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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
I can’t put into words how this book has changed my brain chemistry. I will never be the same. The writing is simply 100000/10. The choice of words, the prose… the story being told in a way that feels like we’re uncovering some long hidden truth… I’m in awe. This is the most magnificently unhinged book I have ever read. If I could give it 1000 stars, I would.
a soul crushing disappointment. i really really wanted to love this and instead i was trapped in a downward spiral of some of the most fruitless writing ive ever read. an incomprehensible cyclone of religious exaltations, psalms, pov swaps between paragraphs, time skips between sentences, inner monologues in the middle of a conversation.
DNF at 38% of the way through. I wanted this book to be amazing. The title and the cover and the concept told me it would be incredible. But the title and the gorgeous cover were wasted on this book, because it was not what I was expecting at all. The writing style is so jumbled and nonsensical that it comes off as gibberish and it was just too confusing for me to follow. I love an Oxford comma, but there are way too many of them put in random places where they don’t belong, and the story suffered because of a general lack of editing. The first half of the book that I read was boring, and I didn’t want to drag my way through to the end. The one star is for the premise, because it truly had incredible potential as a story - but the execution was just so disappointing.
„You’re everything to me, the stars and the moons, the heat and the cold, the earth and the seeds, the waters and the flowers, but you are not God.”
3.75/5
gay angels, retelling of the satan’s fall and
daddy issues YES I’M FED. this story was good and i enjoyed it, it made my heart beat faster, it made me angry, but i didn’t love it the way i thought i would have. the first half of the book was too slow paced for me - i was bored and i was catching myself just waiting for the breakthrough moment, for this perfect-sweet-angelic aura to end, for rage and lucifer’s change. but when i finally got there i was really invested. (i know the built up had to be there but i expected more chaos.) i think the side characters are a bit flat - no one has really any personality here
3.75/5
gay angels, retelling of the satan’s fall and
daddy issues YES I’M FED. this story was good and i enjoyed it, it made my heart beat faster, it made me angry, but i didn’t love it the way i thought i would have. the first half of the book was too slow paced for me - i was bored and i was catching myself just waiting for the breakthrough moment, for this perfect-sweet-angelic aura to end, for rage and lucifer’s change. but when i finally got there i was really invested. (i know the built up had to be there but i expected more chaos.) i think the side characters are a bit flat - no one has really any personality here
dark
emotional
sad
medium-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
chaotically beautiful and fucked up
me dejó en carne viva, golpeado y sin poder levantarme. ya quiero que salga la segunda parte.
I don’t think I can be coherent about this just yet but the beauty, the terror. It changed me
dark
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There are parts of the prose I really love, and I love the deep-dive into religious trauma, the diversity of the angels and the queerness.
But there were parts of the story I struggled to read because of boredom, the prose got too flowery and especially in the second part it kept making me lose interest instead of helping me get immersed. The stylistic choices are not for me it seems.
There are some absolutely beautiful quotes I saved from the book, but I had such high expectations for it that I can't help but feel disappointed. It felt like there were chunks of the story and character development missing. I would've loved a deeper dive into the trauma of Lucifer and Rosier, see more of the motivations of Michael, the other archangels and angels. I might give the second book a try to see if I get some answers.
But there were parts of the story I struggled to read because of boredom, the prose got too flowery and especially in the second part it kept making me lose interest instead of helping me get immersed. The stylistic choices are not for me it seems.
There are some absolutely beautiful quotes I saved from the book, but I had such high expectations for it that I can't help but feel disappointed. It felt like there were chunks of the story and character development missing. I would've loved a deeper dive into the trauma of Lucifer and Rosier, see more of the motivations of Michael, the other archangels and angels. I might give the second book a try to see if I get some answers.
“You’re everything to me, the stars and the moons, the heat and the cold, the earth and the seeds, the waters and the flowers, but you are not God.”