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Angel's Wings (2004)

Angel's Wings (2004)

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ISBN
0373512902 (ISBN13: 9780373512904)
Language
English
Publisher
harlequin

About book Angel's Wings (2004)

Angela Hogan's flight business isn't doing so well. Ever since her parents died in a fire she has been looking out for herself and her half-sister Constance. Angela has made a fairly decently life for herself through flying. She has a small shipping/flight school business. She has been having trouble recently with the local competition. Enter Jack Clancy, a loner and a drifter, but a damned fine pilot. Jack and Angela are like oil and water - they don't mix. If Angela wants her business to succeed she will need his help.Angels Wings has a very unique setting. It takes place after the Great Depression in the 1930s. I liked how the slang of the the period came through in the writing. Also, historic events and songs and movies were referenced and that helped to set the background.I liked Angela more than Jack. Jack was a definite jerk. He is basically a male chauvinist pig. They are both pilots, but Jack along with most of the other men int the book, think she should stay at home and just look pretty while the boys handle the business. Angela, of course is having none of it and does what ever she damn well pleases. She was an interesting heroine in that she is capable of handling a lot of responsibility running her flight school and business, but when it comes to men and her own sexuality she is completely clueless. Towards the end of the book Jack's character starts to come around but not enough to truly endear me to him, but enough that I found the ending satisfying.One thing that bothered me with this story is the mysterious plot involving Angela's mechanic. He isn't who he says he is, but everyone but Angela figures out his real identity. It didn't make sense that Angela is the last one to figure it out, when logically she should have been the first person to do so. It just didn't fit with Angela's intelligence, or the reader's for that matter. It is just a little thing that irked me.

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One of those books that sucks you in from page one, Angels Wings is a unique treasure, a book set in the 1930s. For some reason, I am fascinated with the early 20th century, and I love books set in this time period. Anne Stuart is my favorite author, so put those two elements together, you can't help but have a winner. Another wonderful thing about this book is the heroine is a pilot. I'm not sure there are that many women pilots now. Imagine being one in the 30s. Angela has met her match in Jack, so period that he could have stepped out of Robert Mitchum Noir film. He's rude and brash and rubs her the wrong way, but she finds him irresistibly attractive, although she has buried her heart since her fiancee died in a plane crash. Jack isn't looking to settle down but he cannot resist the prickly, independent, so called woman pilot. Yes, ladies, Jack is not a New Age man. He's a bit of a chauvinist, but you won't hold it against him. As I said, he's a man of his time. This book is not overtly sexual like books written nowadays. The love scenes are subtle, but the tension and the sensuality is sizzing. This book is great, it's one that I had to buy another copy when it was released, although my original copy is in fine shape. I couldn't bear the thought of one copy biting the dust without a replacement. If you want to read a romance with the charm of movies from the 1930s and 1940s, you should read this book. Please, Ms. Stuart. I am begging you to write more 1930-1940s books!
— Danielle The Book Huntress (Self-Proclaimed Book Ninja)

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