Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

I’m really trying to find something positive to say about Danielle Trussoni’s Angelology, but to be honest, I really can’t think of much of anything. Which means this will be a pretty quick review, as I’m not much of a fan of belaboring why a bad book is a bad book (realizing of course that “bad” is pretty subjective).

Angelology is the first book in a series detailing the ongoing battle that has raged since the time of Noah between the “Nephilim” (a hybrid race of angels/humans) and humanity. The Nephilim arose when a group of angels — the Watchers — mated with human women. For this, God imprisoned the Watchers in a deep cavern. The Nephilim, however, remained. At first they enslaved mankind, then when God wiped the Earth clean, one of them sneaked aboard the Ark, allowing the race to continue. From that point ... Read More

Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

Danielle Trussoni is a highly educated and well established non-fiction writer with an award-nominated memoir under her belt already. She has a degree in history and an MFA in creative writing. She puts both of those degrees to use in Angelology. When she is drawing on history, the book comes to life.

I should say that I tend to be biased against writers who come out of MFA programs. Maybe it’s just reverse snobbery, but it seems to me that they have learned to write exquisite paragraphs but don’t always have a good sense of story, or, if they have a story, plot is nearly impossible for them to master. Angelology has a plot, and it’s an interesting one, even if it isn’t terribly fresh. Danielle Trussoni postulates that hybrid human-angels, called Nephilim, exist in the world, hiding in plain sight among hum... Read More