Angelology: Book Review

Angelology by Danielle Trussoni


My rating: 2 of 5 stars


What a great concept!


I was immediately intrigued by the story's concept that the Nephilim are still among the human race. They are the offspring of angels and humans and are the evil, powerful players in society.


However, the further I delved into the story the more I realized that it tells more than it shows. There's lots of explanations but little dialogue. What dialogue that did exist, the majority of it was used for explanation. 

The beginning of the story started with a good pace and steadily built momentum, but it came to a screeching halt when the author transported the story back in time. When I finally thought the action was going to pick up again, I was disappointed to discover that the part to which the momentum was gearing towards was not exciting. There were several parts in the story where I wished the author could have fleshed it out more and SHOWED me what happened--transport me to that place and time and engage my emotions. Such as...the relationship between Gabrielle and Percival...the abduction of Dr. Seriphina...Gabrielle's torture... The main characters seemed to be quite intriguing in the beginning, but they all ended up being one-dimensional. I didn't get any sense of friendship or camaraderie between Celestine and Gabrielle. I was just told that they used to be good friends (this was iterated often) but at the same time they were rivals. The rivalry part I believed because I 'saw' the distance between the two...the avoidance of one of the other...the distrust...the jealousy. However, the friendship part...of all the things that should have been the easiest thing to believe in this book. Yet, I didn't get a picture of the friendship. What friendship? 

The climax. This was the part where your fingers should be itching to turn the page and read the next sentence. It ended up turning to be a hodge-podge. The confrontation between good and evil was so non-confrontational. The ending was flat; it seemed as if the author got bored and just wanted to be finished with the book.