Angels Have Transparent Wings

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“Daughter of Earth, you have been chosen to protect this planet. Will you let Gaia’s power awaken within you? Will you become... an Angel?”

Quinn thought she knew what she was getting into when she accepted. Growing up reading and watching so many stories of beautiful magical girls, how could she refuse?

But the Angels of Earth don’t get pretty sailor uniforms and sparkling transformations. They have four arms and extra eyes, glossy carapaces and glassy wings... and metamorphoses that are excruciatingly painful and anything but glamorous, where human bodies melt into slurry before reforming into their terrifying but beautiful new forms.

And that’s to say nothing of the Demons.

Before she realizes it, Quinn finds herself dragged into a world beyond her wildest imagination. A world where ancient orders fight demonic powers for the future of life on Earth. And if she wants any hope of survival, she’ll need to find out the truth about Angels and Demons, and all the other mysterious beings that call the Earth their home.

Information

Status: Completed
Year: 2021
Author: SaplingTender

Royal Road Stats

Rating: 4.8/ 5.0
Followers: 52
Views: 39,247

Chapters(70 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

justsomedragonRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
I think this is a pretty good work overall. My only real critique is the severe separation that the 1st book/arc and 2nd book/arc has. The BBEG gets defeated, and they go to a whole other continent on the fly. Other than that, i think the plot can be a little bit incohesive and sometimes feels disconnected from the day-to-day of the book. But overall, i still like it.
luda305Royal Road
★★★★ 4.0
Take Hive Minds Give Good Hugs' horror add the secret war being fought by teenagers from Animorphs add every magical girl series where they have an alternate form to transform into and then bring it back around to the insect obsession of Hive Minds.
That's what you have here.
It's fairly well executed given the premise. My main concern is that it seems to be pitched towards a YA audience. There's a lack of maturity from the characters. Through 12 chapters, some of the worldbuilding (mostly about the secret war) doesn't really make sense. Part of that's handwaving, part of it is hinting that there'll be some big reveal later about the nature of the war, but given it's highly central poitn, that it's not really pitched as a mystery for the protagonist to solve, but rather that it's something just being withheld from the audience, it's a little annoying (or that's a cracy theory and it's just all handwaving, which is also a little annoying).
That said, there's definitely an audience who'll enjoy it.