I just finished this book and was not at all disappointed...
Inititally, I wasn't sure just how exciting a book about people who grow wings could be? Which is why the book sat on my bookshelf for a couple of weeks after I purchased it. How would the story unfold? Could you; Mr Sosnowski, keep us; the audience enthralled for long enough to finish the book? You proved that you can, you accomplished all of the above and more.
It was a thorougly interesting book, in regard to the 'what ifs' and 'what do I do now' type questions. Honestly, "what would you do if you just started sprouting wings?" Talk about quite the inconvenience. I mean, yeh so you can fly, that is surely a bonus but what are you going to wear with those huge wings growing out of your back? And make sure you don't own a compact car, that would really cause some problems? Any car actually.
Well our main character, Zander Wiles managed to adjust, not without some minor, and not so minor hiccups.
Powells had this to say 'A wonderful, terrible new virus is stalking America: Angelism. It starts like the flu, turns your skin green, and ends...in wings. As the virus spreads, it creates both a new race of people who look like angels but certainly don't feel like them inside, and wing-free Pedestrians, who are left behind to wait and worry. And while the wing-inflicted play tag with the seagulls, the Peds grow envious, some even going for the jugular — either for harm's sake, or to contrive their own infection. In this new world, who will fly and who will falter?
In David Sosnowski's Rapture, Zander Wiles is the first victim of Angelism to go public. But his status as celebrity quickly turns to pariah; his experiences at the hands of his disapproving parents and a fickle media machine turn the world's first flesh-and-blood Angel into a bitter recluse. Alone and grounded, Zander doesn't understand that the first step to flying is throwing yourself at the ground...and missing. Zander's life is in utter eclipse until he meets bestselling Angel therapist Cassie O'Connor. Using skates and tough love, Cassie teaches Zander how to face, squarely and deeply, just what he is. Along the way, she also teaches him how to fly.'
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