Rage of Angels- The Sidney sheldon's best

Generally, girls love sidney sheldons' novels, there are so many reasons, why he was a big success, but in my point of view he had become everyones favorite only because he always makes a character so real, humane and with a tinge of indecency and an untouchable world, which we would love to explore or too scared to even think about it.

You can empathize the hero's and heroines perspective, his stories are never one sided! He always argues for both the parties vigorously. And i m not a very addicted sidney sheldon reader, i have i remember have read around 7 of his novels.

Other side of midnight, other side of me, if tomorrow comes, blood line, rage of angels, tell me your dreams and one more i forgot the name. Everybody exaggerated  other side of mid night, but truly speaking i could never connect with the story of revenge, its way too confusing and irritating for me, although it was a new concept, new way of thinking about woman's revenge attitude.

The second novel i have read of sidney is rage of angels, i immedietly felt connected to it, due to one reason, it started with my birthday the first scene, September 4 new york :-)) its a court room scene,. I think its human  nature, when you see you birthday on a book or in a register you will just feel happy about it, for no reason, the same way , rage of angels stayed with me,.in my heart

And the title kind of intrigued me too, because angels are supposed to be soft, sweet, cool, smiley, intelligent, with feathers, and with a magical stick which contains star in it and she will grant all the wishes that you wish for...

But here was the first time i have read about an angel in rage, do angels do have rage? it was the question popped into my head... then i started reading the novel, i lost myself, my entire self

The story was magical, the future american president, the top italian gangster fall in love with the same woman but in a very different situation!  There are 3 characters in the novel, jennifer parker, micheal morretti and adam warner.

Adam warner is technically the hero with a coward shade, i however didn't like him much, sidney had emphasized the quality of adam's nature, but to me he looked completely so out of proportion, just a guts lacking, but materially successful man!

Here comes our hero Mr Moretti, the good looker, the handsome, the awesome yet the villain! You couldn't dislike him even if you tried hard, he is the gangster, yet compare to adam he loves the heroine so deeply and profoundly, which is shocking because, he happens to just believe woman is for sex and for nothing.

But he also needs a woman with brilliance , talent, sophistication, looks, yet innocence and bold, all these characteristics were our heroine Miss parkers phenomenon .

As far as my observation is concerned, she was a honest, gullible woman who wasn't taught to or aware how to deal with the real life dragons, she gets into the situations without thinking much about the outcome or just think about it, but cannot come out it, kinda scenes just reminds you  how help less a human could be when a heartbreaking situation arises.

The part which affected me mostly was the death of jennnifer parkers son joshua parker, how precious the little baby is to her, and how she loved adam warner so much ,because of her love she decided not to abort her baby.

Finally the death of joshua destroys our strong minded innocent heroine. She will have no one to turn to, she will have no support, she will have no relation, she just have herself. The most painful part of the story is joshua's death. I agree, i cried a lot and a lot and a lot for the kid's demise.

Then the climax scene and the most romantic words sidney written, after micheal shoots jennifer, he thinks to himself, which is more painful her death or his death. My god, your heart just weeps for the villain.

But the woman again emerges strongly, she is an attorney and she will remain one.........

The rage which she has never dies, but she is an angel- the protector and the character will always live in my heart....... I could connect with the character, because she is not always a perfect woman, she has flaws, she had done mistakes, she was the most brilliant attorney, she had goal, she had purpose and she had love......she loves to give love.

And she survived.... The rage of an angel... jennifer parker

Prathi surendran

P.S This story was made into a malayam movie where mohan lal acted as the gangster and shobana was the reporter..