Great characters. Interesting story. Loved the good and evil aspect of it.

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Herein lies the tale of the angel with golden wings, and the choices he makes on his second time around.

Nightingale has a penchant for creating fascinating protagonists. Her vampiric Morgan d’Arcy is one; Gyldan is another. Indeed, in some ways the two are interchangeable. Take away the golden wings and insert fangs, and Gyldan the Fallen Angel becomes Morgan the Vampyre . . . physically tempting, sexually skillful, verbally adept.

Creating characters isn’t this author’s only strong point. Her words are rhythmic, flowing across the page in a poetic stream of short but vision-evoking sentences, as in:

“The door creaked. Candlelight seeped through the crack. Danger lurked in the silence and darkness beyond the sliver of light. Like a living creature, its presence breathed chills down my neck.”

Though some may be a bit confused by the prologue about the Second Battle in Heaven and the abrupt segue into Chapter One which seems completely unrelated, the mystery is eventually made clear through Gylden’s own personal narrative.

He takes the reader with him on his flight of discovery, to suffer the uncertainty as well as the acceptance of inevitable truth. Those familiar with the Apocrypha will be recognize some of the events and names mentioned. Those who aren’t will appreciate the way the author weaves these accounts into the story, making a seamless narrative combining biblical ideology and literary fiction.

Gylded Wings is an entertaining paranormal romance with a unique main character, written with Nightingale’s iconic verbal flourish.