This was a very lyrical read with every sentence carefully poetical and descriptive. This can be beneficial to a story in smaller doses as the impact becomes lost the more it is used, and it was used in the story to the greatest extent.

• His name had never sounded more like a sin waiting to happen. / Afternoon clawed at Sera like a ravenous thing. / Kael stepped into his apartment like a man dragging ghosts behind him.* as an example.

The writing is pretty, but it feels like it’s lacking substance as the majority of the plot occurs in the second half of the book and it is a slow build to get there. The relationship is instantaneous to a fault, bonded exclusively and unable to live without the other after less than a day of interactions, and I would’ve liked to see more of them together before they’re separated due to the aforementioned plot.

It’s a unique world with angels and demons and the subsets between alongside Fae and the existence of Limbo, but it felt hard to grasp the impact of the events occurring between the lyrical softness of the writing and the lack of an overview or past consequences. While I could take or leave the main pair, I really enjoyed the peeks of the side characters involved, Jareth and Reziel especially. I also loved how the author portrays hell and the sufferers contained within, not tortured as a result of their chosen sin but with them instead. It’s an interesting and impactful take.

Thank you to BookSirens and the author for the ARC.