Review for Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

When I first heard of Angelology, I was throughly intrigued. I twas something that interested me for a while and oddly, how it came up at a time when I had been working Nephilim into a second book of my own. So, definitely, I needed to check this book out.

I went to the Angelology web site and beleive me, if you have not gone there as yet, you'll want to. This is a pretty cool website. You'll see a desk with various things up on it, music in the background, and you move your cursor over the various things on the desk you'll see a read out, and you can click on them and it takes you to whatever it might be. J.K. Rowlings has a webe site just like this. I think it's very cool. You'll be able to read a teaser portion of a chapter there and all sorts of good stuff on Angelology. You know that there were such a group of people. There may still be. After reading this book I want to say there might be such a group and even Nephilim out there. Who's to say there isn't?

Angelology weaves several stories from different characters, and from different times. There is even a narrative that Trussoni wrote about a monk's journey into the Devil's Throat that was engrossing. But mainly we go from modern times to back to the 1940's and delve into the four main characters, Celestine, Verlain, Evageline, and Gabriella. We learn eventually how it all comes together in the modern era. You are pulled along with each individual's story, the need to know why one character acted in such a way, and another another way, and what the truth is behind it all.

Danielle Trussoni has done her job as a writer to keep you turning the pages and suspending our belief systems as she blends historical fact with fiction. The story revolves around several letters written between Abigail Rockefeller and the late mother supeorior of Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adorration, giving Sister Evangeline a peice of the puzzle, and Verlain's piece of the puzzle, which, when put together leaves intricate clues as to the whereabouts of something that was dismantled and that the Nephilim want desperately and will stop at nothing--even murder and descruction of institutions--to get it.

She blends bibilcal lore, the fall of the Rebel Angels, and the Book of Enock along with the myth of Orpheus in such a way it is seamless and beleivable.

This is well worth the read. You have the basic story of good vs. evil. YOu have fallen angels, and you have their off spring, the Nephilim--who are quite evil and might surprise you how imbedded they are in society.

For me this book is as well told, and very historically accurate (and her research was the key to making this story feel so real), as The Historian by Elizabeth Kostava, which is one of my all-time favorites. It had the same texture and feel to it for this reader. I read The Historian for the pure pleasure of the writing and the story. Angelology will be revisited as well, and has become one of my top-notch novels.

I'm calling this one Top Shelf.

Can We Talk?

I've shopped all day and came home with lots of goodies for my office, including a floor lamp and a small rug, and a mesh wire wastebasket, plus the little things like pens and notebooks and so forth. I was a mad woman going from aisle to isle grabbing things. My husband had gone off to try on jeans (Wal Mart, 'kay?), and well, he took the shopping cart. Dang it! I needed the cart. Where am I going to put the rug and that box that held the floor lamp (which I had to screw together once I got it home)? So, I had to just leave those things and with my arm filled with pens, and junk, I found him within two minutes.

What?

I can never find this man when I'm in Wal Mart just like that. Well, he knew where I was, and was angling my way, so it worked out.

After this we went to lunch. Good burgers at Culvers. I only stole about ten of his fries because I'm a good girl. Iced tea, sweetened with Splenda.

Then, on we went to Kohl's. Dennis needed slippers and handkerchiefs. We walked around and around trying to find someone to help us. It's Monday. It might have been lunch time. I don't know. Finally some guy with a beer gut showed up and found the hankies but said that slippers were a Christmas item.

I found my crew socks, so I was happy with that. The hankies were too expensive (we found affordable brand at Target).

We headed for Target. I remembered a few things I hadn't grabbed at Wally World, and grabbed those things, like a package of 4 highlighters--not a huge package of like 18 at Wally World. I don't need all those damned colors I just need the basics! And the wire mesh waste basket came from Target too. I was tempted to buy a bunch of other things, but didn't. I still had the bookstore to get to and find the books I wanted.

It was something after noon by the time we came out with a couple of bags of things. Actually found a place for them in the back of the pickup--extra cab is handy.

We drove over to Barns & Nobel, just down the way. I get into this place and I can't find a thing. I'm not used to their system (I was a Borders shopper). So, after trying to find the books and not finding them, I get the attention of one of the ladies in the area that can look up books for you.

I told her, one by one the books I wanted. Yes, she had "Angelology" right down an aisle I had been down, if I'd looked a little further down, I might have seen it! The Evanovich book was a sale one. And They had Charlaine Harris' "Dead In The Family" too. I can't even remember, but the second gal knew where it was in the back and like magic she had it. She told me that Charlaine was doing a signing nearby this coming weekend, and she was going to it. She went on to tell me she'd met various authors, including Laurel K. Hamilton. "She and her husband are really wonderful," she said.

I took that opportunity to say "Well, you've just met another author." I introduced myself and told her what my book's title was.

"Is it an eBook?"

"Oh, yesssss!"

By this time I'm dead and I'd forgotten I still had something on a gift card for B&N, but oh well, I'll use it another time, I guess.

We did swing by Big Lots to check out their chairs and other things. I grabbed a couple things, just because I needed them and the price was right.

We head home under gray skies. Buck, our supervisor of the county forest preserve is still at the house. We greet him. I shout, "Honey, I'm home!" and he laughs.

We have a meeting with him about things. The floor will be going in first, this week. It has to be warmed up. It's presently in a tight roll out in a shed. Goooood luck on that. He tells us his plans on the cupboards, and so forth. I ask about the window for over the sink. He answers this and now that question is answered.

So, I'm pooped. I do have an award to tell you about, and give away, but I'm going to do this another night. I just wanted to give you all an up date on my day and what I bought. Here's the books. I'm so happy to have finally bought "Angelology", and the other two books, as well. These have been on my "to read list" for a while.

Good night and tomorrow I'm back to the grind.

My Saturday So Far

As I nibble on cheese and swill--I mean--sip my wine, the wind outside is ferocious. It batters the very foundation of this old house. But we are safe, be asured, gentle readers. My Saturday is going by like most. There was the trip to the bank because this was payday, and then we went to the grocery store. No biggie. But then you've never had to reconsider how to cook/prepare a meal without a kitchen. Or, if you have, you know what I mean. There is no counter or sink at all. What a dilemma. ~*~ However, at least as things stand, we do have the oven/stove to use. My husband chose two strip steaks, a large potato to bake in the oven, and sounds like corn on the side. Yum! I will have to wash the dishes used, but he tells me the pan he is frying them on is going out the door after. ~*~ Nice. Wish I could just toss the dishes as well. But we're not feasting on even Chinet's tonight, it will be real plates. My second royalty check came in mail today and I couldn't be more pleased of its timing or the amount. Seems I've already spent it (if you read from my Vampire Writer's Retreat, you'll see what I mean). We are taking Monday off to go shopping. Shop until we drop, or run out of money, whichever comes first. I plan on buying some sort of book. Perhaps two. We will have to stay out all day, hoping that something further is done on the kitchen while we are out. Lunch will be taken somewhere. ~*~ The weather is not predicted to be great. Possibly rain. We don't know. We had planned on going out of town, but I don't know as yet. I hope to go to the bookstore, wherever we are. Work on my third book is going along slowly. I'm a layering type of writer. Takes me a while to really get into the swing of the whole thing, and I might think of things I wanted to put in, and so go back and re-read (and make corrections) as I go. I'm very unorthodox in my writing habits. But then that's me. ~*~ I'm thinking about buying Angelology by Danielle Trussoni mainly because it really sounds like a good book and ever since it came out I've wanted to read it. Now there's talk it will be made into a movie. Well, I don't want to do the backward thing and read it after I see the movie, like I did with the Harry Potter books--the first 3 or 4. So, I'm going to see about this book first. She's on my facebook, but doesn't mean we're friends in real life. She lives in Italy, I think? If you visit her site you will learn she is working on her next novel and is "unavailable" for anything. ~*~ Nice. Wish I could be "unavailable" while working on my WIP. Well, I'm going to go off line, now, so that I will be "unavailable" for comment or anything else for the rest of the evening. ~*~ Have a pleasant one.