Shelley's Reviews > Angel Town

*Rating* 4 twinkles in a young girls eyes
*Genre* Urban Fantasy

*Review*

Angel Town, the last book in the Jill Kismet series, opens several months after Jill (Heaven's Spite) made a stunning decision that left her friends and colleagues struggling with her disappearance. The author graphically challenges the reader to hold on and allow her to write, one final time, about Jill and the fight she has coming ahead of her as she awakes from the dead in a her own grave, knowing that her flesh has rotted outside, and it appears she has been rebuilt.

Jill has no clue where or who she is. She gets flashes that her name is Jill, but the rest comes slowly to her. Her silver charms in her hair are gone. She is weaponless, and has a mark on her arm which she doesn’t remember getting. Her clothes are torn, bloody, and filthy like one of the walking dead.

Shortly thereafter, she starts to have memory bursts and ends up face to face with a stranger who she knows, but apparently, can't put a name to. He ends up being a key character in the overall story line after Jill understands and realizes that Perry is up to something absolutely huge and will have extreme consequences for mankind.

Who is Blue eyes, and how does Jill know him? Why did he have her gun, and ring that her mentor Mikhail gave to her? What is in her wrist and who put it there? Perry’s scared lip print is still visible, yet she can only catch glimpses of her life before her fateful decision.

Then more questions are tossed out and answered: Who put Jill back together again, and sent her back from hell? Why is Jill able to single handedly put away would be attackers without breaking a sweat, and why is she drawn to a bar that Perry owns? Jill soon remembers a dream about Perry, and putting her gun in her mouth and then darkness.

I have only one complaint about this book and it’s Saul, the were cat. There is a point where Jill is given an opportunity by her fellow hunter Anya Devi to learn about her lost memories, and Saul turns into a cry baby and whiner and pretty much refuses to allow her to do anything without him. I know they were supposedly mates and all, but his overall appearance and actions were unwarranted and grating on my nerves.

End thoughts:

First, I have to say that I am sad that this is the end of Jill, Saul, Galina, Hutch, Anya Devi, and especially Perry and his absolute obsession with Jill. I shall miss Jill's adventures and heroism and kick ass actions that make other heroines in this genre look like a bunch of flaky wimps and candy asses or whores of Babylon who have to sleep their way through the supernatural world in order to keep them from going insane.

You could make a case that this series is going out on the right note, and not being lead down the wrong slope where authors just refuse to let a series die after losing readers, and nearly having a reader revolt at how they destroy their characters because of their personal views.

I'm pretty sure that the end of this series could NOT have been done any better had it been written by anyone else. I will NOT however spoil it, nor give away anything that might be considered a spoiler. I will leave it to those who have followed this series from the very beginning to come up with your own thoughts and feelings about how this series ended.

Was this book better than the Dante Valentine series ending? How about the Strange Angels series she does under another name of Lil St. Crow? I'll let you know when I read them both shortly. Until then, there is a new series that she has written, and will be out sometime next year. There is even a preview in the back of this book for those who get that far that sounds interesting to me.

If you have followed this series to this point, I definitely recommend that you leave a day to read this book from start to finish. It is totally worth your time and effort.

*ARC receieved from Orbit via Netgalley on 11/04/2011*