Angel Evolution

Title: Angel Evolution

Series: The Evolution Trilogy

Author: David Estes

Rating: 3 stars

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal

Number of Pages: 263

Publication Date: 2011

Publisher: Smashwords

Summary: When Taylor meets Gabriel at college, she is in awe of the subtle glow that surrounds him. No one else, not even her best friend seems to notice. Something about him scares her. Is all as it appears? While Taylor struggles for answers, she finds herself in the middle of a century old war centered on one miraculous revelation: evolution.

Angel Evolution by David Estes was a bit of a disappointment for me.

This book follows the story of Taylor who has just begun her first semester at university. Just before her classes begins, Taylor meets Gabriel and discovers he is no ordinary student, he is an angel. But more importantly Gabriel has been sent for Taylor. Taylor has a unique aura that can be harnessed by angels as a weapon. This book takes a new twist on the roles of angels and demons.

First of all let me start off with saying that I loved the first half of the book. The story line is unique and original and draws you into a new and exciting world of angels and demons. Unfortunately the last half let me down.

This book tells the story of Taylor role in the war of angels vs demons but a large portion of this book does not seem to focus on this. At first this is fine as it fits well with where the characters are but eventually it did begin to drag.

For all this I would I have given the book 4 out 5 stars. But then I came across a part of the book that I couldn't overlook: the narration told from Sam and Chris' perspectives. Now I wouldn't be surprised if someone else who has read this book totally disagrees with me, because maybe I am just being fussy...but I found that Sam (Taylor's best friend) and Chris' (a demon) perspectives could easily be mistaken for those of Taylor and Gabriel.

I felt that Estes failed to create four distinguishable and different characters. While Sam and Taylor could be expected to have similar views, they are after all best friends, the similarities in perspective for Gabriel and Chris should have been completely different. I mean, one's an angel and one's a demon. As the story progressed I did begin to see some differences in the characters, but they were still too similar for me.

But I really loved the story line of the book, so I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.