The Angel Burn Playlist
Kings of Leon / “Crawl”
Angel Burn opens with Alex
driving into town in his Porsche
Carrera — handsome, aloof, and
totally cool. This song kicks off the
soundtrack with something mascu-
line, edgy, and fast-paced.
Laura Marling / “Rambling Man”
As the perspective in the novel
switches to Willow, so does
the contrast between her and
Alex with a soft, feminine song.
However, just like Willow, this
track also has a strong, fearless
quality.
Biffy Clyro / “Many of Horror”
This song starts off tentatively but
builds to a dramatic crescendo, like
the blossoming romance between
Alex and Willow.
Kasabian / “Fire”
A great driving track; you can
imagine Alex and Willow cruising
through the desert in their bat-
tered old Mustang listening to this
languid but rocking tune.
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The Pretty Reckless / “Make Me
Wanna Die”
This song is about the lengths that
a girl would go to for the guy she
loves — a great fit for the scenes in
the book where Willow uses her
strength and determination to save
Alex’s life.
Florence + the Machine / “Cosmic
Love”
An epic, theatrical love song,
chosen to show the depth of
feeling between Alex and Willow
as they begin to realize how much
they mean to each other.
Jade Gallagher / “Iris”
This is a gentle love song to accom-
pany the quiet time that Alex and
Willow spend together at Alex’s
camp, gradually getting to know
each other.
Muse  / “Time Is Running Out”
As Alex races against time to reach
the Church of Angels Cathedral in
Denver, time is literally running out
for Willow.
L. A. W eatherly
They’re out for your soul . . .
Jimmy Eat World / “Hear You and they don’t have heaven in mind.
Me”
In this song, the lyrics are from
the point of view of a guy who is
losing the love of his life.
Fireflight / “Forever”
This song is about a girl who is
struggling to survive. She feels like
she’s drowning, choking, and then
the person she loves is reaching
out to help her.
First in a
red-hot paranormal
Queens of the Stone Age / “Go
With The Flow” romantic trilogy
Despite everything they’ve been
through, Alex and Willow can’t
rest. The Church of Angels is still
after them, and this is a great,
fast-paced song to finish on as they
race off into the sunset.
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 ANGEL BURN About L. A. Weatherly countryside: so incredibly flat that you get yes, I’ve known from an early stage how
these sweeping expanses where you can the trilogy is going to end, and can hardly
see for miles, out to the unbroken line of wait to write it. It’s going to be very sad,
L. A. Weatherly is the author of several books for young adults, the horizon. There was something hyp- but hopefully really lovely, too.
L. A. Weatherly including Child X. About Angel Burn, she says, “I’ve known Alex for
a long time. He first came to me as a character almost twenty years
notic about it; it felt so pure and peaceful.
You grew up in America, but now live in
ago, when he was a thief in a fantasy setting — an expert with knives Do you listen to music while you write? England. What do you miss most about
rather than guns. Nothing came of that particular novel, but Alex I often listen to music while I write, usu- America, and what do you love most about
Willow knows she’s different from always stayed with me. He refused to go away, in fact! And over the ally pieces that won’t distract me while I England?
other girls, and not just because she years, I began to wonder about redoing his story completely and try to focus, such as lyrics in a different
loves tinkering with cars. Willow has placing him in a contemporary setting.” Ooh, good question! The things I miss
language or purely instrumental. I think
a gift. She can look into the future and most about America tend to be just silly
of it as “soundtrack” music, and I espe- little things: being able to order iced tea in
know people’s dreams and hopes, their
sorrows and regrets, just by touching A Conversation with L. A. Weatherly cially love pieces that help me visualize
what I’m writing, as if I’m seeing it up on
a restaurant; seeing fireflies at night in the
summertime; enjoying lots of bright, hot
them. She has no idea where this power the big screen! sunny days (I grew up in the South). And
comes from. But the assassin, Alex, does. Your depiction of angels is interesting and the key to destroying the angels once and When I wrote the first draft of Angel what I love most about England is just that
Gorgeous, mysterious Alex knows more unusual. Where did the idea come from? for all. Burn, I listened over and over to Cantamus it’s my home now. Plus I love the coutry-
When Alex is ordered to kill Willow, Aurora by Sarah Class. The album has an
about Willow than she does about herself. I was standing in a bookstore one day, side (and here in Hampshire we really have
he realizes that all is not what it seems. angelic feel in places, but also a dark sense
He knows that her powers link to dark looking at all the nonfiction books about some gorgeous spots), and the people with
An epic road trip follows, where they must of drama and power. I could just see the
and dangerous forces, and that he’s one of angels, and I suddenly thought, what their wry sense of humor.
somehow avoid being killed while they try angels flying in, and hear Alex shouting
the few humans left who can fight them. if angels aren’t what they seem? What
to work out why the angels want Willow Willow’s name.
if they have their own agenda, and are Can you share with us your plan for the second
dead. Along the way, the hunter and the
But when Alex finds himself falling in actually beings to be feared instead of book in the trilogy?
hunted find themselves falling in love. Why do you think people are so attracted to
love with his sworn enemy, he discov- admired? Angel Burn happened very
the paranormal at present? Is this specifically a I am almost insanely secretive when it
ers that nothing is as it seems, least quickly after that!
Can you tell us more about Alex and Willow’s young adult phenomenon? comes to works in progress, so I won’t
of all good and evil. In the first book say very much. What I will say is that
Can you introduce us to your main characters, road trip? Is it inspired by a personal experi- I don’t think it’s entirely a new thing. For
in an action-packed romantic trilogy, it’s going to have an urban setting, and
Alex and Willow, and tell us a little about ence? Which stop was your favorite? instance, Anne Rice was huge when I was a
L. A. Weatherly sends readers on a thrill-ride of a road trip — and depicts the what happens to them in the book? that we’ll see a lot of the characters from
When the story first came to me, I just teenager. Although a lot of adults are very
human race at the brink of a future as catastrophic as it is deceptively beautiful. into it as well, I do feel this genre speaks Angel Burn (including Alex and Willow,
The premise of the book is that angels, sort of knew, instantly, that Willow was
easily to teenagers, with its themes of naturally) along with some new ones.
far from being benign and compassionate from upstate New York and that Alex was
alienation and the “other” within us that And both Alex and Willow are going to be
beings, are actually alien creatures who are from New Mexico, and that a lot of the
we don’t quite understand. And of course tested in ways that they never expected,
“What if we were all wrong about angels? We think they’re kind and good, but what if they have  preying on humanity. Alex is a seventeen- book was going to be a journey from one
which will also test their love for each
year-old Angel Killer, part of a covert CIA place to the other. Although I’ve traveled a there’s also the appeal of something a bit
their own agenda and should be feared rather than admired? Angels can indeed be more sinister  other. It’s going to have some really tense,
group and one of the few people who knows fair amount in the United States, that par- forbidden and unknown.
than vampires, and we learn that quickly in this wonderful, original tale.” — The Sun (U.K.) exciting moments, as well as the continu-
the truth about angels in our world. He’s ticular journey wasn’t one that I had done
Do you plan your stories in great detail before ing romance, of course.
been trained from childhood to hunt down before I wrote Angel Burn — though I did
you begin to write? Did you know how the
“After the success of Twilight, a rash of supernatural romance thrillers flooded the bookshops, but and kill angels. do it last year, retracing Alex and Willow’s
Willow is a sixteen-year-old psychic route as part of my research. I LOVED third book was going to end before you began to
most were diabolically bad. Fortunately, Angel Burn flies high above the hellish pack, combining a write Angel Burn?
misfit, thought of as “Queen Weird” by the panhandle of Texas, which they pass
romantic rite of passage with full-on action in this exciting first part of a trilogy.” — The Daily Mail (U.K.) her peers in the small New York town through. I didn’t expect to — all I had ever Yes, I do plan a lot,  though with longer
where she’s from. Unbeknownst to her, heard about it was that it’s hot and flat — novels it doesn’t always help; they have a
she’s actually half angel, and she might be but it turned out to be the most amazing way of taking on a life of their own. But