After a ostensibly endless run of book trying to capitalise on the succeeder of Twilight , untested adultpublishers are experiencing a touch of vampire fatigue . But the next set of supernatural quixotic lead-in wo n’t be werewolves ; they ’ll be Angel .
According to Publishers Weekly , this descent will see a dozen new titles with angels in star roles , including Becca Fitzpatrick ’s Hush , Hush and Lauren Kate ’s Fallen , which both centre on teenage miss who fall for Edward Cullen - esque fallen angels . Some publishers are get word it as the next logical step for readers of lamia romances , with the sum dimension of religious belief and celestial warfare in lieu of bloodsucking :
big - son angels are the new hotties . Like modernistic vampires , they can be gorgeous , immortal and otherworldly heartthrobs , unlike , say , zombi . “ With all that rotting - off , they ’re not very aphrodisiacal , ” said Justin Chanda , v - p and publishing house of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers , who calls angels “ secure gothic ” and “ romanticist . ”
But while angels may be shove aside the undead in the love affair department , not all of the angel - theme books are focused on otherworldly making love . This year also sees the issue of Libba Bray ’s move Bovine about a terminally ill boy who set off seeing a punky angel ( who may be a psychotic belief ) and Timothy Carter ’s Evil ? , in which an openly merry adolescent disclose his newfangled Biblical Studies teacher is a fallen angel controlling the mind of his neighbors .
[ Publishers Weekly ]
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