Such a good book - kept you on the edge of your seat - everything a reader could want... Except a great ending! I hate books that lead up to such an expected great ending and then leave you high and dry! Boooooo... Feels like the rest of the book is a waste of time...

This is one of the greatest books I've ever read. Exquisite!

Many people have given this book bad reviews. I however rather enjoyed it, but the ending was rushed. So much more could have been done. The ending doesn't match the writing style of the rest of the book. She took so much time with the characters, details and history behind Angelology, but doesn't do them justice at the end.

If you know anything about the Sumatran texts and the stories of the fallen angles then you will appreciate this work. The author has taken a great deal of information and given the reader a snip it of detail woven into a wonderful story of love, commitment, sacrifice and greed. The reference of the biblical texts are valid and much controversy has taken place over them. If you enjoy mystery mixed in with history than you will enjoy this book. I can't wait for the sequel book to come out. This I'm sure will make a wonderful movie! With angels wings...jbG

Danielle Trusoni's novel about angels among us seems at first to be a clever twist on popular conceptions of angels as benign guardians, since these creatures are decadent and murderous. Soon credibility is sacrificed for storyline, and it is at this point that any resemblance to Dan Brown's thrillers begins to vanish. Where Brown's villains were conspiring mortals, Trusoni's bad guys are more like winged vampires, and just as hard to believe. For all that, the story generally holds your interest, if not your credibility, and I found myself caught up in the melodrama. The Gibborim are particularly nasty angel thugs that are somewhat like the flying monkeys of Oz, swarming to destroy helpless humans at the command of the Nephilim master-angels. When they appear the action has cinematic drama and you can picture the CGI monsters swooping down on their victims. Of course, there is a quest, to locate and assemble the pieces of Gabriel's lyre, but it ultimately seems like a contrived plot device that does little that makes any sense once it is restored. Without giving the story away, I will just say that I was disappointed in the ending.

There's some halfway interesting imagination at work in this novel -- decadent angels, human-angel half-breeds, secret societies of a decidedly Dan Brownish stamp. But the storytelling is shoddy: repetitive, overexplanatory, breathless one minute and plodding the next. Characters are underdrawn, self-contradictory, or transparently motivated by nothing more than the demands of the next plot twist. And good lord, the dialogue: A writer of pulp romances, hacking away against the clock and getting paid by the page, would be ashamed to turn in what passes for communication among human beings here. Altogether it's a wretched, lazy, cynical book, so of course the author has sold it to Hollywood and is working on a sequel.

Waste of money!

The book is truly a good read, but not a great one. In an attempt to write a thriller, some good old character development is missing. The importance of the lute is only hinted at and never clearly stated. The incomplete ending of the story leaves room for sequel.

Great book especially if you like angels (good angels).

I absolutely loved this book right up until the last 6 pages-of course I will buy and read sequel!