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juniperspolyphony's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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
5.0
aarnireads's review
4.0
anyways i need to lay down for a while, especially after that utter tragedy of an ending. Literally nobody got what they wanted and everyone ended up either dead, imprisoned or just miserable.
pros:
+ 10/10 body horror, gotta love it
+ I would party with the demons too, how they turned the horror of their fall into a new life and new love, their loyalty to Lucifer is genuinely pretty wholesome because he is their Father and Mother
+ Lucifer himself is always divine: a beautiful horror making all the horror beautiful if that makes sense, the bitterness and rage towards the God who abandoned him and towards the old love who pushed him down (yet now they want him back? As if, bitch)
+ Michael, my poor, poor Michael........ it was clear that something terrible had happened in between him tearing Lucifer's wings and his first appearance. Gone was the sweet, earnest himbo, replaced by God's Warrior - he had been punished so severely for daring to love that now the thought of it, his own private desire and love towards Lucifer still terrifies him, such an impossibly long time later
+ Rosier & Asmodeus make my heart hurt, like a sweeter Frankenstein & his monster
+ All the genderfuckery and gender-discussion with the demons and the Watcher angels themselves
+ Once again, every sex scene was poetic fucking cinema - for all the demons talk about fucking and orgies, they do make love like gods
cons:
- I still find that indicating thoughts with ' and spoken dialogue with '' is a little unnecessarily confusing and I had to reread some sentences to make sure a character wasn't speaking some outrageous shit out loud
- I noticed a few typos
- There were so many characters that I sometimes had a bit of a difficulty to keep track of all of them
- The beginning was very, very slow and I wasn't Samyaza's biggest fan for most of the book
- The pacing was a bit all over the place
- excuse me but is sweet little Dina GOING TO JUST BE ALONE FOR ALL ETERNITY NOW????????????????
- I kept mistaking him and Danel for each other but thankfully their personalities are complete opposites lol
- tbh I don't entirely understand why Michael worked with the demons against the humans: was it truly just to unleash God's punishment on them? to punish Michael himself too, by forcing him to close proximity to Lucifer?
- I WANTED TO SEE HELL *shakes fist*
tl;dr god is a bitter bitch and everyone suffered because of him
anyway i hope book 3 has Jesus and he's the biggest bro
pros:
+ 10/10 body horror, gotta love it
+ I would party with the demons too, how they turned the horror of their fall into a new life and new love, their loyalty to Lucifer is genuinely pretty wholesome because he is their Father and Mother
+ Lucifer himself is always divine: a beautiful horror making all the horror beautiful if that makes sense, the bitterness and rage towards the God who abandoned him and towards the old love who pushed him down (yet now they want him back? As if, bitch)
+ Michael, my poor, poor Michael........ it was clear that something terrible had happened in between him tearing Lucifer's wings and his first appearance. Gone was the sweet, earnest himbo, replaced by God's Warrior - he had been punished so severely for daring to love that now the thought of it, his own private desire and love towards Lucifer still terrifies him, such an impossibly long time later
+ Rosier & Asmodeus make my heart hurt, like a sweeter Frankenstein & his monster
+ All the genderfuckery and gender-discussion with the demons and the Watcher angels themselves
+ Once again, every sex scene was poetic fucking cinema - for all the demons talk about fucking and orgies, they do make love like gods
cons:
- I still find that indicating thoughts with ' and spoken dialogue with '' is a little unnecessarily confusing and I had to reread some sentences to make sure a character wasn't speaking some outrageous shit out loud
- I noticed a few typos
- There were so many characters that I sometimes had a bit of a difficulty to keep track of all of them
- The beginning was very, very slow and I wasn't Samyaza's biggest fan for most of the book
- The pacing was a bit all over the place
- excuse me but is sweet little Dina GOING TO JUST BE ALONE FOR ALL ETERNITY NOW????????????????
- I kept mistaking him and Danel for each other but thankfully their personalities are complete opposites lol
- tbh I don't entirely understand why Michael worked with the demons against the humans: was it truly just to unleash God's punishment on them? to punish Michael himself too, by forcing him to close proximity to Lucifer?
- I WANTED TO SEE HELL *shakes fist*
tl;dr god is a bitter bitch and everyone suffered because of him
anyway i hope book 3 has Jesus and he's the biggest bro
sleepieseelie's review
5.0
what a book. what a book!!!!! heart-wrenchingly beautiful and horrific and raw and Powerful!!! wow!!! i will never be the same and somewhere along the way i even perished. thank you :)
strawbrryreads's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
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
4.0
papas_lala's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
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
5.0
arinreads's review
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
when i first read abm and was crushed by the way it spoke to me, i have never actually thought about the amount of work that had been put into it, the effort it must've taken. that book was, to me, something extremely personal, i was overwhelmed by the uncomplicated closeness of it and couldn't quite think about it as something that was not a creature of its own.
it's different with angels & man. sure, it's still a book that goes deep, doesn't pull its punches, that screams and tears at you like an open wound. yet, i think, this time around — more so because of the way the story is told, rather than anything else — it is so much more noticeable just how good the author is at crafting something like this. it feels like a behemoth, like an eternity of a book, but not because of the length or the amount of events (although there are many). it's because of how much is told. so many characters, so many fates intertwined, and each one of them holds such visceral power. this must've been a nightmare to put together. hopefully, as pleasant a nightmare as it was to read it
it's different with angels & man. sure, it's still a book that goes deep, doesn't pull its punches, that screams and tears at you like an open wound. yet, i think, this time around — more so because of the way the story is told, rather than anything else — it is so much more noticeable just how good the author is at crafting something like this. it feels like a behemoth, like an eternity of a book, but not because of the length or the amount of events (although there are many). it's because of how much is told. so many characters, so many fates intertwined, and each one of them holds such visceral power. this must've been a nightmare to put together. hopefully, as pleasant a nightmare as it was to read it
fishy27's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
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
5.0
This book hurts slowly and then all at once. Beautiful cannot even begin to describe this prose or this story or these characters. I am changed
hedonsgaybookshelf's review
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
bookaddictnamedlee3's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0