ANGELS WALK AMONG US, BUT SO DO OTHER UNEARTHLY BEINGS IN
THIS BRAND-NEW SERIES BY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LAURELL K.
HAMILTON
Meet Detective Havelock, a man with the special ability to
communicate directly with angels. A former trained Angel Speaker, he devoted
his life to serving both the Celestial beings and his fellow humans with his
gift, but a terrible betrayal compelled him to leave that life behind. Now he’s
a cop who is still working on the side of the angels. But where there are
angels, there are also demons. There’s no question that there’s evil at work
when he’s called in to examine the murder scene of a college student—but is it
just the evil that one human being can do to another, or is it something more?
When demonic possession is a possibility, even angelic protection can only go
so far. The race is on to stop a killer before he finds his next victim, as
Zaniel is forced to confront his own very personal demons, and the past he
never truly left behind.
A Terrible Fall of
Angels (Zaniel Havelock, book one) by Laurell K. Hamilton
Start date: September
6, 2021
End date: September
7, 2021
Rating: 3 ½ out of 5 stars
There was so much, for lack of a
better term, stuff packed into this novel. It’s an ambitious first novel of a
series. I feel like Hamilton had a lot of ground she wanted to cover to
establish this story and subsequent novels, and she packed it all into one
nearly 400-page book. It’s not necessarily a bad thing but it’s not a great
thing either.
Detective Zaniel Havelock works for the Metaphysical Coordination Unit (colloquially known as the Heaven and Hell unit), which is a part of the police department that deals with crimes with a supernatural bent. Zaniel is called to the scene of a murder, and what bumps the crime to Zaniel’s division are the angel wings found scattered across the crime scene. It becomes clear to Zaniel that the murderer was no angel when a live angel appears and tells him that the victim was killed by something unknown, something not demonic “but it should be” (Hamilton 18).