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This is a surprisingly excellent book. When ordering I thought it was a Michael Connelly book - my mistake but all for the good. The hero is Charlie Parker, and I will be looking for more from this author. It is well written and totally engrossing. I would recommend it knowing you will enjoy it!
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Connolly is excellent, and this is his creepiest work.
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Excellent book, first that I've read by John Connolly, but certainly will not be my last.
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a taunt thriller. keeps you enthralled. the dark plot moves at a incredible pace.
Could not get into this book - it made me tired just trying to make sense of it!
This was another very compelling and gripping saga in the Charlie Parker series. In this one, a young woman disappears from the streets of New York. She was a prostitute and a drug addict and also the cousin of Charlie's friend, Louis. The girl's mother confronts her pimp who makes the big mistake of striking her which leaves a very bad taste in Louis's mouth. He and Charlie along with Angel go after the pimp which leads to a bizarre group of people looking for a stolen piece of a map that is purported to lead to a hidden antiquity that they think contains a fallen angel entombed in silver. This relic supposedly originated at the Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic, which is located in a small chapel that is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have, in many cases, been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
The novel takes Charlie and his crew on a path strewn with the dead and some beings who believe that they may have the power to live forever. One of these is a very obese being called Brightwell who seems to have existed for centuries and is also capable of sucking the souls out of people as they are about to die. Charlie's girlfriend, Rachel, and his newborn daughter, Sam, are also threatened along the way which may be the end for their relationship.
This one was really an intense ride. The novel touched on a lot of history including the origins of the Sedlec Ossuary which is a very real place. Also, the deaths of hundreds of young women in Juarez, Mexico, is discussed with a possible connection to an Ossuary being restored there. I'll be looking forward to continuing with this series.
The novel takes Charlie and his crew on a path strewn with the dead and some beings who believe that they may have the power to live forever. One of these is a very obese being called Brightwell who seems to have existed for centuries and is also capable of sucking the souls out of people as they are about to die. Charlie's girlfriend, Rachel, and his newborn daughter, Sam, are also threatened along the way which may be the end for their relationship.
This one was really an intense ride. The novel touched on a lot of history including the origins of the Sedlec Ossuary which is a very real place. Also, the deaths of hundreds of young women in Juarez, Mexico, is discussed with a possible connection to an Ossuary being restored there. I'll be looking forward to continuing with this series.
This book was as excellently written as the rest of his work - though he is straying further and further from Charlie Parker's P.O.V. This book was also more fantastic than the other mysteries - with a society reminiscent of the one in Holt's _Wolf Moon_. Overall, this was quite good, though the ending was really sad - poor Charlie!
This one is really INTENSE. Not a boring chapter but very dark. I am taking my time reading it and only half way through and look forward to every quiet moment to pick up this book and read on. Recommend to people who are not offended by evil characters.
In the fifth Charlie Parker novel, the private investigator, recently remarried (after the murders of his wife and child), has been trying to pull his life back together. But when his partner's cousin goes missing, Parker can't avoid getting back in the game. And when he realizes the young woman's disappearance is connected to an older, darker mystery, he once again is forced to risk life and sanity in a desperate good-versus-evil battle. Connolly, who resides in Ireland but writes about the U.S. like he's lived there all his life, once again blends the -private-eye novel and the supernatural thriller in a way that's altogether unique. Parker himself, one of the genre's more disturbed heroes, is a complex creation whose depths have still, even through five novels, been barely explored. The Charlie Parker novels are not for everyone (especially those who like their private-eye yarns unencumbered by philosophical or theological overtones), but Connolly has been building a cadre of devoted fans who clamor for his edgy take on the genre. David Pitt
This book started of slow, but by the middle had picked up and I couldn't put it down.
Cameron-Ashley H. (BigGreenChair) reviewed The Black Angel (Charlie Parker, Bk 5) on + 453 more book reviews
Gross and revolting; should be listed as a horror book. I threw it in the trash so that it didn't recirculate.
Dark thriller. Charlie Parker and two strong reliant confederates, Angel and his deadly partner, stay with him through their terrible discoveries of evil. Moving among the misfits and hookers in Mexico and the Ghettos of the States they seek the Black Angel.
good resd
A young woman goes missing on the streets of New York. Those who have taken her beilve that nobody cares about her and that no one will come \looking for her
THET ARE WRONG
She is 'blood' to the killrt Louis, the man at the right hand of the private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her...
THET ARE WRONG
She is 'blood' to the killrt Louis, the man at the right hand of the private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her...
Out there. Wordy. Good though.
