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A review by nmcspadd
In the Company of Angels by Thomas E. Kennedy
4.0
I won this AR copy as part of a Goodreads giveaway, and I'm so glad I did!!
This is a beautifully written novel that centers around Bernardo, a man who was tortured horrifically at the hands of the Pinochet regime in Chile and then escaped to northern Europe. There are many other characters, and the POV changes with each chapter. At times, that was confusing, and there were characters I liked more than others. But the prose Kennedy employs to tell this story is practically poetry; it's just so beautiful to read that my complaints pale in comparison. I think that at its heart, the book is about the human capacity for evil and for good, which often coexist in one person, and also about the human capacity for self-healing and moving on. Moving and beautiful.
This is a beautifully written novel that centers around Bernardo, a man who was tortured horrifically at the hands of the Pinochet regime in Chile and then escaped to northern Europe. There are many other characters, and the POV changes with each chapter. At times, that was confusing, and there were characters I liked more than others. But the prose Kennedy employs to tell this story is practically poetry; it's just so beautiful to read that my complaints pale in comparison. I think that at its heart, the book is about the human capacity for evil and for good, which often coexist in one person, and also about the human capacity for self-healing and moving on. Moving and beautiful.