Review Falling Hard by J. K. Coi
After a life filled with tragedy, rocker Gabriel Gunn thinks he’s finally getting the better of his personal demons. Then he’s attacked after a concert—and rescued by a warrior goddess brandishing a sword and white wings. As hard as it is to believe in an angelic bodyguard, Gabriel must face an even more impossible truth: he carries the devil’s soul within him.
Amelia has been watching over Gabriel for years, using her angelic powers to prevent Lucifer’s return. Now she must also protect him from warring angel factions with their own agendas. Amelia would do anything to avert another angelic war, even sacrifice her own emotions to avoid temptation. Yet with Gabriel she feels things she no longer wants to deny, and pleasure she never imagined.
But the closer Gabriel and Amelia get, the stronger Lucifer becomes. Will Amelia be forced to kill the man she’s come to love to stop the war she’s always feared?
I’d heard some really great things about Falling Hard, so I was prepared to love this book. Let me give you a little background. Amelia is an angel, the avenging angel who works with the chorus of archangels to enforce their decisions to strip angels of their emotions after Lucifer’s fall. Gabriel is a struggling former addict rock god who has the soul of Lucifer living inside him. Amelia was given the task to watch over Gabriel since his was born, to ensure that he was not approached or to ensure that the warring factions of angels don’t kill him to unleash Lucifer.
I enjoyed Falling hard, mainly due to the volatility and extremely explosive nature of Amelia’s and Gabriel’s relationship. They are both hiding so much from each other keeping themselves apart for fear that they will have to end up killing the other, leaving the other, or sacrificing themselves to save the world from Lucifer’s return.
Amelia’s romance with Gabriel is all about exploration, for both of them, finding emotions that have either been locked away or have been hidden, buried under layers of guilt and years of regret and shame. Falling Hard was exactly what the name suggests, it was about falling for someone hard, and fast, which is what happens when your relationship does not get time to develop when there is too much going on for you to truly get to know each other, and thats exactly what happened when Amelia and Gabriel are so concerned with fighting the rogue angels that they don’t share the most important parts of themselves with each other, and perhaps more importantly they don’t trust each other.
The relationship was fantastic, and was involved, the adventure, the mistrust, the changing motivations its a crazy emotional ride that ended in a fantastic conclusion that didn’t pander, it didn’t compromise, its a great ending that satisfied my need for a happy ending while not ruining the integrity of the background story.
Overall Rating: B
