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Midnight Angels: A Novel (2010)

by Lorenzo Carcaterra(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0345483901 (ISBN13: 9780345483904)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Ballantine Books

review 1: Pretty unremarkable action-packed thriller, but the Florence locale and Michelangelo angle was interesting. I had never heard of the Vasari Corridor before and that was quite a revelation. I had been there, walked by it, stayed in a hotel right next to it, and not known it was there. So, that was worth reading the book in itself. A couple of odd anomalies of language (or editing) in the text stood out. One, he used the term "front arms," which made no sense. Why modify the word "arms" with the word "front?" Secondly, he used the word "fuselage" when the context said it should have been "fusillade." This book was not full of sloppy editing like most Kindle books, and maybe that is why those two oddities stood out to me.
review 2: Having read Midnight Angels, I'm... more pretty certain Lorenzo Carcaterra has read The DaVinci Code. This novel could have been called The Michelangelo Code, except it's missing the ancient conspiracies that made Dan Brown's series so engrossing. Instead, you have Kate, a scholar of Michelangelo, who is so into him that she "knows" him well enough to find his missing work. It's so improbable that it refers to Michelangelo's homosexuality as "unsubstantiated rumors," despite the homoerotic love poems he wrote over the years to various men (no, that is not even mentioned in the book), and really delves no deeper into his life than his involvement with the Medici family. Aside from all that, this is written more like a movie treatment of a Grand Theft Auto video game, but with more sympathetic characters. As long as the main character keeps her danger meter low, she is safe. Kate and Marco escape the clutches of the bad guys. Next scene, Kate and Marco are strolling arm-in-arm in the piazza. Enter more random bad guys. Kate and Marco get away. Next scene, Kate and Marco enter cafe arm-in-arm. Enter bad guys. I will say this: Midnight Angels makes it seem like Florence is the most interesting city in which to be an art scholar. less

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