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Love and Death (Angel (Simon Pulse))

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Okay i really enjoyed this book i coulden't put it down. I loved how everybody had a different reason for comming to L.A to help out i thought that was neat and there own thoughts on the situation a also really liked how Angels protective Parantal instincts come into place when Connor is stabbed. (Thought it was darn cute)Overall i enjoyed the book and reccomend it to anyone who enjoys a good reading!

When one of those late night, seat of the pants, radio stations suddenly decides to take on all the demons and vampires in Los Angeles, it almost sounded too good to be true. Angel was busy trying to solve the case involving a house that killed its inhabitants and vampires who died, but didn't dust. But then reality sank in - to the vigilante teams now wandering the streets, guys like Angel and Lorne were just more monsters. If L.A.'s nightlife was dangerous before, it's a disaster now.

Of course, something else is rotten, and it's up to the team to figure it out in this late-in-the-series mystery from Jeff Mariotte. Gunn and Fred aren't talking, Cordy reports that Connor is missing, and Wesley is hung up on Lilah. And in the middle of all this emotional turmoil something old and incredibly alien is working a whole new kink on Valentine's Day.

Something in me wonders when the various spin-offs of Buffy and Angel will finally seek their own quietus. With both series over, books like this are overshadowed by the fact that everything in them is close ended. It's quite hard sometimes to read a story like this and not see the characters in their final setting. Especially when the story, as is the case here, takes place only a bit before that end.

Mariotte has done well in the Buffyverse, and this is almost a very successful not. Unfortunately, there is not was to resolve the undercurrent of tension in the character's relationships. Mariotte must resort to a climactic hack and cast spells ending followed by some vague moralizing to bring the book to catharsis. It left me feeling a bit sad for both the characters and the monsters.