She gets to spend her Senior Year at the local High School with her three best friends. The consequences of this action may prove to be more agonizing to Britt than her endless fight with cancer.īritt’s cancer is miraculously gone. He broke the law that says you are not to touch someone who is already dead. But “her angel” has done a forbidden thing when he touched her. She is touched by what she calls an angel. She just wants to give up the fight to live so she can finally be at peace. I have to commend the author for originality, though many books these days have Angels or Immortals I have not seen it done quite this way.īritt is dying from cancer and is tired of the pain. It was mind blowing! Be prepared for what you think about Angels and Immortals to be taken to a whole new level. Every time you think you know it all or how things are going turn out, BAM! Something new and unexpected happens. Oh my goodness, TAKING ANGELS will take you on an emotional ride! It blew my mind with all the twist and turns.

Allister struggles to keep Britt a secret from the Eternal Council and out of the hands of the only Eternal who already knows the truth: the one who stole her guardian angel. It is forbidden an infraction punishable by death.Īs Britt relishes her new cancer-free life and senior year of high school, her very existence threatens Allister’s place in this world. The only problem is that an Eternal like Allister isn’t allowed to touch those who have already passed from this world. Ignoring the warnings of his sister, Allister brings Britt back from the edge of death.

When Allister Parks finds Britt’s fragile body on the riverbank something calls out to him. Despite her father’s attempts to reach her, she flies over the waterfall. She struggles to get back to shore, to cry out for help, but her atrophied muscles are useless and the frigid water steals the breath from her chemo-scarred lungs. As Britt tries to end her life by going into the frigid waters she realizes her mistake. No control, except for how she would leave this world. The cancer had won leaving her without a future, without any options, and without control. Britt Anderson went along with everything the doctors said for nearly four years, but she was still dying at eighteen.

Taking Angels by C.S. Yelle