!
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