Title:  Angelborn
Series:  The Angelborn Cycle #1
Author:  L. Penelope
Genre:  Paranormal Romance, New Adult, Fantasy
Published:  April 29, 2015
Publisher:  Heartspell Media
My Rating:  3 stars
Source:  NetGalley
Cover Description:

Maia

It’s hard to be normal when you see the dead everywhere. So I gave up. I just focus on staying out of their way. But the guy haunting my roommate is different. He’s impossible to ignore, and now other people can see him too.

He says my roommate is the only one who can save him from an eternity of torment. But one night he follows me into my nightmare and rescues me from my demons.Now he’s all I think about. This must be what it’s like to fall… for someone who can never be mine.

Caleb

A lifetime ago, I found my soulmate in the human world. But being angelborn means I don’t have a soul. When I lost my one true love, I lost my future and my freedom. Now, I have a second chance — she’s been reborn and I must gain her love again or serve out the rest of my eternal sentence alone.

But this time I am a fugitive with powerful angels hunting me, and I’m running out of time. You only get one soulmate, and mine isn’t the broken, scarred girl, who sees what no one else can. She’s a distraction I can scarcely afford — but I’m unable to stay away from her.

Read on for my thoughts on Angelborn.  No true spoilers, promise.

Angelborn will take you into a world of wonder, of halfling angels, soul mates, and a young woman who really does see dead people.. all the time.

Caleb is a halfling angel – his father was human.  As a halfling he had no soul, until he could find his soul mate and she would share her soul with him making him complete.  But Caleb’s soul mate died before she could share with him and now Caleb has been sent to the Wastelands to stay or to wait for the chance to return and search out his love in her reincarnated body.  When he escapes and finds his love – he also finds another young woman with a tormented life, a young woman who he cannot help but feel something for but he will not be turned away from his desire to reunite with his soul mate.

Maia has seen ghosts for as long as she can remember.  Waking, sleeping she can never escape them.  She’s learned to tune them out somewhat and tries to live a normal life… but that’s not easy.  When she sees what she believes is a ghost near her roommate – this feels different.  As Caleb explains what has happened to him and his soul mate, Maia is already starting to fall for him.  And when he becomes her champion she is certain that he is the man she could love forever.  But he is destined for another or is he?

I enjoyed my time in the world of Angelborn.  The world building has a mystical feel to it, and the characters are a fascinating mix.  The plot will twist and take you places you never expected.

I gave it a 3 star rating for a couple reasons.  Good story = 3 stars.  While I enjoyed the story, I simply never connected with the characters.  I didn’t fall into the story, but I did enjoy the experience.  And that’s what a good story should do, give me a satisfying experience while visiting the author’s world.

*I received an e-ARC of Angelborn from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

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