BearMi's Reviews > Patience

4/5⭐ 3/5🌶️ 3/5😱

Listen, this book fits right into my weak spot.
The one reserved for Paranormal romance with (fallen) angels, (Christian) God references, but most importantly Demon and Human bonds . And sons of Satan. Yummy.

Add into it that this is a M/M romance, and all the supernatural beings (of which there is a plethora in this book) are queer. Basically, there are shifters, vampires, demons, angels, mages.
The all have fated mates, and they are all hot. Of the 3 female characters, 1 is God (👌), one is a side character who we meet in passing once, and 1 plays a major role in the circumstances of the main couple but not necessarily a pivotal one in their relationship.

Ferenc, one of the original fallen angels, has a mate, Leof. Things happen, Leof dies, and Ferenc is charged with ferrying the souls of the dead over river Styx into Hell for eternity. Another angel, Eliza, throws them a life line (for what reason? unclear) and makes it so that Leof keeps reincarnating over and over again throughout millennia. Every time he dies, he reconnects with Ferenc and they spend 1 hour on the shores of Styx together. And then he dies. And Ferenc has to bury him. Over and over. 60+ times.

Until there is another uprising, a battle, and Ferenc finds himself topside (😸) in search of the modern day Leof. Here, now Ferry (again, 😸) finds the group of "supes" - all the variations of supernatural beings, consisting of a bunch of angels, sons of Satan, and their humans converging to a gay club called The Closet (😸😸), and recruits the help of this found family to get in Leo's good graces. Oh, plot twist - Leo does not remember him, nor any of his previous 68 lives, nor the fact that he is gay and has a fated mate, a fallen angel, or demon. In fact, he doesn't even know supernatural beings are a thing.

The plot, background and themes are amazing, i just thought they could be examined and executed a lot more thoroughly and deeply. I love the idea of Ferenc the Ferryman, but i needed more substance and worldbuilding in Hell, instead we are quickly transported to the modern times and follow the fated mates story where one remembers everything and the other one knows absolutely nothing about anything at all. If you are going to write about Hell and Satan's sons and Fallen Angels, you best bet that i will want to know how you handle that topic with all-encompassing precision, i want to know and understand EVERYTHING about it. I still don't quite understand why Eliza

(the angel who helped Ferenc and Leof - these names, can we talk about that real quick, are we just adding letters to ends of names and making them ancient that way, actually i will be using that for my own name, you can call me Elenar from now on, sounds great)

Did what she did to preserve their connection.

Also i am such a basic b* when i read, only half way i caught on that they were all British - you would think the British turns of the phrase would clue me in sooner, but no such luck.
The group dynamic reminded me a lot of Willow Dixon's Crimson Club series, so if you liked that and don't mind Paranormal romance - I highly recommend you get into this one!