It lacked the depth of story and lush description I’d so enjoyed in the first installment and was radically different in style. Perhaps my reading tastes and expectations have changed in the last three years, but Angelopolis did not live up to my expectations. I read Angelology when it was first published and I was first discovering the world of literature outside of realistic fiction and classics.

My thoughts: I’ve been waiting for years for this sequel. Petersburg and deep into the provinces of Siberia and the Black Sea coast, where the truth of Evangeline’s origins-as well as forces that could restore or annihilate them all-lie in wait.Ĭonceived against an astonishing fresh tableau of history and science, Angelopolis plumbs Russia’s imperial past, modern genetics, and ancient depictions of that most potent angelic appearance-the Annunciation of Gabriel-in a high-octane tale of abduction, treasure seeking, and divine warfare as the fate of humanity once again hangs in the balance. The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. Now an elite angel hunter for the Society of Angelology, he pursues his mission with single-minded devotion: to capture, imprison, and eliminate her kind.īut when Evangeline suddenly appears on a twilit Paris street, Verlaine finds her nature to be unlike any of the other creatures he so mercilessly pursues, casting him into a spiral of doubt and confusion that only grows when she is abducted before his eyes by a creature who has topped the society’s most-wanted list for more than a century. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound.Ī decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. Synopsis: A New York Times bestseller and global sensation, Angelology unfurled a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind’s greatest enemy: the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. Published: March 26th 2013 by Viking Adult/Penguin

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