This is the follow-up to
Trussoni’s prior novel, Angelology (reviewed here), taking place a decade after
the prior book. The long-lasting battle between the Nephilim and the Society of
Angelologists continues.
At the end of prior novel, Sister
Evangeline recognized that she was in fact an angel. In this book, her surprise
appearance in Paris attracts angelologist Verlaine and other angel-hunters
across the globe. Her sudden abduction by a creature who has been the
angelologists’ most-wanted list for hundreds of years. The search for
Evangeline takes the characters from the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St.
Petersburg and into the darkness of Siberia and the Black Sea coast.
As dramatic and exciting as
the plot is at times, the strength of Trussoni’s novels is the world-building. The
notion that Russian Faberge eggs represents the desire of Russian royalty for a
Nephilistic birth is interesting, as is the idea that the presence of chocolate
eggs at Easter speaks to this desire. The story includes modern science and angelic
genetics, right alongside divine warfare. And once again, the fate of humanity
is at stake.
The first novel had long chunks of explanations, sometimes in the form of
actual lectures. This book has fewer of those sections, and is able to
integrate new information more smoothly into the action. But again, the actual
technical aspects of the writing are not this novel’s strengths. The strength
of the novel is the audacity of the “big idea,” along with the fascinating
world that Trussoni has created.
Source: public library
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