Title: Beloved Purgatory
Series: Fallen
Angels
Author: Katherine
Pine
Previous
Books in Series: After Eden
Rating: 3
stars
Length: 5117
Kindle units (includes preview of another book)
Refresher: A sweet love story between a girl and a
demon, if you can get past him shooting her in chapter 14.
I have to
confess that I was quite disappointed in Beloved
Purgatory. Once you got past the near-homicide and the creep factor of Oz
occasionally becoming a teenage girl, After
Eden was a pretty good book. In Beloved
Purgatory, I had a hard time following what was going on most of the time.
There was a lot of traveling through planes of existence through the school gym
and Forneus’s house, and I couldn’t keep track of all the insufficiently
described sides to the angel and demon war.
I read a lot
of books about angels and demons. I actually find I prefer them to werewolves
and vampires. But there is one very important rule: It is never a good idea to
sell your soul to a demon (or devil, if there is a difference in mythology as
there is here). In every single case, more bad ends up happening than good.
Devi knows this. In fact, from the beginning of After Eden, it’s pretty clear that Forneus wants her soul and that
she shouldn’t let him have it. Yet much of the plot focuses upon Forneus
creating not-particularly-convincing arguments about why Devi should reconsider.
I’m really not even sure why she listens to it; narrative convenience is not a
good reason to consider selling your soul.
We also got a
continuance of the lame plot from the first book of Devi and teenaged-girl-Oz
taking revenge on Devi’s friend Kim’s jerk of an ex-boyfriend. Not only was my
credulity again stretched over why a school principal would have any
jurisdiction over an act of vandalism committed on private property, but we
were also forced to deal with yet another Oz-persona of a four-year-old dressed
up as a dinosaur.
Devi does get
points for dressing up as a zombie cheerleader for Halloween, but that’s only
because of my abiding love for comical zombies. Braaaaaaaains.
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