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Angel Up My Sleeve: A Tale

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As a young reader ... I never read a book like this one before, exept maybe Alice in wonderland or Harry Potter. But this is better at least to me.

The characters even the evil ones are fantastic and wild, amazing really. And somehow they seem real, maybe because even the evil ones are sometimes funny and terrible at the same time.

Dana the main character could be you or me. We know her feelings. Sometimes love, sometimes fear. Lots of fear because what she is experiencing is truly out of this world. She has to deal with it and she does.

The angel character Ibbur is like her teacher or guide and he has a wisdom about the truth behind the masks. I felt I was learning what Dana learned. Like I went through the adventure too and came out wiser. Ibbur teaches her about her own powers of mind and how to use it for action. Thats the main point of the book I think.

So I recomend the book ...becasue theres more that I didn't quite get or understand completely. but it was great and thats my opinion.

By the way, I'm a boy.

A great adventure with strong elements of spiritual teachings. Dana, the main character, is a not-yet teen girl, is wisked away on an adventure by an angelic being. The turmoil she encounters is our own struggle with life...she gathers gems with magical properties...the author's creativity in this regard is to be commended. The ending brought tears to my eyes...the book will teach us [and our children] that the world is filled with the beauty that we bring into it; and that angelic friends are never very far. I'd HIGHLY recommend this unusual romp with "Dana, Queen of Worlds" [wonderful for our daughters needing strong role models]

While I have found this book to be very entertaining, it is very weak. The author does not spend a great deal of time developing the characters, and I spent most of the book not caring whether or not the heroine succeeds. I never really feel like I get to know the main character or her motivations. I also find it very condescending that everytime the heroine succeeds against the villan it happens just because she is told it can. The author never really explains why. On a whole, I feel the book has a lot of great themes; good vs. evil and good will succeed against evil, but it would probably be suited to a younger audience (under 10 years).