Angelfire (Angelfire, #1)

by Courtney Allison Moulton

First there are nightmares. Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her. Then come the memories. When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie's power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie's memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream. Now she must hunt. Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.

• ISBN10: 0062069667
• ISBN13: 9780062069665
• Publish Date: 15 February 2011
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 496
• Language: English

Reviews

[anne]

More 3.5. Very cliffhanger ending - sort of unfinished. Will is very, very loyal which gets a bit monotonous, but overall a good read.

Great start to a new series. I really like the premise of the book and good vs evil feel to it. This has romance, action, angels, and demons and it gives you a little bit at a time to make you continue reading to see what's gonna happen next.

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What an epic story!

But this book took me a while to get into. I would pick it up, read a chapter or two then put it back down.

For some reason it just didn’t capture my attention. Now I think that has to do with the fact that it was based on angels. I’m still unsure on my opinion of angel themed books because the topic is so broad. I mean vampire based books are pretty clean cut. They’re either terrifying monsters or sexy, brooding, trying-to-change-their-killing-habit ways, mysterious unknowns. Angels on the other hand seem to go in all different angles with their religion aspects.

I have read a total of three books based on angels including this one (Maybe four if you consider the blue bloods series which is based on vampires that stemmed from angels, which might just have contradicted my theory on vampires being clean cut… Fine, MOST vampire books are clean cut. From the vampire based books I have read so far… Anyway,) and out of those three books I only loved one. And that one book has turned into one of my favourite books; Unearthly by Cynthia Hand. Which, by the way, is a YA book you MUST read if you haven’t already! So my opinion is still unclear on angel based books.

This book was interesting. There was a lot of fighting, Ellie was a strong female lead (unless she was cowering in fear and her guardian Will had to protect her), a sexy love interest, a weird love triangle that kind of randomly dissipated in the middle and lots of killing. The writing didn’t cause any hiccups for me meaning I didn’t get stuck on sentences and there weren’t long winded descriptions. I just found I wasn’t interested in the book that much. I tried to so hard to enjoy it, but alas it wasn’t for me.

Ellie’s father was an interesting character. I just knew there was something going on there. I hated him but I found him interesting because I had no idea why he acted the way he did. Yet I have suspicions.

The love triangle. As I said above it just randomly stopped being a triangle in the middle of the book! It didn’t stop because Ellie made her feelings clear, it just stopped. Something happened quarter of the way through of the book then bam! It was barely mentioned again. It was weird.

I nearly didn’t finish reading this book because it wasn’t for me. I had tackled half way through when I put it down and nearly decided not to finish reading it. But then I couldn’t sleep and picked it up again. When I was three quarters of the way through I nearly did the same thing. But since I only had a quarter to go I decided to carry on. That’s when I got interested. The last couple of chapters of the book were intense. Action packed and emotionally moving.

So from a non-biased perspective this book was written well, exciting and intense. The amount of research that would have had to go in to build the world and the back stories would have been a lot. I respect Moulton for her hard work and good writing.

If you like action packed stories with fighting, killing (Reapers not humans) and a little but of romance on the side then this is definitely the book for you!

But this particular plot was not for me. I did not enjoy it as much as I would have had I had more interest in angels and reapers. Or killing for that matter.

Let me know what your opinion on it was!

Miss J
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[e_rodz_leb]

What a debut! This is the best book I have read so far this year. It has romance, action, angels and reapers (sort of demons.) Ellie is our kick-ass heroine. Initially it takes her a while to believe what Will tells her, but I admire her make-lemonade-with-lemons attitude, even when she is scared witless. I found infuriating that Ellie can't remember what she is, why she is that way, and most of her past. I mean, how can anyone forget Will. Another thing is that she is constantly trying to balance her school, and social life from what is really important (saving the world, duh!) Since she can't remember what she did before, I honestly don't know why this 'awakening' can't happen when she is 18 and has more freedom and is out of high school.

Ah, Will (*sigh*) I love Will and I really understand and appreciate his pain, his struggle, his impossible love and his complete devotion to his beliefs, and to the cause . All I can hope for is that Ms. Moulton is not cruel enough to make their love truly impossible. I have my suspicions about Ellie's dad, but will see soon.

I can say that I didn't see this ending coming and that is is a bit of a cliffhanger. I will eagerly (and not too patiently) await for 'Wings of the Wicked', sadly due next year.
About the cover: I like the cover, although I am not in love with it. There is something off-putting by the girl in the cover, but I can see Ellie's spirit of awesomeness too.

[lizarodz]

What a debut! This is the best book I have read so far this year. It has romance, action, angels and reapers (sort of demons.) Ellie is our kick-ass heroine. Initially it takes her a while to believe what Will tells her, but I admire her make-lemonade-with-lemons attitude, even when she is scared witless. I found infuriating that Ellie can't remember what she is, why she is that way, and most of her past. I mean, how can anyone forget Will. Another thing is that she is constantly trying to balance her school, and social life from what is really important (saving the world, duh!) Since she can't remember what she did before, I honestly don't know why this 'awakening' can't happen when she is 18 and has more freedom and is out of high school.

Ah, Will (*sigh*) I love Will and I really understand and appreciate his pain, his struggle, his impossible love and his complete devotion to his beliefs, and to the cause . All I can hope for is that Ms. Moulton is not cruel enough to make their love truly impossible. I have my suspicions about Ellie's dad, but will see soon.

I can say that I didn't see this ending coming and that is is a bit of a cliffhanger. I will eagerly (and not too patiently) await for 'Wings of the Wicked', sadly due next year.
About the cover: I like the cover, although I am not in love with it. There is something off-putting by the girl in the cover, but I can see Ellie's spirit of awesomeness too.

[liz089]

I’ve decided that I’m not going to continue Angelfire. I’m really annoyed by the main character and because of that I am having trouble picking it up. I’m kind of sad about it, because I really liked the concept, but unfortunately I don’t feel that it is worth it. There are soooo many books I still want to read, I rather spent my time reading something I do like.

I find Ellie just a rich, spoiled brat who is not worth the title she received. When you are THE ONE who is destined to save the world, the ONLY ONE who can save the world, I do think you should change your priorities. Like putting saving the world in front of the line, instead of movie night with friends.

And not only the lack of responsibilities is fatal for Ellie, but her continuing whining is also not very attractive. Poor little rich girl.. blegh. Though it is in some ways more realistic, look at the average teenager nowadays and you will find a lot of Ellies in there. Some girls will start complaining and bitch about how this will ruin her social life of w/e, but you just have to suck it up ! Hell, if I would find out I was some ancient warrior chick, with a handsome sidekick, I would be in awe !! How cool is that, that there is more than just this simple boring life ? Awesoooome !

So I’m sorry, but well.. many books, little time ! Bye bye Ellie ^^

[Amber]

Loved it! But God dammit, Will! Just when I didn't think it was possible to frustrate me any more...

Review to come! :)