Coming from indie author S. L. Saboviec, Guarding Angel is a well-produced piece of literature. Many, if not most, indie works are production nightmares with badly designed covers, poor formatting and prose littered with glaring errors. Not so with Guardian Angel. You can see this is an author who spent time not only in the writing of the book, but also its design and production.
The cover design is flawless; I can honestly say that I have never seen anything quite like it in the indie world so far, and I've read a good amount of indie works. If I saw the cover in a physical store, and read only the blurb, I would purchase the book on appearance alone!
But, we can't always judge a book by its cover, can we? Moving into the prose, I can say that Guardian Angel does not disappoint. The work is well-written and - surprise surprise - there are no grammar errors! Many indie authors elect not to use an editor and that's a shame as it really puts down the overall quality of the book. Guarding Angel does not make this mistake, and as an avid reader and indie fan, I'm very happy with this.
In terms of my genre preference, I'm not typically a romance fan, but Guarding Angel is, at its heart, a fantasy novel, touched by elements of romance and a deep-seated look into the nature of religion and the afterlife.
As a child, I sometimes wondered if the lives we possessed were due to our choices when leaving heaven (back when I believed in such things), and Guarding Angel touches on this concept and expands into original territory, where souls choose their own trials and tribulations with the ultimate goal of personal growth. There is a deep amount of world building; indeed, the novel is set across a number of historical periods, fast-forwarded across the ages, not to mention the vastly different worlds of heaven and hell.
At the centre of it all is Enael, a guardian struggling to keep her charges safe, while at the same time battling her demons (both literally and figuratively). It's a tale of success and failure, a struggle about doubting oneself which, I am certain, will resonate with a number of readers, dipping into harsh truths which can be both illuminating and discomforting, depending on how you look at it.
At the end of the day, Guarding Angel is well worth the read. If you enjoy fantasy and a quick tryst into the realms of heaven and hell, then this is the book for you.
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