Where Angels Fear To Tread (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
4.5 The only reason I didnt go 5, is because I really wanted the book to start off where the last one finished. This one was quite gruesome, but really well done. I was captivated until everything at the end became inevitable and you just ride it out. I love this series because of the way fallen angels are portrayed and the way he sticks to his mythology. But he is opening it up now to include other deities and such and I sort of really missed the "classics" from the first two books. But there is a really cool new addition and he was hilarious :) I didnt even make the connection from the beginning, but when you meet him you almost want to slap yourself :) This is the third in the series of Remy Chandler stories. Remy is a Private Detective. He's also an Angel. Since the war in Heaven which banished Lucifer and his followers, Remy (Remiel) decided he had had enough of Heaven and went to live his life on Earth. There he met his wife Madeline and eventually confided his true identity to her. They lived a happy life together although they never had children, due to his angelic nature, causing any offspring which would be deemed to be "unnatural". Instead they got a dog they named Marlowe. One of Remy's Angelic talents is that he can communicate with animals and this book mentions the day Remy and Madeline adopted Marlowe which is quite sweet because as a puppy he was so sad and afraid to leave his "pack".In the this book Remy is still running his Detective Agency, and mourning the loss of Madeline, who has died from cancer. He has a human friend in the Police Force whose life Remy had saved previously. Remy is living day to day looking after Marlowe and carrying on with his business. Marlowe is a dog of simple needs but Remy gains a lot of comfort from him and always makes sure he is cared for. There is a lot of light relief in these books during Remy's interactions with Marlowe. Due to Remy's Angelic nature (which lives inside him and constantly fights and screams to be let loose) it seems certain types of cases of the Angelic and demonic variety seem to come his way and in this book he is asked by a mother to take on the case of finding her autistic daughter who has been abducted by her father. This ends up to be more than it first appears.There are some parts (especially the battle scenes) that I found to be hard work, but there is a continuing story which I want to follow so I will keep reading the rest of the series so far.
What do You think about Where Angels Fear To Tread (2010)?
It's hard to followup after a near apocolypse in the last novel.
—hale
