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A review by katymei
Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás
5.0
It has been very hard trying to word my love for this book. It just *made sense* in a way that is difficult to lay out plainly, it scratched my brain just right, and it spoke to an unattended part of myself that I had neglected. It made my heart ache in every way possible; my heart broke for Lucifer over and over again, despite knowing what would become of him.
I adored how in love with existence the angels seemed -- how the plants talked and the waters thought and how they found joy in simple, small things. And I also loved their indignance, their passion, how fully they felt and expressed and lived.
Lucifer's struggle with purpose and identity was bittersweet in its entirety -- sometimes painful, sometimes victorious, but always understood. I had expected this book to either cure my religious trauma or exacerbate it, and oddly, it had made me angrier at my own parents than at God. Then again, this book brought a lot out of me that I had not expected going in.
Overall, I was obsessed with every word and how lovely and hateful existence can be.
I adored how in love with existence the angels seemed -- how the plants talked and the waters thought and how they found joy in simple, small things. And I also loved their indignance, their passion, how fully they felt and expressed and lived.
Lucifer's struggle with purpose and identity was bittersweet in its entirety -- sometimes painful, sometimes victorious, but always understood. I had expected this book to either cure my religious trauma or exacerbate it, and oddly, it had made me angrier at my own parents than at God. Then again, this book brought a lot out of me that I had not expected going in.
Overall, I was obsessed with every word and how lovely and hateful existence can be.