I am a big fan of Anne Rice, especially the Vampire Chronicles, so I was looking forward to the latest from her. Of Love and Evil is the second novel in her Seraphim Series (somehow I missed the first one.)  This slim little novel  is what I would call Anne Rice-lite.

This is the story of Toby, a hired assasin who has changed his ways, and with the help of the angel Malchiah he is given the chance to do good deeds and redeem himself. He moves back and forth through time (Angel TIme) to do this, so we still have some rich imagery and historical settings which Rice fans have come to love and expect.

I don’t mind that she has veered towards more Christian themes in recent years, but there was just not much to this novel. It was over almost as fast as it began, and that is just not what one has come to expect from Anne Rice. I was longing for much more depth and many more layers to the story, so I was a bit disappointed. I’m still an Anne Rice fan though, just hoping her next offering will be a bit meatier.