Be Not Afraid by Koja Kalos

✨️5✨️

The world is ending and I am screaming.

To start, I immediately freaked out about a blond MMC because I am a suuuucker for blond men. I love them. And then of course my freak out increases ten fold at a SECOND blond MMC? I was in absolute heaven. (Not the kind in this book because fuck all them angels except Dusk.)

The author had me, not gonna lie. I was fully and completely a certified Abbadon simp, reporting for duty. So, anyway, if you've read the book before this review, you can fully understand why I am not okay. I have never felt betrayal like this by an author before. I was ready to let my boy Dusk suffer and this is what I sacrificed him for? Unwell.

Jackie is THAT bitch and I want her to kill Michael. Permanently. I won't be elaborating on that any further, I just think she could and I want it.

I feel so seen by Kae and what she comes out of in the end. A tragedy, honestly, that someone so trusting had that stripped from her in such a shocking and violating way.

This book was way too quotable. My reader became sentient at one point and told me to chill out.

The detail was... I have no words. None. I was engrossed. Immersed. I would start reading, look up, and four hours had passed. The worldbuilding was exquisite and so easy to remember. There were no points where I was like "wait, who?" Or "hold on, how did we get here?" It all flowed so perfectly, I frequently forgot I was reading and not just watching it all unfold.

I desperately need book 2 which is a tragedy because this was an ARC, so book ONE isn't even out yet. Excuse me while I cry.