Small Miracles
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3.5 • 11 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
A "warm, funny, and wonderfully inclusive fantasy" (Sangu Mandanna), this feel-good comedy by author Olivia Atwater mixes angels, demons, romance, and chocolate into a perfectly petty and wickedly entertaining novel.
A little bit of sin is good for the soul.
Gadriel, the fallen angel of petty temptations, has a bit of a gambling debt. Fortunately, her angelic bookie is happy to let her pay off her debts by doing what she does best: All Gadriel has to do is tempt miserably sinless mortal Holly Harker to do a few nice things for herself.
What should be a cakewalk of a job soon runs into several roadblocks, however, as Miss Harker politely refuses every attempt at temptation from Gadriel the woman, Gadriel the man, and Gadriel the adorable fluffy kitten. When even chocolate fails to move Gadriel's target, the ex-guardian angel begins to suspect she's been conned. But Gadriel still remembers her previous job… and where petty temptations fail, small miracles might yet prevail.
Olivia Atwater explores love, grief, and the very last bit of chocolate in this sweet modern fantasy, full of wit and heart. Pick up Small Miracles, and enjoy a heavenly comedy from the author of Half a Soul.
Praise for Small Miracles
"Warm, funny and wonderfully inclusive, Small Miracles is a delightful fantasy about the extraordinary power of small, seemingly insignificant kindnesses and joys." —Sangu Mandanna, bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
"Full of fallen angels, petty gambling, and lots of chocolate, Small Miracles is a sweet and cozy delight—think Good Omens with lower stakes and more heart. I fell in love with this ridiculously charming book and hope others do, too." —Julie Leong, author of The Teller of Small Fortunes
"A warm, fuzzy treatise on human nature, family, and the little naughty things we do to get through the hard days." —Riley August, author of The Last Gifts of the Universe
"A charming romantic comedy about fallen angels, friendship, chocolate and tiny problems. This has all the Good Omens vibes but softer and cozier, with witty characters it's a joy to spend time with." —Tansy Rayner Roberts, author of Teacup Magic
"Regency faerie tale queen Olivia Atwater takes a leap into the contemporary with this charming tale of little temptations." —Jacquelyn Benson, author of Empire of Shadows
Customer Reviews
Bizarre structure that isn’t for me
I started this after speeding through the author’s four historical fairy tales, and the difference was incredibly jarring to me. There are endnotes at the end of each chapter that explain a ton of the things the characters reference, but they just have asterisks instead of numbers like real endnotes, so you are left trying to figure out which endnote goes to what you were just reading every time you go to the back of the chapter. This is on top of endnotes being a very poor way to try to explain a fictional world in my own opinion. Partway through the first chapter, I was so frustrated that I looked ahead and when I saw the endnotes continued in future chapters, I put the book down in disappointment.