[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Wait, so at the end of the book, if I understand that correctly,

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a guy hand holds a tarp and uses it as a parachute to survive a long fall?

I have to ask, BTD, what books are you reading where that happens to often that you except it as a fantasy trope? I don't know that I've ever run into that in another book (and I read a lot of actual fantasy).

Perhaps fantasy was the wrong word. But in a book where

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there is anti-matter, a Havard scholar going into the Vatican library alone, priests kidnapped and branded, a plane that can go from the US to Eurpoe in a half hour, etc...

my illusion of reality was gone. I was in the world of Angels & Demons, and with everything else going on, no that didn't bother me. I was also still caught up in my wtf moment and had to see the sequence of books to see if A&D was before or after DVC.