Review: Angel's Feather

Angel's Feather by Alina Popescu
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Reading Angel's Feather was like listening to grumblings of a teenager on an essay topic. The setting is interesting, but the world building is completely absent, like the said teenager expects the reader to read her mind and imagine exactly what she meant. The characters development is likewise lacking, they are all crude and grotesque. It all feels rushed, with none of the parts - characters, plot, setting - important. The whole thing seems to exist to shout out moralistic sentences. Just like an essay of a teenage maximalist. And the moralistic message is way too straight forward, there is absolutely no subtleness involved. The book also fails to be a real book in the sense that this first volume of the series-to-be ends with cliff hunger, leaving all of the characters at a sort of a dead end, with no logical way out of their situation. Expect more magic in the second installment...
And on top of all this, the idea of an entire species of "angels" equipped with fully functioning human male reproductive organs, which they have no inclination to use (don't even know how), made me laugh for a very long time, thus negating any erotic component of the book.

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