Book Review: Unearthly by Cynthia Hand

4 excellent frosted brownies (just like my Grandma used to make).

Cover Love: For sure! What a pretty cover.

Why I Wanted To Read This:
I actually wasn't sold on reading this until all the good reviews started popping up last week. I started and finished it within a day and a half because I couldn't put it down!
Synopsis from Good Reads:
In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . .

Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.

Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.

As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make—between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?

Unearthly is a moving tale of love and fate, and the struggle between following the rules and following your heart.

I Kept Reading Because:
I Couldn't put it down. It was well written and fast paced and there was a twist in there that I really enjoyed.

Romance?: Of course! It's a YA angel book...have you read one of those lately where there isn't romance? But, there are two suitors and they are both great...how could we choose?!

What I Liked (& Didn't):
I liked how Christian and Clara didn't have this extreme connection. That he was really his own person with his own problems that are still there even after he meets Clara.

I liked Clara's voice a lot. This was written from her perspective--from the angel's perspective and I really liked that.

I don't like how secretive Clara's mom was. I realize she didn't want to burden Clara and Jeffery but I didn't like that part of the book.

I wish that authors would stop giving us two good guys that the heroine has to choose between! I want the one to root for to be clear.

The ending! It gave the reader way more questions for the second book, but it made me really look forward to the second book.

What I Would Like To See:
More of Clara's mom's background. She needs to open up and be honest with her children--and SOON (before it's too late...)
And I could see a trilogy about Clara and then another one about her brother Jeffery, who I adored.

To Sum Up: I will be getting this book for my library and giving to all my readers who want a romance--and in middle school, who doesn't want to read a romance?

Book requested and received from NetGalley.