Historical Fiction
Of Love and Evil
2010·224 pages
Former assassin Toby O'Dare is dispatched by an angel to Renaissance Rome to confront murder, a dybbuk, and ecclesiastical terror while seeking atonement.
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Former assassin Toby O'Dare is dispatched by an angel to Renaissance Rome to confront murder, a dybbuk, and ecclesiastical terror while seeking atonement.
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Anne Rice's magnificent Songs of the Seraphim series continues with a lyrical and haunting new novel of angels and assassins set in dark and dangerous worlds — in our time and in centuries past. Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to fifteenth-century Rome — the city of Michelangelo and Raphael, of Leo X and the Holy Inquisition — to solve a terrible crime of poisoning and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit, a diabolical dybbuk. Toby is...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Romantic tension with a past love and future possibilities; no explicit scenes
Violence & gore
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Poisoning murder, historical mutilation, and plots involving harm
Profanity
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No profanity or strong language depicted
Substance use
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No substance use depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ representation
Religious content
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Angels, faith, redemption, Inquisition, and Jewish persecution central
Magic & witchcraft
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Angelic time travel and interventions as fantasy elements
Occult / demonology
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Diabolical dybbuk spirit and earthbound possession central to plot
Political content
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Depicts anti-Semitism and persecution of Jews in Renaissance Italy
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted
Abuse & suffering
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Historical persecution, poisoning, and mutilation of a child
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