Heaven is the last book of the Halo Trilogy. This story is about the struggles that Bethany, an angel, and Xavier, a human, have to go through to finally be together. The book starts off with the two getting married despite of Heaven's will. When they got married, Bethany and Xavier never expected innocent people to die because of their union. After witnessing the death of the priest that married them, they left town with Gabriel and Ivy, Bethany's archangel brother and seraphim sister. The rebel military group in Heaven, called the Sevens, is after them. and wants them separated. Xavier and Bethany, husband and wife, hide in plain sight at a college with the guise of a close-knit brother and sister. It works for a while when the leader of the Sevens catches them and kills Xavier and his roommate just to prove a point. Xavier was almost gone until Bethany guides his soul back to his body. With his death, more trouble came. Lucifer possessed his body and claimed that he would release Xavier if Bethany brings his son, Jake, back from the dead. Jake is brought back and wants Gabriel's wings for the releasing of Bethany's husband. Always determined to protect human life, Gabriel complies and gives his wings up. Without his wings, Gabriel is able to experience human emotions that he wasn't able to understand before. Ivy and Gabriel finally reveal to Bethany and Xavier about who he is. Ivy and helped his mom get pregnant years ago and because of this, Xavier is half human and half angel. Later that day, a hostage situation rises. The leader of the Sevens has Xavier's sister and will give her back in exchange for Bethany. She gives herself up and is carried back home to Heaven. In Heaven, she is put in a type of psych ward for angels. Determined to get back to Xavier, she asks around and discovers that to get back to Earth, she has to give up her wings and become human. She agrees without hesitation and is spurred on by a vision of Xavier, her husband, about to jump off of a cliff. After the process is complete, she feels the most intense pain. She finds her way to Xavier through it all and discovers that she has been gone for two years. With nothing else in their way, Bethany and Xavier look forward to growing old and dying together, their version of heaven.
In this picture, a man is pushing a rock up against a steep mountain. He keeps pushing even though gravity is going against him because he doesn't want to give up. This picture represents the most important component of
Heaven because Bethany and Xavier are determined not to let the Sevens get the best of them, knowing that they have little help. It seems like everything and everyone is pushing against them, but they refuse to give up and accept defeat because they have faith that their love is stronger than all of it.
I loved reading Heaven because there was a captivating conflict around every corner from beginning to end. This moving story made me not want to put the book down because it made me empathize with the main characters. I understood that the journey was taking its toll on them between the deaths and the fights and made them wonder if they were ever going to be able to live in peace. I rate this book five out of five stars because I thought it was the perfect ending to the trilogy.
I like the story just the way it is because it couldn't have ended better for Bethany and Xavier and wouldn't change anything. They both got to spend their lives together. Because they were both human now, nothing stood in their way. I think Alexandra Adornetto did a fantastic job writing the conclusion to the trilogy by writing a happy ending for each character.
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