After Reading: HALFLINGS by Heather Burch

By: Meradeth Houston on 4:00 AM

After being inexplicably targeted by an evil intent on harming her at any cost, seventeen-year-old Nikki finds herself under the watchful guardianship of three mysterious young men who call themselves halflings. Sworn to defend her, misfits Mace, Raven, and Vine battle to keep Nikki safe while hiding their deepest secret---and the wings that come with. A growing attraction between Nikki and two of her protectors presents a whole other danger. While she risks a broken heart, Mace and Raven could lose everything, including their souls. As the mysteries behind the boys' powers, as well as her role in their earthly mission, unfold, Nikki is faced with choices that will affect the future of an entire race of heavenly beings, as well as the precarious equilibrium of the earthly world. (Goodreads)

Honestly, it seems that I've been having some poor luck when it comes to angel books lately. I totally love the genre--for probably obvious reasons--but sometimes they just fall flat. This, unfortunately, fell into that category. One of the main problems was that the whole thing kind of felt like a giant prologue--leading up to something that never happened. And if the first book in a series doesn't draw me in, I'm really not going to be too excited to go and check out the rest of them. The writing was well done, and the characters did have a good deal of depth to them, which I appreciated, but I just couldn't get into it. And, the book itself was more religiously oriented (I know, duh, angel book and religion, whodathunk? :), but it kind of made God come off as kind of a jerk. At least, that was my interpretation. LOL! Anyhow, not my cup o' tea. And I can't believe I just wrote that in a review. Hopefully a few of you find this entertaining...

Have you read any of the books in this series? Thoughts?