Halo (Halo, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Published in 2010
485
Novel • Fiction
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Science Fiction•
RomanceVenus Cove, Georgia coast, United States, in the contemporary era.
2010
Feiwel & Friends
Hardcover • 2010
12+ years
HL810L
Three angels descend to Earth to bring goodness to a world threatened by darkness: warrior Gabriel, healer Ivy, and inexperienced, unusually human Bethany. While hiding their powers and wings and avoiding mortal attachments, they settle in a small town. But Bethany is drawn to Xavier Woods, forcing her to navigate a forbidden romance that may endanger both their heavenly mission and herself.
Romantic
Fantastical
Dark
Suspenseful
Challenging
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Reviewers praise Adornetto’s graceful, image-rich prose, subtle humor, and imaginative depiction of an angel adjusting to human life. One also finds the plot cohesive and the overall book charming. Critics, however, say those descriptive strengths become excessive, leaving the nearly 500-page novel wordy, repetitive, and slow. Bethany’s dependence on her love interest and the romance’s limited chemistry draw further objections, while another reviewer is troubled by the story’s association of whiteness with goodness and Blackness with evil.
Halo is best suited to readers 12 and older who enjoy young adult paranormal romance, angel mythology, and love stories entwined with a struggle against evil. The opening follows three angels sent to help the world, focusing on inexperienced Bethany as she becomes drawn to a mortal boy. Readers who favor atmosphere and romantic intensity over brisk action may be the strongest match: one reviewer found the story slow, heavily descriptive, and more focused on its romance than its plot.
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A human high-school student with a troubled past whose powerful mutual attraction with Bethany threatens the angels’ heavenly mission.
Bethany’s archangel sibling and a warrior sent by Heaven who takes a teaching position at the local Venus Cove school.
Bethany’s healer sibling, sent with Gabriel and Bethany to oppose darkness; on Earth, she begins doing volunteer work.
A manipulative transfer student who takes an immediate interest in Bethany and begins drawing her classmates toward dark influences.
The first girl Bethany meets at school, Molly welcomes her by inviting the inexperienced angel to meet her friends.
A student connected to Bethany’s school whose experience demonstrates that threatening supernatural darkness has reached the local teenagers.
The demonic power behind the dark work that Gabriel, Ivy, and Bethany have been dispatched to oppose in Venus Cove.
485
Novel • Fiction
•
Science Fiction•
RomanceVenus Cove, Georgia coast, United States, in the contemporary era.
2010
Feiwel & Friends
Hardcover • 2010
12+ years
HL810L
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