Lucian Divine by Renee Carlino Published by Self Published Publication Date: January 9th 2017
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"My guardian angel is a drunk." Evelyn Casey's life is at a standstill. She's in her mid-twenties, struggling with the dating scene in San Francisco. Nothing seems to be working out, and she's starting to think that she'll live out her days in her crummy apartment with her overbearing roommate, Brooklyn. It's absurd, but sometimes Evey longs for a guardian angel to show up and save the day. And then he does. Seriously. His name is Lucian and he's a guardian angel, been on the job for two thousand years. His sudden presence in her life is both good-he's brilliant, witty, and warm-and bad-he's brilliant, witty, warm, and hot as ----. But as perfect as Lucian seems, he's got problems of his own. He's taken up drinking and he's brazenly inserted himself into Evey's life, going against the greatest cosmic law ever created. For Evey, the rules are simple: You are not allowed to hook up with your guardian angel. But sometimes fulfilling your destiny requires a leap of faith, a confrontation with God. Yes, God as in God.
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Renee Carlino is on my auto-buy list. I haven’t met a Renee Carlino book that I haven’t instantly fallen in love with. I was excited to see what she was going to give us in a book with a slight paranormal spin to it.
LUCIAN DIVINE brings us guardian angels. Everyone has one and they’re supposed to protect their assigned souls. For Lucian, his one charge is Evelyn…who also happens to be the woman he’s fallen desperately in love with. So far in love he’s turned into a hopeless drunk in order to deal with his feelings.
I will admit, the thought of a drunk guardian angel had me laughing…just a little bit (secretly this is the kind of guardian angel I would want). But as we get to know Lucian we discovered he’s so completely torn over his duty and his love for Evelyn that he turns everything off via the bottom of a bottle. It’s sad, but he’s so sweet and desperate that you just want him to admit all to Evelyn to he could have a minute or two of happiness. But of course, when he does get his minute or two he realizes that sometimes the punishment isn’t worth it.
Renee Carlino writes such wonderfully flawed characters. Lucian and Evelyn both have their faults and they purposefully thumb their noses at the rules their supposed to follow, but at the essence of their romance it comes down to faith. Do they have faith in themselves, each other, their love? It’s those questions, as they move through their story that ultimately provides them their happily ever after.
I couldn’t put this one down. The author had me fully hooked in this angel romance and couldn’t wait to find out exactly what happened to this couple.
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About Renee Carlino
I’m the author of Sweet Thing, Sweet Little Thing, Nowhere But Here, After the Rain and my latest novel, BEFORE WE WERE STRANGERS. I’m a California native currently residing in a beach town in Southern California where I live with my husband, our two boys, and our sweet dog June
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