Summary from GoodReads:

When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers – monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell – she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul.

A mysterious boy named Will reveals she is the reincarnation of an ancient warrior, the only one capable of wielding swords of angelfire to fight the reapers, and he is an immortal sworn to protect her in battle. Now that Ellie’s powers have been awakened, a powerful reaper called Bastian has come forward to challenge her. He has employed a fierce assassin to eliminate her – an assassin who has already killed her once.

While balancing her dwindling social life and reaper-hunting duties, she and Will discover Bastian is searching for a dormant creature believed to be a true soul reaper. Bastian plans to use this weapon to ignite the End of Days and to destroy Ellie’s soul, ending her rebirth cycle forever. Now, she must face an army of Bastian’s most frightening reapers, prevent the soul reaper from consuming her soul, and uncover the secrets of her past lives – including truths that may be too frightening to remember.

My Review:

This book reminded me a lot of My Name is Memory by Ann Brasheres – although when I actually start to think about it, the only truly common theme they have is reincarnation.  But I’m getting ahead of myself.

Just a few reviews ago I had said I was giving up books dealing with Angels and I meant it – but I didn’t expect this book to actually include angels in it (silly, huh? I mean, the name IS Angelfire).  I think I was just being stupidly naive!  However, that said, I didn’t have as much of an issue with Moulton’s angels as I did with some angels in other beautifully covered, sadly lacking in plot books out there.

Ellie is a spitfire of a character.  She’s confused (She’s 17, of course she is confused), she has a habit of having bad luck with her cars and she is someone that she never in a million years expected to be.

There is lots and lots of action in this book – lots of flashbacks, lots of romance, lots of good, solid high school moments (I admit to rolling my eyes at the drama and thinking that Moulton has the high school girl psyche down to an artform).  It made for interesting airplane reading, kept me distracted and entertained me – and that’s what a book is supposed to do.

However, there were some drawbacks.  The flashbacks had pages of italicized story (which is admittedly a pet peeve of mine, does anyone else find it hard to read?) and really didn’t contribute that much to the story for me.  There was so much action in Ellie’s actual life that the addition of even more in past lives seemed a bit.. overdone.  Still, that was a minority of the book and I expect there will be lots and lots of squealing from high school girls over Will after Angelfire is released.

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