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Angel of Vengeance: The Story Which Inspired the TV Show Moonlight (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Angel of VengeanceLA-based P I and vampire Mick Angel must confront his own nature and his past when the apparently simple case of a teenage runaway is complicated by femme fatales, drug dealers, persistent cops and murder.
Full description- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
- Published: 25 March 2011
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Crime | Horror | Fantasy
- ISBN 13: 9781848568556 ISBN 10: 184856855X
- Sales rank: 98,276
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Angel of Vengence is the bomb(Awesome)
Trevor's Angel Of Vengeance And His Show Moonlight were and still is equally awesome and really advise all to really check them both out if you haven't yet you can visit here www.theamazingkeysofloveplace.com to buy 2 of the Angel Of Vengeance books or 2 for 1 price deal along with a free special made AOV's promo/fan theme shirt to come along and then you could just go to Netflix.com to rent the Moonlight set dvds to watch it from there too. Most of all get the Angel of Vengeance book if you are the type that loves reading something that is filled with heartpumping,boiling,thrills and sort of a classy noir vampire PI story. Although, keep in mind the story in book and in the Moonlight show are both competely different because the book is more on the darker side and the story are slightly twisted between each other as well. If anything I advise you to try reading the book first before checking out the moonlight show though. Most of all they are both the bomb(The Greatest or cool). I would give both like a 5****or to the highest ratings it could go.In Lord's way the ratings can go up to 7x or another words endlessly or has no end.
-Peace,Much Love & God Bless! by Ruthie AngelicaA noir-ish tale of Vampires you can really sink your teeth into
As a Moonlight fan, to say I was looking forward to reading this would be an understatement. My copy arrived two hours ago, and I've just finished it; I didn't so much read, as devour the pages.
This isn't a novelisation of Moonlight, nor is it a Prequel, having said that, you can still see the basis for **** St John in the character of **** Angel. This **** is a lot grittier, darker even, than the character of **** on the show. Nonetheless it's easy to see **** St John as **** Angel of the past - before his redemption.
The book itself is laugh out loud funny in parts; **** Angel has a delightfully jaded wit about him. The writing itself was a little jarring at first - short sentences, straight to the point, a little choppy almost - however that was probably more due to the fact that I tend to read stuff that's a little more flowing in style. Once I'd become accustomed to it, I found that it actually suited the character of **** Angel (the book is written in first person, from ****'s p.o.v). There's a wonderful noir-ish feel to it all, like a dime store detective novel from the 50's that's been transported into the modern age. The words have a confident swagger about them, full of bravado, and cutting wit - a bit like **** Angel himself.
There's nothing of **** and Beth in this novel, except for a brief appearance of Beth (`Lizabeth) as a child. **** Angel rescues her under slightly different circumstances, more akin to what Moonlight fans saw in the original pilot (before they reworked and recast the show). Now I know some of you are going to be cheering for this fact, so let me just break it to you- there's no Josef either. Coraline does make an appearance, and like the character of **** Angel, she's also a lot darker than we saw on Moonlight itself. Angel of Vengeance's Coraline practically sashays off the page dripping with manipulation and psychopathy. Unlike the Coraline we were presented with on the show, it's difficult, if not **** near impossible to find anything remotely redeemable about the character; she's rotten to her blue-black pompadour haired, and red lipped core.
In the book, **** Angel is also a former junkie, who continues to mainline his `fix' of blood for the comforting ritual of it all. The descriptions of injecting, and the effects of Heroin addiction, aren't presented in any sort of detailed manner; however, if anyone is sensitive to these sorts of issues just be forewarned there were a couple of passages earlier on that set my veins on edge slightly.
Overall I loved this book. At just under 290 pages it moves at a cracking pace, and doesn't get too bogged down in a lot of unnecessary exposition; at times it almost felt like I was reading a movie script in novel form. It's not Moonlight, but the elements are still there, and, like I said, you can still see elements of **** St John in **** Angel, and vice-versa.
I highly recommend you pick up a copy of Angel of Vengeance yourself, and give it a read - even if it is just to say thank you to the guy who gave us Moonlight. by ClaireMoonlight for adults
Having read along with Trevor Munson on facebook for a while now, where he also posted official preview chapters of his work, it's been a long wait until his book was finally available on my continent. I took it out of my mailbox a few hours ago, and only put it down at its finish. I'm sure I should have savoured it and spread out the chapters to make them last, but I binge-read right through it, starved for more. Good things, as they say, never last.
Many reviewers have already discussed just how this book isn't Moonlight as CBS aired it, and I can only agree. It isn't; it's not glossy, handsome and sexy in a Hollywood vampire way - and it certainly does not glitter. It's Moonlight for adults, and it's what the over-teenaged genre has been waiting for. **** Angel's pov sounds like something between Sam Spade and Dexter Morgan. The vampire private detective is cynical, pessimistic, and just crude enough to tease a smile from more experienced readers, without sounding jaded enough to leave you numb to his old-school charms. ****'s world is black and white but for the occasional fleck of red in his vision; sometimes that's blood, other times it's one of the many small details he notices that make him good at his job. His hunger for blood is not, as many recent novels and series portray, a minor inconvenience easily solved by 'going vegetarian' or picking up a pint at the blood bank now and then - it is an addiction, a distraction, and a driving force. Living by his self-imposed rules is a daily battle (or better said- nightly), and it makes his character all the more interesting and real for it.
Trevor Munson's novel is fresh and fun, if you don't mind adult language, bullets and needles. And the smell of decay - after all, **** Angel is old enough to have banged your grandmother. And maybe he did. by Tamurile
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