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dangermousieAhahahaha, 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.
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.
