Reviews - Angels Before Man

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Angels Before Man

rafael nicolás

4.13 AVERAGE

gryffinshit's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

kristynharrington's review against another edition

5.0

"you are the beast, lucifer."

this is the closest i've felt to rereading the song of achilles again for the first time. it is beautiful and raw and tragic. you already know how it's going to end, but you keep wishing the ending will change so that the characters you grow to love and adore stay happy amongst themselves. this is definitely going to be a recommendation i give to everyone.

punpun95's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad tense slow-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

Il libro ha seri problemi di world building: gli angeli del paradiso che vivono in case con cancelli di ferro battuto, colonne di marmo e cucine di Scavolini. È imbarazzante che ci sia una scena con Michele che passa la scopa e Lucifero che fa i piatti in cucina. Inoltre, è assurdo vedere che si fanno gli incontri di WWE come intrattenimento.
Un altro grosso problema è la caratterizzazione di tutti i personaggi che non siano Lucifero o Dio. Hanno lo spessore di un foglio di carta velina e sono solo delle comparse, compreso lo stesso Michele.
Il libro si riprende decisamente con la seconda parte perché risulta molto più introspettivo ed interessante: vengono abbandonate le dinamiche da dormitorio del college della prima parte per dare molto più spazio ai pensieri di ribellione dell’angelo. Le scene sicuramente più riuscite sono quelle che coinvolgono Dio e Lucifero.

abodoran's review

4.75

challenging dark 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

This book hurts. I easily fell in love with the slew of characters- most notably Lucifer. It's a painful story of growth, discovery, abuse, and how trauma can morph a person into something unfamiliar. A fantastic read that had my heart aching by the very end.

Content Warnings

nev_skye's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional medium-paced

shortmage's review against another edition

5.0

dark tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sosa's review against another edition

5.0

4.5/5
Couldn't put it down. Queer theory just opens sooo many beautiful doors for beautiful interpretations and deeper understandings.
Nicolás' poetic writing captured the existence of Satan and the contradictions of faith, as it tries to answer impossible questions/concepts, in a really unique way. There were so many details and themes and I enjoyed connecting the dots between them as they came up. Demonology/Angelology is so interesting and reading this after reading Milton and Dante made it all the more riveting. I'm definitely going to re-read this and mark my favourite parts, it's just so beautiful!
Part Two definitely made me uncomfortable and some parts here knocked my rating down but for the most part I found the entropy, depravity, violence, etc, was depicted in a profound and vital way.