angelsbeforeman's reviews
909 reviews

rafael nicolás is the perfect author in my eyes. everything he writes is exactly what i like. angels before man is my favourite book of all time for sure, and so i knew this wouldn't beat it, but it's still the easiest 5/5 rating ever. simply perfect. the way rafa interprets biblical events and characters is exactly the same as the way i do, which of course makes my reading experience even better.
i absolutely adore samyaza and azazel, as individual characters and when they interact with each other. though lucifer is very much like me, extremely like me if i'm being honest, samyaza and i also have some similarities so i cherished him from the start. and azazel is just precious. absolutely love him. he kind of reminds me of my partner. 
i did not like armoni, but that actually makes me like this book more. it's honestly great character work! armoni is not a fan of lucifer, and i find lucifer extremely relatable, so it makes sense i wouldn't be the biggest fan of armoni. great. speaking of lucifer, he's less me in this book than the first one, but that does kind of make sense since falling from heaven naturally does things to one's psyche.
rafael describes my gender perfectly as well. yes, i'm a boy the way an angel is often perceived as one. angelgender or something. god bless! 

i read this literally ages ago and i don't know why but until now i just kept forgetting to mark it as read. anyway, big fan of this book. camus is super interesting for me to read because of his style, philosophy, and the intrigue of his work. i'll probably update this with more thoughts whenever i feel like it, but i did write a really long book report on it for school and that was super fun! 

i have interest in the story of this house, but dear god this was very difficult to get through and i skimmed a lot 😭 i just really didn't like the writing and i often felt bored which isn't what i wanted from this story. hearing / seeing it from any other source is a way better experience unfortunately 

short and sweet, a lovely little sequel ^_^ i'm a big fan of alexi so i like how this was mostly centered around him and what he thought and felt. not rating it 5 stars cause it's not on the same level that an actual novel would be, but i really enjoyed it ♡ 

i got that angelology autism so this was wonderful. read it in a day and it made me want to cry for hours Loved it

i don't actually know why it took me so long to read this, but now that i did i can see why everyone likes it so much. it's a quick read but very good, really really beautiful especially for a short story. good writing, i don't know much about the author but i might be interested now!

i've read better vampire literature, but this was still pretty good! i love vampires and this is a good example of classic vampire lit, and i intend to read every vampire book out there if i can. it's pretty standard thematically, which is nice, but i didn't feel particularly inspired by the writing style, so i can't give this more than 3.5 stars.