I thought this book had a lot of potential when I first looked at it. It is a fictionalized form of what Judeo-Christian scripture says about the creation of the world, of angels, and of mankind. Since this kind of material is thrown around after having been removed from canonical texts, it has an aura of myth that I thought would be interesting to explore in a work of fiction. Well, this book wasn't exactly a good opportunity for that.
The cast of characters is large and it became very hard to deal with all the names of angels and archangels after 30 pages. Michael, Samael, Raphkiel, Raziel, Belial, Beelzebub, Yaveh, Lilith, and a dozen others. I couldn't really say that characters were well developed. With so many similar names and little more than a few sentences to create a background for each character, it was hard to assimilate who they were individually and it was hard to develop any connection to them. For the short book this is, it was surprisingly hard to wade through and I attribute this to the fact that I never really cared much about what happened. This doesn't mean the story is uninteresting. It is creative (even if blasphemous) and it could have been a good read, perhaps even a great read, if the writing had been more careful.
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