Arianwen is a Reclaimer, an angel who ventures into the an area between the garden of Eden and the environs of Hell, to rescue the souls of the dead who still have a chance of entering heaven. Albion is a Hunter, a demon whose sole purpose is to catch and kill those reclaimers who try. However, Albion has a secret, he has been protecting Arianwen since she first started and was entranced by her. When she finds out, she is initially repulsed, but then realises that there is not only a spark of good within him, but that she is in love with Albion and Albion with her. However, he is not the only one with eyes for her, and the Angel Gabriel is determined to make her his wife. Albion and Arianwen then struggle to keep their love hidden from both sides of the eternal war.

This book isn’t really about angels. Angels are supposed to be divine beings of Good. Angels are not supposed to be driven by lust, threaten to abduct people or generally drug them into a stupor. Also angels appear to have a funny way of showing love, which in reality means sex. Everytime Albion and Arianwen meet, they pretty much spend the next several pages ripping each others clothes off. For all intents and purposes, they may as well be humans from the opposite sides of the track. The protagonists are basically driven by their urges, there is very little in the way of thought or proactive behaviour. The supporting cast are little better, although there is some depth to them, even if the side of good act in a most un-angelic way.

The writing is adjective heavy, for instance nothing is blue, its aqua-blue, or ocean-blue and appears to be missing a lot of hyphens which appear to have migrated to the protagonists surname instead. The other stylistic of the story is how little speech there is and how much is internal character dialogue describing their feelings and sensations in excruciating detail. The plot is pretty standard, think Romeo and Juliet with angels, and a thesaurus thrown in for good measure, only they don’t die at the end because this is only Book 1, but split up on opposite sides, ready for book 2.

This is not a good book, full of prose, light on borrowed plot and in a setting that makes no sense. I won’t be reading their further adventures. This is one for the fans of the genre only.