I was sent this book to review. I started it about a week ago and I'm still only about a quarter of the way through so that tells you how much I'm enjoying it!!! To say I can't put it down would be an understatement, I can hardly pick it up.
If last year was the year of the vampires then this year is certainly not going to be the year of the angels!. Although the main charcter, a young and of course attractive nun (how else could the author sell her as a potential film subject?), is starting to grow on me, the plot moves along at a snail's pace in the early chapters with flashbacks to her childhood.
The baddie, Grigori (himself an angel), is not interesting at all and quite bland but apparently needs the services of a certain Verlaine, who is writing a thesis on angelogy, to help him find a cure for his demise. The poor angel is losing his wings. Also, the group are seeking a lost artifact so they can wreck havoc on the world- shades of Indiana Jones but without his charisma!
Early in the book we meet Grigori at a family soiree but it was not explained as to how this quite large group of angels, to whom he belongs, mix in with society when they have 6 foot tall wings.
The nun just so happens to work in the covent library so conveniently has access to secret archives and, when Verlaine visits her unexpectedly, she is more than willing to pass on this information to a complete stranger who has gatecrashed his way into the covent without permission. Apparently her parents were involved with some secret angel stuff years ago and she saw an angel as a child when she secretly followed her father.
It's all such a big yawn I don't know how I will steel myself to finish the book but, because I have taken on the commitment to write a review, I suppose I'll soldier on....
Give me Dan Brown or Stephenie Meyers' novels anyday; books which I actually couldn't put down, such that I was often still reading them at 3am in the morning even though I had work the next day!!