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Fallen Angel

por David B Riley

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Fallen Angel is the story of Mabel, an angel from Hell, who accompanies General Grant's army during the last days of the Civil War only to discover that Martians are watching the Earth with envious eyes and slowly drawing their plans against us. Not only that, but Mabel has to contend with her evil sister, who wants to have humans for dinner. Although Mabel and Grant get the upper hand before the war ends, the battle of good against evil isn't won so quickly. Several years later, in San Francisco, Mabel just wants to have fun with her friend Miles O'Malley, when she discovers her sister and the Martians have joined forces with a college fraternity and humanity may be on the dinner menu.… (mais)
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This is a spin off from Riley’s far more enjoyable The Devil Draws Two, the adventures of somewhat dimwitted Miles O’Malley, a barber turned Secret Service agent. One of O’Malley’s strange friends is Mabel, a fallen angel. This book is her story, and we also meet her evil older sister, Kevin, another fallen angel. (Janus, another fallen angel in the earlier book, gets no mention here.)

Essentially, this short novel is made up of three episodes: Mabel and Kevin at the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863, O’Malley and Mabel in Deadwood in 1877, and, finally, Kevin, O’Malley, and Mabel in O’Malley’s San Francisco, O’Malley’s base of operation.

As with The Devil Draws Two, Riley mixes science fiction (Martians bent on enslaving Earth), fantasy (the brief appearance of a vampire around Vicksburg as well as Mabel working for God and the appearance of the Devil aka Nick and two of his magic revolvers), and weird science (a Berkley professor and his students throwing in with Kevin and her plan to aid the Martian invasion).

But it’s not a very good book. Riley’s brand of humor doesn’t work here. We get a lot of jokes about evil Kevin’s love of cannibalism (or, at least, getting humans to unknowingly eat each other) and sex mostly fall flat. It’s only the third part of the book which gets better with some of Riley’s humorous observations on Federal bureaucracy. The bits with the Berkley crowd work too. We get a lot of jokes about dominatrixes in this part too with various degrees of success.

Mabel comes off as a bit of a wayward child of Nick’s though she’s willing to help out God on occasion. Don’t expect any coherent alternate theology here.

And don’t let this be your first introduction to Riley or the weird western. ( )
  RandyStafford | Jan 28, 2024 |
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Fallen Angel is the story of Mabel, an angel from Hell, who accompanies General Grant's army during the last days of the Civil War only to discover that Martians are watching the Earth with envious eyes and slowly drawing their plans against us. Not only that, but Mabel has to contend with her evil sister, who wants to have humans for dinner. Although Mabel and Grant get the upper hand before the war ends, the battle of good against evil isn't won so quickly. Several years later, in San Francisco, Mabel just wants to have fun with her friend Miles O'Malley, when she discovers her sister and the Martians have joined forces with a college fraternity and humanity may be on the dinner menu.

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