[ARC Review] Hell of an Angel by Christi Barth
Dark angel and actuary Evangeline Thayer hates taking unnecessary risks, but she knows becoming human will be worth it. All the creatures in Hell have bullied her about her negligible ‘power’ her whole life. And don’t get her started on why she has wings if she can’t even fly?!? She just needs a teensy bit of help with removing her power…which is where a very hot, very flirty, and absolutely infuriating Nephilim comes in.
Half-angel Gideon Durand has been fighting demons a long time, but he’s never heard of a dark angel. Least of all one this gorgeous, stubborn, and with the power to completely nullify evil. Maybe in Hell, that’s a weakness—but with an unknown evil on the loose and murdering Nephilim?—that’s a damned useful skill. So Gideon strikes a deal with Evangeline: he’ll scratch her wings…if she’ll scratch his.
Now good and evil are—temporarily—working together. And might even be having steamy fun…if it wasn’t for a rather inconvenient threat trying to unleash the apocalypse, once and for all.
My thoughts: As each story in Barth's Unlocking His Heart series progresses, I end up loving the characters more and more, and Hell of an Angel was no exception. Between Eva's complicated feelings about her dark angel power, Gideon's character development, and the return of all my favorite characters from the first book, I ended up enjoying this story from start to finish and had a hard time putting it down.
I loved Eva's character arc throughout this book. What started as a plan to rid herself of her dark angel power and become fully human ended up being a much more complicated story about self-discovery and acceptance. While not quite as complex, Gideon certainly had quite a bit of character development as well as he set his sights on Eva and reevaluated his goals in life.
I loved the Nephilim-fueled plot of Imperfect Angel, and I loved how Barth built on that world and expanded on it in this book. I found Barth's writing to be engaging, with just the right balance between action and character arc. I loved the larger plot involving the potential apocalypse, and I can't wait to see what impact the first two books' plots will have on the next story. Gideon and Eva had a fun, entertaining story, and I can't wait to see what's coming for the third and final Nephilim in Christi Barth's Unlocking His Heart series.
[A huge thank you to Entangled for providing a review copy of this title.]
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Release date: 10/23/23
Format: eARC
eARC provided via: NetGalley widget
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