Title: Gods & Monsters
Author: Saffron A. Kent
Genre: Contemporary/New Adult Romance
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Rating: 4 Stars
Told in the first person. Alternating person.
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Rating: 4 Stars
Told in the first person. Alternating person.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this
book for review from Give Me Books Promotions and the author. I was
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Blurb:
He was an artist. She was his muse.
To everyone in town, Abel Adams was the devil's spawn, a boy who never should have been born. A monster.
To twelve year-old Evie Hart, he was just a boy with golden hair, soft t-shirts and a camera. A boy who loved taking her picture and sneaking her chocolates before dinner. A boy who made her feel special.
Despite her family's warnings, she loved him in secret for six years. They met in empty classrooms and kissed in darkened church closets. Until they couldn't.
Until the time came to choose between love and family, and Evie chose Abel.
Because their love was worth the risk. Their love was the stuff of legend.
But the thing about legends is that they are cautionary tales. They are made of choices and mistakes. And for Abel and Evie, the artist and the muse, those mistakes come in the form of lights, camera, sex.
NOTE: This is NOT a paranormal or a priest romance.
To everyone in town, Abel Adams was the devil's spawn, a boy who never should have been born. A monster.
To twelve year-old Evie Hart, he was just a boy with golden hair, soft t-shirts and a camera. A boy who loved taking her picture and sneaking her chocolates before dinner. A boy who made her feel special.
Despite her family's warnings, she loved him in secret for six years. They met in empty classrooms and kissed in darkened church closets. Until they couldn't.
Until the time came to choose between love and family, and Evie chose Abel.
Because their love was worth the risk. Their love was the stuff of legend.
But the thing about legends is that they are cautionary tales. They are made of choices and mistakes. And for Abel and Evie, the artist and the muse, those mistakes come in the form of lights, camera, sex.
NOTE: This is NOT a paranormal or a priest romance.
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My Thoughts:
Evangeline “Evie” Hart starts us off with a very upfront
discussion with her friend. It may have
you thinking about your own teenage experiences. She also eye “meets” someone and I get the
impression that they were destined to be in the same place at the same time. Evie acts as our eyes into her world and
those around her. Abel Adams is a young
man that we first experience through those eyes.
There are scenes that you could take one of two ways. It’s up to you in how you decide you to take
it. One thing that shocked me was that
Amazon had this book tagged as inspirational.
There are subtle messages here but I don’t think inspirational is one of
them and that gives a false message to readers.
With some of the subject matter, I wouldn’t tag it as teen either – new
adult is fine but if you want your teen to read please make sure to read it
yourself first.
There’s a saying that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and
how this story is interpreted is in the mind of the reader. There was no mention of triggers at the
beginning of the book, at least that I could see, so you may want to think of
that when you are making the decision of should I or shouldn’t I. You need to know there are mentions of
abuse – at least that is how it comes across to me - that for some might make them
uncomfortable.
Don’t expect this to be a young love happy story – the adults make
sure of that. It is a story that is told
in the first person, which is a good thing because you “hear” their thoughts
this way. The chapters are not
identified as to whose thoughts we’re listening to but you’ll have no trouble
identifying whether it’s Evie or Abel – the author was very good at that. I’m on the fence as to whether to tell you if
the ending was happy. Don’t get me wrong
it’s a nice ending and it fits in with what I’ve learned about these
characters. But after getting to know
them I didn’t feel as if the ending did them justice – as if there’s more to
the story.
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Author Bio:
Writer of bad romances. Aspiring Lana Del Rey of the Book World.
Saffron is a big believer in love (obviously). She believes in happily ever after, the butterflies and the tingling. But she also believes in edgy, rough and gutsy kind of love. She believes in pushing the boundaries, darker (sometimes morally ambiguous) emotions and imperfections.
The kind of love she writes about is flawed just like her characters. And she hopes by the end of it, you’ll come to root for them just as much as she does. Because love, no matter where it comes from, is always pure and beautiful.
She is represented by Meire Dias of Bookcase Agency
Saffron is a big believer in love (obviously). She believes in happily ever after, the butterflies and the tingling. But she also believes in edgy, rough and gutsy kind of love. She believes in pushing the boundaries, darker (sometimes morally ambiguous) emotions and imperfections.
The kind of love she writes about is flawed just like her characters. And she hopes by the end of it, you’ll come to root for them just as much as she does. Because love, no matter where it comes from, is always pure and beautiful.
She is represented by Meire Dias of Bookcase Agency
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