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A review by mezzan9ne
I Am God's Dagger by K.A. Merikan
2.0
Don't know how I feel about this honestly. There were bits I liked, and there were also bits and moments where I just wanted to give up.
This was advertised as a dark paranormal romance, but honestly, there were just bits of paranormal sprinkled here and there, and as for dark, sure the blurb sounded pretty dark considering a murderous cult raping, torturing and sacrificing children is definitely very messed up, but honestly, most of the darkness happened off page, with just mere mentions here and there. And for those like me yearning for some serious revenge porn, most of it was pretty deflating and unsatisfying. What was left was alot of confusing gooey romance and sex.
Before y'all go judging me, no I am not some pervert psycho who wants plenty of death, destruction, sick torture scenes et al, I am just stating facts, because it definitely was not as dark and atmospheric as what I know I can expect from the author(s). I don't need hardcore stuff splayed out page to page, but what I expected was definitely not this, which felt more like an ooey-gooey romance that happened to have some dark stuff, and not the other way round.
As for the MCs, I started out sympathising with Gabriel and of course loving and lusting over Abbadon, but over the course of the book, my feelings for them waned, as they slowly became caricatures, and losing dimension. And of course throw in some irreverent actions and thoughts along the way and by the 3/4 of it I just wanted the whole book to end because I had lost respect for them.
The story and setting was alright, nothing spectacular as I would have expected. Like I stated, and though I may not have read alot of the authors' works, the couple I read had shown to me that they are capable of dramatic, gothic, dark, atmospheric and descriptive settings and stories. Even the air of mystery surrounding Abbadon and his origins were very quickly figured out and dissipated.
Maybe I expected too much, and the only foil here is no one but my own. All I can say is I at least stuck by it and am very glad it ended.
This was advertised as a dark paranormal romance, but honestly, there were just bits of paranormal sprinkled here and there, and as for dark, sure the blurb sounded pretty dark considering a murderous cult raping, torturing and sacrificing children is definitely very messed up, but honestly, most of the darkness happened off page, with just mere mentions here and there. And for those like me yearning for some serious revenge porn, most of it was pretty deflating and unsatisfying. What was left was alot of confusing gooey romance and sex.
Before y'all go judging me, no I am not some pervert psycho who wants plenty of death, destruction, sick torture scenes et al, I am just stating facts, because it definitely was not as dark and atmospheric as what I know I can expect from the author(s). I don't need hardcore stuff splayed out page to page, but what I expected was definitely not this, which felt more like an ooey-gooey romance that happened to have some dark stuff, and not the other way round.
As for the MCs, I started out sympathising with Gabriel and of course loving and lusting over Abbadon, but over the course of the book, my feelings for them waned, as they slowly became caricatures, and losing dimension. And of course throw in some irreverent actions and thoughts along the way and by the 3/4 of it I just wanted the whole book to end because I had lost respect for them.
The story and setting was alright, nothing spectacular as I would have expected. Like I stated, and though I may not have read alot of the authors' works, the couple I read had shown to me that they are capable of dramatic, gothic, dark, atmospheric and descriptive settings and stories. Even the air of mystery surrounding Abbadon and his origins were very quickly figured out and dissipated.
Maybe I expected too much, and the only foil here is no one but my own. All I can say is I at least stuck by it and am very glad it ended.