It is the sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty and continues the story of Gemma Doyle, a girl in the late 19th century with the power of second sight.
Charlie's Angels | Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim | Hells Angels | Rebel Without a Cause | Black Rebel Motorcycle Club | Charlie's Angels (film) | angels | The Rebel | Angels | No Angels | Blue Angels | Rebel Alliance | Juan Bravo (rebel) | Angels (TV series) | The Wild Angels | Angels of Light | Teen Angels | Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs | City of Angels | 7 Angels 7 Plagues | The Rebel (TV series) | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel | Only Angels Have Wings | Hell's Angels (film) | Hell's Angels | Arc Angels | Angels with Dirty Faces | Almost Angels | Why Angels Cry | The Rebel Sell |
Libba Bray uses a quote from Paradise Lost to name the second book of her trilogy, Rebel Angels quoting from it "To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heav'n."
Gemma's adventures in Rebel Angels parallels some of Odysseus.
The Master of the Rebel Angels had an influence on Limbourg brothers for the illuminated manuscript Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (around 1410).
Like most of the Pearls Before Swine albums, the sleeve design used classic art works, in this case the painting "Descent of the Rebel Angels" by Pieter Brueghel the Elder on the front sleeve, and a William Morris background design on the reverse.