Angel Down

 Angel Down by Daniel Kraus (2025), 283 pages

This is an intense book. I actually listened to it (narrated amazingly by Kirby Heyborne) and felt unsettled through pretty much the whole novel. Forewarning - if your read it, it is ONE sentence. 

It is very hard to describe or categorize this book. On one level, it is the story of Private Cyril Bagger during WWI. On another level, it is humanity's reckoning with our collective morality (or lack thereof) and our inability to (on a group level) progress. There are a lot of heavy topics addressed through the background of war and the discovery of an Angel. I would not call this book fantasy, nor is it sci-fiction or magical realism. Maybe it is the reality that sits in the back of our minds and presents itself when under extreme duress. I don't know, but it is worth a read.