Emmy
Baxter, a fifteen-year-old, is attacked by demons who threaten to kill she her
if she doesn't reveal her dark secret; a secret buried so deeply, Emmy doesn't
realize she knows it. Emmy - a bookish, witty student - is rescued by six
teenaged angels with powers, called Guardians. They've been sent to elicit the
secret from her before the demons can. Emmy later learns that her name is the
only clue to locating a sought-after bridge that for centuries, Evil has
plotted to destroy; this would in turn bring about the end of humanity.
Things
get worse when Emmy falls madly in love with Marcus, the well-intentioned but
obstinate leader of the Guardians. He eventually confesses that he is in love
with her as well. Unfortunately, Marcus has been warned by his clairvoyant and
omniscient guide that should he and Emmy get together, the mission will fail
and humanity will perish.
- Number of pages: 342
REVIEW
Amazing. I have chills. These chills can only come about by one
thing: a really good book.
And that is exactly what it was. I was asked about a month
back to read a book by an author. The book seemed interesting enough from the
summary, but lately I’ve been drowning in a sea of previous school obligations.
It’s safe to say that I have not picked up a book in a long, long time. And I
am sorry that it took so long because this book was simply amazing. I loved it
from start to finish. Not a single moment happened when I wasn’t thoroughly entertained.
It was a very good book. I thought that the beginning was flawless. There was
complete control as to how much thrilling suspense, sarcastic humor, and heroic
action were put into it all. This is a book series for one thing, so the ending
was like “ . . . are you kidding me? WHAT HAPPENS?!!?” I was left screaming
into my pillow at 2:30 in the morning.
To start off I just want to say that what really struck me
about this book was mostly the originality. Something about this story seems to
strike unique from the beginning. You can’t really say that about YA books
lately. We can all say that we like those books well enough, but when a book
comes out that defies the usual you can’t help but thoroughly enjoy it and
crave more of it. This is an angel story. Seems played out, but not really, not
the way Lola wrote it. Let’s start off with the heroin. Emmy is a nerdy
teenager who happens to be the key to saving the entire world. Seems logical
enough, right? Well it’s not, nor is the fact that the head angel leader is the
perfect definition of a story’s heroic male lead character. A cool thing
about the way this book was written was how the first couple of chapters is is
all in the point of view of Emmy, then the next few chapters start all over
again from the beginning of the book with the exception that it is all through
the eyes of Marcus (the really amazing angel guy that is perfect), and then
once both parts catch up to each other it goes back to Emmy. That isn’t
something you see that often in books. Admittedly there were some parts in
Marcus’ section that really bugged me, and I felt really slowed down the story.
That was a big part of just explaining everything about the world of the angels
and the demons, and there was a lot to explain.
And it had some very cool fighting scenes. When the story
decided to get scary, it got scary. When it decided to get sad, it got really sad. And when it decided to get funny, I laughed out loud. There are six angels
in total and I loved each and every single one of them. All their personalities were great,
some were funny, some were thoughtful and considerate, some were sweet, it was
a great combo all together. Well,
maybe except one, but you’ll see once you read this book. And you will. Read this
book, I mean. Because if you don’t you will be missing out. From 1-10? I give
Guardians book confident 9
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