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Angels of Music

By: Kim Newman
Narrated by: Julie Maisey
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Deep in the shadows under the Paris Opera House resides Erik the Phantom, mysteriously enduring through the decades as the mastermind behind a strange and secret agency.

A revolving door of female agents are charged by wealthy Parisians and the French government to investigate crimes and misdemeanours they would prefer to keep out of the public eye.

©2016 Kim Newman (P)2016 Audible, Ltd Crime Fiction Fantasy Historical Thriller & Suspense
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Once upon the time there were three little girls who went to the music academy.... I can't believe how long it took me to cop on to the fact that this is a riff on Charlie's Angels, with the Phantom Of The Opera as Charlie, the Persian as Boswell and a rotating cast of three angels on hazardous duties. I think it was the first time they were given their assignment by the Phantom through a mirror with the Persian beside them in good ol' Charlie's Angel fashion. I loved Charlie's Angels when I was a kid. I wanted to be Submarina.

A succession of cases, a succession of angels going together down the mean Parisian streets, following trails and foiling schemes and battling evil. There are lots of great ideas here, and I don't want to give them away, but I particularly loved the reverse-heist in the Mark Of Kane.

It's the sheer quantity of female characters lining up to become angels. A remarkable and diverse selection of heroines or borderline personalities, from Irene Adler to Lady Snowblood to Eliza Doolittle. Many of them are neglected even in the works they appear in - here they're given a chance to shine and take centre stage, cease being marginalised and become adventuresses.

The adventures are cracking, the setting is vivid and the pop-culture underbelly is full of weirdness and nastiness and material a-plenty for the Phantom and his Angels and their hazardous duties.

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There's far to much world building and 'did you see what I did there' inside jokes and not enough plot. It's a fanfic that you read to the end because you like the idea but nothing really happens.

Clever but a bit dull

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