The cliddhanger at the ened >:o But reguardle the book was downright amazing omg ! I need to read the next one like now ! It was different from Halo but just as good (:

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Hades wasn't that bad of a book but some names and some characters just pushed me over the edge.

Bethany is an angel that can exhibit human characteristics. She oogles over her boyfriend Xavier Woods to the point where she can basically take over his shadow. The story begins when Beth is kidnapped by and taken on a motorcycle ride to Hell and is trapped with noway out but to rely on her siblings and human love.

Okay, Bethany just pisses me off completely. She is basically on par with Bella Swan. This book just completely overlaps with Twilight in the "annoying heroine" characteristic and the "THE BOYFRIEND IS THE AIR I BREATHE WITHOUT HIM I CAN'T LIVE" reformation. It's just horrible and Adornetto milks Beth for everything she's worth.

And for the record, I never took this book seriously. For one, calling the mighty Lucifer himself "Bid Daddy" it just irked me the whole way through. How am I suppose to take Hell seriously if they call their demon overlord Bid Daddy? I JUST CAN'T! That's like putting Mike Myers in the Passion of the Christ, YOU CAN'T DO IT, IT DOESN'T WORK.

And basically every character has the personality of cardboard. You have the stupid best friend who gets all the guys because of her looks. The doting boyfriend who is oblivious for the most part and too corny for my standards. The siblings Gabe and Ivy were the only two characters that I could really stomach in this book. Though they weren't the best put together characters *due to the lack of "human emotions because they're angels"* they still make the cardboard cutout character list.

Twilight fans may consume this book with their love of shitty put together characters and overpowering paranormal love story, but I must warn the common public... It's stupid beyond belief. The whole "Big Daddy" thing just really pisses me off for the most part. If you don't mind losing some brain cells, be my guest, read this book. Other wise, it's not worth your time. I just lost hours that I will never be able to get back :/

Love this series

2.5 stars

While the whole concept of an angel being kidnapped and held captive in Hell was interesting, I can't say as much for some of the characters. Beth bothered me a lot; she's compassionate but her decisions were so rash and there were moments where she said she shouldn't be doing something, she ends up doing it the next.

Spoiler

You'd think she'd learn after being tricked onto the motorcycle by Jake, but no--he effortlessly tricks her again into admitting that she knows exactly what's going on with Xavier, Gabriel, and Ivy because she's been projecting.

Also, I don't know if it was simply because we were seeing him through Beth's eyes, but where on earth were Xavier's flaws? He seems way to perfect, an obnoxious Gary Stu. In addition to the one-sided characters, I felt myself getting bored at times by the needless descriptions of scenery. The one point that could've been an excellent climax practically took up one sentence. Character and scenery rant over, Adornetto does actually have an intriguing concept for a trilogy, what with angels, demons, and a war between Heaven and Hell. The ending actually left me interested enough to want to read the final installment... I understand that she's only nineteen, but still--Christopher Paolini published Eragon when he was nineteen, and there's a world of difference between the two novels.

y pensé q no se podía poner peor despues del primer libro.... i was so wrong

I really liked Halo when I read it a couple of years ago, but just a few pages into Hades and I'm wondering if I would feel the same way today.

Tastes change, of course, but I was shocked when only a few pages into the book Bethany laughed with us mere mortals about a kegger gone wrong. She's an angel! She's suppose to be holy. So besides the odd characterization, the dialogue felt stilted and the re-capping was slightly mind-numbing.

So did you feel Hades was an appropriate sequel to Halo, or do you feel a little jilted by book two?

I will be completely honest, I have no recollection of what happened in the first book except for their relationship and how much it annoyed me that they were so into each other. It really made me mad. Also the comments about humans being oh so great, kind of annoyed me too. I didn't like Jack, he didn't really have any redeemable qualities, he wasn't that great, I was all for Xander from the beginning.

This book isn’t as good as I had remembered it being. While yes, this book is based around angels and the idea that god is real, the middle gets ridiculously preachy, so if that’s not your thing this series may not be for you. But as far as YA Christian books go, this one is really good! With purity culture currently starting to be dismantled, this book shows its age there. It was published around 10 years ago, and society has since progressed further than what is here, so that also needs to be taken into consideration.

The follow-up to Halo, which I loved, started innocently enough. It moved right along getting into the heart of the matter and arriving in Hell in no time. Most of the story involved Bethany and Jake – seeing as how they were in hell throughout the majority of this story. I think that is where it fell short for me. There is so much that could be done when writing about Hell and while there were a few liberties taken with what hell was actually like – we got to see so little of it that it just wasn’t enough to hold my interest. Basically a hotel and a few nightclubs, of course there was the vast nothingness – but what about all the other levels of Hell – those seemed like they would have been more interesting. Maybe a tour?

I love scenes involving Gabriel, Ivy, and Xavier – they were my favorites in the first book as well. There just aren’t enough of them in this book. Jake’s reasoning for bringing Beth to Hell fell short of my expectations as well. If you are helping to rule Hell – you should be a complete bad ass…Jake wasn’t. If there is more to come from this series I probably won’t seek it out, but might continue reading if it falls into my lap.

Reviewed by Jessica for Book Sake.