The Black Angel

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Review #1

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The main problem here is the author spends most of his time narrating rather than writing scenes. Page after page of “telling” with a few scenes here and there that dramatize/show us. This gets especially boring when he goes into historical detail so we get the backdrop on artifacts and ancient connextions. At its worst is when you have characters in the present interacting and then suddenly there is a long narrative of what happened between then fifty years ago.

I imagine most readers want dramatic scenes with Angel, Louis and Parker and the bad guys. These are far and few between.

Even the creepy parts are sometimes muted by these past “memories” narrated.

And Rachel. She just sort of is barely in the book hanging on to their kid. For some reason she came back to Parker and they have a baby but she wants him out of the killing and detecting. But of course he goes back into it and she is at home with the kid, almost forgotten about after the opening part until we get tidbits of someone trying to sneak into the house and her blasting a face through a window, and then she is gone again.

SPOILER ALERT REGARDING ENDING
The ending to this book, like the ending of the last one, is abrupt. The action part of the story is wrapped up in a bit shootout. Fine. But what about the other stuff? What about the whole Rachel and the kid story line. Granted the entire book sidelined this, but I think a lot of people are going to wonder about whether or not the main character is going to stand by his actual family when the family is in crisis. Instead, the ending just narrates a bit of the character back at home without his wife and the local landscape burned down by a fire started earlier in the book by the bad guy. Yeah, ok, this can be a symbol for his life being burned down. But I think lots of readers will feel, as they will throughout the book, that we need more than narrative and some images to suggest his wife will not come back.

The idea here of the Black Angel is great and scary. But the story wanders around and just flat does not have enough direct drama.

Review #2

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There’s an interesting forward to this book wherein John Connolly explains how and why he wrote it. He explains it is a departure from earlier Charlie Parker mysteries and, in fact, is not intended to be a mystery, rather a thriller/horror story. He succeeds mightily. Prior Parker stories had a hint of the paranormal whereas this book is based upon biblical mythology involving fallen angels and evil acolytes who roam the earth doing terrible things. Through an odd series of events and coincidences Parker and his two side kicks, Louis and Angel, are drawn into the search for a missing girl. They pick up the trail of the girl who was working in New York for as a street prostitute before she disappeared and what follows is a thrilling story with its geographic center in an ossuary in the Czech Republic.

The story evolves from a search for the girl into a search for a fabled fallen angel which has been trapped in a coating of pure silver for centuries. Parker has his doubts as to the reality of the story but has several encounters with others who are also looking for the the statue who are clearly unnatural beings. This only makes him more resolute in his quest as those others cannot be searching with good intentions.

Review #3

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The action of the previous novels just wasn’t here. Sooo boring in places and too much narrative on history. I can’t remember a book taking so long to read; normally I grab even 5 minutes here and there to read if I’m loving a book. I couldn’t get motivated to even read this at times.
Not sure I care for the full blown move to the paranormal. Before there was always a question around the visions Parker had. I’ll try the next book and hope we get back to more of the Angel, Louis and Parker action I loved.

Review #4

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I am really enjoying this series. I think that Connolly bit off a bit too much with this one, however. It read to me more like a Preston/Child supernatural thriller than an installment in this gritty noir series.

That isn’t a bad thing really but it made this book feel different to me that than the ones in the series. In The Black Angel, Mr. Connolly provides a history of the source of evil that has permeated the first two books and fills out a mythology of sorts to explain it all. In the first four books we are certainly aware of another plane of existence that keeps bleeding into the real world or at least Charlie Parker’s real world, but the style was mainly gritty noir. The supernatural elements were given a lesser stage as mainly it was the unavenged dead that sought him out and plead to him to bring justice to their killers. Later, once he learns of and starts to travel The White Road creatures less (or more?) than human noticed him and began to seek him out. Well, in this installment they find him and he realizes that his mission might be much bigger than he thought.

I am not sure what this means for the rest of the series. I have no intention of stopping, that is for sure.

Review #5

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There are 2 authors whom I feel privileged to have to have read and continue to do so, one is James Lee Burke and the other is John Connolly. Both have as their central character, a deeply flawed but essentially good man, both seeking redemption. John Connolly’s Charlie Parker defies genre constrictions; is he a detective with delusions of supernatural connections or is he even human. Whatever he is, his struggles make outstanding reading.
I am currently re-reading the series and although on the first reading “The Black Angel” was a superb read, the second time around is even better.
If you have not read it, do so. If you have not started the series , do so and if you have, then just do it all again.

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