Leigh Kramer's Reviews > Archangel's Storm

I’m so glad I gave this series one more chance. Jason’s story was worth it! The world-building continues to fascinate me as we got to see how Neha’s realm works. However, the romance with Jason and Mahiya wasn’t as strong as I was hoping for. Where was their emotional connection? I didn’t need a profession of love from Jason—that wouldn’t have been in keeping with his personality—but their relationship needed to be more grounded and better paced in order for me to believe they had something long-lasting. Incidentally, Jason could be read as aromantic but I don’t think that was the author’s intention.

There were too many flashbacks and I didn’t care for the inclusion of Dmitri, Honor, and Raphael POVs. This series has fucked up ideas about family. I didn’t understand Mahiya’s feelings about Nivitri at all. She owes her nothing!


Characters: Jason is an around 700 years old angel and spymaster with brown skin and a tribal tattoo on the left side of his face. Mahiya is a 307 year old Indian angel and princess. This is set in Archangel City, India and NYC.

Content notes: emotional and physical abuse by FMC’s biological father and aunt (including father telling her he wished he had strangled her as an infant), past witnessed parental violence (MMC’s father abused his mother), past intimate partner violence (secondary character had husband’s wings clipped and kept him imprisoned for 300 years), blood vow, murder, murder of secondary character’s imprisoned husband, dismemberment, physical assault, battle, casualties, fire, corpses, blood, lacerations, acid burns (secondary characters), cracked ribs, skin burns, snakes, snake murder, past imprisonment with venomous snakes, past starvation as punishment, mentally ill archangels, past murder-suicide of MMC’s parents (father killed mother, then died by suicide in a fire he set), past isolation and neglect after MMC’s parents died (island was isolated and no one knew he was alone, nor was he strong enough to leave on his own), past forced C-section and execution post-childbirth of FMC’s mother (view spoiler)[except it turns out that was a lie and she’s been imprisoned all this time (hide spoiler)], past parental infidelity (FMC’s father cheated on his wife with her sister who became pregnant with FMC), casual and overt ableism, human secondary character transforms into vampire, past execution of secondary character’s adult daughter (harmed a child), past assumption that MMC was mute, no condom used for penetrative sex, on page sex, alcohol, casual acephobia, gender essentialist language, ableist language, hyperbolic language around suicide and addiction, casual use of colonialist language