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4.07 AVERAGE
4.07 AVERAGE
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There's a scene in which the FMC states that she is thankful for a bath, scrubs several times and then says "I'm grateful for a razor, as the hair on my legs and vagina has gotten out of control." I'm not an editor or even a good reviewer but what the heck, what happened there. The Book was way too hyped up on the socials.
slow-paced
I finally finished it!!
This book took me quite some time!
It was dense at the beginning but it did pick up at the end, now I am committed in the series lol.
This book took me quite some time!
It was dense at the beginning but it did pick up at the end, now I am committed in the series lol.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
slow-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
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The reason this book is so damn long is that the author constantly forgets what her characters are capable of. There’s an entire chapter where Liam and Dianna go to get passports, of all things, so that they can get betrayed by the people they got the passports from. But what the fuck do they need the passports for in the first place?? They can literally teleport. Dianna turns into smoke when she teleports, and she can shapeshift into a creature that could easily fly both of them wherever they want to go. Liam literally teleported to Eoria from another planet, but he now needs a passport? Instead, Dianna keeps driving them around everywhere. So we can have lots of annoying, unnecessary bickering between Liam and Dianna, bitching about how long it’s taking when they can LITERALLY TELEPORT?!?! And Dianna can shit talk Liam to her sister on the phone, while Liam is passed out one foot away from her.
Also, the people who betray her. It happens literally like every few chapters in the book, to the point where it just gets predictable and boring. One of them is a witch named Sophie, who is in exile for betraying Kaden, for whom Dianna used to work. Now, Dianna switched sides and pretended to be still working for Kaden, but when Sophie tricked her and said, "I’m going to turn you over to Kaden because I know what you did," Dianna acted shocked. “Once a traitor, always a traitor”, bitch, what do you mean? You’re a traitor too??! Pretending not to be one, so Sophie's actually not betraying anyone in this instance. You are??? So, why is she constantly upset when people betray her, lol? Because they’re actually not. They were never her friends to begin with.
Dianna also tells us she literally can’t be killed. They’ve tried decapitating her, and her head either reattaches or grows back like Jeebs in Men in Black. But she’s constantly afraid Liam is going to execute her?! Like how?? You can’t die??? She says that her heart being physically removed from her body is “probably” the only way to kill her, but then it literally happens, and she still doesn’t die.
How did Rashearim crashing into Dianna’s planet not completely wipe out all life? Instead, it created a plague that made a lot of people sick, and now Dianna hates every celestial that comes to her planet because she blames them for the plague.
The editing is very poorly done. There’s a lot of repetition, or rephrasing something that was just said differently, one page later. There’s a lot of contradiction, too. Like in the chapter where Kaden is having the meeting with the Otherworld creatures, and we’re introduced to these things called shades and told that when their leader, Kash, is killed, then they all will die. Well, later the shades come and attack Liam, and he kills their leader, but his name has changed to Hillmun. You’d think the editor would’ve noticed that a character name has just completely changed like that.
Additionally, another thing that drove me absolutely bonkers was how the word 'mortal' is used as a replacement for 'human'. The word human is used ONCE in this book, and every other instance they’re just called mortals. Dianna constantly refers to her ‘mortal heart,’ even though she is literally immortal and cannot die. She's trying to say that her sister is what keeps her human but keeps saying her sister keeps her mortal and...>.< no.
I’d originally read the first edition of the Book of Azrael, but since then, it appears to have been revised two to three times. In the first edition, Samkiel is said to speak some ancient, forgotten language, but then later calls his mom Madre, and also mentions going to a ‘bibletocea’. I remember reading this and being confused that they were speaking Spanish, because why would that language be ancient and forgotten? Do Spanish-speaking people no longer exist in this world somehow? For some reason, a few months after publishing, Amber decided to go back in and change Madre to Merda, which literally means ‘shit’ in multiple Latin-based languages. Girl, come on!!!, you can’t even bother to look up the translations for the words you choose to use? Can’t even look up the proper spelling for biblioteca? Then, when she realized that it meant shit, she changed it to Mama, but kept bibletocea for whatever reason. So, instead of clarifying that the language was not ancient and forgotten, she erased it.
But Liam is supposed to be half black, half Latino, so why wouldn't he be speaking Spanish? It was just weird to me that it would be an ancient language when Dianna's last name is Martinez (but she's allegedly supposed to be Armenian-coded, yet has a Spanish last name and looks Latina). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ oh well
Also, the people who betray her. It happens literally like every few chapters in the book, to the point where it just gets predictable and boring. One of them is a witch named Sophie, who is in exile for betraying Kaden, for whom Dianna used to work. Now, Dianna switched sides and pretended to be still working for Kaden, but when Sophie tricked her and said, "I’m going to turn you over to Kaden because I know what you did," Dianna acted shocked. “Once a traitor, always a traitor”, bitch, what do you mean? You’re a traitor too??! Pretending not to be one, so Sophie's actually not betraying anyone in this instance. You are??? So, why is she constantly upset when people betray her, lol? Because they’re actually not. They were never her friends to begin with.
Dianna also tells us she literally can’t be killed. They’ve tried decapitating her, and her head either reattaches or grows back like Jeebs in Men in Black. But she’s constantly afraid Liam is going to execute her?! Like how?? You can’t die??? She says that her heart being physically removed from her body is “probably” the only way to kill her, but then it literally happens, and she still doesn’t die.
How did Rashearim crashing into Dianna’s planet not completely wipe out all life? Instead, it created a plague that made a lot of people sick, and now Dianna hates every celestial that comes to her planet because she blames them for the plague.
The editing is very poorly done. There’s a lot of repetition, or rephrasing something that was just said differently, one page later. There’s a lot of contradiction, too. Like in the chapter where Kaden is having the meeting with the Otherworld creatures, and we’re introduced to these things called shades and told that when their leader, Kash, is killed, then they all will die. Well, later the shades come and attack Liam, and he kills their leader, but his name has changed to Hillmun. You’d think the editor would’ve noticed that a character name has just completely changed like that.
Additionally, another thing that drove me absolutely bonkers was how the word 'mortal' is used as a replacement for 'human'. The word human is used ONCE in this book, and every other instance they’re just called mortals. Dianna constantly refers to her ‘mortal heart,’ even though she is literally immortal and cannot die. She's trying to say that her sister is what keeps her human but keeps saying her sister keeps her mortal and...>.< no.
I’d originally read the first edition of the Book of Azrael, but since then, it appears to have been revised two to three times. In the first edition, Samkiel is said to speak some ancient, forgotten language, but then later calls his mom Madre, and also mentions going to a ‘bibletocea’. I remember reading this and being confused that they were speaking Spanish, because why would that language be ancient and forgotten? Do Spanish-speaking people no longer exist in this world somehow? For some reason, a few months after publishing, Amber decided to go back in and change Madre to Merda, which literally means ‘shit’ in multiple Latin-based languages. Girl, come on!!!, you can’t even bother to look up the translations for the words you choose to use? Can’t even look up the proper spelling for biblioteca? Then, when she realized that it meant shit, she changed it to Mama, but kept bibletocea for whatever reason. So, instead of clarifying that the language was not ancient and forgotten, she erased it.
But Liam is supposed to be half black, half Latino, so why wouldn't he be speaking Spanish? It was just weird to me that it would be an ancient language when Dianna's last name is Martinez (but she's allegedly supposed to be Armenian-coded, yet has a Spanish last name and looks Latina). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ oh well
adventurous
dark
emotional
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
adventurous
challenging
dark
tense
medium-paced