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This book looks to be a cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Historian, but it does not live up to either title. It is about a centuries-long battle between human beings and evil angels, descendants of the Watchers, who mated with human females and were condemned by God. In a narrative that moves from the middle ages to the 1990s, the Angelologists use both scholarly inquiry and Indiana Jones-type exploits to thwart the angels' domination of the earth. Much of their work centers on finding and protecting a celestial musical instrument, hidden for millenia, which in the hands of the bad angels could mean the destruction of the universe. Trussoni's idea is very inventive, but the story is awkwardly constructed, with way too much exposition, as if the author were so proud of her creation that she felt compelled to make characters lecture to us. Also, one could see the plot "twists" coming a mile away, and much of the story was driven by what Roger Ebert calls the Idiot Plot, in which the only way the story can move ahead is if the main characters act like idiots. Parts of the story were a lot of fun, and the evil characters were deliciously drawn, but I doubt I'll bother to read the obviously planned sequel.

2022-10-29 03:38