This book should have been titled "Miraculous Car Saves by Archangel Michael" because 2/3 of this book is about people's cars: people avoiding car accidents, people walking away from otherwise fatal car accidents, people's cars being miraculously 'healed' so they don't actually need a new transmission, people's cars not slipping on ice, people hearing voices and seeing lights while in their cars - it's all about the cars!!
Reading directly after finishing the Healing Miracles of Archangel Raphael, the start of the book where you get introduced to the archangel and the whole concept, and the part dealing with children, were pretty much identical. You just get some new stories from people, but the info is all the same - a necessary evil in a sort-of series; I'm not knocking it, just know you'll probably want to skim through the start if you're familiar with Virtue's work.
I kind of had a laugh with her bit on child mediums, though, where all these kids either already knew about the archangels and had been getting protection and help before their parents thought about it, or the kids get introduced to archangels by their parents and everything's smooth sailing thereafter. All the kid mediums I've met or heard of (which is in the dozens), and my own childhood dealing with night terrors and specters, have never had encounters with angels. It felt sort of like that moment in Supernatural where the angels just sort of pop up out of nowhere and we're all standing here saying: they don't exist! if they do, where have they been our whole lives? Because no such thing ever happened for us. In fact, my sister and I were given a prayer, the whole 'defend us in battle' chestnut, from *our* parents. And when we were scared and had things in our room reciting that bit actually made it worse and seemed to invite things in. That's really been our whole experience with Christianity, actually: the more you pray to the angels or Jesus for help, the worse the whole thing gets, and we're just not going there.
I do have to admit that I felt more skeptical than usual reading these - not least because right when I'm finally getting to read them, I've given up on the whole idea. I spent some months this year believing in angels and all that, and never once had an experience comparable to anything in here. No divine guidance, sparkles of light, feathers in your path, warmth and healing. A lot of pretty earnest believing went into it, but any healing I asked for felt cold and terrifying and left me shivering under a blanket asking for it to stop. I don't know what I ended up tapping into, but I've quit the arena and I'm not coming back to the idea of angels.
Overall, a quick and easy read. Another kind of 'meh' book: you just read through a lot of accounts of experiences, and that's about it. That is what the title advertises, but I dunno, I just thought there would be more to it at some point. There were a LOT of stories that felt like there were plenty of perfectly natural alternatives to them, rather than immediately attributing them to angel interference. Even if you really like this angel, this doesn't feel like a requirement for your angel library, since it's just accounts of other people, rather than personal guidance to do anything or further insight into the angel, apart from the idea that he's also a mechanic.