And although it’s commercially compelling, I’m not interested in making a case for why angels are the new vampires. Going into this project, what I knew about angels started and ended with a very basic collective social construct: flawless features, fluffy wings, good intentions, etc. I’ve never encountered an angel in my every day life-though I’d consider myself open to it (I say this after visiting Savannah, where I learned 80% of the residents are “open” to encountering a ghost). In an age where we’ve actually colloquialized the phrase “vampire-saturation,” where even Anne Rice is crossing over to the light side, and where-yes, I know-there’s no shortage of other angel books being published, it does feel important to trace back to the exact moment that I chose to plunge myself into the Miltonic fray. Why angels? More than any other question I’ve been asked since I started writing Fallen, this is what people want to know. By Lauren Kate, for The Children’s Book Review
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