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    Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book 2
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    Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book 2

    Written by Anne Rice

    Narrated by Paul Michael

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    "I dreamed a dream of angels. I saw them and heard them in a great and endless galactic night. I saw the lights that were these angels, flying here and there, in streaks of irresistible brilliance . . . I felt love around me in this vast and seamless realm of sound and light . . . And something akin to sadness swept me up and mingled my very essence with the voices who sang, because the voices were singing of me . . . "

    Thus begins Anne Rice's lyrical, haunting new novel, a metaphysical thriller of angels and assassins that once again summons up dark and dangerous worlds set in times past. Anne Rice takes us to other realms, this time to the world of fifteenth-century Rome, a city of domes and rooftop gardens, rising towers and crosses beneath an ever-shifting layer of clouds; familiar hills and tall pines . . . of Michelangelo and Raphael, of the Holy Inquisition and of Leo X, second son of a Medici, holding forth from the papal throne . . .

    And into this time, into this century, Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to search out the truth of a haunting by an earthbound restless spirit-a diabolical dybbuk.

    O'Dare soon discovers himself in the midst of dark plots and counterplots surrounded by a darker and more dangerous threat as the veil of ecclesiastical terror closes in around him.

    As he embarks on a powerful journey of atonement, O'Dare is reconnected with his own past, with matters light and dark, fierce and tender, with the promise of salvation and with a deeper and richer vision of love.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 30, 2010
    ISBN9780739316146
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    Of Love and Evil: The Songs of the Seraphim, Book 2
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    Anne Rice

    A.N. Roquelaure is the pseudonym for bestselling author Anne Rice, the author of 25 books. She lives in New Orleans.

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    • 3/5
      anne rice still does angels and assassins well.
    • 4/5
      Of Love and Evil is the second novel in The Songs of The Seraphim series written by my favourite author Anne Rice.In the first novel we met assassin for hire Toby O'Dare when he was given the opportunity to turn his back on evil and use his skills for good by helping the angel Malchiah.Toby is back and this time Malchiah takes him to fifteenth-century Rome for his next assignment. Toby is answering the prayer of Vitale, a Jewish Physician who is tending a patient and friend who has clearly been poisoned, but by who? Toby must also get to the bottom of a haunting by a dybbuk while not being distracted by his surroundings.Toby also finds out he has a 10 year old son, and wonders whether he is worthy of his love after all of the lives he took in his past as a deadly assassin.Of Love and Evil was rich in a sense of place and I revelled in the sense of history it conveyed. It can be read as a stand-alone, although for character background it's probably best to read Angel Time first. I hope there's a third in the pipeline soon, but I can't find any news on that front just yet.
    • 4/5
      Second book featuring Toby O'Dare as an assassin looking to redeem himself in God's eyes. The Songs of the Seraphim do not pack the wallop that the Vampire Chronicles packed, but Anne Rice is still a great storyteller and can weave her way around a story.
    • 3/5
      I read Angel Time by Anne Rice and enjoyed it a lot, I love the way she writes. WIth Of Love and Evil I felt she was trying to convince me of something but of what...I didn't get. I like the premise of Toby O'Dare, assassin turned angel helper but was underwhelmed by the book as a whole.
    • 2/5
      Well, I think I was expecting more with the second book in this series. It was appealing that Toby made progress with his lost love and now has a kid. It was compelling in how he is trying to keep his past from destroying his future. But I thought she could have done more with the travel in the past part of the story, though meeting up with a possible demon is right up her alley for themes right now. There is the normal debate of what is good or evil. But it is such a focus now, there isn't much else that seems to be interesting. There were also editing issues within the first few pages, and a general sense there could have been more fleshing out of the story. It seemed a bit unfinished in some places.Maybe I'm just not happy with the way Anne Rice's new books are heading. I miss the old characters and gothic subjects. Angels are appealing in a way, but not as gripping as vampires, witches, and ghosts.
    • 4/5
      It was Anne Rice so naturally I liked it but it was missing something.
    • 4/5
      The flow in Anne Rice’s style of writing never ceases to impress. This relatively short book took only a couple of hours to read. If anything I would have like the story to have been a bit longer and somewhat less clear-cut. I have not read Angel Time (the first book of the series), however, Anne Rice has provided enough background information within the story to cope with this. Overall, I have enjoyed this book. The theological subject is thought provoking without being overbearing.
    • 3/5
      I really liked the first book of this series so I don't quite understand why I didn't like this one. I didn't expect it to be such a short novel, probably one of the shortest books Rice has written. It just seemed kind of boring next to the events of the first book. Not much happens. It's all kind of anti climatic. I hear that a third book is being written so I'm hoping that it is on par with the first book not this second book.
    • 2/5
      I enjoyed the historical aspect of the story when Toby visits Rome. But, I really wasn't interested in the rest of the story. I think what I liked most were the descriptions of Rome, because the rest of the story fit too easily together. Toby arrives and everything magically seemed to fall into place perfectly. I struggled to keep my attention on the story.
    • 2/5
      Gawd, this book was tedious. I'm afraid it's a perfect example of how Ms. Rice's writing has declined. The whole thing is told with little description and no character development. It was like reading the wikipedia page for the novel.Another problem was the utter lack of tension or drama. There are no real challenges. There are no real problems. The main character simply shows up, speaks the truth and all troubles are instantly resolved. Just bizarrely boring and at times cryptically mystical. Not recommended.