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Feather (Angels of Elysium Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Olivia Wildenstein (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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”Forbidden romance at its sexiest!” - DANIELLE L. JENSEN, author of The Bridge Kingdom

It was supposed to be a quick mission. The only thing quick about it was how rapidly I failed.

With only a month left to earn her missing feathers, twenty-year-old Leigh embarks on a trip to Paris to meet her newest project, twenty-five-year-old Jarod Adler, leader of the Parisian Mafia and the worst kind of sinner . . . a Triple.

If Leigh can get Jarod to accomplish a single act of kindness, she stands to win 100 feathers, more than enough to complete her wings and ascend to Elysium, the land of angels. What she doesn’t count on is Jarod's dark charm costing her feathers.

She’s dead set on saving him, and he’s dead set on destroying her. Until he realizes destroying her wings is also destroying her heart. A heart he longs to hear beat only for him.

Fans of dark supernatural romance will want to scroll up and one click to start reading this modern ROMEO & JULIET retelling today.

*Warning: FEATHER deals with dark topics, such as suicide, and contains graphic sex.
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    Angels of Elysium
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"Decadent and romantic in every way, Feather exquisitely blurs the line between good and evil." - CASEY L. BOND, author of When Wishes Bleed ✩✩✩✩✩

"A beautiful story of love and redemption. Wildenstein's FEATHER will capture your mind and your heart. A truly spellbinding novel!" - KRISTA STREET, author of Magic in Light ✩✩✩✩✩

"Enchanting and heartbreaking... A love story for the ages." - ASTRID ARDITI, USA TODAY Bestselling author of Olympian Challenger ✩✩✩✩✩

"Truly, truly a work of art. Best book of 2019/2020? I'd put money on it." - BRITTANY MATSEN, author of Weapon of Fire and Ash ✩✩✩✩✩

"a slow burning build that suddenly caught fire. Talk about hot. There are scenes in this novel that'll melt a glacier." - KATIE HAYOZ, bestselling author of The Clockwork Sirens ✩✩✩✩✩

"This story is gritty and sexy." - THERESEA BARRETT ✩✩✩✩✩

"This book is one of my favorite reads this year. [...] A labyrinth of twists and turns you never see coming, even when you think you have it pegged." - KALLI BUNCH ✩✩✩✩✩

"Feather was a hot and thrilling and captivating read and may have broken my heart into itty-bitty pieces." - KATELYN ANDERSON ✩✩✩✩✩

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07XG4XVLN
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ WildStone Publishing (16 January 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 4880 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 404 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1948463857
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Olivia is a USA Today best-selling author of romantasy. When she’s not swooning over her characters’ steamy escapades, or plotting their demise, you can find her sipping wine and crafting her next twisted, romantic masterpiece, all while trying to convince her children and leading man that she loves them more than her laptop.

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Gaby
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful retelling of Romeo and Juliet
Reviewed in Australia on 20 December 2023
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This book has made me love angels all over again and left me wanting more. The world building and premise of this book is so unique and definitely tugs at the heart strings. The romance in this story is captivating as it is devastatingly good with a broody MMC and a love that is a sin within itself.
The scope of the book is that there are baby angels, “fletchlings” who haven’t earned all their wing feathers that allow them to ascend and must complete missions (reform sinning humans) to secure said wing feathers. However, a fletching loses their feathers if they sin (ie. lying), which sounds easy for most angels but for the MFC she struggles and in turn, to speed up the process of feather attaining she seeks out the “worst” human sinner to reform (Jarod) to get her feathers faster but all is not as it seems...
4/5✨
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4.0 out of 5 stars Opposites attract
Reviewed in Australia on 1 June 2022
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“Feather” is book one in Olivia Wildenstein’s Angels of Elysium series.

The ending is not something I was expecting, I was completely blown away and destroyed by it.

I’ve never read anything by this author before and I am impressed and intrigued with her writing style.

Plot
Leigh is an Angel trying to gain her feathers for her ascension. Humans are scored based off their sins, helping these humans make good decisions and do good deeds gives her feathers based off their scores towards her completion. With only 81 feathers short from completing, and need to ascend fast, Leigh takes on a Triple which is the highest sinner with a score of 100. But getting the rest of her feathers ain’t going to be an easy feat especially when Leigh starts losing feathers instead.

Leigh’s character was a little naive to the truth behind how the Angels believed everything to be black & white, good vs evil. Until she meets Jarod and sees that sometimes things are grey and her eyes open up and she starts to question everything that she has learnt and be told.

Jarod comes off broody and cruel when he is first introduced, but as time goes by you find a man that is broken and complex, that the outer shell he shows to the world isn’t the true man within.

I enjoyed reading this book, I devoured it quite quickly as I was so immersed in it. Ms Wildenstein did a wonderful job with creating this world and characters in it. I found it hard to put the book down as I was constantly telling myself after this chapter, that the next thing I knew I had finished it.

I will say this be prepared to have your heart torn out as the ending just broke me.
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Galdoria
5.0 out of 5 stars I am awestruck !!!
Reviewed in Australia on 4 October 2023
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This book has left me speechless!

I didn't see the inspiration story that Fallen could arguably be described as a retelling of until almost the end. I am glad because I may not have read this book otherwise and it would have been such a shame to miss out on it!

In short:
Rating: 4 stars ⭐
Spice: 3.5 or 4 🌶️
Sweetness:  4 🍯
* Grumpy / Sunshine
* Sexy tension and chemistry
* Found family
* Growth and redemption
* he falls hard
* first everything
* tortured past and current angst
* betrayal and seeds of change

What I have particularly loved:

I was charmed by Leigh, her purity, her backbone and quiet strength but also her persistence and ability to learn and grow. Her journey of discovery and growth was beautiful.
As for Jarrod, he is the quintessential tortured soul, afraid to love, to trust and to hope. And just like Leigh's, his journey and development was beautiful!

Beyond the characters, the world building and the concept of angels earning their feathers by redeeming humans, - all the while removing deities from the equation - was a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to dig into. I am looking forward to unravel more of that world's complexity in the second book !
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Talarah Grace
5.0 out of 5 stars A unique Angel Love Story!
Reviewed in Australia on 14 May 2023
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A super unique angel love story.
It is a love story that has a fresh take on angel lore. There is no God, only angels, the world they live in, hell and earth.

The world Olivia has created is masterfully created.
The banter between the love interests was done very well. the main male character's personality is possessive, a little bit of an alpha, he is charismatic, he had a humour and a dry wit that was super enjoyable to read. He also had a sweetness and the tenderness, but of course only reserved for Feather.

This story is about sinners and the angels that make them repent and turn their souls to good. "Sinners" need to do good deeds to help their souls and fledgling angels are tasked to ensure this happens. It's interestingly done.

I enjoyed that you kind of have to weed through the lies, figure out who is actually right. I found myself asking the questions of what is morally right? it's objective depending on your own moral beliefs and written very well into the book.

I am straight onto book 2!
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cory
5.0 out of 5 stars wonderfully and artistically written
Reviewed in Australia on 21 May 2022
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Beautiful story. believable. written well. It’s been a long time since I’ve been impressed by a book with substance and heart. Glad I finally picked this one up after having it in my samples for so long.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Australia on 26 December 2023
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Read it in one day as I couldn't put it down. Pretty damn epic can't wait to read the next two.
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Paige
4.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully written
Reviewed in Australia on 27 January 2022
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But I was not ready for that ending.
Jumping straight into book two because I'm so here for Celestes story.
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K
5.0 out of 5 stars I am heartbroken!
Reviewed in Australia on 4 October 2023
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This ending! OMG! I cried so many times in this book but it's so damn good. The whole book I loved and could not put down, but then the ending gutted me! So now I have to read the next book so I know what happens. OMG!
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Linds S.
5.0 out of 5 stars I cried, I swooned, I left excited and pumped for the next!
Reviewed in the United States on 19 January 2023
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I was scared bc of the fact this book was a Romeo and Juliet retelling vibe-y book and we all KNOW how that story ends. 🥲 so if you’re on the fence and unsure about this book, trust me when I say - TAKE THE PLUNGE!! This book was ✨ amazing ✨

TROPES 🪶
✔️ good girl falls for the bad guy
✔️ world building that’s easy to follow and captivating!
✔️ forbidden love/star crossed lovers 😏😭
✔️ angels with magic ✨
✔️ mafia vibes
✔️ swoon-worthy romance with spice
✔️ Romeo & Juliet retelling but make them angels 😎

Ugh. My heart. My soul. This book absolutely entranced me and I was completely blown away by the creative mind Olivia has. Her angels all have different tiers, different jobs and powers. At the near bottom are the Fledglings, the angels who must earn every feather if they want to ascend to Elysium. If they don’t in time, they lose their wing bones and become Nephilim which are disgraced, fallen angels who are mortals. 😭 They earn their feathers by helping sinners do good things and they can even lose feathers (painfully!) by doing bad things like lying, feeling envious, etc.

So enters our baby girl, Leigh. Wildly orange hair, but a soft strength to her - she’s never lost a feather. She’s a good egg. A Seraphim, the head honchos in Elysium aka the archangels, rule over the lower tiers. Asher, one of the 7 I believe archangels, comes down to let the Fledglings know he’s looking to wire up and has his eyes on Leigh who is also a Verity (pure blooded) Angel. But she’s gotta get 80+ more feathers before the time is up to ascend and be considered.

So how DOES one gain that many feathers in so short a time? Simple! Taking on a sinner and changing them to save their soul. But not just any sinner, no. They need a truly BAD one. We’re talking a Triple. The baddest of the bad - and this is no easy task. So Leigh’s shady 👀 friend sets her up with one that spooks all the other angels - a mafia boss, Jarod Alder.

Jarod is jaded, slightly paranoid, bitter and takes no shit from anybody. But Leigh fascinates him. So she swoops in like a little missionary to try and get him to change his ways.

Spoiler territory the rest of the way so I’ll keep it vague and just spew my thoughts! You know this is a Romeo and Juliet retelling. But what you don’t know is the ending. Trust me when I say if you’ve been wanting to read this, but you haven’t, take this as your sign to pick up Olivia’s first book in this series and take that leap of faith (lol I’m sorry) and I promise you, you will love this book. It’s unique, it’s immersive, it’s romantic, it’s heart breaking, but you leave with hope and excitement for the next book. And good news!! This series IS complete!! So that means we can binge it all. 😌 so please, go pick this up. Read it. Thank me later.
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juveria
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 February 2024
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Fantasy romance different than fae,vampires,high Lords et all.Bad Boy and Good girl done the way it should be - throughly invested
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Lyvia Maciel
5.0 out of 5 stars Indescribable
Reviewed in Brazil on 16 January 2022
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I loved this book so much. Feather made me feel a mix of indescribable feelings. I highly recommend.
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Yas
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like PNR with angels and a loosely Romeo & Juliet retelling, then this is for you!
Reviewed in Germany on 21 March 2023
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Even if you don't like Romeo & Juliet, I would still recommend it as it has so many other aspects that make this story a great reading experience!

I’m not okay...I need a hug and a calming tea because I think I've never cried so much after reading a book! This book was incredible but heartbreaking 💔

The main characters are:
Leigh, an Angel who collects feathers to complete her wings by bringing people to be better humans (without them knowing that angels exist), and Jarod, a Human & a dark mafia boss who has the highest point in the Angels' sinners system

Both characters were so interesting to read about, and I loved how much they grew throughout the story. Jarod calling Leigh "Feather" was one of my favorite parts...Oh, and the “smoldering” (you have to read it to understand it!)
The Angel system was so unique and fascinating to read about.

Okay, so I enjoyed myself for the first 85%, but I was just a sobbing mess for the rest of the book 😭 (this is Romeo & Juliet - what did I expect?)

Celeste was one of my favorite side characters (she has purple feathers, so maybe I'm biased 💜). I can't wait to read her book! And I need closure.

Advice: Don't skip the Acknowledgments in this one! It was reassuring, especially if you are as sensitive as me and need your HEA

🗂Genre: Paranormal Tragedy
🏷Tropes:
- Romeo x Juliet retelling
- Star-crossed Lovers
- Forbidden: Angel x Human
- Soulmates
- PNR
- Mafia
- Found Family
- Spice
+ another trope that I ADORE but can't say because it's a spoiler

📖Format: 1st Person, dual POV
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cuore__di__carta
5.0 out of 5 stars Between light and darkness there's love
Reviewed in Italy on 4 January 2022
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A new forbidden love story between an angel and a human, the perfect mix between paranormal and mafia romance.

I won’t lie. When I started my reading I was pretty confused since I couldn’t manage to understand the world building. But from 10% on the story takes flight and every piece of the puzzle finds its place.

Feather is a surprisingly sweet story, full of passion, pain and altruism. In this book I found an unexpected depth when describing love and everything about good and evil (and the grey areas between them). Both the protagonists make difficult choices to ensure the other’s freedom. And freedom doesn’t mean they need to stay together.

I loved Leigh so much, because she communicates moral values that I also share, she’s kind, empathetic, selfless, resilient but insecure, she’s so sensitive and hers is an all-encompassing love. But Jarod was the true surprise. Although he's a mob boss in Paris, he’s not despicable or unpleasant or violent, but tender, protective, caring. The best part of the story is how they gradually develop their feelings for each other and how they manage to understand their true desires, even if this leads to question their own past: one of abandonment and violence, the other righteous and angelic. It’s amazing when you read about the clash between Leigh’s innate goodness and Jarod’s cruel world.

The setting is magnificent (Paris with its historical buildings and monuments), fascinating the other characters, every chapter full of dynamic adrenaline.

Watch out: even if Feather could be classified as a romance and a passionate story, it contains a lot of painful moments and difficult choices that are unusual for the genre. It is a wonderful book (and if you’re really sensitive, you’ll need tissues).

Hoping this amazing series will land in Italy soon, I’m starting the second book!
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