Angelology

A Novel

By: Danielle Trussoni

Narrated by: Susan Denaker

Length: 21 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

A thrilling epic about an ancient clash reignited in our time - between a hidden society and heaven's darkest creatures.

"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children to them." - Genesis 6:5

Sister Evangeline was just a girl when her father entrusted her to the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in upstate New York. Now, at 23, her discovery of a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller to the late mother superior of Saint Rose Convent plunges Evangeline into a secret history that stretches back a thousand years: an ancient conflict between the Society of Angelologists and the monstrously beautiful descendants of angels and humans, the Nephilim.

For the secrets these letters guard are desperately coveted by the once-powerful Nephilim, who aim to perpetuate war, subvert the good in humanity, and dominate mankind. Generations of angelologists have devoted their lives to stopping them, and their shared mission, which Evangeline has long been destined to join, reaches from her bucolic abbey on the Hudson to the apex of insular wealth in New York, to the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris and the mountains of Bulgaria.

Rich in history, full of mesmerizing characters, and wondrously conceived, Angelology blends biblical lore, the myth of Orpheus, and the Miltonic visions of Paradise Lost into a riveting tale of ordinary people engaged in a battle that will determine the fate of the world.

©2010 Danielle Trussoni (P)2010 Penguin

boring.......................

everyone told me to read this book..................but too long and boring sorry you all

I want my time back!

Painful. Confusing. Anticlimactic. Predictable!!!

It's not often I write a review. I just hope I can help other save their cash. Buy something else!!!

Boring

Sorry, this one put me to sleep everytime I tried to listen to it. No action and boring characters.

Too much story for the author

How does a weak human escape from a super strong immortal who can easily break said human into half?
Why, just grab the angel's wings and give 'em a gentle tug.
Really?
Immortal, super powerful ANGELIC beings that are actually weak with their tissue-paper thin "achilles' heels" that easily cut them down.
*Sigh*
I listened to the preachy lecturing for two solid days because the author had hooked me with her tantalizingly fresh idea of angels and nephelim. Great story idea, but it was way too much story for this author's ability.
Oy, the lecturing went on and on until I was ready to scream. And in the end, when the heroine was caught in a swarm of enemy angels, she walked away from danger while her enemies did nothing to stop her. They ignored her. No fight, no nothing... she just walked away as if hundreds of enemy angels couldn't see her.
Crazy.
Unbelievable.
Cheap and disgusting.
I listened to the rest of the book because I had stuck with it to that point but I will not buy her next installment. Like I said before, it was too much story for this author.

Could not be any slower...

The reader kills this book. The first hour was so painfully slow, I fell asleep twice. I finally had to set my iPod to faster.

SLOW

The premise of this book is very good, but it get lost in all the extra words. I think this book probably is a better read than a listen. I am almost through the first part, but don't think I can get finish it up.

Angelology

I struggled through all three parts of this book hoping it would get better, but in the end it was just not the kind of book I enjoy listening to. I thought it was boring and the fantasy of someone sprouting wings and flying was just too too much. I would never recommend it.

Idea was way cooler than the actual story

I am fascinated with Angels, the Nephilum, and all sorts of pseudo-apocryphal texts... and it is clear so is the author. You can tell she has done her homework and is in love with the subject... however the story was slow, not very exciting... and at most times weak.

The Narrator seemed to lack a rhythm to her words that could keep me interested.

I finished the book out of principal... but couldn't tell you how it ended or what happened.

HORRIBLE read!

I never take the time to do this -- but the narrator so ruins this story that I had to. What the other reviewer says (about the fake accent) is so true. Impossible to evaluate the actual book. Wish I could have a warning sign for this reader in the future. (WHY would you read with an accent for hundreds of pages when nothing in the actual book suggests that...)

Had to stop listening

An interesting concept with a lot of potential -- the ancient race of Nephilim (from the Book of Genesis) are alive and well and out to subjugate the human race. I found the writing to be so bad, however, that I occasionally laughed out loud. It's a tie with Dan Brown's for the worst writing on the best-seller list. I got about two-thirds of the way through, hoping that the information dumps would give way, at the very least, to some interesting plot points, but finally gave up.