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All of the boys with upturned crosses on their chests and darkness in their hearts. Boys with the names of angels but the thirst of demons in their blood.

Gothic dark, dark fiction at its best.

There's literature that moves you, and then there's literature that tears you open and bleeds through you. There are tears because these characters, fictional but striking a chord within you that's absurdly real, are going through horrors that no child, no human being should ever have to experience. You can't help but smile too, because you ever came across this masterpiece. You end up smiling through the tears because some of the sheer insanity of this book bled through the pages and stole a piece of your soul.

When I read this, did I fear for my sanity? Yes. Did I throw my morals to the wind and embrace this...love...I felt for these terrible, inhumane men? These twisted archangels capable of the cruelest destruction? YES.

When a book prompts such strong feelings within you that chills still arise everytime it's mentioned is when you realize you stumbled upon one that'll always hold a piece of your heart.

This book prompts the question of good and/or evil. An exploration of one's own sense of right or wrong. Reward and punishment. The so-called good people hiding the most grievous of cruelty. The evil with an even darker shade of brutality. Savagery. But sometimes with a tint of good so damn bright. Most times good and evil are a plethora of mixed colors and gray areas. But what prompts cruelty in us? Jealousy? Anger? Revenge? Can it be an inborn urge? A manifestation of circumstances?

I'd love to say more, to delve deeper into why this story is a MUST-READ but go in blind, it's absolutely and completely worth it.

The Fallen were brothers reborn. Baptized anew.