Alexandra Adornetto
Auteur de Halo
A propos de l'auteur
Alexandra Adornetto was born in Melbourne, Australia on April 18, 1992. She was only fourteen years old when she published her first book, The Shadow Thief, in Australia in 2007. Her other works include The Lampo Circus, Von Gobstopper's Arcade, Halo, and Hades. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Œuvres de Alexandra Adornetto
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Adornetto, Alexandra Emily
- Autres noms
- Adornetto, Alexandra
Grace, Alexandra - Date de naissance
- 1992-04-18
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Australia
- Lieu de naissance
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Oxford, Mississippi, USA - Professions
- young adult writer
- Courte biographie
- Alexandra Emily Adornetto was born on 18 April 1992 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. She is the only child of an English Teacher and a Drama Teacher and attended, in her own words, "many" schools including MacRobertson Girls' High School, Ruyton Girls' School and Eltham College. She has loved stories for as long as she can remember. In 2006, she won the State Legacy Public Speaking competition. She began writing a Children's novel when she was only 13, inspired by J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. At 14, she sold it to HarperCollinsPublishers, that also bought the two next novels of The Strangest Adventures series. The Halo series is her first YA fantasy romances and marks her international debut. Relocate to Oxford, Mississippi, she divided her time between the USA and Australia, while she studied and writed. Now, she lives in Hollywood, where she hopes to combine novel writing and acting as Alexandra Grace. Her passions include old-school country music, theology, singing and performing.
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FROM PUBLISHER: An angel is sent to Earth on a mission. Three angels--Gabriel, the warrior, Ivy, the healer, and Bethany, the youngest and most human--are sent by Heaven to bring good to a world falling under the influence of darkness. They work hard to conceal their luminous glow, superhuman powers, and most dangerous of all, their wings, all while avoiding all human attachments.
Then Bethany meets Xavier Woods, and neither of them are able to resist the attraction between them. Gabriel and Ivy do everything in their power to intervene, but yhr bond seems too strong.
The angels' mission is urgent, and dark forces are threatening. Will love ruin Bethany or save her?… (plus d'informations)
Then Bethany meets Xavier Woods, and neither of them are able to resist the attraction between them. Gabriel and Ivy do everything in their power to intervene, but yhr bond seems too strong.
The angels' mission is urgent, and dark forces are threatening. Will love ruin Bethany or save her?… (plus d'informations)
I hate this book. Here is a quick review of the book.
Halo is a not-very-inspiring story about three angels sent to a posh coastal town called Venus Cove for some bizarre reason. They live lives of luxury and self-righteousness, doing very little proper service other than volunteering. A melodramatic and meandering plot follows Bethany and her melodramatic romance with Xavier. Some genuine conflict eventually shows up, several hundred pages too late to make the book any good, but that’s okay; as the author emphasizes several times, this book wasn’t written for artistic merit! Basically, it’s just a way to take your money and preach to you.
A lack of personality was apparent in the heroine. As opposed to doing well, she put her feelings about Xavier first. I found Xavier’s perfection sickening. He’s good-looking, but what else makes you want him? No more talking about his hair and eyes.
I hated the climax. When these characters realize there is a demon in town, they do nothing. In the meantime, they “wait for higher authorities to intervene.”
It would be easy for me to go on, but I don’t want to.
The end.… (plus d'informations)
Halo is a not-very-inspiring story about three angels sent to a posh coastal town called Venus Cove for some bizarre reason. They live lives of luxury and self-righteousness, doing very little proper service other than volunteering. A melodramatic and meandering plot follows Bethany and her melodramatic romance with Xavier. Some genuine conflict eventually shows up, several hundred pages too late to make the book any good, but that’s okay; as the author emphasizes several times, this book wasn’t written for artistic merit! Basically, it’s just a way to take your money and preach to you.
A lack of personality was apparent in the heroine. As opposed to doing well, she put her feelings about Xavier first. I found Xavier’s perfection sickening. He’s good-looking, but what else makes you want him? No more talking about his hair and eyes.
I hated the climax. When these characters realize there is a demon in town, they do nothing. In the meantime, they “wait for higher authorities to intervene.”
It would be easy for me to go on, but I don’t want to.
The end.… (plus d'informations)
La llegada inesperada de los hermanos Church, Gabriel, Ivy y Bethany, supone un revuelo en la pequeña población de Venus Cove. Son extremadamente bellos, inteligentes y misteriosos. ¿De dónde vienen? ¿Dónde están sus padres y por qué sobresalen sea la que sea la actividad que emprenden? Los tres son en realidad ángeles con la misión de salvar al mundo de su inminente destrucción. Tiene instrucciones claras: no deben formar vínculos demasiado fuertes con ningún humano y deben esforzarse en ocultar sus cualidades sobrehumanas. Pero Beth, la más inexperta, rompe una de las reglas sagradas: se enamora de Xavier Woods, el chico más guapo del colegio e incluso llega a revelarle su secreto. Y será entonces cuando deba tomar una decisión definitiva: desafiar la voluntad del Cielo y entregarse a él completamente o no, además de enfrentarse a las fuerzas oscuras que pretenden tomar Venus Cove como primer paso para su plan de destruir a la humanidad. Ivy, Gabriel y Xavier deberán unir sus fuerzas para salvarla y utilizar sus poderes para hacer el bien para contrarrestar a las poderosas fuerzas de la oscuridad.… (plus d'informations)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 3,270
- Popularité
- #7,826
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 147
- ISBN
- 182
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 3
I wanted to like this more than I actually did. The fast pace the story begins with slowly withers away until it's crawling at a snail pace and I was just bored. The plot was thin and full of holes though and the story read like a hodgepodge of tween books. There's not much in the way of originality here. Although to be fair, what is?
I was kind of indifferent to Milli and Ernest themselves but I did like the strong friendship between them. The rest of the characters were okay. It's well written and younger fans will undoubtedly find much to like. Older fantasy fans though may struggle.
2 stars.… (plus d'informations)