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"Rich in paranoia, fear, and runs along at a frantic pace . . . creepy and utterly compelling! It may well be the best YA paranormal fantasy book I read this year." --"Teen Librarian"
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Every atrocity. Every war. Every act of vengeance. One fallen angel walks the earth to bring mankind to its destruction...Turning love into hate, forgiveness into blame, hope into despair. Through the fires of hell he will come to haunt one girl's dreams. But what if everything she ever dreamed was true? Every time Cassie Smith tries to sleep, she is plagued by visions of a death: A little girl called Zillah. A victim of the holocaust. In desperation Cassie is sent for treatment in an old manor house. There she meets other children just like her. Including Seth...Seth who looks so familiar. Her dream becomes nightmare. And then reality.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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I finished this book over a week ago now, but I've been unable to fathom how to review it. I mean, I really enjoyed this book; it has big themes, a strong female heroine and its pretty dark for teenage fiction. Yet something niggled at the back of my mind, telling me that nothing I possibly say could get across how much I like Angel's Fury.
All right, so maybe I should start with the protagonist. Cassie Farrier is having nightmares, those terrible nightmares where you wake up terrified, only hers are about one-hundred times worse than anyone else's. (Apart from the dream I had where my father drove me off the side of a multi-storey car park, that was pretty horrendous, and I refused to speak to him for a week afterwards.) Yet she soon begins to realise that what she's seeing in her dream actually happened.
There was something incredibly real about Cassie. The way she spoke, and behaved, you could imagine yourself feeling the same uncertainty, and I have to say that if I were her, I think I'd have fallen down at the first hurdle. The characterisation of Cassie could have gone way over the top, yet it didn't, she did what all teenagers do when they think there's something wrong with them: she hid it. She kept everything bottled up, and I think this is another reason I enjoyed Cassie's character.
The book also has an incredibly fast-pace. If you wanted to, you could finish it within a few hours. This was another of those books where I held my breath and didn't realise I was doing so until I was completely out of breath. It encompasses a thriller, a romance and fantasy fiction, as well as making the reader debate about the possibility of reincarnation.
You might be shying away at the mention of romance in teenage novel, but in this novel, it's tentative, and isn't the be all and end all of the world. Seth and Cassie's lives are intertwined in a big way, but there's a rather hefty question over whether they can be together or not, and I was pleased how Pearce handled the relationship, and the repercussions their past lives have on them now.
There are a great many cultural references that give the characters depth. Cassie isn't reading Wuthering Heights she's reading a Meg Cabot novel, and in my opinion this is much more believable for a teenager. Then we have the mention of Blackadder Goes Forth, and its finale, and how it would affect Cassie, and that, to me, was just brilliant.
Throughout the novel, I was unsure who Cassie could trust. Pearce keeps the reader waiting until the last possible moment before revealing who the villain of the piece is, and it was a big `oh yeah, I should have seen that coming moment.'
I met Bryony at a signing on the 16th July and she's extremely kind and approachable and offered me book recommendations. She even led me around Waterstones looking for a book, and yes, I am now the proud owner of a signed copy of Angel's Fury.
Until next time, that is all.
I finished this book over a week ago now, but I've been unable to fathom how to review it. I mean, I really enjoyed this book; it has big themes, a strong female heroine and its pretty dark for teenage fiction. Yet something niggled at the back of my mind, telling me that nothing I possibly say could get across how much I like Angel's Fury.
All right, so maybe I should start with the protagonist. Cassie Farrier is having nightmares, those terrible nightmares where you wake up terrified, only hers are about one-hundred times worse than anyone else's. (Apart from the dream I had where my father drove me off the side of a multi-storey car park, that was pretty horrendous, and I refused to speak to him for a week afterwards.) Yet she soon begins to realise that what she's seeing in her dream actually happened.
There was something incredibly real about Cassie. The way she spoke, and behaved, you could imagine yourself feeling the same uncertainty, and I have to say that if I were her, I think I'd have fallen down at the first hurdle. The characterisation of Cassie could have gone way over the top, yet it didn't, she did what all teenagers do when they think there's something wrong with them: she hid it. She kept everything bottled up, and I think this is another reason I enjoyed Cassie's character.
The book also has an incredibly fast-pace. If you wanted to, you could finish it within a few hours. This was another of those books where I held my breath and didn't realise I was doing so until I was completely out of breath. It encompasses a thriller, a romance and fantasy fiction, as well as making the reader debate about the possibility of reincarnation.
You might be shying away at the mention of romance in teenage novel, but in this novel, it's tentative, and isn't the be all and end all of the world. Seth and Cassie's lives are intertwined in a big way, but there's a rather hefty question over whether they can be together or not, and I was pleased how Pearce handled the relationship, and the repercussions their past lives have on them now.
There are a great many cultural references that give the characters depth. Cassie isn't reading Wuthering Heights she's reading a Meg Cabot novel, and in my opinion this is much more believable for a teenager. Then we have the mention of Blackadder Goes Forth, and its finale, and how it would affect Cassie, and that, to me, was just brilliant.
Throughout the novel, I was unsure who Cassie could trust. Pearce keeps the reader waiting until the last possible moment before revealing who the villain of the piece is, and it was a big `oh yeah, I should have seen that coming moment.'
I met Bryony at a signing on the 16th July and she's extremely kind and approachable and offered me book recommendations. She even led me around Waterstones looking for a book, and yes, I am now the proud owner of a signed copy of Angel's Fury.
Until next time, that is all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Angel's Fury whilst being aimed at a teenage audience certainly deserves much wider recognition. This is the debut novel from Bryony Pearce and it's a very confident start. Cassie is a feisty loner who suffers vivid nightmares and through a quirk of fate discovers that not all of her dreams are fiction. From there we are sent on a spiralling journey as Cassie tries to make sense of her dreams , discovers past secrets and finds herself in serious peril. As her life starts to come apart at the seams a mysterious doctor from her past comes to help her. Cassie then learns that her own fate is entwined with the past and a particularly determined villain is hell bent on carrying out his quest and it won't just affect Cassie but all of us. Angel's Fury is well written with well rounded out characters. Our heroine Cassie is very identifiable and the supporting characters are more than just background.. The villain is truly memorable and there are more than a few shocks and chills on the way. I myself am a particularly slow reader but even I couldn't put the last third of the book down. I had to follow it to its conclusion. If I have one criticism it is that the book has been marketed to the "Twilight" crowd which is exclusively aimed at teenage girls, but boys will enjoy this book too and certainly adults. It deserves to stand on its own as it's a very well-crafted story. I heartily recommend it to all age groups.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Angel's Fury is not the genre of book I would normally read but I have been very pleasantly surprised by it. When it arrived in the post I decided to have a quick look at the first chapter intending to put it aside for another day to read the rest since it wasn't my kind of book anyway. Just a few sentences in I was hooked and finding any excuse to stop what I should be doing to read some more. The characters and story are so real I found myself thinking about the story even when I wasn't reading it. There is enough historical fact to make the potentially implausible seem perfectly possible and I strongly recommend not starting the last section of this book without the time to finish it- a very late night was spent in my house because I simply could not leave the book unfinished.
Overall this is a brilliant book and I look forward to more from the author.
Overall this is a brilliant book and I look forward to more from the author.
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Angel's Fury
Cassie suffers horrific and vivid nightmares that make her terrified of falling asleep as she knows she will wake up screaming. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Sarah Gibson
*****
From the moment I read the blurb I knew that I wanted to read this, however, the story is not what I expected. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Emma
A compulsory read
Managed to read this even with the kids around, whilst on holiday, couldn't put it down. Loved it from begining to end, a great read, twists and turns with an unassuming ending,... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Sutty
Blown away by this book
I am a slow reader and often start a book, then put it down. With Angel's Furry, I started it and was hooked immediately! I threw it in my bag and read it every spare minute I got. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Steph McG
Excellent read
I really, really enjoyed this read. It was so original I couldn't not.
It had everything I like in a book. Read more
It had everything I like in a book. Read more
Published 8 months ago by GloriousBooks
Angel with a difference
Well this was a rather dark book that I really wasn't expecting! Very good, but very dark. In fact, the story line completely took me by surprise as I was expecting something along... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Vivienne Serendipity
Hard to put down.
I wasn't quite sure what to expect before I actually read the book, but I found it to be a thoroughly enjoyable read. Read more
Published 8 months ago by David Sheppard
Angel's Fury
I was drawn into this book straight away by the fast pace of the writing, the interesting and well drawn characters and the originality of the ideas. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Paula Walsh-Howe
Original Debut
Written in first person narrative from Cassie's point of view. Sleep deprived and barely functioning due to her recurring nightmares, I could literally feel the weight of her... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Book Angel Emma
Original and, well, awesome
ANGEL'S FURY was engaging from the very first page. It's highly original and thought provoking. It's exactly the type of book I love to read: memorable characters, page-turning... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Mrs. S. Grant
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