Metal Angel [Paperback]

Nancy Springer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1994

Volos, a fallen angel who transforms himself into a human being with wings, sets his sights on becoming a successful rock star, but a band of enemies threatens to spoil the career of the former angel.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Roc; 1st Printing, April 1994 edition (April 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451453301
• ISBN-13: 978-0451453303
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,850,015 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent commentary on Christianity and the modern world, June 4, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Metal Angel (Paperback)

Volos is an angel who decides that he wants more than just singing praises to the Lord, and travels to earth to explore the pleasures of the flesh. He becomes a rock singer, and is joined in his strange journey by a disenchanted manager and a songwriter, a devout Bible-belt woman who has a strange, almost telepathic bond with the angel. This book explores what is wrong--and what is right--about faith, religion, and the modern world. It is an excellent book, a fine story that is also thought-provoking.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Great Idea For A Book but....., December 31, 2001

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This review is from: Metal Angel (Paperback)

I saw this book and thought what an awesome idea for a book! I enjoyed it for the most part but was also disappointed in it.
Volos the "Fallen" angel comes to earth to be human but stops just short of it. He wants to enjoy all the pleasures that he has envied humans for. He creates himself in the ultimate idea of human beauty. He is sexy and decadent but also innocent and childlike in many ways. He meets good friends and bad enemies. He falls in love with a young mother with a cretain power over him. This girl was raised by a religious zealot of an evil father, who also has strange charismatic power over his followers. What I did not like about it was the way things ended up. It reminded me of many of the books that disappointed me as teen where the supernateral guy does not get his girl and the hero or heroine gives up the magic because either they, in all their unselfish wisdom, decide it is an unfair advantage to have or that the power will corrupt them,or that they must give up the magic to save the one they love. It is too much moral and not enough satifaction. I always thought that the authors were trying to teach a lesson instead of entertain me and I thought I had left that behind reading fantasy for adults.