Review: Gods and Monsters by Saffron A. Kent

Gods & Monsters by Saffron A. Kent

An ARC was generously provided by the author.

This book came at just the right time. Saffron A. Kent wrote the story I was craving to read, about unrequited love in a small town. There was just the right amount of taboo mixed in with angst. Oh, the angst. Hurts so good.

We have Abel our male protagonist and we have Evie our female protagonist, and we have their big love. The kind of love you fight for. The kind of love that's too big for their small town. The problem isn't their feelings, because these kids don't waver in their affection for one another. The problem is what the world has to say. And the world says that that Abel and Evie don't belong together.

I've kept my review deliberately vague, because you need to go into this book blind. You need to experience the story without knowing anything beforehand, but don't you worry because you will not be led astray.

I loved how Saffron illustrated two kids in love. There was an honesty about their interactions, as if they couldn't help but be drawn to each other. I looked at their love and felt a kind of pleasurable pain, because blind devotion is something we all want. And these two had it towards each other.

This book was a pleasant surprise, and I can't wait to read Saffron's other books. I especially cannot wait to read Duke and Sky's story, and how that whole saga will play out. And it will definitely be a saga of epic proportions.

5 out of 5 stars.

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