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Review: Angel of Vengeance by Trevor O. Munson
Filed in 2 1/2 Stars , Review , The Geeky Lover , Trevor Munson Posted on February 7, 2011 @ 3:00 pm
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Format Read: paperback provided by the publisher
Number of Pages: 288 pages
Release Date: February 1th 2011
Publisher: Titan Books
Formats Available: Paperback
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website(facebook), Goodreads, Book Depository, Amazon.com
Book Blurb:
The novel that inspired the TV series Moonlight puts a twist on the classic Dracula vampire tale and blends it with Chandler hardboiled P.I. detective fiction.
LA-based P.I. and vampire Mick Angel has been hired by a beautiful red-headed burlesque dancer to find her missing sister. But the apparently simple case of a teenage runaway is soon complicated by drug dealers, persistent cops, murder, and Mick’s own past. Mick must learn the hard way what every vampire should know – nothing stays buried for ever, especially not the past.
My Thoughts:
A book about Mick from the CBS series Moonlight? Hell yes, I had to read this one. Angel of Vengeance is not really like a tv series but not only because of the different story. The whole feel of the setting and characters is much darker- I, with my humble genre knowledge, would say it’s a noir story.
We find ourself in Mick Angel’s POV from the first page. He is in essence the same guy from the series but he doesn’t feel like it. He’s darker, moodier and not at all as nice and good as this guy. For me it was rather hard to associate with Mick as a character. In my eyes this is one of the main problems with novels written in first person- if you can’t find a connection to the main protagonist you lose too much interest in the novel as a whole. That is was happened to me. Yes I wanted to know how the real Mick worked but I never really felt him as a new character. The Mick we get to know in Angel of Vengeance wasn’t fleshed out enough for me- he felt to simple. I think this mostly resulted out of the second problem I had with this novel: the writing itself wasn’t descriptive enough. Mostly it was just telling what happens and I really prefer when I actually see what happens. I’m not a huge fan of I did this then I did that and so on. At times the writing was a bit too rocky for my taste and it didn’t really made me want to read more.
The plot of Angel of Vengeance was intriguing- it shows us more of Mick and how he really is. We watch him working on a case and we get some flashbacks to his past with Coraline. I really enjoyed those. For all those Moonlight fans out there: unfortunately no Beth in this story and Angel of Vengeance definitely is a NO romance novel so don’t expect to find love and a HEA in this one.
Angel of Vengeance is a new and different view of Mick. If you don’t expect it to be like the series you will enjoy this one. It’s not like anything I read before. If you enjoy the darker side in novels this book is what you should get.
I give Angel of Vengeance 2,5 out of 5 bookies.
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Eh I think I will definitely stay with reruns of the tv show. I'm to much of a romance lover to like this book 😉
And I'm sorry, but that cover makes me laugh!
@Chelsea B Yes I agree about all you said. 😉
I have to admit I've never seen the TV series as I thought it was too similar to Angel (or at least how Angel started out!). I didn't realise it was based on a book! Not sure I'll be picking it up though – thanks for the review!
@Mel I didn't know about the book either. Not sure about the similarities with Angel though. 😉
i just found out today that they released the book in Feb. I wassss soooo glad! Feel like shouting to the world but when I read the name, oh my… Mick Angel… not my Mick St. John. I'm so disappointed to read that there's no Beth here. I guess i dont need this book, i'd rather read the TV series/DVD over and over again.. thanks for the review.
@iamjenai It is good dark uf but not like the show at all. Sorry =(
I LOVED THIS BOOK…THINK OF THIS AS PRE BETH, AND WHY HE TELLS HER HE WAS A MONSTER. JUST ENJOY THE STORY AS IS, AND DON'T EXPECT "MOONLIGHT" IT IS A PAGE TURNER AND COULDN'T PUT THE BOOK DOWN..I HAD TO SEE WHAT WAS HAPPENING NEXT…ITS TRAGIC, BUT IT IS ALSO FUNNY IN PARTS,,I JUST LOVED LEH ROY….JUST TRY IT, YOU WON'T BE SORRY…
When I saw "The novel that inspired the TV series Moonlight" I thought yay!
Then I read your review and thought, ahh no.
The guy on the cover looks like he is about to sneeze or has just smelt something bad, not very scary.
I think I might try this book anyway, just to see if I do like it or not.
@NANA Lucky we all don't like the same books. Would be boring 😉
@natalie23 Yes about the sneezing. And I think this one of those you love or not so much. You know what I mean?