Cynthia Hand's intro into the paranormal YA world was a great one, a great take on angels and a romance (even love triangle, gasp!) I could truly get into. Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.Unearthly was my first review kicking off my blog, and I really enjoyed it. Evaluation: This is a very entertaining, self-mocking series with plenty of good romance and both human and angel angst. We should all have such problems! But alas, we don’t, and Clara does, and she has to decide what is best to do to fulfill her destiny as well as satisfy her heart. Tucker, as sweet and romantic as he can be, goes at it over Clara with Christian, who also happens to be sweet and romantic.

The fact that both types of angels compete for the loyalty of the half-bloods becomes very important because of Clara’s resentful and rebellious younger brother Jeffrey. In the dream, they are going to a funeral, and Clara knows she is profoundly sad, but she doesn’t know yet whose funeral it is.Meanwhile, Clara and Christian get to be friends (much to Tucker’s chagrin), and Clara learns a lot more about angel “society.” There are some confrontations with a “black wing” (a fallen angel) and some lessons from a full-blooded (non-fallen) angel.

Again, Christian is a part of them rather than Tucker. She worries about the repercussions, but so far, all that has happened is that she has new visions. At the end of book one, Clara, who is now 17, defied her visions (which putatively are to direct her toward her purpose as an angel-blood) in order to rescue her boyfriend Tucker from a big fire instead of going first to rescue Christian, the boy in her visions. Note: This book contains a mild spoiler for book one (but NOT the big reveal), and no spoilers for this book, book twoThis is book two of the “Unearthly” series about teenagers who are part angels, and their problems they have because of this mixed status (see my review of book one, here).

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