Daily Archives: May 24, 2010

It’s Monday, what are you reading?

Posted on May 24, 2010
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Sheila from One Person’s Journey through a World of Books hosts this meme and I love to participate in it!  Head on over and check out her blog and the great participants there.

Okay, so this was officially the week of, “oh my goodness I have to read this book and that book and get reviews up.. ahh!”  Thankfully I got most of them read!

Books read this past week (links are to my reviews):

  1. Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
  2. The Pack by LM Preston
  3. Keeping the House by Ellen Baker
  4. Life, In Spite of Me by Kristen Jane Anderson
  5. 8th Grade Superzero by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
  6. Angelology by Danielle Trussoni
  7. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand by Helen Simonson (Review up tomorrow)

Books to read this week:

  1. The Irresistible Henry House by Lisa Grunwald
  2. Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
  3. Dead End Gene Pool by Wendy Burden
  4. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
  5. Angry Conversations with God by Susan Isaacs
  6. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
  7. The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson
  8. The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
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Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

Posted on May 24, 2010
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Angelology Angelology by Danielle Trussoni

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This book is what would happen if Dan Brown and Elizabeth Kostova got together and made a book.

It starts out slow – seriously slow. So slow that I had to force myself repeatedly to pick it up over the period of three days. In fact, it didn’t pick up speed until the last few hours I spent reading it – and that was the last third of the book.

So for those of you out there reading my reviews I want to warn you (Auntie, I’m talking to you right now), if you didn’t like what Dan Brown did to religion in The DaVinci Code then don’t pick up this book. Although it’s a bit more fantasy-driven then Browns books are and dealing with the paranormal, there are sections of the book the clearly twist several parts of scripture just so that it can make a thrilling story. (One thing this book did remind me of was my childhood desire to name a son Japheth one day).

I was slightly annoyed by the names of the leading female characters, Gabriella, Angela, Evangelica. It was all just a little too neat and perfect. The most fascinating part of the book were a few pages right smack dab in the middle where the book left the main storyline and went back 1000 years to tell the history of what was being investigated.

Now, earlier I said that the book didn’t pick up until the last third – well, it got action-filled there. Lots of fights, lots of crazy things happening and finally some answers and movement of the story-line.

The overall feel was VERY gothic and if you enjoy gothis mystery/thriller books and don’t mind the religious aspect then this is definitely a book for you to read.

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