ah, saints and angels, a fantasy staple we all can’t seem to get enough of. how could you not? it is almost as if they embody a kind of luminescence that draws any reader to them. Although the saints and angels create a sense of security and comfort, it’s always fascinating to read about her fighting against an opposing force, which is probably why we keep coming back to this tried and true genre!
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From redemption, love and revenge, here are 10 books, both classic and new, with mythologies of saints and angels to add to your tbr!
10 books with saints & angels
These books are simply heavenly
1. soulswift by megan bannen
Gelya is a Vessel, a girl who channels the word of the One True God through song. Cloistered with the other Vessels of her faith, she believes—as all Ovinists do—that a saint imprisoned Elath the Great Demon centuries ago, saving humanity from earthly temptation.
When gelya stumbles upon a deadly cover-up by the ovinist army, she reluctantly teams up with tavik, an enemy soldier, to survive. Tavik believes that Elath is actually a mother goddess who must be freed, but while he manages to open her prison, she inadvertently turns Gelya into Elath’s unwitting human vessel.
now the church that raised gelya considers her a threat. In a race against time, she and Tavik must find a way to exorcise Elath’s presence from her body. But will this launch stop the countdown to the end of the world, or will it cause the destruction of the earth?
and as tavik and gelya grow closer, another question arises between them: what will become of gelya?
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2. born of fury by claire legrand
When assassins ambush her best friend, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing herself as one of a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light, and one of blood. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven elemental magic trials. If she fails, she will be executed as the Blood Queen…unless the trials kill the queen first.
a thousand years later, the legend of queen rielle is a fairy tale for eliana ferracora. A bounty hunter from the Eternal Empire, Eliana believes herself to be untouchable, until her mother goes missing. To find her, Eliana teams up with a rebel captain and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.
As Rielle and Eliana fight a cosmic war spanning millennia, their stories intersect and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world and each other.
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3. mage angel by garth nix
More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara.
It’s a seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic that ever lived, summoning angels and forcing them to do her bidding. Four young men hold her interest: Simeon, a scholarly doctoral student; henri, a dedicated fortune hunter; agnez, a musketeer in search of glory; and Dorotea, iconography and scholar of angelic magic.
The four feel a strange kinship from the moment they meet but do not suspect its importance. And none of them know how Liliath plans to use them, as mere pawns in her plan, no matter the cost to everyone else. . .
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4. daughter of smoke & bone by laini taylor
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Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth was dangerously low.
and on the tangled back roads of prague, a young art student is about to be drawn into a brutal supernatural war.
meet karou. fills his sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she is prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”; she speaks many languages, not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows from her head that color. Who is she? that is the question that torments her and she is about to discover it.
when one of the strangers, the beautiful and tormented akiva, fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in a marrakesh alley, the result is blood and starlight, secrets revealed and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep from a violent past. But will Karou live to regret knowing the truth about herself?
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5. cassandra clare clockwork angel
The year is 1878.
tessa gray descends into london’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters, including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is drawn to. She will soon find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans.
Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable mechanical creatures, the club is set to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them…
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6. supernatural by the hand of cynthia
When Clara Gardner learns she’s part angel, her entire life changes. She now has a purpose, a specific task she was put on this earth to accomplish, except she doesn’t know what it is.
Her visions of a raging forest fire and a mysterious boy lead her to a new high school in a new town, but provide no clear directions. As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters hidden dangers and decisions she never thought she would have to make: between the boy of her vision and the boy of her life, between honesty and deception, love and duty, good and evil. . .
When the fire of her vision finally lights up, will she be clear ready to face her destiny?
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7. wicked saints by emily a. duncan
A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.
A prince in distress must decide who to trust.
A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings.
Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.
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In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths intertwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the balance between dark and light.
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8. fallen angel by susan ee
It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back. Anything, including making a deal with Raffe, an injured enemy angel. Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco, where Penryn will risk everything to rescue her sister and Raffe will put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.
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9. shut up shut up becca fitzpatrick
For Nora Grey, romance was not part of the plan. She’s never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how much her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch came along.
With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see into her, nora finds herself drawn to him against her better judgment.
But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora isn’t sure who to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere and know more about her than her closest friends of hers. she can’t decide if she should fall into her arms or run and hide. And when she tries to search for some answers, she finds herself close to a truth that is far more unsettling than any patch she makes her feel.
Because Nora is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortals and the fallen, and when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost her her life.
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10. stealing embers by julie hall
My name is Emberly, and everything I’ve ever been told is a lie.
My name is Emberly, and everything I’ve ever been told is a lie.monsters don’t exist. wrong.
The nightmare specter world is just my imagination. wrong.
In a few months, I’ll finally be free. wrong.
It takes being dragged into a secret training academy in the mountains to discover the truth. my captors: an elite race of angel-born warriors called the Nephilim.
The deadliest of them all is an arrogant shapeshifter, Steel. he is beautiful, deadly, hot-headed. . . and convinced that I will be the death of them all.
Maybe you’re right. As soon as I appear, the monsters that have haunted me all my life break through the walls of the academy. My only hope of saving my new friends is learning to control my powers, but when a shocking betrayal hurts someone I care about, I have an impossible choice.
stay and fight for a place to belong. . . Or decide once and for all that I’m better off alone.
Enter the world of the wraith, a realm between worlds where shadow beasts draw blood, reality is a labyrinth of twisted lights and sounds, and life’s goals boil down to one thing: survive.
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what is your favorite book with saints and angels? tell us in the comments!
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