I Can’t Wait For…Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Wishful Endings to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about but haven’t yet read. Most of the time they’re books that have yet to be released, but not always. It’s based on the Waiting on Wednesday meme, which was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. 

This week my Can’t-Wait-For Book is Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás!

Angels Before Man by rafael nicolás
Genres: Fantasy, Queer Protagonists
Representation: Queer MC
Published on: 7th November 2022
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A queer interpretation for Satan's fall that's part cozy coming of age and part fast-paced tragedy, with a little love story in between –

In an eternal paradise, the most beautiful angel, Lucifer, struggles with shame, identity, and timidity, with little more than the desire to worship his creator.

It isn't until the strongest angel, Michael, comes into his life that Lucifer learns to love himself. Along the way, their friendship begins to bloom into something else. Maybe the first romance in the history of everything.

But this God is a jealous one, and maybe paradise is not paradise.

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I freely admit it: I’m obsessed with angels. Not the sweet fluffy kind, or the humans-with-wings kind we tend to see in fiction, but angels that are alien, other, equal parts monstrous and beautiful. And between nicolás promising ‘horrors beyond human comprehension’ and Freydís Moon (who has written incredible angels and Fallen angels in their books Exodus 20:3 and With a Vengeance) saying this is the book they always dreamed of reading, I am supremely sure that this is everything I’ve ever wanted.

Lucifer in particular is an angel/being who’s incredibly important to me, whose story I will never get tired of exploring, of seeing reimagined and retold. So a queer take on Satan’s Fall? YES. Yes yes yes yes!

(And that title – does angels before man simply refer to the time when angels existed but before humans did? Or might it be a battle-cry, defiance and demand, the mantra of rebellion, angels > mankind?)

I am all but vibrating with excitement for this book, and you’d better believe I slammed the preorder button yesterday.

I am strongly advising you to do the same!

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