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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Gore, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Cursing, Alcohol
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
i expected to like this a lot more than i did. it was really slow in the beginning and a lot of the angels didn’t seem to have a lot of personality to me. idk why lucifer was so immediately attracted to michael. the writing was sometimes confusing - single quotations used to show that a character was thinking, but they would often be embedded between actual dialogue and it was difficult to keep track of. the ending was good though, and that bumped it up to a 2 star read for me. i can definitely see why ppl would like this book, but i unfortunately am not one of those people. it probably isn’t a good sign that the main emotion i felt after finishing this book was relief that i wouldn’t have to keep reading it.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
I feel like this book is gonna sit with me for a while.
I categorised it “Slow paced” because the first 30% are incredibly slow, continuing it’s gaining some pace.
The writing is beautiful. It’s flowery and poetic, with the right amount of epic and romantic. I get why some people said it was disorienting. It has an unusual narration. Still, I think it was okay to follow if you’re concentrating.
I got soaked into the story and adored all the descriptions of heaven. My Favorite bits were those in which Michael and Lucifer fell in love and discovered romantic love as the first creatures of heaven ever. It was written beautifully and hooked me effortlessly.
It’s not a clear-cut story. I think, I as a reader, was somewhat hoping for a clear-cut story. One in which lucifer is misunderstood, god is abusive, and there is a happy end in hell. That wasn’t it and you know what? I like it better that way. I like feeling divided and think about sin and freedom, obedience and disobedience and its effects.
I don’t know why it wasn’t a five star read for me, just that I want to read it again.
I categorised it “Slow paced” because the first 30% are incredibly slow, continuing it’s gaining some pace.
The writing is beautiful. It’s flowery and poetic, with the right amount of epic and romantic. I get why some people said it was disorienting. It has an unusual narration. Still, I think it was okay to follow if you’re concentrating.
I got soaked into the story and adored all the descriptions of heaven. My Favorite bits were those in which Michael and Lucifer fell in love and discovered romantic love as the first creatures of heaven ever. It was written beautifully and hooked me effortlessly.
It’s not a clear-cut story. I think, I as a reader, was somewhat hoping for a clear-cut story. One in which lucifer is misunderstood, god is abusive, and there is a happy end in hell. That wasn’t it and you know what? I like it better that way. I like feeling divided and think about sin and freedom, obedience and disobedience and its effects.
I don’t know why it wasn’t a five star read for me, just that I want to read it again.
read this on an airplane. BIG mistake. had me cryign in the skies
the prose is bruised and the characters get bruised even more
bro i hate to say it but this god is giving canon catholic god ! powerful and cruel !!
it's like here is your fate but to accept it means to give up yourself and to accept yourself is to destroy fate and ,, yourself,, no that doesn't make sense but it does when you read it and it hurted my feelings
the prose is bruised and the characters get bruised even more
bro i hate to say it but this god is giving canon catholic god ! powerful and cruel !!
it's like here is your fate but to accept it means to give up yourself and to accept yourself is to destroy fate and ,, yourself,, no that doesn't make sense but it does when you read it and it hurted my feelings
“I wish we could ask why things are the way they are.”
-page 66
^ well! you can! and all of heaven falls apart for it!
also: GORE! gore gore gore! but it's in like a sad beautiful biblical way yk
i feel like i could talk a obut this book for six hours minimum i have so much to say i need to VENT I HAVE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS!!!!
^ well! you can! and all of heaven falls apart for it!
also: GORE! gore gore gore! but it's in like a sad beautiful biblical way yk
i feel like i could talk a obut this book for six hours minimum i have so much to say i need to VENT I HAVE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS!!!!
challenging
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Absolutely stunning!!!! This book was beyond breathtaking, and on top of that the writing was incredible. I would highly recommend reading this book if you are ex-religious, or queer, or both. Not that I don’t think you can enjoy this book if you aren’t, I just think it might speak more deeply to people that fit into those categories, at least it did for me.
I’ll get into the deep analysis in a minute, but on a base level, this book was just entertaining. The setting was super interesting, and I love the ways heaven was described as being perfect, and quiet, and almost sterile and unchanging. And that compared to Earth being dirty and ruled by beasts. I also loved the characters so much. Giving each of the angels a talent/label made it easier to keep track of who was who, and I love how the book described how long they have all been alive. I think relationships with others and yourself would be a lot different if you didn’t know death and lived for millions of years. I would say that the theme in this book that stood out to me the most was the idea of finding your purpose in life, as Lucifer tries to do for a lot of the book. That is something that I have been dealing with a lot recently, and am honestly still trying to figure out.
Now for some religious analysis. To preface, I am not necessarily talking about your god! I am talking about the character of god in this book. So anyways, god is absolutely the villain of this book. He tortures and expects angels to see it as love. He gives the angels agency and then expects them to be absolutely perfect and to always follow him. He also sees love, specifically romantic love, as a sin. The scenes where he invites some angels to come sing to him were actually pretty sickening because he bestows his company like it is the greatest gift ever and makes the angels feed him by hand. Like maybe you don’t deserve love if you have to force people to love you. I just thought it was so interesting to read a book where they didn’t shy away from god’s capacity for bad. And I also do think Lucifer does some awful things too, but the book makes it clear how god’s action pushed Lucifer to that point.
Anyways I loved this book so much that the second I finished it on Libby I instantly went and bought a physical copy of it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence
Moderate: Rape, Sexual content, Torture
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
funny
inspiring
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
So much to say about this book and so little words to express it. It was really beautiful, as much as it was devastating. Even while knowing what Lucifer's end would be, I was still so, so devastated when he fell too far into his evil side, and then, from Heaven. I loved him so much throughout all the book, it hurt as much for me as it did for Rosier (my poor lil meow meow). The love shared between Michael and him was so endearing, so poetical and heart-warming, it crushed my soul to see them fight to death in the end, even though it was obviously written all over from the beginning.
The prose was sometimes very hard to understand though, especially in the end with all the changes of focus and Lucifer's distorted thoughts and visions. But even though it was sometimes frustrating, I loved it at the same time, because it added so much depth to the entire atmosphere of Heaven's beauty, and it made its descent into insanity all the more seizing.
The prose was sometimes very hard to understand though, especially in the end with all the changes of focus and Lucifer's distorted thoughts and visions. But even though it was sometimes frustrating, I loved it at the same time, because it added so much depth to the entire atmosphere of Heaven's beauty, and it made its descent into insanity all the more seizing.
The live studio audience cheering every time a new angel appeared was funny at first, but got old pretty fast