Angelology: Book summary and reviews of Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

Angelology Summary

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.

Angelology Reviews

"Starred Review. [A]n impressive fiction debut with this engrossing and fascinating tale." - Library Journal

"Starred Review. An ambitious adventure story with enough literary heft and religious fervor to satisfy anyone able to embrace its imaginative conceits and Byzantine plot. " - Kirkus Reviews

"Suspenseful intrigues and apocalyptic battle scenes give this complexly plotted tale a vigor and vitality all the more exciting for its intelligence." - Publishers Weekly

"A richly detailed, brilliantly conceived work that opens a golden door into another world-or, even more alluringly, another sphere." - Lincoln Child

"Danielle Trussoni has written a great, cracking thunderbolt of a story. Angelology is an exquisitely crafted adventure into untold realms of imagination, religion, and history. Meticulous in its research and delicious in its execution, the novel weaves Western theology together with ancient myth in a way that will make readers question what they think they know about angels. A triumph." - Katherine Howe, author of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

"Angelology is everything a reader wants ... a clever, fast-paced thriller with a strong sense of place and beguiling, emotionally engaging characters [and] a skillful, satisfying history.... A pleasure from start to finish . . . A wonderful achievement." - Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth

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Rated of 5 by Patricia Van Es
Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
The authors way of writing is beautiful and the story is well written. I wanted to read this book quickly, but I also didn't want it to end either, so I took my time and enjoyed every moment of the different parts, mythology,biblical, and the action of the different angels as well as the angelologists. I can't wait for the follow up.

Danielle Trussoni's first book, the memoir Falling Through the Earth, was selected as one of the Ten Best Books of 2006 by The New York Times Book Review.