Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Death’s Angel

SERIES: Immortals prequel

AUTHOR: Michael Mandrake

PUBLISHER: Triad Literary

LENGTH: 159 pages

RELEASE DATE: July 5, 2019

BLURB:

Death’s plan for revenge is derailed by his lust for one of the Creator’s angels. 

Being second to Michael has never sat well with Allerio. Feeling slighted, he travels beyond the heavens, meeting a creature who informs him of his Father’s secrets. With curiosities niggling him, he challenges his god, seeking freedom from stringent rules. Though the prize might look wonderful on the surface, it comes with a heavy price the angel will bear for eternity. 

Death’s banishment was only the beginning of his descent. Since then, he’s concocted a scheme to overthrow the highest being, proving him to be a liar. Although confident his plot will succeed, he convinces one of High’s top helpers to assist him. However, Death never intended for feelings of affection to consume him. Suddenly wrecking God’s perfection isn’t as important anymore. 

Two gods join forces and become bonded in more ways than one. Can they overcome their emotions to achieve their ultimate goal? 

Death’s Angel is the prequel story to Immortals, chronicling the very beginning of Lucifer’s ascent as the god of the third and fourth planes. This story involves male pregnancy and mating. 

Warning: On page violence, extreme torture, and death. Look inside for further triggers.

REVIEW:

Ok folks. Please, please note the warning at the bottom of the blurb. This book is not for the faint of heart. It is a dark story. It’s told from Lucifer and Death’s perspectives and at times, it’s not a pretty picture. Of course, when dealing with the Death (Grim Reaper) and the Prince of Darkness (Lucifer), things tend to get a little chaotic and dark. It’s one hell of a book, though. One hell of a book. 

It’s of course, the good vs evil thing going on, BUT, this time it’s told from Death and Lucifer’s perspectives. As I said earlier. And I love the take on this. Even being considered the most evil of beings, both of them, they both show a capacity for compassion and yes, love. Of course, love comes in different forms. Their relationship is more of a BDSM thing. Which is part of the trigger thing, btw.

But it starts out with Allerio(Lucifer) being unhappy. He was second in charge in heaven. Michael the only one with a rank like his. But lately Michael and High were working on something and Allerio was tired of being left out. He wanted to know more. He wanted people to bow to him. Be a god himself. And one day he set out to discover and did. And what he discovers completely changed the course of his life. He met Death. A part of High. He saw things. Learned things. And questioned. Which ended in him and those who wanted to follow him, down to hell or other dimensions. Death has been teaching him, though, and Lucifer is a force to be reckoned with. But something he yearns for is making him weak. And Death learned his feelings for Lucifer were making him weak. Or were they? Joined together, they could be unstoppable. But there’s a few twists in this plot, that almost destroy Lucifer on a level of hell of its own. And there may be no coming back from it.

I don’t know about most of you, but I was raised in church where Lucifer is always the bad guy and yadda yadda yadda. Which is fine and dandy in however you believe. But in this story, you get to see that side of him, of course. The search for power, the desire to be worshipped and be a god, etc. But you also get to see a side to him that actually makes you feel sorry for him. I actually cried.. ugly cried for him in this book. The one thing he has always wanted, even more than power, was stripped away twice! And you have to read to find out what. But it almost killed him. And it broke me. The grief…..

But I felt for Death too. Being as high up and High, he could destroy things at whim. But Lucifer got under his skin somehow. Which was odd for him. Especially considering he was literally, just bones. But something about Lucifer called to him and he finally had to admit what he was feeling.

It’s a very dark, yet odd, but so good book. Odd in the sense, that it’s hard to picture Death or Lucifer as anything but ….demons lol. But man, worth reading every page.

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