Angel's Wings

I am a HUGE Anne Stuart fan, and have shelled out a pretty penny to purchase all of her out of print gems. This is one of those "gems". Anne Stuart is a lot of things..smart, witty, intense with her dialogue, and now I add VERSATILE to the long list of adjectives. This story just doesn't seem like it is something Anne Stuart would write. I thought to myself...is this a woman who gets bored and just needs to write different for differents sake....Why mess with what is so good in order to be "different"? Am I ever glad that she did! Angel's Wings is set during the Great Depression...in 1937....before WW11. I've never read a romance novel set during this time, never wanted to, until Anne Stuart decided to write it! This is a story of 2 pilots trying to carve out names for themselves during the pioneer phase of air travel. The love story happens in the midst of great economic hardship, hard competition, and MANY deaths related to risks and despair. The banter between Angela and Jack is pure Stuart magic, and she makes you care about everything...the record breaking flight, the conflict with her competetor, and mostly Jack and Angela getting their HEA. It is a bit slow in the beginning, but press on! By the end you'll be reading as fast as our eyes will let you!

"Angel Wings" by Anne Stuart is part of the "A Century of American Dreams" series set in 1937. Angela Hogan is flying ace, trying to keep her freight company going, during the depression. To help her business Angela hires Jack Clancy, a war hero, who loves the ladies. But Angela needs business, so she is willing to do anything. This was the first book that I read from Anne Stuart, it was a decent book, but the beginning seem slow, and it had a hard time holding my interest. But overall, it was okay.

When I got this, I thought how did I miss this Stuart when it was released before? I am SO GLAD they reprinted it. I know a few of you might be grumpy about the period setting, but blow that at your ear and read one of Stuart's best.This books just, again, impressed me with how great a writer Anne Stuart is. Does not matter the period, does not matter the setting, she delivers. An amazing read with characters that steal your heart.

Anne Stuart turns on the pixie dust again and dazzles our minds! There is, undoubtedly, no writer who has quite her special magic. I buy her books on her name alone, because I know simply she will provide me with a very special story - every time. I recall with Ritual Sins came out, I thought opps, the storyline won't work for me. Stuart likely smiled, knowing that is the reaction she would get from her loyal fans. She also knew she'd take them down those dark, claustrophobic corridors, rife with emotions, that she would mesmerize us against our will. Ritual Sins proved Stuart could take a subject off-putting and dancing in the fire - and demand of her readers that they do the same. She is not "safe" writer. She does not take the easy way or go with the flow of politically correct. She designs, crafts and uses her magic wand to weave tales that are brilliant. She is without doubt the resident genius of Romance!So when Angel Wings came in, I thought, opps....the story is set in 1937 and about flying. Not my cup of tea. And again Stuart likely smiled, because she has gone bifity-bofity and once again pulled her hat-trick. Angel Wings is pure Stuart witchcraft and grabs the reader and does not let them go. Be prepared for another Stuart bad boy that good girls cannot resist!Angela Hogan was engaged to a highflying ace who died trying to set an aviation record in the style of Lucky Lindy. Now running her air freight cargo business, she is beset with all sorts of problems. A restless, younger sister who wants to be a movie star, an underhanded competitor who wants to run her out of business, three airplanes needing repairs, and she just fired her pilot and mechanic. So, when Jack Clancy swaggers into her office, he is both an answer to a prayer and her worst nightmare. Jack is international playboy, a love `em and leave `em guy who is splashes across the tabloids as often as he makes the news for his daring flying exploits. A man too bloody handsome for Angela's peace of mind.He and Angela instantly rub each other the wrong way, getting under each other's skins. Angela needs Jack to see her business does not go under, but the price of keeping him around is going to cost high! These characters leap off the pages, spellbinder you in the best Stuart magic. I just could not put it down.Stuart has a fine feel for the period, an eye to historical details. How things WERE, not as people think they were. She portrays the male - female roles of the late 30's so well, not updating them the please the audience of today - but giving the readers a time machine ride into the past.It's just does not get any better than this. All I can stay to Stuart is - don't ever stop!