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Angels Before Man by Rafael Nicolás
4.0
dark slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

I need a minute to gather my thoughts & write a full review, but this was A LOT! (In good ways & bad, but mostly good)

A few hours later: Okay I have my thoughts together now, let’s get into it.

The writing is what sucked me in and it kept me hooked throughout! I have so many quotes highlighted. The first half of this novel was VERY slow, I think it could’ve been much shorter, but because of the writing, I stuck with it and KNEW that the second half of the novel was going to be amazing. And I was right. The second half of this book… whew. It definitely came with the intrigue, it came with the action, it came with the horror, it came with everything. 

I feel like my thoughts are incoherent because I have so many thoughts and feelings about it.

I definitely thought that having god rape lucifer & have that be what pushed him over the edge was a choice… I’m not sure how I feel about that. It definitely comes with god being a controlling, wrathful, jealous god in this novel. But like rape?? I don’t know how to feel about that, it did make me very uncomfortable. But also I get how it fit into the story. That was just A LOT (it doesn’t happen on page, just alluded to)


Along with wishing the first half of this book was shorter, I did notice that sometimes it wasn’t clear whether characters were just thinking or actually speaking. That was something I had to get used to.

I don’t really know how to explain how this book made me feel, so to sum it all up: 4 stars!😂

Hope you enjoyed my incoherent review🥰😭😂