Wings of the Divided Review

This week I’ve been reading a book about angels - and no, not the bible and no not my own novel, Stars and Satellites *cough*...moving on. 

I have in fact been reading Wings of the Divided by CJ Sullivan. The story is set in the town of Edenton in the US - though most of the characters are from further afield. The plot centres around several characters whose separate lives become entwined when two angels, Gidyon and Noam, turn up on Earth. 

After fleeing from three fallen angels who are trying to kill them, the two take shelter in a church where they meet Max, a man who is praying for the safe return of his missing son, Harry. After being convinced that they really are winged wonders Max agrees to put them up while they try to work out why the three fallen angels chased them to Earth. 

The chapters in the story are told through alternating points, including the bad guys and some of the co-characters.

Now I’ll admit, when I first started reading this I thought the plot was going to centre on Gidyon and Noam trying to destroy cultists brainwashed by a false religion that the three fallen angels were sent to create - a plot point which is established very early on. 

Yet the story does not go down this route and the false religion issue becomes very much a subplot, which I liked. Instead the book focuses more on all the different characters coming to terms with their personal demons and trying to sort their lives out. It’s also refreshing to read a book of this genre which is not about the end of the world, as this has become a clique among many books and films about angels and demons. 

Although if you want to see supernatural beings beating the hell out of each other - you will not be disappointed. Let’s just say Noam kicks ass when fighting bad guys.

The characters, especially the likes of Noam and fallen angel Laphelle have a lot of depth to them, which makes them very likeable and you genuinely care about what happens to them.

But there was one character that did disappoint me a bit and that was Malynko. Considering he is meant to be the devil’s right hand man, he just did not strike me as being very evil. He just seemed a little too laid back to fit the bill and Laphelle -another fallen angel - proved to be much darker. 

But despite a slightly bland villain this book ticks all the right boxes. It has a gentle, if as times very dark storyline, memorable characters and very good scene setting and if you think you know how it’s going to end, you’ll be in for a surprise. 

There are some questions left unanswered in the story, but as this is the first in the series, I think that can be forgiven. 

Wings of the Divided: The Divided Book One gets 8/10. 

It is available here on Kindle.