|| 2.0 stars ||Urgh. Why did this have to be so incredibly disappointing? It had seemed so interesting..The first 20% of this book was utterly confusing. I honestly didn't have a clue what was even going on most of the time. I think this was done on purpose by the author to create some mystery, but that didn't stop me from finding it frustrating. I was pretty much bored already, and the story basically hadn't even started yet.Eventually things started to make sense, and the plot and world-buildi...

4.5 stars ☆

Mikhail's warm hand touched his cheek. ❝I feel... everything,❞ he whispered. ❝And it burns.❞

I LOVE SEVERN. I LOVE MIKHAIL. brb omw to read the next book 😭😭

i'm really invested in this story & i wanna move on to book 2 ASAP!!!✦ pretty great world building.✦ enemies-to-lovers!!🔪 Mikhail placed a soft kiss on the back of Severn's neck. "you ruin me..." he whispered.Severn grinned over his shoulder, proud to see Mikhail's eyes glassy, pupils full from desire. "i've only just begun." ✦ great main characters! Severn and Mikhail both already stole my heart.✦ some really intriguing side characters i desperately want to know more about.✦ a war betwe...

✅ Smut (M/M) ✅ Severn✅ World-building✅ Angels and demons✅ Pace and addictiveness✅ 2 POVs✅🆗 Plot ✅🆗 Romance 🆗 Secondary characters and backstories He’d been doing this for what felt like forever. Sometimes it felt as though he’d lived a lie longer than he’d lived the truth. After a brutal battle that cost him his wings, Severn, a Demon Lord, disguised himself as an angel to infiltrate their ranks, get close to their leader, the Guardian Mikhail, and kill him. Ten years later, Severn ...

4.5 stars. This author shows me once more that her ability to write complex, outstanding, addictive fantasy is apparently her thing, as I have run right to the next one. Again. I love angels in the fantasy/paranormal genre but it's tremendously difficult to keep the characterizations *as I view them, anyway* from ending up being cheesy or cliché. Ariana Nash does not have that problem. Both the angels and the demons in this story are complicated, difficult beings, each operating in the belief th...

⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱*Might Contain Spoilers*⋰⋱⋰⋱⋰⋱ Hmm, I'm unsure what I feel about this book. The switch between hate and love for Severn was too swift. One second he hated Mikhail and wanted him dead, the other he suddenly couldn't be without him. It also bothered me how Severn hated Mikhail. I just didn't see his ruthless and cold personality. He was nothing but kind to Severn. I think that was the mistake AN did here; she jumped immediately into the story where Severn had already spent ten years infil...

4 'Angels & Demons' stars Haven, if he was falling, let him fall, because nothing had ever felt so right. The worldbuilding in this book is simply fantastic. Ariana Nash took an overly used fight between good and evil, between angels and demons, and gave it a uniquely fresh look. I especially liked that there was no religion aspect in the story. Imo, a paranormal romance is not a place to polemicize about what God did or didn't do and whether Lucifer fell of his own free will or no...

** SPOILERS BELOW, READ at your own peril**Ariana Nash LOVES the enemies to lovers theme. Just about EVERY one of her primary works has been about enemies to lovers. I'm not usually a fan, but she makes it work for me. There's the right level of push and pull, character development and transformation. There are real reasons why there's hate in the beginning, how the 2 MCs come together, then separated by hate again.I have a few issues. I think 1) Severen's realization that he loves Mikhail was a...

First of all, I absolutely INHALED this in a day 😁Primal Sin is the first book in a complete dark m/m fantasy series by Ariana Nash set in an almost dystopian-like, post-apocalyptic London, where angels and demons have been waging war for decades. The angels maintain the seat of power in Aerie, the city of angels, high in the clouds above old London's dark streets, whilst the demons lurk below in the shadows around the area known as the Cauldron, home to the refugees of war - humans, nephilim (...