Angelhide: a modern fantasy

by Barb Rude

Fresh from Angel Academy, Aggie can't wait to facilitate God's Will. All the other graduates are filing paperwork while Aggie is charged with saving a man from certain death. Hallelujah!Except... she's not saving anyone. First she loses her ward, Nicholas Bayer. Then her phone dies after hours on hold with Divine Intervention. And thanks to a clerical error, Aggie is stuck on campus without a winter coat, a place to stay, or a dollar to her name.When a demon attack nearly gets her killed, she learns that she knows absolutely nothing about her job. Real angels have swords, special prayers, and a slough of bureaucratic forms to wade through. Worse, her search for Bayer brings up more questions than Why does Heaven deem fit to preserve a violent criminal stalking his family?But Aggie isn't giving up. She doesn't need wings or a halo to rescue Nicholas Bayer, and she'll keep him alive, even if she has to save him from himself. She just has to find him before the demons find her.

338 pages, Paperback

First published January 5, 2014

About the author

Barb Rude collects dice, cookie cutters, and books, because there's no such thing as too many books. She lives in a town not unlike East River City, which unfortunately lacks a Muffin Emporium. She would open an Emporium of her own to show off her legions of cookies and cake pops, but she'd rather be writing.

Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Reading the blurb about this book enticed me to try it. I read most of it, but could not manage to finish the book. I obviously missed something somewhere, based on the only other review, which was very complimentary, I found for the book on Amazon. The story does follow the outline in the blurb, but I got confused as I read. I felt as if I had not read an earlier book in a series—a book that could provide some back story for a lot of the characters and events alluded to in this story. Aggie is an angel, sent to earth to help out a poor soul. Once there, she has difficulty finding her person to help, while encountering a bunch of strange people, strange events and lots of interesting, though also strange, problems. Still, Aggie trudges on to complete her task, regardless what is thrown at her. After reading the blurb, I expected a sweet story about an angel trying to do her very best. This story was not that at all. Part of my problem reading it was the author’s pedantic style. She definitely likes to paint a good picture of things, from people to places to events, though these often got in my way and were rather lengthy. I found the story moved very slowly. I almost felt as if I had somehow gotten caught up in the descriptions or something else, trying to get past them and back to the story. I have not read anything else by this author, but her style was definitely off-putting to me. This may just be me. I expected a light-hearted tale and found something else. I received this from Library Thing to read and provide an honest review.