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    Rapture: A Novel of the Fallen Angels

    Written by J.R. Ward

    Narrated by Eric Dove

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    Out of the wickedly inventive imagination of #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward comes a world where sin and salvation collide in a battle for the future of mankind-where a cynical fallen angel struggles against the seven deadly sins and a demon's lure over seven chosen souls…

    Mels Carmichael, reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, gets the shock of her life when a man stumbles in front of her car outside the local cemetery. After the accident, his amnesia is just the kind of mystery she likes to solve, but she soon discovers they're in over their heads with his past. Over their heads with passion, too...

    As shadows walk the line between reality and another realm, and her lover's memory begins to come back, the two of them learn that nothing is truly dead and buried. Especially when you're trapped in a no holds barred war between angels and demons. With a soul on the line, and Mels's heart at risk, what in Heaven-or in Hell-will it take to save them both?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateSep 25, 2012
    ISBN9781101579534
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    Rapture: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
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    J.R. Ward

    J.R. Ward is the author of more than sixty novels, including those in her #1 New York Times bestselling Black Dagger Brotherhood series. There are more than twenty million copies of her novels in print worldwide, and they have been published in twenty-seven different countries. She lives in the south with her family.

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    • 3/5
      I should have re-read the series before reading the latest, because Matthias' character had faded in my memory a bit, and I think I would have would his development in this book more engaging if I'd had a real sense of the man he was. The romance seemed to develop a bit quickly and there didn't really seem to be a lot of progression on the part of Jim and Adrian, but I still enjoy the series. I wonder who's next? (3.5 stars)
    • 4/5
      The fourth book in the Fallen Angels paranormal romance series continues the battle between good and evil.
    • 3/5
      I thought the book would be more about Jim. Tell you the truth, for some reason I thought it was Jim who was hit by the car and lost his memory, which would have made for an interesting story due to what Jim is responsible for. But no, it's just another soul. A familiar one, but still not what I was expecting. There was less sex in this volume, but it's as graphic as it always is. Better not read if you're a virgin :). The book is more about the war between heaven and hell although the archangels don't have much face-time. So there was more Jim-time than in the last book. I think I liked it better than the previous book, but it still doesn't have the 'oomph' that the beginning of Ward's Brotherhood series had for me. But it's interesting enough that I will most likely read the fifth book when it comes out later this year. Recommended if you love J. R. Ward's work.
    • 3/5
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      3.5 stars

      I think this book is slower than the previous FA books. I didn't like it as much. I think it is because I didn't like Matthias at the beginning of the book and still don't like him after I finished. I just don't think someone can make that big of a life change because of one woman. Yes, his time in "hell" helped change him too, but I am just not a believer that it only takes a good woman to fix such an F'ed up man.

      You do see more of the BDB story crossing over here (more than in the first book). Mels is researching a story of all the missing boys, which can only be boys joining The Omega. I'm still trying to figure out whose house is mentioned at the end of this book. I know it belongs to someone from the BDB series. If we were told (or hinted strongly), I missed it.
    • 4/5
      Mels Carmichael, reporter for Caldwell Journal, hits man with car, later discovers he's an amnesia victim. She spends time with him as he's recovering in the hospital and helps him find out information about himself and his past life which he remembers in bits and pieces--and none of it is good. What they discover together? Nothing is ever dead and buried.
    • 4/5
      The romance was quite good, but a lot of the framing device left me cold.Mels Carmichael's life is boring until the day she runs a man over outside the graveyard. He has amnesia and has physical damage from before the accident. Things that will impact on their relationship. They have to make good choices to save the world.It's not a bad read but I found the background story to detract from the romance.
    • 3/5
      The (fallen) angels are back, and so is Devina. The game is still on and the latest soul up for grabs is Matthias... again. Because God called a replay due to Devina's cheating, but Eddie is still dead and James Heron is still messed up in the head over Missy.This installment's love interest (for Matthias) is reporter Mels Carmichael who's been marking time in Caldwell since her dad's messy and untimely death. She might just be the key to saving Matthias's soul. Then again...This series and its characters aren't as strong as the Black Dagger Brotherhood, but it's not a bad way to kill time in the interim.
    • 4/5
      In the 4th book of the Fallen Angel series, Jim Heron's evil ex-boss Mathias is back from the dead and his soul is in play again. But this time, Matthias starts out as a clean slate, his memory wiped. What kind of man will he be without all that really bad personal history? Of course there is a woman. Mels is a reporter with history of her own. She is a good match for Mathias. And as usual, Devina, is up to her devilish doings with a bit of serial killing on the side.I hate to say too much. Don't want to give anything away. I admit that this book starts a bit slow. But this is an important book in the series. We learn a lot about the angels and the game. We learn more about Jim and Devina and Adrian. Anyway, there is a lot going on, but there are some big surprises and not a few questions raised. I am really looking forward to the next in the series to see where this is going.
    • 4/5
      Rapture is the fourth novel in J. R. Ward’s Fallen Angels series, which is set in the same general world as her Black Dagger Brotherhood series. At this point in the Fallen Angels, the two series haven’t yet converged, but we do get a couple of fun Brotherhood sightings. This series is all about a supernatural battle between the fallen angels, led by Jim Heron, on the side of good, and the demon, Devina, on the side of evil. It’s a game in which the two vie for the souls of certain individuals, each of whom are at a crossroads in life, which will determine whether they end up in heaven or hell. In this particular book, we have Matthias, the leader of the covert assassin's organization, XOPs, who worked with Jim in his mortal life and also with Isaac Rothe, the hero of Crave, who he tried to kill, a crime for which he ended up in Devina’s Well of Souls. But because Devina cheated in the last round, Matthias has been restored to life and given a second chance to turn over a new leaf. After awakening in a cemetery on Jim’s grave, he stumbles into the road, where he’s hit by a car driven by Mels Carmichael, a reporter for the Caldwell Courier Journal, and his injuries result in temporary amnesia. Feeling guilty, Mels sets out to help Matthias recover his memories, during which time they grow close and begin a passionate affair, but the more he remembers, the more he doesn’t like the person he was. In the end, though, there is a question of whether he will return to that life or make a different choice this time around. Not to mention, when Mels finds out the truth of who he really was, she may not be able to forgive him for all the bad things that he’s done. Overall, it was a very good story and one that I enjoyed, but it also had few weaknesses which kept it from being a perfect read for me.It’s been quite a while since I read Crave, but I seem to recall that Matthias was a character I didn’t care for much. As the assassin head of XOPs, he was out to kill Isaac for trying to leave the organization, making him the human villain of the story. He did some pretty terrible things, both in that book and in his prior life, which landed him in Devina’s Well of Souls when he was killed. Now he has a second chance but gets sidelined when he’s accidentally hit by Mels and loses his memory. This actually works in his favor, because it gives him a clean slate with which to start and build something brand new, which he does with Mels. But every memory that returns is a blow that makes him wonder just how bad of a person he truly was. When Mels finds out the truth about him and leaves him, taking away the one light in his life, the angels are uncertain whether he can make the correct choice when the all-important crossroads that will determine his ultimate fate presents itself. I really struggled between wanting to like Matthias and being troubled by all the terrible things he’d done in his life. I suppose when it comes down to it, he did pay for his sins, first by spending time in hell and then by his actions at the end of the story. Although I can’t recall the particulars, I also know that when Jim was still alive, Matthias tried to commit suicide, an act that left him badly disfigured and impotent, things that do carry over into his new life. We also find out about past childhood abuse as well. As far as backstories, I don’t think that Ms. Ward could have done much more to make him a sympathetic character, and I can’t deny that he treats Mels extremely well, something I was very happy to see. However, I still couldn’t seem to fully shake the black cloud that hung over him from his previous actions, making it difficult for me fall for him as the hero, but I freely admit that’s probably more my issue than any fault of the author’s.Mels is a reporter who would rather be working in New York City than Caldwell, but she moved back home after the untimely death of her police officer father to look after her mother. She keeps her head about her and does her job, but she struggles to get ahead in her career. Then she accidentally hits Matthias with her car, and he presents not only an intriguing puzzle to solve, but also a passionate temptation. As they work together to figure out who he really is, strange things keep happening. Odd, ritualistic murders, a dead man who appears to work for some high-level government agency whose body disappears, another “dead” man who’s actually alive, and a healing that is nothing short of miraculous are all things that defy logic and which Mels has an increasingly difficult time brushing off as having an ordinary explanation. However, when she discovers Matthias’s connection to the dead operative, she can no longer ignore the fact that he was obviously one too and a stone-cold killer at that. Mels’s father treated her like the son he never had, so she’s a tough cookie who can take care of herself. I didn’t necessarily relate to her on a deep level like I have some of J. R. Ward’s other heroines, but I did respect her for her intelligence, shrewdness, and fearlessness. At the same time, she’s pretty compassionate toward Matthias, at least while he’s recovering his memory. Even after she discovers the truth, it’s hard for her to let go. While she might not make it to the top of my favorite heroines list, she was a good character who I liked.The other key players in this installment are Jim, Adrian, and Devina. Jim is still tasked with saving humanity by winning the game for the souls of his charges. However, he’s finding it increasingly difficult to stay focused when his mind is almost constantly on Sissy, the one soul he wasn’t able to save from Devina’s clutches. He’s determined to find a way to free this innocent from the Well of Souls and takes a surprising action toward that goal at the end of this book that was a bit cliff-hangery. I think he’s struggling with the question of whether the game is still worth playing or if the stakes have been too high, and because of all that’s happened, he might also be slowly drifting further toward the “bad” side of himself. I’ll look forward to seeing where this all goes in the next two installments. Adrian is having struggles of his own in the wake of Eddie’s death. Ad seems pretty lost, because Eddie was kind of his moral compass. But he manages to pull off a pretty heroic action on Matthias’s behalf that could have permanent repercussions for him in the future. Ad is a good guy who deserves some happiness, and I’m nothing if not hopeful that they’ll find a way to bring Eddie back so that he can reunite with his best friend. Devina is still the demon I love to hate for all the tortures she puts the souls and our intrepid angel boys through. She’s really getting to Jim in this one and steering him in the wrong direction. I think that he’s the ultimate soul she’d like to possess. Of course, I can’t ignore Dog, the cute mutt who follows Jim around. It’s been hinted in previous installments that he might be more than just a dog, and some things about him are pretty explicitly spelled out at the end of this book.Overall, Rapture was a very good addition to the series. I waffled a bit on how to rate it. It’s well-written and a value-add to the greater series story arc. As an urban fantasy story it’s top-notch, but where I thought it faltered just a little was in the development of the romantic relationship. It ramps up pretty quickly with Matthias and Mels falling in love within just a few days. I’m usually totally OK with that when it’s paranormal creatures like the vampires in Ms. Ward’s BDB series, but when it’s ordinary humans, even when there’s some supernatural mojo on the side, it’s just not quite as believable to me. Then there was Matthias’s past which became a big issue that separated them, right when things were getting good for them, which didn’t help matters. I just didn’t feel as strong a spark of connection between them as I wanted to. Otherwise, though, I did enjoy it and came close to rating it 4.5 stars, but after giving it some thought, I didn’t think it quite warranted it when compared with the others in the series that I gave that rating to. But it was a very strong four stars that has whetted my appetite for continuing the series.
    • 4/5
      I really wasn't expecting to finish this one today.

      I really thought this one was going to have a less than happy ending. I don't know what I was thinking. J.R. Ward always delivers, maybe in a way that's really unexpected (like Jane in the Blackdagger Brotherhood series) but she always delivers that happy ending.

      Mel has got to be my favorite of the heroines in this series so far. I don't really know why, but she is. I really liked the little girl that outed Ad as an angel too: "I wanna see your wings!" Her mom thought she was s crazy, but it was too cute.

      I missed Eddie in this one. I guess I hadn't really thought about how the team would be affected by his death. Ad was the most effected, but him and Jim never got along so without Eddie they're a bit of a mess.

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