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A Queer Retelling of the Watcher's Flood

The angel Azazel is miserable in Heaven. In the aftermath of Satan's fall, the angels live in the reconstructed ruins of an old utopia, oppressive and paranoid of any new rebellion.

The angel Samyaza is content in Heaven, but he longs for the…

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Angels & Man is the sequel to Angels Before Man. I adored the first book, so I knew Angels & Man would be an instant favorite.

Whereas Angels Before Man was a queer retelling of the fall of Lucifer, Angels & Man is a queer retelling of the watcher's flood. The book follows two angels, Azazel and Samyaza.

Samyaza is desperate to return heaven to its former glory, where Azazel has only known rejection since the war. Samyaza leads a group of angels down to Earth with the plan of turning humanity back towards God. But not everything goes according…

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