Reviews - Angels Before Man

1.83k reviews for:

Angels Before Man

rafael nicolás

4.13 AVERAGE

luxurydisease's review against another edition

5.0

5 whole falling morningstars. i dont know if i will write more about how much i’ve loved this book because i can’t find the words right now, just: it was SO intense.

dr3amy3gg's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

thenightc1rcus's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 8%

weird…. didn’t like

bethsinacase's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

joreadsbooks's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

More words coming soon

Beautiful and devastating and blasphemous, it does such cool things with narrative, prose, and genre that I need my thoughts to settle a bit

the_listening_lop's review against another edition

3.0

slow-paced

The general idea and concepts are interesting and technically in my wheelhouse. But by the middle of the book, I’ve begun skimming because it’s just too…slow. And repetitive. If I see something meaningful to the plot, like say, the first kiss, I’ll pause for the scene. Otherwise I know from what I skimmed I’m not missing anything important. Which is a shame. It definitely needs to be parred down.

And while there has been build up with Lucifer and being ashamed of his body to becoming no longer ashamed, encouraged by his love Michael, it still felt…sudden that Lucifer would wanna stare at himself in admiration of his beauty. Things like that.

erli's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

whimsical_mischief's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A bit of an issue with the pacing, but not enough for me to really care compared to the perfection of everything else.
The slow burn. The incredible prose.
This familiar story felt so new and foreign here. Bravo!

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