For You I Fall, Colette Davison and T.N. Nova

Love is forbidden for angels; they have an important work that cannot coincide with romantic relationships.  For Dante, falling for Seth is inevitable.  Guarding him for a decade fills Dante's soul and when Seth's past comes back to exact revenge they'll have to find a way to help Seth without giving in to their heart's desires.  But what if they give in?  Can they keep their love despite the laws that govern them?

Each time we switch POV's we get almost a recap of the alternate POV.  While that can sometimes be helpful, there's nothing really pivotal or important that would make the reader need to get the same situation from the other person's perspective.  This then makes the story drag and become much longer than necessary.  Some feelings and details are nice but it gets to be where I want to, and often do, skim until I get to the wholly new information.

Lots and lots of time was spent thinking about the inevitability of their end and not much to help Seth find a solution.  It makes things feel sappy in a melancholy way more often than not.  Then there's the conflict between Killian and Dante that was kind of over the top.  It made both sides of the interaction disingenuous, making Killian seem much more annoying than pitiable in his jealousy.

Dante and Seth's love was based on good, believable, reliable solid things.  Short on the actual romantic progression, but long on building affection on Dante's part because of the ten years of guardianship.  You definitely have to suspend belief/reality in regards to physical manifestation/corporeality in regards to sex though.

In regards to helping people at the end...I was hoping for something bigger, maybe running a shelter or soup kitchen or even having a plan to do either of those things with a mention of working to save money for that goal.  Not to demean or belittle their efforts to feed the homeless the same way Seth was doing it in New York, not at all, just with eternity spreading out before them I'd have thought they'd dream bigger and endeavor to do more for a larger number of people.  San Francisco is temperate, never really hot or cold enough for weather to affect a decrease in the homeless population so something a little bigger and more sustainable seems like it would be a better fit for them and the place they ended up.

Overall I found this story unique by making angels pretty much just like humans, except with wings and special jobs.  Dante and Seth were also good characters.  Their voices weren't always consistent, but they were good as a couple by the end when they sorted things out.  I liked the story quite a lot, actually, despite some misgivings I developed along the way.

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