Wicked Nights (Angels of the Dark, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Oct 27, 2011 Shawna rated it really liked it

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4 stars – Paranormal Romance

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Oct 20, 2012 Kimberly rated it really liked it

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So to review; when I’m kidnapped, abducted, rescued, whatever you want to call it, I want a closet full of clothes that fit so I can dress up for dinner and I now want to be sent to a cloud that will give me whatever I ask for. I hope this cloud also has access to my Kindle and iPad downloads.

I had fun with this book. Zacharel was a hoot. I don’t remember him from the LotU books though. I must have glanced over his parts. Ha! Glanced over his parts! That was funny!
Anyway, I liked him and I also ...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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Since Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series has lingered on my TBR pile seemingly forever, when Wicked Nights was sent to me for review I was looking forward to finally reading something by this popular paranormal romance author. Angels of The Dark is a new series featuring a group of warrior angels on the brink of being banished from heaven. I understand that Zacharel, who is featured in this book, has briefly appeared in the LOTU series. In Wicked Nights, Zacharel, the leader of a po Since Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld series has lingered on my TBR pile seemingly forever, when Wicked Nights was sent to me for review I was looking forward to finally reading something by this popular paranormal romance author. Angels of The Dark is a new series featuring a group of warrior angels on the brink of being banished from heaven. I understand that Zacharel, who is featured in this book, has briefly appeared in the LOTU series. In Wicked Nights, Zacharel, the leader of a powerful warrior unit made up of miscreant angels, rescues Annabelle, a human marked by a demon, from an institution for the criminally insane in which she has been incarcerated for four years. Together the pair battle to stay alive under an onslaught of demons at the command of Unforgiveness.

The strength for me in this book lay in the characterisation of not only Zacharel and Annabelle but also the minor characters like Thane, Bjorn, Xerxes and Koldo, despite their brief appearances. Zacharel is tormented by the death of his twin brother at his hands and has affected a careless attitude that threatens to see him expelled from heaven. Leading a battle unit of equally troublesome angels is his punishment and last chance to redeem himself in the eyes of his Deity. Gorgeous, troubled and tough, Zacharel is the ideal alpha hero.
Annabelle is tormented by the murders of her parents at the hands of a demon and her conviction for their murder. Sentenced to life in an asylum she has spent four long years fighting off attacks by demons and at the mercy of the perverts on staff. She has however never given up and I liked her determined, feisty attitude.
There is an element of 'fated mate' to the romance between Zacharel and Annabelle but it isn't dominant and surprisingly both are a lot less subservient to their attraction than I expected. There is nice balance of tenderness and heat though I did expect something a little more explicit for some reason.
For me though the plot was too thin, relying heavily on the romance to provide conflict though I did enjoy the twist near the end. Some sections drag and feel repetitive and overall I felt the page count overreached the storyline.

I am sure LOTU fans will be delighted with this new series (and some of the boys and their mates have a cameo scene or two) but it wasn't strong enough for me to be anything other than mildly entertained. ...more

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Dec 02, 2012 Adele rated it really liked it

oh my!
this is my first Gena Showalter book. and what a book it was.

imagine being attacked and having you parents killed right in front of you by a monster....a real monster.
nobody would believe you.
this is what happened to annabelle.
Accused of her parents murder and sent to an asylum for the criminally insane.
she now sees more and more monsters, and kills them too but nobody else sees them until a real angel visits her.
Zacherel is a cold heartless angel with the role purpose of being in charge ...more

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