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I do admit that I went about this series backwards. I read the second book (In the Shadow of Monsters) first. I did have a general consensus as to what happened in the first book, but reading the book was so much better than I thought!! I have absolutely fallen in love with Ms. Savage's writing style. I love how she can describe things so well that you can reach through the pages and touch it. In the Shadow of Angels is a novel about a girl who has had a particularly traumatic experience that ends up re-shaping everything she thought she knew. Charlotte is this girl. We have many flashbacks to Charlotte's childhood with her identical twin sister, Emily. Just as Charlotte is beginning to heal from the accident mentally she is thrown for another loop. Henri, I don't particularly like from the get-go. Henri was Charlotte's old flame from her childhood, he comes to Charlotte to give her news about her mom's 'debilitated' health and whisk her to France. All Henri seems to do is lie. The thing is she hasn't seen neither Henri nor her mother for quite some time and she's iffy about the situation. I do not blame her in the slightest. When she arrives in France she meets Aydin. Aydin used to be her Guardian until he slipped up one time and is now serving a cruel punishment. The thing is, Charlotte has no prior knowledge of Aydin being her Guardian because he stayed hidden and out of sight. Aydin may seem hard on the exterior, but once she breaks down some of his walls he is really the sweetest guy ever. I may have fallen for him myself. We do get to see the book from both of their points-of-view. To make things sweeter, we also get to see Aydin's not-so-pretty backstory. I really love this book and now I can make more sense out of the second!! This book does leave on a cliffhanger, but the second book picks up right as it was left off. I highly recommend this book to those who are mature enough and who like a little mythology, vampires, and a little romance!!!


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In the Shadow of Angels The Guardian Series 1 eBook Fanny Lee Savage Reviews

In the Shadow of Angels (The Guardian Series, #1) by Fanny Lee Savage
Disclaimer I received a free copy of this book for an honest, non-reciprocal review.

I will review this novel as a quarter / quarter / half. The first 25% introduces Charlotte Duval, working as a maid in down at heel motel, spending most of her free evenings trawling the bars of her Florida home for booze and men. I found this quarter of the book a good introduction to the current life and back story of Charlotte, making her a sympathetic character and also providing good portraits of her current and past friends and family.

It’s the next 25% where my interest slipped a little, Charlotte travels to France to visit her terminally ill mother and the chapters introducing the Chateau and the people who live there could possibly have been tightened up. There is a good reason for this in that the author can’t reveal too much in one go but I still felt it was a struggle to get through this part.

Much of this is saved in the second half of the novel, the true nature of the Chateau’s residents is revealed and Charlotte finds herself trapped in a web of familial and vampire relationships that rapidly tighten their grip on her, threatening not just her liberty but also her life.

Most of the novel is told in the first person by Charlotte, with a few chapters switching viewpoint to that of Aydin. The voice of Charlotte is consistent and the changes to Aydin allow the reader to learn more about his past than through simply hearing about it through Charlotte.
Overall an enjoyable read, I will be on the lookout for Book 2 to find out what happens next.
'In the Shadow of Angels' is the story of Charlotte Elizabeth Duval, a young woman born in privilege, who, haunted by the tragedies of her past life, has turned her back on her home and family to live alone and work as a maid in the Sandpiper Motel in a small town in Florida.

The even tenor of her new existence is disrupted by the arrival of the very handsome Henri Moreau, the boy she had grown up with and loved and lost. Now a genetic researcher in France, he has been sent by her mother, Abigail, to persuade Charlotte to come to France to see her. Abigail is dying of cancer and wants to see her long-estranged daughter before she dies; they have not seen each other in 12 years, after Abigail left her family to go live with her lover, Ashur Moreau, Henri's adoptive father. Despite the anger she harbors towards her mother for abandoning her, Charlotte agrees to go to France, and discovers a startling family secret.

I really liked the first part of the book. The writing is strong and descriptive, quite poetic in places. The technique of flashbacks works very well, and maintains the suspense.

Charlotte arrives in France, and meets Ashur Moreau's three other adopted, grown-up children, Aydin, Claudette, and, later, Lucius. They are all impossibly attractive and youthful-looking, and they all live together in a magnificent chateau. Charlotte settles in, and gets to know the family, while awaiting her mother's return from getting medical treatment in Nice. She is immediately attracted to the enigmatic Aydin, begins to find Henri tedious, and does not like Claudette. She also begins to chaff at being confined to the tightly guarded chateau. Slipping away, she goes down to the village by herself, but Aydin follows her and hauls her back.

Abigail and Ashur now appear, and the Big Reveal occurs - not at all what I had expected, given Henri's secretive genetic research - and things take a predictable turn.

Charlotte, who had started off as an intriguing if self-obsessed person, becomes something of a helpless doll, dependent on other people and lusted after by the hero and the villains. Perhaps a bit more character development, in lieu of describing how gorgeous everyone is and how well they dress, might have helped.

Still, an enjoyable read overall.

Disclaimer - I received a free copy of this book for an honest, non-reciprocal review.
I do admit that I went about this series backwards. I read the second book (In the Shadow of Monsters) first. I did have a general consensus as to what happened in the first book, but reading the book was so much better than I thought!! I have absolutely fallen in love with Ms. Savage's writing style. I love how she can describe things so well that you can reach through the pages and touch it. In the Shadow of Angels is a novel about a girl who has had a particularly traumatic experience that ends up re-shaping everything she thought she knew. Charlotte is this girl. We have many flashbacks to Charlotte's childhood with her identical twin sister, Emily. Just as Charlotte is beginning to heal from the accident mentally she is thrown for another loop. Henri, I don't particularly like from the get-go. Henri was Charlotte's old flame from her childhood, he comes to Charlotte to give her news about her mom's 'debilitated' health and whisk her to France. All Henri seems to do is lie. The thing is she hasn't seen neither Henri nor her mother for quite some time and she's iffy about the situation. I do not blame her in the slightest. When she arrives in France she meets Aydin. Aydin used to be her Guardian until he slipped up one time and is now serving a cruel punishment. The thing is, Charlotte has no prior knowledge of Aydin being her Guardian because he stayed hidden and out of sight. Aydin may seem hard on the exterior, but once she breaks down some of his walls he is really the sweetest guy ever. I may have fallen for him myself. We do get to see the book from both of their points-of-view. To make things sweeter, we also get to see Aydin's not-so-pretty backstory. I really love this book and now I can make more sense out of the second!! This book does leave on a cliffhanger, but the second book picks up right as it was left off. I highly recommend this book to those who are mature enough and who like a little mythology, vampires, and a little romance!!!