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Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death Kindle Edition

by Maria Vale (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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NAMED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 10 BEST ROMANCES OF 2023: "A weird, adorable stunner of a romance."

Death needs a do-over.
Azrael---angel of death, grim reaper, destroyer of worlds--has messed up. Instead of taking Molly Molloy's soul, he patted her on the back and saved her from choking on a chicken wing.
Now this extraordinarily ordinary New York City waitress can see him. Talk to him. Touch him. Say 'no' to him. And make him question every assumption he has about what it means to live.
The Powers that Be are impatient with him to fix his mistake but before he can, Death makes one more.
He falls in love.

"A quiet masterpiece."
—Adriana Anders, award-winning author of Whiteout

"One of the loveliest, most unique, most thoughtful, and ultimately best books I have ever read."
—Jess Hardy, bestselling author of Come as You Are

"Heartbreaking and humorous, Molly Molloy is as unexpected as it is gorgeous. I adored it."
--Josephine Angelini, bestselling author of the Starcrossed series

A "thought-provoking, wonder-filled celebration of the circle of life."
—Publishers Weekly starred review

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[A] thought-provoking, wonder-filled celebration of the circle of life...[A] richly imagined tale of love from its beginning to the bitter end. --Publishers Weekly starred review

From the Inside Flap

"A quiet masterpiece."
--Adriana Anders, award-winning author of Whiteout

"Heartbreaking & humorous...as unexpected as it is gorgeous."
--Josephine Angelini, bestselling author of Starcrossed.

"One of the loveliest, most unique, most thoughtful books I have ever read."
--Jess Hardy, bestselling author of Come as You Are.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BTPT4JB2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wild & Ashe, LLC (April 4, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 4, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 597 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 272 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #178,999 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #206 in Metaphysical Fiction
- #446 in Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction (Books)
- #6,305 in Fantasy Romance eBooks

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Maria Vale is a journalist who has worked for Publishers Weekly, Glamour, Redbook and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She's a double-Rita finalist whose paranormal romance series--The Last Wolf, A Wolf Apart, Forever Wolf, Season of the Wolf & the upcoming Wolf in the Shadows--have been chosen by Amazon, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, ALA Booklist, Kirkus and BookPage as Best Books of the Year. Trained as a medievalist, she persists in trying to shoehorn the language of Beowulf into things that don't really need it. She lives in New York City with her husband and two kids.

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Irish Eyes

Pure joy is where you find it…

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2023

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Stumbled across this little gem of a fantasy book and hands down one of my top 5 for 2023. It’s charming, quirky, laugh out loud funny and endearing. Molly is a great female protagonist who can stand up for herself (because no one else ever has) and also makes some epic mistakes many of us can relate to (the kind that have you curled up in a ball saying stupid, stupid, stupid). And then there’s Death. He’s weird. And awkward. And clueless. And utterly charming. A delightful romp with a unique take on the whole circle-of-life thingy.

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Ellen

Charmingly Off-Beat!

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023

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What a charming, bittersweet and weird little book! And I mean that in the best way possible!

Death has many names but I’ll call him that for purposes of this review. (Molly calls him Dee for example.) In his earthly appearance, he is an earnest, sad-faced, thin young man who wears band tee shirts and clothes with plenty of pockets to fill all the souls he collects. He only knows the names of the souls he collects upon the moment of death, so because he hasn’t actually collected Molly’s soul, he can’t even remember her name at first.

You see, Death had actually come for Molly, but because of an absent-minded mistake, he ended up taken the soul of someone else. His superiors on the angel world admonish him to correct his mistake. But he falls in love with Molly, and lots of emotion and comic mishaps ensue.

Molly and Death are both very lonely and their sweet love story is all very endearing until it turns very serious. I don’t want to give away too much about this oddball romantasy but there’s lot of Latin, tons of biblical names and references and strange occurrences such as time standing still when Death appears.

I don’t know that this book will be for everyone but I found it off-beat and very, very charming.

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Reader Kat

The ordinary becomes extraordinary

Reviewed in the United States on December 2, 2023

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Death doesn't act all-powerful, he doesn't have the experience to understand what it is that he's taking when he takes a life. What he does, as his friend Bea says, is "bookkeeping."
It's not until he meets up with Molly that he starts to understand that each number, each line on his list, represents a story of such excruciating intensity.

Even when the story is as tragically mundane as Molly Molloy. She's lost everybody--parents, grandparents, first love--everybody except herself, but honestly that's enough. It's made her strong but not hard, accepting of life's downs but warily hopeful for some ups. She is the only person who could take Death by the lapels and guide him through life.
I know why some people don't know what to make of this book--it is touching and funny, painful and uplifting all at the same time. You have to hold on and let it take you on the journey.

Kind of like life.

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Lovely and poignant

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2023

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A lovely and unique story ultimately about appreciating the small joys and wonders of the world. Deeply sad and nicely heartwarming, A nice read for if you need a good cry.

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Susan

Death Doesn't Become Her

Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2023

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I'm always open to new ideas and genres of books and was fully aware this selection was going to be, shall we say, different. I had high hopes I was going to enjoy it. Alas, those hopes were not fulfilled.

Death, in the form of a hapless and somewhat clueless humanoid form on earth while performing the duties assigned to him, gets his chores bumbled one day and crossed paths with a young self-assured woman, the title character Molly Molloy, who refuses to put up with his nonsense. While her smugness and confidence and his ineptitude initially led to some clever dialog and interactions, I found these soon wore thin especially with various phrases used repeatedly so as to become redundant (i.e. "Yoh-oh, that's going to be trouble"). The otherworldly characters and language were also somewhat cute at first but then became a bit confusing and jumbled to me, as if attempting to emulate a version of Harry Potter with a subtle yet decidedly Jewish flair (i.e. Neshama-le, Abba).

Suffice to say, Death - sweetly shortened to Dee by Molly - become involved with each other over the course of years to come through trials, triumphs and travails. But the story never really took off to draw me into this fantasy, instead I simply trudged through the Valley of Death to the bitter end, feeling no better off for having gotten to know him than I did at the beginning.

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N. St Martin

Tender, surprising, and needed

Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2023

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I needed this little story. It’s beautiful and moving and speaks to contemporary life so well. The characters are believable and lovable and I will remember them

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Mary Terry3

Well written unusual paranormal novel with romance

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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Molly was supposed to die, choking on a chicken bone, but Death was distracted so change came to the world. In some ways the feelings and thoughts in this story were very superficial - almost flippant - but if you stopped to think about it, they were deeper than you first observed.

This book was well written. While it was easy to follow who was talking, and I didn't see any glaring grammatical errors, in the first third of the book I found it hard to understand just what was happening. When the POV was Death, the Male MC, it was especially difficult to follow and understand his thoughts: you had to know what was going on to know what he was talking about.

The story was contained a romance between Molly and Death, had a fair amount of humor in it, but also contained some philosophy. (Why are things done they way they are? When is questioning the status quo appropriate, or even necessary?)

I gave this book 4 stars because it was difficult to follow at the beginning, and I didn't particularly care what happened to the main characters. I did like the premise of the book.

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