(view spoiler)[The Angel: 2-3 star (can't make up my mind) I have no idea how to begin without getting a lashing, and not the kind with a riding crop. A tongue lashing, and not a pleasant one. 
 The excellent: Michael, our angel. I loved that tike. He a well-fleshed out character. Griffin, we watched him grow from annoying child to a grown man. Their romance was a slow-build, sweet, tender, and realistic. Perfection. 
 'don't shoot me' *cowers* It was titled The Angel, yet it should have been titled 'The Reporter'. It was all Suzanne. I have a huge dislike for her. Entitled. Bossy. Pushy. Snoopy. I kept shouting at my Kindle, "It's none of your (blasphemy) business!" I mean that, plot reasons aside, it was NONE of her business. At all. Ever. She kept saying things like, "You own me the truth." Why? Stranger. Complete stranger. You are entitled to nothing. It's called my private thoughts inside my private head. 
 30 years of secrets were exposed by Suzanne as a delivery system for the reader, leaving me feeling disconnected. I wanted to hear from the secret keepers/secret tellers during their narration. Not an unemotional account by a stranger (to the readers and the characters) With an 'off the record', characters who kept secrets for 30 years spilled their guts: incest, rape, patricide, every act against God imaginable, and they told a stranger who could ruin them because she asked... when they had never told their nearest and dearest, even when they asked. As a reader, and for the characters, I felt betrayed. It wrecked me, for I felt compassion for the characters- empathy. 
 Nora's medical records: her deepest secret, her deepest shame, her deepest wound, the reason she ran from Soren, and they share it with a women who is demanding answers when it's none of her business. The reader should have learned something so DEEP from Nora's narration. Felt it from her. 
 The odd attraction between Soren and Suzanne. As a true sadist, he derives no arousal from anything but pain. Yet he was flirting with her, pouring his heart out to her, and releasing other ppl's secrets... Worse, this woman is shouting morality and the abuse of church and she's trying to seduce a Priest because she is arrogant and prideful. Suzanne was a horrible person. In real life, she is... I have no words. 
 If Suzanne would have not been in the book, I would have given it 5 stars for the actual Angel of the story. & It isn't some sick fascination of mine that SOREN IS NORA's. It's because it didn't make sense. Suzanne was a stranger, who insinuated herself in their lives, and these dominant, in control beings, just offered up the goods when asked, when it was totally out of character. 
 In The Angel, Nora was just... there. (hide spoiler)]