Rob Tobin
Living with Angels
God Wars, Book #1
Review brought to you by OBS Staff Member Angie
This book was as Sci-Fi as you can get. About the only Supernaturals missing were the Vamps and the Wolves… but this is just book one in the series.
It started out interestingly enough as we meet our lead, 17 year old Diana Jalinowski, who is at the end of a gymnastics meet that could determine whether she gets to compete in the Olympics.. She’s a talented gymnast who has been using her “power” to perform stunts at meets that defy the body’s physical limits. Diana volunteers with mentally disabled children and one afternoon a group of thugs tease the kids she’s watching and she humiliates them with her powers. This leads to one of the thugs getting revenge by running her family’s car off the road one day killing both of her parents and leaving her paralyzed.
Fast forward 8 years and we find a very angry, bitter Diana working in a law office helping abuse victims prosecute their abusers. When one woman, a black woman who has converted to Muslim, won’t admit that her boyfriend is abusing her (then why is she in the law office to begin with?) Diana gives her a history lesson on Muslims enslaving the Africans long before the whites came along. It’s a very violent, high-drama scene that ends with Diana telling off her boss, her client, and anyone else who will listen. This is just the beginning of the overly dramatic, sarcastic, bitter dialogue we get from Diana.
As the book progresses we meet her college professor who winds up being a demon, her therapist who is actually an Angel and the aliens that orchestrate the war that is to end human kind.
I did not enjoy this book at all. The characters were not developed, the story line was choppy and forced, and the plot was completely non-relatable. The author constantly used “the F word” to get his point across and that, coupled with the totally superfluous sex scene, were only distracting. I really wonder if that’s the way an Angel would behave.
I won’t be reading Book Two.
