Title: Immortal
City
Author: Scott Speer
Series: Immortal City
Published: 5 April 2012 by Scholastic
Length: 405 pages
Source: won
Other info: Sequel,
Natural Born Angel, is available now.
Summary : Jackson
Godspeed is the hottest young Angel in a city filled with them.
He's days away from becoming a full Guardian, and people around the world are already competing for the chance to be watched over by him. Everyone's obsessed with the Angels and the lucky people they protect - everyone except for Madison Montgomery.
Maddy's the one girl in Angel City who doesn't breathlessly follow the Angels on TV and gossip blogs. When she meets Jackson, she doesn't recognize him. But Jackson is instantly captivated by her, and against all odds the two fall in love.
Maddy is swiftly caught up in Jackson's scene, a world of glamour, paparazzi - and murder. A serial killer is on the loose, leaving dead Angels' wings for the police to find on the Walk of Fame. Even the Guardians are powerless to protect themselves in the face of this threat & and this time it's up to Maddy to save Jackson.
He's days away from becoming a full Guardian, and people around the world are already competing for the chance to be watched over by him. Everyone's obsessed with the Angels and the lucky people they protect - everyone except for Madison Montgomery.
Maddy's the one girl in Angel City who doesn't breathlessly follow the Angels on TV and gossip blogs. When she meets Jackson, she doesn't recognize him. But Jackson is instantly captivated by her, and against all odds the two fall in love.
Maddy is swiftly caught up in Jackson's scene, a world of glamour, paparazzi - and murder. A serial killer is on the loose, leaving dead Angels' wings for the police to find on the Walk of Fame. Even the Guardians are powerless to protect themselves in the face of this threat & and this time it's up to Maddy to save Jackson.
Review: This
world knows about the existence of angels, and the angels make a profit of it.
Jackson Godspeed is a rising star in this world, and every girl wants to date
him. Apart from Maddy. Guess who ends up the lucky girl? Anyway, among that,
someone’s killing angels. And going by the pattern, Jackson’s next.
I generally love the world that has been set up here. The
angels are wonderfully consumerist, refusing to save a guy from a car crash
when they save the one sitting beside him because the first one didn’t have
insurance. They’re also humanlike in other ways, chasing after celebrity and
fame over the things that you would normally associate angels with. And in
Jackson’s case, falling to emotions.
Maddy and Jackson are good characters that make a great
couple. I like the fact that she’s not totally lovelorn with the angels, and
that he cares enough for Maddy to majorly defy what’s expected of him in a
society guided so tightly.
It was well paced. Something was always happening and I
never found myself getting bored with the plot or world. It’s a little
predictable, but a lot of fun.
I’m still really confused why Jackson was next on the list
of angels. It might have been done by fame, but I don’t think he’d done
anything major in the angel world by
then other than be born pretty. It can’t have been by age, because there was an
older guy before him. It seems like a random plot point to be fussing over, but I must have either missed
it or not had it explained, and I get a bit picky over things like this,
I’m glad there’s room for a
sequel, what with the reveal of the antagonist. And then there is a
sequel! I’ll read it some time.
Overall: Strength 4 tea to a starry supernatural
romance with a good murder mystery added in too.
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