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Oct 06, 2011

Kevin rated it:

Honestly, if I could give it 3.5 stars, I would. Since I can't, I'm rounding up, as a gesture towards giving the author the benefit of the doubt, expecting that the next book will be better.

Angelology is a mixed bag. Personally, I find angel lore, and other mythologies, fascinating, and I thoroughly enjoyed the mix of Judeo-Christian and Greek myth, Talmudic scholarship and discussion of the Book of Enoch (a personal favorite). The subject of the Nephilim has intrigued me since I fir More...

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Jun 18, 2010

Ellen rated it:

Over the years, I've received student papers so awful, I'm tempted to just write, "Nice font choice" and move on. For Trussoni's sad book, my comment is "Nice cover." Fetching, isn't it?

However, what a surprise.

Not one of my GR friends has any mention of this book - not a review, not a to-be-read, and definitely not a wishlist pick.

Gee. I wonder why.

Several reasons come to mind. Overall, the book is a half-witted c More...

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May 03, 2011

Joel rated it:

This one kept losing stars as it went. The broad concept was really interesting, excerpting one of those weird bits of the bible and making it the basis for an otherworldly, fantastical story. But the characters are flat and the writing is dull -- most of the first half of the book is scenes of people doing research, and we get to read right along with them as they examine ancient historical texts and first-hand accounts of angelic encounters. This is about as exciting as reading a musty old his More...

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Apr 25, 2010

Ronda rated it:

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Aug 28, 2010

Melissa rated it:

When my friend Deb told me she was reading a book called Angelology, and that I had to read it, too, I was skeptical. I mean, it sounded like some funky new age treatise, and secretly, I was worried about what chemicals might be misfiring in her brain. Then she began to describe the plot, and even before she gave me the book, I was hooked.

Imagine a world where angels walk beside us, not as mystical guardians but as immortal (or as near to it as makes little difference) preter-natural More...

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Jul 15, 2011

Lady Danielle "The Book Huntress" rated it:

I am so glad I found this on audiobook at the library. It turned out to be a very good medium for this story. I have to say that for a slow starter, I really got drawn into this book, and when it ended, I had separation anxiety!

Two things kept me from giving this a five star rating:

1. The slow, meandering start. I was initially thinking, uh-oh, this might turn out to be a real snoozer. Boy was I wrong!
2. The ending was a cliffie that really got my blood pressur More...

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Aug 17, 2011

Karen rated it:

All 452 pages of it. Yup.

I had issues with this book from the first page. The writing is...not good. I know Trussoni went to Iowa (which is usually a yardstick of some kind) and she wrote an acclaimed memoir before this, and this very book is a NY Times Notable Book of 2010. So you'd think she'd write a good sentence. But no. The book is full to bursting with things like:

"Verlaine stared at her, flabbergasted at what this otherwise rational woman had just sai More...

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Jul 28, 2011

Lys rated it:

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Aug 04, 2011

H. Anne rated it:

After one hundred pages, I don't know if I have the stomach to continue on. I am so very glad I got this for dollar and am still puzzled over a purchase I was pretty sure I wouldn't like. Perhaps I hoped to be wrong and find it actually, oh, good.

It's not the writing style that bothers me. That is actually decent enough. It's the concept. And perhaps it's not even the concept itself. It's the blatant being hit over the head with symbolic names. I tend to like symbolic names. I More...

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Dec 05, 2010

Peter rated it:

no ja teda na anjelov nie som. podľa mňa existujú 2 základné skupiny ľudí vo vzťahu k anjelom.1. sú tí, ktorí v nich neveria a tá druhá sú prekvapivo tí, ktorí v nich veria. Každá z týchto skupín sa ešte delí na menšie podskupiny. napr. tí, ktorí v anjelov síce neveria, ale dokážu o akceptovať diskusiu na túto tému, prípadne podskupina ľudí, ktorí v anjelov veria, ale tak troška s rezervou.
Ja som asi v tej 1. hlavnej skupine. Knihy o anjeloch bežne nečítam, nemám doma rôzne karty anjelov ( More...

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Jul 23, 2011

Dorsi rated it:

I'd actually give this 4 1/2 stars. I really enjoyed this one & it kept my interest throughout. I am surprised this got such low ratings because it was really quite good! I guess everyone has different opinions. There are a few books out there that some people gave high ratings to that I didn't care for at all. A few examples are The Gunslinger, Sharp Objects, The Pagan Stone, & The Time Traveler's Wife. In my opinion, these were terrible! Okay, back to Angelology. I have had this book on my boo More...

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May 10, 2011

Montanamarynotmartha rated it:

I gave this two stars because that indicates "it was okay". I have mixed feelings about it. The writer is an "outside-the-box" thinker and has a brilliant vocabulary. She created an entire society in this book, fascinating journals and interesting ancient religious artifacts in the story. The story takes place over two days, with a side story of a past event taking up a good chunk of the book. The side story was interesting in and of itself and would have made a good book. Th More...

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Apr 19, 2010

Amy rated it:

This book did not live up to the hype. It's Dan Brown with a slightly better editor. The book is split into three sections. The first section was ok. The author did a good job of introducing the families and the specific players. The second section set up the action and gave a history of what the characters were searching for. There were parts of this section that were interesting, specifically the trip to Bulgaria. The third section, was the most similar to a Dan Brown book. It was rushed: More...

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Aug 02, 2011

Candace added it

I wanted this to be good. It started out so promisingly, taking the archetype of "angel" back to its rather ghastly, bloody roots--upending all the new-age, vision-having, aura-sensing "angel" memes that have been floating around--and re-imagining the history of the "fall" of the Nephilim in a really interesting and scholarly way. and then...not. the novel tried to tell the story of Evangeline Caccitore, a young nun whose path crosses that of the art history student More...

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Oct 25, 2011

Samantha rated it:

FONTE LIBRI E CAFFELATTE http://www.libriecaffelatte.com/2011/10/...
CONCLUSIONI: Il PRIMO VOLUME DI UNA TRILOGIA THRILLER(?) Siamo sicuri? Dove? Quando? Comprato il 27 maggio, alla fine di luglio ero ancora in lettura. Superata con estrema fatica la prima parte, noiosa fino all'assurdo, sono entrata nella seconda che, a detta di molti, era leggibile. E' vero. E' meglio della prima ma arrivata comunque a pagina 300 l'ho messo in pausa. NON ce la faccio a proseguire.
E' TROPPO NOIOSO! NON More...

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Oct 19, 2011

Majanka rated it:

Read the review on my website.

After reading a request from a young art historian called Verlaine to look into the archives of Saint Rosa’s convent, based on correnspondence between a former mother superior and the philanthropist Abigail Rockefeller, Sister Evangeline, a young nun working in the library of the convent, discovers a connection between both women. And it has nothing to do with philanthropy, or art for that matter. Aided by the historian Verlaine, who appears to be love-st More...

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Oct 16, 2011

Sumando Libros rated it:

Comencemos!!!

Holaa!! otra vez de vuelta y con bastante tiempo libre para leer, así que podrán imaginar lo feliz que estoy :D

Angelololy ES un libro diferente, por lo que corre con el peligro de ser para algunos Interesante y para otros aburrido. Al menos para mi el libro es interesante ya sea por los puntos que toca y por como lo da a conocer.

El libro se divide en dos etapas:
1° París-Segunda Guerra Mundial / 2° 1999-Convento en NY

Algunas Defini More...

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Aug 18, 2011

Lucie added it

The Cover:

Placed in the middle of the latest thrillers releases and true crime novels, the cover of this book was eyeing me for several weeks before I've kicked myself and bought it.
Each time, I was attracted. I've reached for it, browsed through it and take my leaves without. As a result one day, like a thief, I've finally taken hold of this novel, in a hurry at the last minute, for the cashier will not let me have time to change my mind.
I can not explain the indecision. More...

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Aug 01, 2011

Jenna rated it:

I thought the story was really great in its own right. I loved the way the author took real history and spun it around from a different perspective than how one might normally percieve it. I did think that the quality of the writing was a bit lacking. I found adjectives were overused and the same phrases kept recurring throughout the text in different variances which got somewhat old. I really did enjoy the story however and found myself hanging upon the end of the novel. I was quite disappointe More...

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Aug 01, 2011

Theresa rated it:

Mixing suspense with biblical lore proved very profitable when Dan Brown released "The Da Vinci Code" and Hollywood seems poised to try for the same success with "Angelology," which has already been the subject of a bidding war for film rights. But the success of the film-adaptation may depend on a boost from a good scriptwriter as "Angelology" does well with the theological aspects of its story but falls flat with the action sequences.

Sister Evangeline, More...

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Jul 30, 2011

John added it

A lot of people are comparing this Novel to "The Da Vinci Code", and yes I see the similarities. Angelology is obviously very well researched, and is based on the (mis-) interpretation of some scripture, and some verses from Enoch (part of the Apocrypha). The premise is disturbing and controversial. The main action takes place over just a 24-hour period. So, yes, Ms. Trussoni has successfully copied the Dan Brown formula, and it looks like she has a best-seller and potentially a hit mo More...

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Jul 21, 2011

Amy rated it:

Likes:

Evangeline, the main character, is a convent librarian—I connect already! It’s a played-a-billion-times role of the “precious child” who’s drawn into the epic battle of good versus evil, fighting on behalf of us mere mortals. She’ll do okay.

Treasure hunt plot, like Raiders of the Lost Ark, comic books, Da Vinci Code.

Verlaine as Evangeline’s sidekick starts out as an endearing little goofball.

Yes, it’ll make a great movie. Better as a movie tha More...

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Jul 03, 2011

Janet rated it:

So many of the reviews are written by astute, well-versed people and I agree with so many of them, that I will not reiterate what has been said, either about the plot or the book itself. I will say that even though I at first found it very slow and long-winded, the characters somewhat flat, and several points not making sense (angels have no nipples - how then do they feed their babies?, which they clearly have had, or do they always have to procreate with humans, if so, then how is it that ther More...

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Jul 02, 2011

Karen rated it:

This was a very engaging book. Even though I am not well versed in angels and that aspect of religion, I was able to understand the story. It was told in an interesting manner. While most of the narrative is in the present, there are flash backs to help fill in, and they are placed at appropriate places.

Angelology is the study of angels, but not those in paintings. These are the children of angels and humans that have been on the Earth since the flood of Noah's time. Called Nephilim, More...

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Jun 20, 2011

Sonia rated it:

Immergersi nella lettura di Angelology è una vera e propria impresa, come si può intuire dalla mole del volume, da quella copertina così affascinante ma così tenebrosa da farti prevedere che ciò che leggerai probabilmente non sarà sempre piacevole.
E' un'impresa perché la scrittura fitta fitta che non concede respiro, l'assenza iniziale di dialoghi, la presenza di parti descrittive molto dettagliate e accurate e ricostruzioni storiche precise (per quanto alcune possano essere solo immaginari More...

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May 10, 2011

Lauren rated it:

Angelology, written by Danielle Trussoni, was a refreshing break from the YA science fiction and fantasy I read on a regular basis. Steeped in history and loaded with accurate religious references, Angelology was a well-researched literary ride that, at its core, is one heck of a fascinating adventure.
Evangeline, a Catholic nun of twenty-three, gets a request from a researcher to access the convent’s historical documents to gather information for a client. He’s investigating letters exchang More...

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May 10, 2011

Elizabeth rated it:

Despite having read so many bad reviews for this book, I absolutely loved it. I was absolutely convinced that this could have been a historically accurate novel. I feel as though Trussoni wrote a very compelling, believeable novel that made me want to look into the history of Fallen Angels and their offspring in literary texts. (Unfortunately, I couldn't find much that didn't fall under the "New Age" category.) The only negative thing that I could say about this book was that it was More...

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May 09, 2011

Lavonne rated it:

This is a "Davinci Code" wannabe, and not nearly as good or well-told. Since I know very little about some of the subject matter, it could be well-researched ... or not. I do know that it got very dry and boring in many places. The prose often got lost in a swamp of inconsequental details. Some of the crucial scenes were just impossible, not because it was dealing with angels and other "other-worldly" beings, but because of the scene's plausibility. For example, when the grou More...

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May 05, 2011

Colleen rated it:

Angelology is a novel about the bloody spy-vs-spy war that has been going on between mortals and semi-such since the angels fell and bred with humans to create a race of superbeings called the Nephilium. The story starts small, as it should, with 23-year-old Sister Evangeline relishing her orderly life at the Convent of St. Rose. That order is disrupted with a letter from an artistic scholar that states his desire to read World War II correspondence between Abigail Rockefeller and the Mother S More...

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Apr 17, 2011

Vicky rated it:

I liked the cover. And parts of the middle where the story took place in Bulgaria. As for the rest...not so much. I struggled to get interested in this book. I'd pick it up, read a little, put it down and go read something else, like an owner's manual to something. Then I'd pick it up and read some more. I had to force myself to finish the book.

While there were some interesting parts, there weren't enough for me to be interested in the entire book. Especially a book of this length. It More...

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