Angelopolis
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—Booklist (starred review)
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. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound.
A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. 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.
But 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. The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. 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.
Conceived 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.
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Tjaaaa, also generell hat mir die Geschichte schon gefallen, die Umsetzung hätte jedoch besser sein können, man hätte viel mehr daraus machen können. In der Handlung ist zu wenig Drive, dafür wird um so mehr breit erzählt, die Figuren bleiben zu blass und deren Handlungen sind manchmal schwer nachzuvollziehen. Dazu noch so einiges an Zufällen, dadurch hapert es beim Spannungsaufbau. Der Schluss ist offen, was ich immer frustrierend finde. Inzwischen ist zwar längst ein Fortsetzungsband erschienen, jedoch finde ich diesen lediglich in Französisch, Türkisch und Griechisch übersetzt. Hallo? Voll blöd.
Description
—Booklist (starred review)
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. With Angelopolis, the conflict deepens into an inferno of danger and passion unbound.
A decade has passed since Verlaine saw Evangeline alight from the Brooklyn Bridge, the sight of her new wings a betrayal that haunts him still. 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.
But 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. The ensuing chase drives Verlaine and his fellow angelologists from the shadows of the Eiffel Tower to the palaces of St. 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.
Conceived 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.
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Tjaaaa, also generell hat mir die Geschichte schon gefallen, die Umsetzung hätte jedoch besser sein können, man hätte viel mehr daraus machen können. In der Handlung ist zu wenig Drive, dafür wird um so mehr breit erzählt, die Figuren bleiben zu blass und deren Handlungen sind manchmal schwer nachzuvollziehen. Dazu noch so einiges an Zufällen, dadurch hapert es beim Spannungsaufbau. Der Schluss ist offen, was ich immer frustrierend finde. Inzwischen ist zwar längst ein Fortsetzungsband erschienen, jedoch finde ich diesen lediglich in Französisch, Türkisch und Griechisch übersetzt. Hallo? Voll blöd.