cover image The Wanderer’s Children

The Wanderer’s Children

Liz Gelb O’Connor. Collins-Young Publishing, $19.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-9907381-0-7

The uneven second installment of O’Connor’s sprawling series (after Trinity Stones) continues the story of Cara Collins’s initiation into the fight between angels and demons. As Cara prepares for her wedding to her angelic soul mate, Simon, she adjusts to the side effects of the vaccine used to save her life. Growth spurts make dress fitting difficult, and her increase in appetites of all sorts causes friction with her insecure wet blanket of a fiancé. The book begins well but soon drags as Cara’s friends gather for a weekend of partying and romantic entanglement. While steamy romance abounds, the sheer quantity of jealousy and misunderstanding becomes wearing, especially when the book resolves with revelations as clichéd as they were obvious. Readers can begin the series here, but they may not feel compelled to continue it. (BookLife)