Wicked Angel by Taylor Caldwell

Wicked Angel by Taylor Caldwell is a suspenseful and intriguing magnum opus beginning from the very first page on that point are no dull moments in the exaltation household. Caldwell has a burnished gift for the creation of characters, as all the characters were so full of life. Angelo Saint was described as the prototypical psychopath that is, born without a somebody. An oerindulged only child, Angelo has his devoted mother wrapped around his fingers while his much practical father Mark, looks with horrified wonder from the sidelines.Angelo intensely detests his maternal auntie Alice, who recognizes his social disorder from the start. At the opening of the story, Angelo, then 4, expresses deep ramp at Alice and this rage manifested in bouts of wetting accidents. He then attacks Alice by smashing the contents of her purse he destroys her sunglasses used her hankey as toilet paper and flush some of her money have the toilet. His loving, except foolish mother Katherine condone s his actions by insisting it was just a childish prank.Mark, however, punishes Angelo. Over the years, Angelos cruelties become more subtle and clever. At 6, he discreetly kills a pet dog, which Alice discovers when she visits her sisters family at their summer place in 1959 he frightens away the birds and wood wreak creatures, covering them as weak enemies, and he nearly kills Alice by pushing her over a cliff. Luckily, she is saved, but does not testify against her nephew.Angelo is described as physically large for his age, stunning in appearance and mentally gifted. At 10, he nearly poisons a housekeeper because she senses he is not the Angel Saint, as Katherine calls him he hounds a classmate out of his prestigious prep educate he pit people against one another and broke a teachers arm accidentally during a school football game. He uses charm to get out of every difficulty and has all, but these few, whom he has hurt, fooled.When Katherine becomes pregnant with a second child in 1963, she senses it is keen-witted not to tell Angelo. He pesters her for information about why she is waiver to the doctor and once he discovers the secret, kills the unborn child, Katherine, and later perishes. Even his destruction is bizarre he trips down a flight of steps, only to land his head on the marble floor below. Katherine dies in the hospital, confiding to Alice that she very knew what an evil son she truly had.