This is a breathtakingly, beautifully written book! Angelology is quite remarkable – but where do I start?

This is a book to savour for so many reasons. Danielle Trussoni has a lyrical voice with prose that is rich in imagery and tone. I found myself rereading certain paragraphs just to enjoy the language and descriptions that are so evocative that you are not only drawn deeply into the book, but you plunge yourself willingly into the landscape and world created.

In Angelology the writing, the descriptions, the strong plot and fascinating characters are so balanced and the book so richly detailed that a reader has to settle in and accept a slower pace. Like this paragraph …
Some afternoons Evangeline drove across the river, taking the metalwork Kingston-Rhinecliff Bridge into Dutchess County. Slowing as she crossed the bridge, she would roll down the window and gaze at the estates scattered like overgrown mushrooms along both sides of the water ….. From that height she could see for miles. She felt the car veer slightly in the wind, sending a shiver of panic through her. How very high above the water she had driven, so high that, looking down, she understood for a second how it might feel to fly.

You fall into the description, smell the ozone of the heights, feel the shift of the wind … God I love this book!

But you know, it took me a chapter or two before I realized that this was a book I had to slow down to read. Inititially I was waiting for the hit of adrenaline and wondering why it hadn’t happened. So many books are driven by action scenes and emotional peaks and chasms that you whizz through the book on a roller coaster of a ride. And that can be fun and exhilarating, engrossing and engaging. And once the ride is over you remember the rush with affection but there is rarely a lasting impact.

Not so with Angelology. You have to accept the pace being set and slow down so that detail canemerge and the mystery spanning thousands of years and culminating the greatest of dangers can build and develop.

Because this is a world of ordinary humans who have dedicated their lives to gaining knowledge of the angels and who, over thousands of years, have tried to protect the world against the powerful Nephilim, the descendants of angels and humans. And this is a world that Sister Evangeline finds herself plunged into when she finds a 1943 letter from the famous philanthropist Abigail Rockerfeller to a past Mother Superior of her convent. A world that she is destined to

This is a book that is profoundly satisfying. Even after giving myself a week since finishing the book to ponder the experience, I now flick though the pages with a sense of pure satisfaction. I’m satisfied. I’m content. I’ve been transported to a place that was interesting, complicated, amusing, dangerous … and perfectly well done.