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A review by isoxroze
Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás
4.0
Okay so, I’ve got some thoughts.
The first part was so beautiful and tender, Lucifer’s such a sympathetic main characters. There were some aspects of the world building that I had to overlook but, all in all, it was heaven.
Then the second part came and we all know how it ends, it was quite heartbreaking (even though I did not cry). Unfortunately it’s also where all my main problems lie. The internal monologue became a bit too confusing and I’m not sure what happened and what didn’t. I also wish that lucifer’s acts of disobedience where more deliberate form earlier on, so that his corruption wouldn’t feel so sudden. Especially the part where he wants to became the new god, feel like we should have focused more on the “freedom to love someone more than god” bit, since that’s the reason his rebellion was born in this book.
But, even with all this faults, this story was still a joy to read and, now that I’ve finished it, I wish I could read it all over again.
Spoilers:
Would have really loved to see the corruption of Adam and Eve but alas we didn’t get that. And the part where lucifer’s fall caused the dinosaurs’ extinction really pulled my out of the story; I was supposed to be crying my eyes out because Lucifer and Michael were fighting I was not supposed to be laughing, poor dinosaurs.
Btw theologically speaking this book doesn’t make any sense, but I didn’t expect it to so all is well.
The first part was so beautiful and tender, Lucifer’s such a sympathetic main characters. There were some aspects of the world building that I had to overlook but, all in all, it was heaven.
Then the second part came and we all know how it ends, it was quite heartbreaking (even though I did not cry). Unfortunately it’s also where all my main problems lie. The internal monologue became a bit too confusing and I’m not sure what happened and what didn’t. I also wish that lucifer’s acts of disobedience where more deliberate form earlier on, so that his corruption wouldn’t feel so sudden. Especially the part where he wants to became the new god, feel like we should have focused more on the “freedom to love someone more than god” bit, since that’s the reason his rebellion was born in this book.
But, even with all this faults, this story was still a joy to read and, now that I’ve finished it, I wish I could read it all over again.
Spoilers:
Would have really loved to see the corruption of Adam and Eve but alas we didn’t get that. And the part where lucifer’s fall caused the dinosaurs’ extinction really pulled my out of the story; I was supposed to be crying my eyes out because Lucifer and Michael were fighting I was not supposed to be laughing, poor dinosaurs.
Btw theologically speaking this book doesn’t make any sense, but I didn’t expect it to so all is well.