Prophecy Girl (Angel Academy)

by Cecily White

Amelie Bennett...Ending the world, one prophecy at a time. I was born to slay Crossworld demons. Big black flappy ones, little green squirmy ones. Unfortunately, the only thing getting slain these days is my social life. With my high school under attack, combat classes intensifying, and Academy instructors dropping right and left, I can barely get my homework done, let alone score a bondmate before prom. Then he shows up. Jackson Smith-Hailey. Unspeakably hot, hopelessly unattainable, and dangerous in all the right ways. Sure, he's my trainer. And okay, maybe he hates me. Doesn't mean I'll ignore the wicked Guardian chemistry between us. It's crazy! Every time I'm with him, my powers explode. Awesome, right? Wrong. Now my teachers think I'm the murderous Graymason destined to bring down our whole race of angelbloods. Everyone in New Orleans is hunting me. The people I trusted want me dead. Jack and I have five days to solve the murders, prevent a vampire uprising, and thwart the pesky prophecy foretelling his death by my hand. Shouldn't be too difficult. Getting it done without falling in love...that might take a miracle.

• ISBN10: 1620612941
• ISBN13: 9781620612941
• Publish Date: 2 April 2013 (first published 1 January 2013)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Entangled Select
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 352
• Language: English

Reviews

[Leah]

Prophecy Girl is the book you get if you mix The Vampire Diaries, a teensy bit of Pretty Little Liars, Harry Potter, and a whole lot of the Blue Bloods series, with Supernatural thrown in for good measure. And it's AWESOME. I like books I can just lose myself in, that are just so thoroughly enjoyable you can't stop reading. I also love books that take you to an entirely different world, and that's the case here because we have no demons, and Prophecy Girl has a ton of demons. And some pretty wicked prophecies, and a heck of an ending that has me desperate to start reading Conspiracy Boy.

I loved Amelie. I absolutely adore snarky heroines, with quick, witty one-liners, and a nose for trouble, even if she doesn't always mean it and Amelie very much knows how to get into trouble. Chuck in a hot, hot, hot supply teacher (which sounds so wrong, but let me be clear here there are only three years between Amelie and Jack and he's HOT), the loooovely Jack, and you have a heck of a sparring match between two people who you're never quite sure are about to kiss, or kill each other. Or team up and defeat this Greymason, because Amelie is NOT a Greymason. And so starts a very entertaining novel, that I pretty much devoured. I wasn't sure at first if it was my kinda thing, but it really pulls you in until you literally can't stop reading.

I really, really enjoyed Prophecy Girl, I liked the new take on vamps and werewolves, how they weren't enemies, or particularly vicious and there was this peace treaty in force, to protect everyone involved. I loved the idea of being a Guardian, and having to be bonded with a Watcher, it was quite a nice mythology. I am stoked to get straight into Conspiracy Boy, and see how everything that occurred in the finale of this book pans out in the second one, and to have more of the fabulous Amelie in my life. She truly was amazing. This was such a good book, if paranormal is your thing, this is the read for you.

[Angie]

I received an ARC through NetGalley.

Angels aren’t my thing, but I still had to read Prophecy Girl for two reasons. One, because there was mention of a vampire uprising. Vampires are definitely my thing. Two–and the automatic deciding factor–it’s published by Entangled Teen. I can’t resist them. Unfortunately, this one ended up not being for me. The angel mythology failed to interest me, and I didn’t care too much for Amelie. The plot was fast paced and engaging, but I found more that I didn’t like than what I did. Oddly, most of my problems have nothing to do with the angel aspect. Weird.

I did not understand Amelie. She is a walking, talking contradiction. I didn’t dislike her exactly. I just didn’t get her. She’s determined to finish school and become a Guardian, yet she never pays attention in class and focuses most of her energy on pranks and rule breaking. How does she expect to pass with an attitude like that? She knows nothing about the world she’s been living in for the last seventeen years, resulting in lots of conversational info-dumps. Additionally, she admits to having read every issue of Cosmo magazine printed, but she shuns all things girly. She’s one of those heroines who never wears makeup and scoffs at school dances. I don’t get it. She was also snarky and sarcastic, but to the point of rudeness at times.

If someone tells you that they didn’t have TV, your follow up question shouldn’t be if they had Nintendo or Xbox. Where would they have plugged it in? Into their microwave? Yes, Amelie actually has this conversation. This brings me to my next issue, which was the millions of pop culture and brand name references. They’ll all be irrelevant in 10 years, if they aren’t already. Not every sarcastic or snarky comment requires a pop culture reference. Prophecy Girl was just published and it’s already dated.

Third problem: the romance. Amelie essentially thinks boys are a waste of time, but of course she falls for the hot, new substitute as soon as she meets him. There is some cosmic, destiny type attraction, so I’ll give her a pass. Jackson on the other hand…why does he keep randomly kissing her? He shows absolutely no interest in her, kisses her, then goes on as if nothing happens. It was kissing for the sake of having kissing, and it just made me go “huh?!” These situations did not warrant kissing…at all.

The world building was also lacking. Prophecy Girl is less about angels and more about angelbloods, who are descendants of the Archangels. Fair enough, but we don’t learn too much about what this means exactly. They protect humans from demons. Okay, but how and why? They also have some kind of bonding rituals between Channelers and Watchers. The only thing I know for sure about the reasons for this is that Watchers can funnel some of the energy that Channelers use so that they don’t die from power overload or something. Actually I’m not that sure, but bonding is a big deal and mentioned a lot. Although it seems like not all angelbloods actually marry who they’re suppose to be bonded to, but they’re still bonded, but not. I don’t really understand any of it. It doesn’t help that Amelie knows close to nothing about anything. I did think that the demons were interesting.

The ending of Prophecy Girl contained twist after twist after twist after…it seemed like this was done purposely so that readers couldn’t figure out how it would end and thus be shocking. It was lame and annoying. There was one “twist” that was glaringly obvious, but Amelie somehow never saw it coming, but then again, it’s not like she knows much to begin with. This is the first time I’ve been let down by an Entangled Teen publication, but that’s okay. I still love them, but perhaps I do need to stay away from angel books.

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