coyascornerr 's review for:

The Book of Azrael by Amber V. Nicole

3.75

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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

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this book surprised me. i didn’t go into it expecting it to be bad per se, it just had different approaches to tropes and character archetypes i’d unfortunately grown accustomed to being one specific way. 

*cue kombucha meme*

she was the badass fmc who crushed skulls and set rooms ablaze, but also just a girl craving normalcy. he was the broody mmc who sealed realms and rebuilt planets while secretly suffering from mental illnesses. there was one bed but it was shared between two non-humans expressing their humanity.

i guess you could say it did the bare minimum? regardless it was refreshing. 

900+ pages is way too much thou 😭. it also kept bouncing between past and present tense which was rlly annoying and took me out of the story a lot.