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An Angel's Touch
Daemon's Angel
THE SAINT
Cast to the mortal realm by an evil sorceress, Arina had more than her share of problems. She was trapped in a temptress;s body, tormented by untested passions, and doomed to lose any man she desired. Yet even as Arina yearned for the safety of the pearly gates, she found paradise in the arms of a Norman mercenary.
THE SINNER
The villagers said Daemon was the devil's son, but he was only a man plagued by strange dreams—visions of a tantalizing beauty who enchanted him like no other. Then the enticing stranger appeared in the flesh, and he vowed nothing between heaven and earth would keep them aprat. But to savor the joys of her very own angel, Daemon would have to battle demons—within and without—and risk his very soul for love.
Cast to the mortal realm by an evil sorceress, Arina had more than her share of problems. She was trapped in a temptress;s body, tormented by untested passions, and doomed to lose any man she desired. Yet even as Arina yearned for the safety of the pearly gates, she found paradise in the arms of a Norman mercenary.
THE SINNER
The villagers said Daemon was the devil's son, but he was only a man plagued by strange dreams—visions of a tantalizing beauty who enchanted him like no other. Then the enticing stranger appeared in the flesh, and he vowed nothing between heaven and earth would keep them aprat. But to savor the joys of her very own angel, Daemon would have to battle demons—within and without—and risk his very soul for love.
378 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1995
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Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Official Chronicles of Nick site
Official Silent Swans site
Official Hunter Legends site
Official Witch of Endor site
Official Lords of Avalon site
Official Facebook site
New York Times and international bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon is a regular at the #1 spot. With legions of fans known as Paladins (thousands of whom proudly sport tattoos from her series and who travel from all over the world to attend her appearances), her books are always snatched up as soon as they appear on store shelves. Since 2004, she had placed more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats including manga and graphic novels. Her current series are: Dark-Hunters, Chronicles of Nick and The League, and her books are available in over 100 countries where eager fans impatiently wait for the next release. Her Chronicles of Nick and Dark-Hunter series are soon to be major motion pictures while Dark-Hunter is also being developed as a television series. Join her and her Paladins online at MySherrilyn.com and www.facebook.com/mysherrilyn
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December 27, 2011
5 stars all the way! This is one of those hard to find classics that you have to read. This book shows how great of a story teller Sherrilyn Kenyon is! And living in the south (transplanted from the west coast), I totally get the religious generalizations & her previous mention of the saraceans. Crosses not Crucifixes etc.
Daemon is born cursed as a bastard son with 2 different colored eyes. He was abandoned and preyed upon by religious zealots his whole life. He had been locked up & beaten/whipped to cast the devil out of him. He was Lucifer's son... no he wasn't, but the people believed that.
Down falls Arina who is a high Angel. A Witch/old Crone casts a curse so Arina may fall in love and lose him just like the Crone did when Arina took her son's soul. Although Arina had no control, the Crone blamed her.
Arina is saved by Daemon, they are tricked into marriage by Baleil, Lucifer's cohart in crime... Baleil's goal is to get Arina's & Daemon's souls so he uses trickery & claims he is Arina's Brother.
This takes place right after the Saxon/Norman war.
If you find this book, it's worth the read. ven if it is falling apart!! Great classic SK read with the bonus of a VERY CHEESY cover - my 15 y/o daughter looked at what I was reading & said it looked sketchy to her!
Daemon is born cursed as a bastard son with 2 different colored eyes. He was abandoned and preyed upon by religious zealots his whole life. He had been locked up & beaten/whipped to cast the devil out of him. He was Lucifer's son... no he wasn't, but the people believed that.
Down falls Arina who is a high Angel. A Witch/old Crone casts a curse so Arina may fall in love and lose him just like the Crone did when Arina took her son's soul. Although Arina had no control, the Crone blamed her.
Arina is saved by Daemon, they are tricked into marriage by Baleil, Lucifer's cohart in crime... Baleil's goal is to get Arina's & Daemon's souls so he uses trickery & claims he is Arina's Brother.
This takes place right after the Saxon/Norman war.
If you find this book, it's worth the read. ven if it is falling apart!! Great classic SK read with the bonus of a VERY CHEESY cover - my 15 y/o daughter looked at what I was reading & said it looked sketchy to her!
June 26, 2021
Arina is an angel responsible for greeting mortals upon their death and sending them on their way. After Raida's son dies, Raida becomes determined to damn Arina, the angel she feels took him away before his time. The old woman makes a deal with Belial, a demon, that curses Arina into a form that's nearly human. The curse will be complete when Arina falls in love with Daemon, a hardened warrior with mismatched eyes, and watches him die.
Initially, Arina has amnesia and can't recall her existence as an angel. As she realizes the truth about her "brother" Belial and the curse, however, she becomes determined to somehow save Daemon's life, even if it means allowing him to think that he's been abandoned and rejected once again.
I bought this back when I was really into Sherrilyn Kenyon's books, but I put off reading it because, while I like fantasy romances, I'm completely disinterested in angels. Now that I've read it...it was terrible. I don't know whether it was the book itself, the angel/demon aspect, or my changed reading tastes, but I won't feel a twinge when this leaves my collection.
I could recognize certain features I recalled from Kenyon's historicals: the over-the-top tormented and rejected hero who had never known love and acceptance of any sort; the loving, beautiful, and otherwise unmemorable heroine (I recall Kenyon's contemporary romance heroines being better in this regard); and the one character who seemed to be set up as sequel bait (in this case Belial, who spent most of the book as a villain and then morphed into a potential tortured future hero for a work that I don't think was ever written).
Like I said, I'm not a fan of angels, but this could still have won me over if I'd enjoyed the romance. Unfortunately, Arina and Daemon's relationship turned out to be very one-note. In an effort to get them to have sex and thereby strip Arina of her angelic powers, Belial cursed Daemon and Arina to lust after each other, which they did from the moment they met. The main reason it took ages for them to finally have sex was because Daemon thought himself to be disfigured and unworthy of Arina.
I spent a third of this book wondering what Daemon's supposed disfigurement was, before I finally realized that it was his mismatched eyes. It was silly and felt like a cop-out on Kenyon's part. Yes, let's make the hero "disfigured" by giving him physical features that readers will likely consider attractive.
At any rate, Daemon grew up being told that his supposed disfigurement was a sign that he was Lucifer's son. If I remember right, he was abandoned at a church and then physically abused by the people there. Although his skills as a warrior later commanded respect, the people around him simultaneously whispered about how cursed and evil he was. The one time a young woman kissed him, her father beat her for it, leaving Daemon with a lifelong fear that anyone who was kind to him might suffer. It was a bit much.
Although readers were told that Daemon and Arina fell in love, their relationship was more lust than romance. I don't recall any truly touching or sweet moments, and Daemon's bitterness when Arina eventually seemed to reject him was utterly predictable.
There was a cute cross-eyed kitten, but it felt out of place. Would a supposedly hardened warrior who didn't plan to settle down really adopt a pet? Anyway, at 375 pages, this outstayed its welcome. There was so little variation in Daemon and Arina's emotional journey that the story could have been told in half that time and probably would have been the better for it.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
Initially, Arina has amnesia and can't recall her existence as an angel. As she realizes the truth about her "brother" Belial and the curse, however, she becomes determined to somehow save Daemon's life, even if it means allowing him to think that he's been abandoned and rejected once again.
I bought this back when I was really into Sherrilyn Kenyon's books, but I put off reading it because, while I like fantasy romances, I'm completely disinterested in angels. Now that I've read it...it was terrible. I don't know whether it was the book itself, the angel/demon aspect, or my changed reading tastes, but I won't feel a twinge when this leaves my collection.
I could recognize certain features I recalled from Kenyon's historicals: the over-the-top tormented and rejected hero who had never known love and acceptance of any sort; the loving, beautiful, and otherwise unmemorable heroine (I recall Kenyon's contemporary romance heroines being better in this regard); and the one character who seemed to be set up as sequel bait (in this case Belial, who spent most of the book as a villain and then morphed into a potential tortured future hero for a work that I don't think was ever written).
Like I said, I'm not a fan of angels, but this could still have won me over if I'd enjoyed the romance. Unfortunately, Arina and Daemon's relationship turned out to be very one-note. In an effort to get them to have sex and thereby strip Arina of her angelic powers, Belial cursed Daemon and Arina to lust after each other, which they did from the moment they met. The main reason it took ages for them to finally have sex was because Daemon thought himself to be disfigured and unworthy of Arina.
I spent a third of this book wondering what Daemon's supposed disfigurement was, before I finally realized that it was his mismatched eyes. It was silly and felt like a cop-out on Kenyon's part. Yes, let's make the hero "disfigured" by giving him physical features that readers will likely consider attractive.
At any rate, Daemon grew up being told that his supposed disfigurement was a sign that he was Lucifer's son. If I remember right, he was abandoned at a church and then physically abused by the people there. Although his skills as a warrior later commanded respect, the people around him simultaneously whispered about how cursed and evil he was. The one time a young woman kissed him, her father beat her for it, leaving Daemon with a lifelong fear that anyone who was kind to him might suffer. It was a bit much.
Although readers were told that Daemon and Arina fell in love, their relationship was more lust than romance. I don't recall any truly touching or sweet moments, and Daemon's bitterness when Arina eventually seemed to reject him was utterly predictable.
There was a cute cross-eyed kitten, but it felt out of place. Would a supposedly hardened warrior who didn't plan to settle down really adopt a pet? Anyway, at 375 pages, this outstayed its welcome. There was so little variation in Daemon and Arina's emotional journey that the story could have been told in half that time and probably would have been the better for it.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
February 28, 2017
I really like the Dark Hunter series so I gave this book a try but I found it extremely dull and had a hard time getting to the end. I just didn't buy the reasons behind the characters' behavior and it felt like the relationship was stuck on the same note for most of the book with no development.
July 23, 2015
Nice romantic story. Keeps you wondering what will happen. Love the twists. Great read. Love Sherrilyn Kenyon's books and this is another one to add to her great collections.
March 10, 2019
It felt like nothing was really happening throughout most of the book. Just the same thing. She doesn't want to be with him and does it anyway. Finally, we get to the good bit at the end and there is hardly any drama. The ending was quick and hardly satisfying. Well, at least they ended up together. Yay?
August 7, 2017
As a book that is now connected to the Hellchasers, a bit disappointing. On its own, a normal quality romance book with some paranormal aspects. If it was a standalone, I would have given it a better mark.
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September 13, 2021!!!! Sherrilyn Kenyon wrote a Love Spell book!!! WHAT
I don't think this will be an easy one to find but I want it so badly.
I don't think this will be an easy one to find but I want it so badly.
April 7, 2022
Daemon’s Angel, released in 1995, is a slow-building romance between Daemon and Arina. Daemon has lived a bitter, tortured life. When Arina enters the earthly plane, she is cursed by a crone who is in league with the demon Belial, each with their own agendas. They keep trying to push Daemon and Arina together and, while the two potential lovers are definitely attracted to each other, there are also reasons why they believe need to remain separate. There is a lot of repetitious inner dialogue or actions on the part of Daemon and Arina: They each want to leave the other behind to "protect" them. They separate; they reunite; they leave; they return; repeat. Their romance isn't really all that exciting so I wasn't vested in whether they ended up together or not. While the ending is somewhat promising, I'm not sure it justifies all the effort it took to get there.
This has been rewritten in 2022 as Shadow Fallen, with the two main characters renamed so they will tie into the Dream-Hunters series. However, the basic storyline is the same.
This has been rewritten in 2022 as Shadow Fallen, with the two main characters renamed so they will tie into the Dream-Hunters series. However, the basic storyline is the same.
June 28, 2010
Daemon is a noble warrior who was an outcast since the day he was born. He was cursed. Out of nowhere an angel falls from heaven cursed by a scorned woman and the demon Belial right into his lands. Tricked by the demon and the woman, the angel and Daemon end up married ...and in love. Would their love damn them both?
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July 30, 2011Early Sherrilyn Kenyon, stumbled across at the library. Not as interesting as the DH series but a fun book. There was a huge continuity issue in the middle, though. The guy's been passed out sick for a week, and she asked him what he was doing last night. But other than that it was fun, and worth the read.
February 13, 2013
creo que es la primera vez que leo a un prota tan falta de confianza en si mismo y mas con el pasado que tiene pero con la llegada de Arina todo cambia y por fin se siente aceptado y querido.
fue una historia romantica pero creo que no avanzaba mucho, leimos lo mismo una y otra vez, al final la fe pudo mas que cualquier cosa...
fue una historia romantica pero creo que no avanzaba mucho, leimos lo mismo una y otra vez, al final la fe pudo mas que cualquier cosa...
February 3, 2013
I may be being unfair to rate this only 3 stars. It didn't hold my attention so I skimmed through the last 1/3 of the book. The characters were good but it seemed to take a long time between important scenes.
July 5, 2014
Absolutely loved this one! As it is no longer in print I had a heck of a time finding it. Was well worth all the online searching, I think I read it in about 2 days. I am eager for the rewrite kenyon is doing, just so I can compare the two versions.
January 29, 2017
This is a rare book from Kenyon and I am soo glad to have found it in Half Price book store. It was a slow start but towardsthe middle is where things got interesting. I'm now on the hunt to find another copy of her rare collection
October 25, 2008
VERY hard to find, but worth it! Dan Brown could learn a thing or two about Angels & Demons in this!
July 29, 2011
I was lucky enough to find this book at a flea market for $1! It's a wonderful book and should be back in print.
December 17, 2013
I want to own this one!!
November 1, 2020
Really....
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