Ever wanted to bang an angel? This book is for you!

[dangermousie]

Ahahahaha, this bit from an amazon review sums up why my mouth has been hanging in a perpetual horrified WTF ever since I stumbled across Nalini Singh's Angels' Blood books:

I really love how Singh penned this extremely strong archangel struggling not to smother his angel-made woman b/c he didn't want to change her or break her warrior woman spirit.

Argh.

Argh!

Mind melting at onslaught of insanity!

These books are something else. They make JR Ward seem upmarket and grounded.

I got it on Kindle on impulse because the plot (in an AU where vampires exist, vampire hunter Elena gets hired for a dangerous tracking mission) sounded interesting enough but I did not expect the book to be angel pr0n.

Because yes, her employer is an Archangel (and I see any religious person out there choking on that little word) who like all other angels is immortal, violent, powerful, amoral etc etc, and has nothing to do with God, basically like a medieval serial killer with wings.

Ahhh, yes, wings. The way Singh lovingly describes them I am seriously worried - I never knew there were people with a wing fetish. Wings = not sexy. It would be like boinking a gigantic shedding pidgeon.

There is a lot of UST and the 'hero' is a typical uber-alpha male whom I want to strangle with my little two hands - mind-controlling the heroine, pushing in her face that she's an amusement at best and that he can break her with his pinkie, and at one point going serial-killery on her in a particular trance state - I would feel more sympathetic except he knew he would go into said state if he did a particular thing and he did it anyway. Did I mention she shoots him when he breaks into her home and threatens her and then she feels baaaaaad.

Ironically there are amazon reviewers complaining they didn't like the book because Elena is a bitch - how dare she not grovel at the feet of such a perfect specimen.

This book makes me want to take a shower to scrub it off.

Comments

[orangebreeze.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, this is mirroring my thoughts on "A Quick Bite" by Lynsay Sands quite exactly.
Mind you, there was no archangel, just a very beautiful female vampire fainting at the sight of blood and an insanely good-looking psychologist. And porn.
Basically it was porn pretending to be a funny vampire novel. Only it wasn't even funny. Just plain boring. Geez, it had vampire pyjama parties - with all of the heavenly beautiful vampire ladies wearing baby dolls...

I don't even know why those books get to call themselves literature. And why people love it >.>

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Lately I just twitch if I see supernatural romance. Yikes.

[astrothsknot.livejournal.com]

Rule 34 - if it exists there is porn of it. No exceptions.

You don't know about wingfic? Really?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I was happily ignorant until today.

[cleobulle.livejournal.com]

Lol. Singh gets a lot of buzz on the web but I can't really get into her books. There are a couple of books by her that I like in her Changeling series but that's about it.

If you want sexy angels.....there's Meljean Brook's Demon Angel. The hero doesn't have wings for most of the book. Actually, I don't remember if he has any at all. It's been a while since I read the book. The heroine is a cheating, lying half-demon who has to work for Lucifer. She kicks ass and keeps a three-headed dog called Sir Pup as a pet. She's awesome.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That soundas cute, thanks for the heads up!

[ulkis.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, yes, wings. The way Singh lovingly describes them I am seriously worried - I never knew there were people with a wing fetish. Wings = not sexy. It would be like boinking a gigantic shedding pidgeon.

Hee. I can tell you haven't checked out any Supernatural fic forums in a couple of years. (Also, the show is also now about crazy evil angels.)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Oh Good God. Just as well I let go of that show.

[algelic.livejournal.com]

I agree with everything you said.

The sad part is: Nalini Singh is actually a good writer (or so I thought, before reading this book). Her Psy/Changeling series is actually GOOD. You should try that instead.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I will check those out, thanks!

[scanky-chops.livejournal.com]

I read this (and talked about the US/UK covers and how the UK covers were great at sucking you in 'cos the covers were so pretty) and then wondered why i'd bothered. Man, paranormal romance is getting more and more boring. And stupid.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Marjorie Liu is the only one I bother reading for anything but potential Awesomely Bad Books these days.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

That book was just useless. ugh.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I just want to know how such interesting world building ended up in such an awful book. I mean, he threatens to murder a baby! Mind rapes her friends! Because he's on a rampage after she took it badly when he tried to rape her! He tortured a guy in public, in the streets, for hours!

I mean, seriously, most reviews from people I know include the line "My favorite part is when the heroine shoots the hero."

IIRC, there was only 1 male in the entire book who I didn't want to die a horrifically gruesome death. I think he had black wings? Oh, wait, Elena had a couple male friends I didn't want to murder. Course, they had about 1 scene each...

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Icon!

Yeah, I liked her hunter friends but they had almost no scenes while the psycho she hooked up with - ugh.

A pity because I agree, worldbuilding was interesting.

[katranna.livejournal.com]

:-( I like wings!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

If you like them as a sexual fetish, then this is the book for you :)

[hanjae.livejournal.com]

And this is the reason why I don't even bother try most paranormal/supernatural romance these days :/ It's always pretty heroine meets hot hero, give or take plot elements and world-building attempts. They angst and want each other badly, and most of the time it turns into pr0n. *cough Kresley Cole cough*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yeah - just so useless.