Heaven by Alexandra Adornetto
★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆
Three/five stars
I was really looking forward to finally reading Heaven as I
really enjoyed the first two books in the Halo series. Unfortunately, this book
just didn’t do it for me. There wasn’t an obvious plot and the characters
annoyed me so much. The romance was crappy, cheesy and over the top. I don’t
even know what to say about this book, I was that disappointed.
Bethany and Xavier love each other, no matter what. No one
can get in the way of their relationship and love; except the Sevens, rogue
angels sent from Heaven. Everything was going smoothly with Beth and Xavier’s
relationship, until they slip up, yet again. The two of them were only thinking
of themselves and didn’t bother to think about the consequences. Within the first four chapters, the couple
make a stupid decision, act too quickly, are the cause death and are on the
run. From there onwards, the book goes significantly downhill and ridiculous.
Xavier and Beth encounter scary angels and so much other shit that I can’t even
remember. Adornetto constantly had something happening in the book, but for
some reason, it didn’t appeal to me. There were too many obstacles and it was
very hard to keep track of. Heaven was not enjoyable.
Ok, so in case you haven’t already guessed, I did not like
Heaven. It was sloppy and too fast paced. Usually, fast paced is good; but not
in this case. It was stupid. The characters barely had time to catch their breath
before they had to go off on some dangerous mission or encounter more scary rogue angels. The plot (wait,
what plot?!), was… crap. There was way too much happening in the book at all
times and I didn’t enjoy it. My brain was vomiting back the crap I was reading.
Bethany annoyed me so much. I liked her, even though she was
a naïve little thing, in Halo, and I thought that she handled her situations in
Hades well, but in Heaven she was weak. She was reckless and weak, a typical YA
character. I liked her in the first chapter or so, and then she just turned to
crap. In the middle of the book, she didn’t really mean anything to me, but
towards the end, I was ready to kill her. She was stupid, weak, selfish and
reckless. I strongly disliked Beth.
Normally Xavier was the big knight in shining armour guy,
but he didn’t do anything for me this time around. He was almost as reckless
and selfish as Beth.
The only characters I actually liked were Gabriel, Ivy and
Molly.
Molly’s boyfriend, Wade, had a part in the story too. He
turned out to be a reasonable, if useless, part of the story, but he was a character.
What he did towards the end of the books was… stupid, but I thought that
something else would happen with him. Like maybe he, too, like the Sevens, was
on the hunt for Beth, or something. But he pretty much just trashed their
house, and then he wasn’t in the book anymore. I was expecting some epic finale
between them all but… nope.
The ending was… suspenseful. Actually, I think it was the
only part of the book I liked. Beth actually did something useful, and was
actually alright. The ending was also very abrupt. Not that that was a bad
thing because I didn’t like the book, but still. I think it could’ve ended
better. Even my friend, who liked the book, agreed.
Overall I was very
disappointed with this book. I was highly anticipating Heaven, but it let me
down. I didn’t like the characters, and didn’t understand the sorry excuse for
a plot.
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