Reviews

Genesis by Nordika Night

teesbooks_'s review

adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

12/10

anitareadings's review

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

victoria_rosas's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character

5.0

Genesis is technically a prequel but it should be read after Alter Arlo, Genesis is telling us exactly what happened with Cadoc and Zade before settling in Genesis and the source of their grief and conflicting feelings

“I'm sorry I wasn't enough. I'm never enough”

“I'm sorry I picked you when you didn't pick me ”

I loved Genesis, it was heartbreaking as expected and the writing was great as expected 

the way grief is talked about in Alter and Genesis is real and raw, and the dystopian world is the perfect setting for these characters to shine

* Alter Arlo is a dark romance but Genesis is not a romance *

djm_chal's review

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Murder and Grief

unrougechanel's review against another edition

5.0

I loved Alter Arlo and the relationship between Cadoc and Zade.
But this novella made me love them even more. Their relationship is real, raw, authentic, sincere, painful, imperfect, unhealthy, beautiful.
I like their respective romantic partners in Alter Arlo, but it is true that a part of me would have appreciated seeing something happen between the two. But I think it's perfect as it is. That's what makes me love their relationship so much.
They are stuck together because of a promise made to Zan. But are they really?

And I want to say that Nordika's writing style is incredible and particularly poetic in this book. I look forward to read more about Alter Arlo universe.

wickedwitchofthewords's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

5.0

alys_bookish_stuff's review against another edition

5.0

Alter Arlo is one of my favourite reads this year and when Nordika announced she was going to be doing a little prequel novella for Zaden and Cadoc I may have actually squealed.
If you haven't read Alter Arlo yet what are you waiting for?! Go do it now. And once you finish you'll want to run and download this to read as well. You get to see the tragedies and heartbreaks that led our broken boys to Genesis and have a better understanding of their relationship.

ericabaker's review against another edition

dark emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

tobyryan's review

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

manda24176's review against another edition

5.0

Genesis

Cadoc and Zade

Oh, people, prepare yourselves for this one. It had me choked up. Alter Arlo was a wildly amazing story. To read this now and get to know Cadoc and Zade was just so heartbreakingly crazy. It makes me want to immediately reread Alter Arlo. Seriously prepare yourselves.