Absorbing, but still lacking
Agreeing with a number of reviewers on the lack of character and story development. I felt that the book was like a television or movie version and now I want to read the "real" book to find out more about the characters and the background to the story. Wait! I can't do that! This book IS the "real" book. I was disappointed in its Da Vinci Code level of characterization. If you're a lover of really good books with meat and substance, you'll probably be unsatisfied with Angelology, although you may like the story premise and find the story absorbing. I resigned myself early on in reading that there wasn't going to be much substance to the book and let it go for an engaging read. If you LOVED Da Vinci Code and enjoy using a bunch of exclamation marks generally, you'll probably LOVE Angelology, too!!! The author should read and study "The Name of the Rose" and the first book of the "Pillars of the Earth" series to learn how character and story development are done well and how that enhances a really good story idea. Angelology would end up being a much longer book, but it would be a much better book. I am curious to see what the author is going to come up with for the sequel she's writing, mentioned in the interview in the back of the book. The story was left hanging with the characters Evangeline and Verlaine, but I don't have great hopes the writing is going be all that much different from Angelogy. Sad really. The story idea is a good one.