TLC Blog Tour for "Angelology" by Danielle Trussoni

Angelology by Danielle Trussoni is a brilliant work of fiction! It's extremely imaginative, intelligent and gripping.

The author combines mythology with a little bit of Biblical fact and weaves this amazing and intricately woven story of ancient creatures and spiritual warfare that occurs in secret. The story takes place in New York in 1999 and also goes back and forth to 1943 to tell the backstory. The angels that we find in this story are not the sweet cherubs you might picture when someone says the word angels. They are also not our guardian angels. These are a hybrid creature that has evolved. And you'll need to read the book to find out the rest of the story about them. I don't dare give anything away!

The main character, Sister Evangeline, has lived in the convent since she was 12. She officially became a nun at 18 and now she's 23. But, there is a lot more Evangeline's story. I really liked this character and I was rooting for her!

I very highly recommend this book. It's beautfiully written, with such an intellectual and creative story. It will definitely keep you on your toes and keep you thinking. There's some great action and some tense suspense moments. The characters have to follow a lot of clues before they find out all the secrets and everything begins to be revealed. It makes a very exciting read and there are some big surprises when everything all comes together. I really enjoyed the book and I would love to see a sequel!

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Book 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 twenty-three, 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.



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Author Bio:

DANIELLE TRUSSONI is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop and author of the memoir Falling Through the Earth, named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year in 2006 by the New York Times Book Review. She splits her time between the United States and France.

Visit Danielle on the web at http://www.danielletrussoni.org/ and http://www.angelologist.com/. You can also like her on Facebook and follow her on Twitter.


This book was provided for review by Penguin Books.



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