content: The author's more famous "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a great accomplishment, on the knife's edge between extraordinary and over-the-top. "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" stops a hair's breadth from being over-the-top---which is precisely what makes it brilliant.The "City of Falling Angels is well "over-the-top", meaning pretentious, excessive, non-credible, and offensive---except possibly for readers with a sick interest in the vulgar vulgar rich.