Editorial Review

“On one level, this is a British school story, with cliques and bullies, but McNish goes further; his real accomplishment is melding the gritty ordinariness of everyday happenings with the magnificence of angels. For this, he needed the skills of a conductor, knowing when to play up the angelic choir and when to let it be heavenly background music. . . Vampires and werewolves have been given their due in fiction of late; the mystery of angels takes center stage here.” —Booklist