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Raven's Wrath
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Expected 23 Mar 27In this dystopian paranormal romance, a demon and a demon hunter forge an unlikely alliance in the ultimate fight for agency and freedom.
Set in a brutal world after the collapse of civilization, this debut is perfect for readers who loved the high stakes of H.M. Wolfe’s Daggermouth and the dark humor of Brynne Weaver’s Leather and Lark.
After a demon invasion decimates the world, a brutal regime rises to power. Men dominate leadership, while women are forced into strict roles. You either marry, work, or surrender to government-run birthing programs. Compliance is rewarded, and disobedience is punished.
Raven’s life shatters when she loses her unborn child and her husband discards her. In a desperate attempt to escape gestation services, she joins The Brotherhood, a holy alliance of demon hunters. As the only woman in a sexist organization, she channels her rage into killing every demon she meets, until she is assigned an impossible mission. Ordered to eliminate Dax Morningstar, a half-demon and the son of Lucifer, she either completes the mission and risks her soul for killing a half-human man, or she fails and faces an unforgiving system.
When she fails to end his life, Raven is forced into an uneasy alliance with Dax that threatens to upend everything she thought she knew about their world. But when their deception is uncovered, Raven is captured and forced into a birthing program. Now, the same system that broke her claims her body in the name of humanity’s survival, and Raven must decide, once and for all, whether to submit or burn it all down from the inside.
With plenty of enemies-to-lovers tension and full of clever banter, Raven's Wrath is an emotionally driven romance with a feminist twist that explores bodily autonomy and the power of choice and self-determination.
Set in a brutal world after the collapse of civilization, this debut is perfect for readers who loved the high stakes of H.M. Wolfe’s Daggermouth and the dark humor of Brynne Weaver’s Leather and Lark.
After a demon invasion decimates the world, a brutal regime rises to power. Men dominate leadership, while women are forced into strict roles. You either marry, work, or surrender to government-run birthing programs. Compliance is rewarded, and disobedience is punished.
Raven’s life shatters when she loses her unborn child and her husband discards her. In a desperate attempt to escape gestation services, she joins The Brotherhood, a holy alliance of demon hunters. As the only woman in a sexist organization, she channels her rage into killing every demon she meets, until she is assigned an impossible mission. Ordered to eliminate Dax Morningstar, a half-demon and the son of Lucifer, she either completes the mission and risks her soul for killing a half-human man, or she fails and faces an unforgiving system.
When she fails to end his life, Raven is forced into an uneasy alliance with Dax that threatens to upend everything she thought she knew about their world. But when their deception is uncovered, Raven is captured and forced into a birthing program. Now, the same system that broke her claims her body in the name of humanity’s survival, and Raven must decide, once and for all, whether to submit or burn it all down from the inside.
With plenty of enemies-to-lovers tension and full of clever banter, Raven's Wrath is an emotionally driven romance with a feminist twist that explores bodily autonomy and the power of choice and self-determination.
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September 27, 2026On paper this was perfect. I love demons and I love dystopian stories.
In reality, the execution did not work for me whatsoever. It wasn’t even the lack of trigger warnings for certain topics, tho I absolutely understand why the list needs to be more extensive. I sadly did not like the characters and the way they interacted. I hate forced “enemies to lovers” that turns out to be just a lust forward romance whose motivations make little sense beyond “he’s hot and I’m horny”.
I ended up dnfing because I just didn’t care about the plot or the characters anymore.
Thank you NetGalley for the arc!
In reality, the execution did not work for me whatsoever. It wasn’t even the lack of trigger warnings for certain topics, tho I absolutely understand why the list needs to be more extensive. I sadly did not like the characters and the way they interacted. I hate forced “enemies to lovers” that turns out to be just a lust forward romance whose motivations make little sense beyond “he’s hot and I’m horny”.
I ended up dnfing because I just didn’t care about the plot or the characters anymore.
Thank you NetGalley for the arc!
September 14, 2026
Thank you NetGalley for the Advance Reader Copy. These are my honest thoughts. They do contain some spoilers. ⭐️
This book had the bones of some interesting concepts, but I found the execution frustrating from beginning to end. I wanted meaningful inner thought, character development, psychological consistency, and consequences. For the FMC to be changed emotionally. As a reader I barely understood how this dystopian world came to fruition. On one hand things were mansplained that readers should be able to infer for themselves but the world as it is now… 🦗🦗🦗
I got characters telling me who they were while their actions repeatedly told me something else. I finished this book because I said I would. That is the nicest thing I can say about it. I wanted to DNF this book. I thought it was a waste of my time somewhere around the point where I started asking myself, “WTF am I reading?” I finished it solely out of solidarity with a friend.
Raven is presented as a tough, highly trained badass with copious amounts of WRATH, but her internal motivations never felt psychologically connected to that reality. She wants to prove she doesn’t need anyone, while also desperately wanting their approval. She resents being given an impossible mission, then wants to prove she can accomplish it. She insists she can handle herself, then immediately demonstrates that she very much cannot. People can absolutely want independence and validation at the same time. They can hate a system and still want recognition from it. Those contradictions could have made Raven interesting. I needed the book to actually explore those concepts. Instead we get internal dialogues about cigs and grandmas pants being too short.
My Frustrations:
The “highly trained demon killer”: this became increasingly difficult to take seriously:
Exhibit A: She couldn’t scale a damn fire escape using “grippy gloves”, if her life depended on it. She fell on her first go at it and it didn’t make sense.
Exhibit B: She repeatedly fails to kill the demon, including when she throws soda at him because apparently we’re weaponizing beverages. But the WORST part is that she thought for .2 seconds it was working because of the FIZZ… in SODA… 👀
Exactly how much training did she receive?
Inconsistencies, I’ll list just 1: the coffee/cigarette inconsistency bothered me way more than it should have. That’s on me. BUT, Raven makes a comment that coffee keeps her up at night, which confirms she is aware of and concerned with the effect caffeine has on her sleep. Except this same woman has absolutely no problem chain-smoking cigarettes.
I’m not asking for every character to have perfectly consistent habits. But when you give a character specific commentary about something affecting their sleep, then have her casually smoke cigarettes without that being worth a second thought, it contributes to the larger problem I had with Raven: her character seemed to change depending on whatever the scene needed.
The Romance: Raven is sent to kill Dax. She fails. He wants her to kill him. Somehow we speed-run from attempted homicide to sexual tension to kissing through a five-chapter fight scene! I never bought the romance because I never felt the emotional progression that was supposed to get us there. Why? The supposedly “morally gray” MMC was barely an MMC. He felt more like the side character I wanted to read more about.
The Side Character: Meanwhile, Naomi had the plan. Naomi was the one who engineered the plan to bring down the Republic from the inside. She was swapping pills (the ONLY good part of the story), and sacrificed herself. Raven may have carried it out (barely and because of Naomi’s sacrifice) and would not have survived without Dax’s healing abilities. Naomi and Dax felt more compelling to me than the protagonist the story kept insisting was the badass center of it all.
The sex scene: We’re told sex with a demon is “addictive.” How? I’m genuinely trying to identify what was supposed to be addictive about that scene because I didn’t experience it. My husband was listening to the scene with me in the car… he actually said the previous MM scene I made him listen to was better. And this man was already uncomfortable listening to that scene.
The WRATH: Lastly and most importantly… WHERE WAS RAVEN’S WRATH?!?!? Seriously. I kept waiting for Raven’s Wrath to show up.
The title promised me a woman with some goddamn rage behind her. A woman who had been underestimated, used, controlled, sent on a suicide mission, surrounded by a corrupt government, and dropped into a situation where women were treated as disposable reproductive resources. I wanted to feel that wrath. I wanted to see it change her. I wanted it to drive her choices. I wanted consequences. I wanted her to finally look at the people who had used her and make them regret the fucking day they underestimated her.
Other Reviews: I keep seeing five-star reviews praise Raven as a badass demon slayer and celebrate her wrath, but I found myself wondering what they were seeing that I wasn’t. What I’m seeing in reviews feels more like echos of the synopsis with no examples from the story. I am genuinely asking: where was it?
And now I’m going to talk about something much more serious…
⚠️ ⚠️ Trigger Warnings ⚠️⚠️
The trigger-warning issue is much bigger for me than simply not liking the writing. I can dislike a book, find frustration with the lack of chart development and plot progression, roll my eyes at “grippy gloves,” question the demon-killer credentials, and make fun of the word “cig.” None of that matters nearly as much as whether readers are given enough information to make an informed decision about potentially traumatic material.
This is what should have been listed on the TW page:
• Child sexual exploitation / forced reproduction involving a minor; implied sexual coercion: a 12 yr old is sent to a gestational facility after her first menstruation in a society centered around “breeding.” The book establishes that girls and women are sent to these facilities for reproductive purposes from a very young age.
• Reproductive coercion and forced breeding
• Loss of bodily autonomy / institutionalized reproductive control
• Suicidal ideation: including a character who desperately wants to die but is unable to do so
• Attempted murder and violence
• Abuse of power and political exploitation
• Religious justification of oppression
• Drug/stimulant use and smoking
• Sexual content
The child sexual exploitation and forced-reproduction material is especially significant. In my opinion, it should not be buried under a broad or vague warning; readers should know it is present before beginning the book.
The problem is not merely that the story includes reproductive control. It is the language and context used to establish that system. Women in this society have extremely limited choices: they are effectively funneled into either the gestational system or the Cursebreakers. Their bodies and reproductive rights are controlled by an authoritarian structure in which religious ideology, nationalism, and political power are closely intertwined.
The book uses the word “breeding” to describe this system. In this context, it is reasonable for readers to question whether the process involves sexual activity. “Breeding” does not automatically communicate medical insemination in ordinary usage. Even replacing it with “insemination” would not fully remove the ambiguity unless the book clearly explains how that insemination occurs.
If readers are told that women and girls are sent away, treated as reproductive resources, have little bodily autonomy, and are expected to produce children for the state, it is understandable that they may infer sexual coercion. I am not saying the book explicitly depicts sexual assault on page or during every reproductive encounter… it does not. I’m saying the combination of these elements creates a reasonable implication of sexual coercion.
Which is why the warning needs to be more explicit. Trigger warnings don’t require an author to confirm every interpretation a reader could make. They exist to identify themes and circumstances that may be distressing so readers can make an informed choice. There is a meaningful difference between:
“Forced motherhood - far from glorious”
and being warned:
“reproductive coercion, forced breeding, and implied sexual coercion, including involving minors.”
The latter tells readers far more clearly what they may encounter.
The book explicitly establishes that a 12 yr old was sent to the gestational facility after her first menstruation. It tells us her father sent her there at 12 and that she spent the entire first year crying. That is not a small, incidental piece of worldbuilding.
Even if the author intended the reproductive process to be entirely clinical, the mechanism is almost beside the point in the case of the 12 yr old. Forcing a child to become pregnant, carry a pregnancy, and give birth is an extreme violation of bodily autonomy regardless of whether conception occurs through sexual assault, coercive sexual contact, or medical insemination.
Whether the author intended the process to be sexual or clinical, this material deserved a clear, comprehensive trigger warning… one that plainly identifies forced reproduction involving a minor, reproductive coercion, and the loss of bodily autonomy. Period.
This book had the bones of some interesting concepts, but I found the execution frustrating from beginning to end. I wanted meaningful inner thought, character development, psychological consistency, and consequences. For the FMC to be changed emotionally. As a reader I barely understood how this dystopian world came to fruition. On one hand things were mansplained that readers should be able to infer for themselves but the world as it is now… 🦗🦗🦗
I got characters telling me who they were while their actions repeatedly told me something else. I finished this book because I said I would. That is the nicest thing I can say about it. I wanted to DNF this book. I thought it was a waste of my time somewhere around the point where I started asking myself, “WTF am I reading?” I finished it solely out of solidarity with a friend.
Raven is presented as a tough, highly trained badass with copious amounts of WRATH, but her internal motivations never felt psychologically connected to that reality. She wants to prove she doesn’t need anyone, while also desperately wanting their approval. She resents being given an impossible mission, then wants to prove she can accomplish it. She insists she can handle herself, then immediately demonstrates that she very much cannot. People can absolutely want independence and validation at the same time. They can hate a system and still want recognition from it. Those contradictions could have made Raven interesting. I needed the book to actually explore those concepts. Instead we get internal dialogues about cigs and grandmas pants being too short.
My Frustrations:
The “highly trained demon killer”: this became increasingly difficult to take seriously:
Exhibit A: She couldn’t scale a damn fire escape using “grippy gloves”, if her life depended on it. She fell on her first go at it and it didn’t make sense.
Exhibit B: She repeatedly fails to kill the demon, including when she throws soda at him because apparently we’re weaponizing beverages. But the WORST part is that she thought for .2 seconds it was working because of the FIZZ… in SODA… 👀
Exactly how much training did she receive?
Inconsistencies, I’ll list just 1: the coffee/cigarette inconsistency bothered me way more than it should have. That’s on me. BUT, Raven makes a comment that coffee keeps her up at night, which confirms she is aware of and concerned with the effect caffeine has on her sleep. Except this same woman has absolutely no problem chain-smoking cigarettes.
I’m not asking for every character to have perfectly consistent habits. But when you give a character specific commentary about something affecting their sleep, then have her casually smoke cigarettes without that being worth a second thought, it contributes to the larger problem I had with Raven: her character seemed to change depending on whatever the scene needed.
The Romance: Raven is sent to kill Dax. She fails. He wants her to kill him. Somehow we speed-run from attempted homicide to sexual tension to kissing through a five-chapter fight scene! I never bought the romance because I never felt the emotional progression that was supposed to get us there. Why? The supposedly “morally gray” MMC was barely an MMC. He felt more like the side character I wanted to read more about.
The Side Character: Meanwhile, Naomi had the plan. Naomi was the one who engineered the plan to bring down the Republic from the inside. She was swapping pills (the ONLY good part of the story), and sacrificed herself. Raven may have carried it out (barely and because of Naomi’s sacrifice) and would not have survived without Dax’s healing abilities. Naomi and Dax felt more compelling to me than the protagonist the story kept insisting was the badass center of it all.
The sex scene: We’re told sex with a demon is “addictive.” How? I’m genuinely trying to identify what was supposed to be addictive about that scene because I didn’t experience it. My husband was listening to the scene with me in the car… he actually said the previous MM scene I made him listen to was better. And this man was already uncomfortable listening to that scene.
The WRATH: Lastly and most importantly… WHERE WAS RAVEN’S WRATH?!?!? Seriously. I kept waiting for Raven’s Wrath to show up.
The title promised me a woman with some goddamn rage behind her. A woman who had been underestimated, used, controlled, sent on a suicide mission, surrounded by a corrupt government, and dropped into a situation where women were treated as disposable reproductive resources. I wanted to feel that wrath. I wanted to see it change her. I wanted it to drive her choices. I wanted consequences. I wanted her to finally look at the people who had used her and make them regret the fucking day they underestimated her.
Other Reviews: I keep seeing five-star reviews praise Raven as a badass demon slayer and celebrate her wrath, but I found myself wondering what they were seeing that I wasn’t. What I’m seeing in reviews feels more like echos of the synopsis with no examples from the story. I am genuinely asking: where was it?
And now I’m going to talk about something much more serious…
⚠️ ⚠️ Trigger Warnings ⚠️⚠️
The trigger-warning issue is much bigger for me than simply not liking the writing. I can dislike a book, find frustration with the lack of chart development and plot progression, roll my eyes at “grippy gloves,” question the demon-killer credentials, and make fun of the word “cig.” None of that matters nearly as much as whether readers are given enough information to make an informed decision about potentially traumatic material.
This is what should have been listed on the TW page:
• Child sexual exploitation / forced reproduction involving a minor; implied sexual coercion: a 12 yr old is sent to a gestational facility after her first menstruation in a society centered around “breeding.” The book establishes that girls and women are sent to these facilities for reproductive purposes from a very young age.
• Reproductive coercion and forced breeding
• Loss of bodily autonomy / institutionalized reproductive control
• Suicidal ideation: including a character who desperately wants to die but is unable to do so
• Attempted murder and violence
• Abuse of power and political exploitation
• Religious justification of oppression
• Drug/stimulant use and smoking
• Sexual content
The child sexual exploitation and forced-reproduction material is especially significant. In my opinion, it should not be buried under a broad or vague warning; readers should know it is present before beginning the book.
The problem is not merely that the story includes reproductive control. It is the language and context used to establish that system. Women in this society have extremely limited choices: they are effectively funneled into either the gestational system or the Cursebreakers. Their bodies and reproductive rights are controlled by an authoritarian structure in which religious ideology, nationalism, and political power are closely intertwined.
The book uses the word “breeding” to describe this system. In this context, it is reasonable for readers to question whether the process involves sexual activity. “Breeding” does not automatically communicate medical insemination in ordinary usage. Even replacing it with “insemination” would not fully remove the ambiguity unless the book clearly explains how that insemination occurs.
If readers are told that women and girls are sent away, treated as reproductive resources, have little bodily autonomy, and are expected to produce children for the state, it is understandable that they may infer sexual coercion. I am not saying the book explicitly depicts sexual assault on page or during every reproductive encounter… it does not. I’m saying the combination of these elements creates a reasonable implication of sexual coercion.
Which is why the warning needs to be more explicit. Trigger warnings don’t require an author to confirm every interpretation a reader could make. They exist to identify themes and circumstances that may be distressing so readers can make an informed choice. There is a meaningful difference between:
“Forced motherhood - far from glorious”
and being warned:
“reproductive coercion, forced breeding, and implied sexual coercion, including involving minors.”
The latter tells readers far more clearly what they may encounter.
The book explicitly establishes that a 12 yr old was sent to the gestational facility after her first menstruation. It tells us her father sent her there at 12 and that she spent the entire first year crying. That is not a small, incidental piece of worldbuilding.
Even if the author intended the reproductive process to be entirely clinical, the mechanism is almost beside the point in the case of the 12 yr old. Forcing a child to become pregnant, carry a pregnancy, and give birth is an extreme violation of bodily autonomy regardless of whether conception occurs through sexual assault, coercive sexual contact, or medical insemination.
Whether the author intended the process to be sexual or clinical, this material deserved a clear, comprehensive trigger warning… one that plainly identifies forced reproduction involving a minor, reproductive coercion, and the loss of bodily autonomy. Period.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
September 11, 2026Raven’s Wrath tells the story about a female who was forced to choose between a career as an agent of The Brotherhood who hunt and kill demons or becoming gestational worker. She obviously chooses becoming an agent, and ends up meeting a half demon who awakes feelings in her. Together they attempt to escape the Republic, but aren’t successful. Things get wild and the FMC is sent to the gestational facility; which gives her the opportunity to bring the Republic down. Will she accomplish it? Or will she be forced into motherhood?
This book is definitely one of a kind and not for everyone. I wasn’t able to connect to the story or the characters. There were a couple parts of the plot that were contradictory and affected how the story flowed. There is also undisclosed child abuse off-page that can be triggering, it should’ve been added into the trigger warnings.
This book is definitely one of a kind and not for everyone. I wasn’t able to connect to the story or the characters. There were a couple parts of the plot that were contradictory and affected how the story flowed. There is also undisclosed child abuse off-page that can be triggering, it should’ve been added into the trigger warnings.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 13, 2026
Ravens Wrath will appeal to lovers of story lines that won’t give up, protagonists full of feminine rage and stabby scenarios all around.
While reading this book I couldn’t stop thinking how it feels like a mafia romance set in an urban fantasy dystopia. Two sides fighting against each other til the death. The Brotherhood: muscle of a religious based government, and the Demons, crawling out of hell to take over the world. Both organized, both ruthless, neither willing to let women live how they want.
Raven has been through the wringer, and she takes her rage out on hunting demons through San Deangelo’s. The only woman in The Brotherhood, she has clawed her way to earning her rank. That is until she is sent on a suicide mission. One that will damn her to hell should she succeed. Enter her target Dax: a hot, Viking sized pink demon who is none other than the half breed son of Lucifer. Through hilarious missteps and more than a few failed attempts Dax and Raven come to an agreement.. that’s when everything goes wrong.
A slightly steamy romance with a touch of handmaids tale, Jesus freaks, and a woman who won’t give up. This book was a great time! Thank you Net Galley for letting me read.
While reading this book I couldn’t stop thinking how it feels like a mafia romance set in an urban fantasy dystopia. Two sides fighting against each other til the death. The Brotherhood: muscle of a religious based government, and the Demons, crawling out of hell to take over the world. Both organized, both ruthless, neither willing to let women live how they want.
Raven has been through the wringer, and she takes her rage out on hunting demons through San Deangelo’s. The only woman in The Brotherhood, she has clawed her way to earning her rank. That is until she is sent on a suicide mission. One that will damn her to hell should she succeed. Enter her target Dax: a hot, Viking sized pink demon who is none other than the half breed son of Lucifer. Through hilarious missteps and more than a few failed attempts Dax and Raven come to an agreement.. that’s when everything goes wrong.
A slightly steamy romance with a touch of handmaids tale, Jesus freaks, and a woman who won’t give up. This book was a great time! Thank you Net Galley for letting me read.
September 9, 2026
This book needs not just a copy editor—but for someone to take away too many "buts", "justs" and m-dashes from the author. And the adjectives coming in 2s and 3s. Iykyk.
ARC received from Netgalley and Alcove Press. I'm voluntarily providing my honest review. And my honest opinion is that this level of writing is unacceptable in traditional publishing, sorry.
Fans of Daggermouth and Because I Killed Him will love this one, because those books have the same writing style problems, but at least those started indie and nobody gatekeeps there what authors put in their books.
First Heart Of Bone now this? Is the editor flying with us?
Also, the blurb promises: "Raven's Wrath is an emotionally driven romance" but let's not kid ourselves, it's as lust driven as every other book in this genre.
Can't say I appreciated the flippant trigger warnings either, another author who feels "edgy" and makes fun of serious content in TWs...
ARC received from Netgalley and Alcove Press. I'm voluntarily providing my honest review. And my honest opinion is that this level of writing is unacceptable in traditional publishing, sorry.
Fans of Daggermouth and Because I Killed Him will love this one, because those books have the same writing style problems, but at least those started indie and nobody gatekeeps there what authors put in their books.
First Heart Of Bone now this? Is the editor flying with us?
Also, the blurb promises: "Raven's Wrath is an emotionally driven romance" but let's not kid ourselves, it's as lust driven as every other book in this genre.
Can't say I appreciated the flippant trigger warnings either, another author who feels "edgy" and makes fun of serious content in TWs...
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
I read approximately 85% of this book before deciding not to continue, so I want to be transparent about that in my review.
The writing itself is competent and the story flows easily, but unfortunately the book wasn't a good fit for me. I went into it expecting a dark, steamy romance centered on a demon and a demon hunter, with a healthy dose of humor. Instead, much of the story focuses on the heroine's experience being trapped in a facility where women are forced to bear demon children. While the material isn't sexually graphic, I found the subject matter difficult and considerably heavier than I was expecting from the premise.
I also struggled to connect with the characters and, particularly, with the romance. I didn't feel that the relationship developed enough depth to make me invested in it, and some of the characters' decisions and changes in direction felt abrupt or insufficiently motivated. The heroine's bitterness and frustration also made it difficult for me to warm to her.
There were clearly some interesting ideas here, and I appreciated that the prose was clean and readable. Unfortunately, though, the combination of the darker subject matter, the lack of the humor I was expecting, and a romance that didn't ultimately engage me meant that I found myself losing interest as the story progressed.
This is very much a case of the book not being the right fit for my personal tastes rather than a reflection of the author's effort or ability. I'm glad I gave it a try, but I ultimately decided to DNF at around 85%.
The writing itself is competent and the story flows easily, but unfortunately the book wasn't a good fit for me. I went into it expecting a dark, steamy romance centered on a demon and a demon hunter, with a healthy dose of humor. Instead, much of the story focuses on the heroine's experience being trapped in a facility where women are forced to bear demon children. While the material isn't sexually graphic, I found the subject matter difficult and considerably heavier than I was expecting from the premise.
I also struggled to connect with the characters and, particularly, with the romance. I didn't feel that the relationship developed enough depth to make me invested in it, and some of the characters' decisions and changes in direction felt abrupt or insufficiently motivated. The heroine's bitterness and frustration also made it difficult for me to warm to her.
There were clearly some interesting ideas here, and I appreciated that the prose was clean and readable. Unfortunately, though, the combination of the darker subject matter, the lack of the humor I was expecting, and a romance that didn't ultimately engage me meant that I found myself losing interest as the story progressed.
This is very much a case of the book not being the right fit for my personal tastes rather than a reflection of the author's effort or ability. I'm glad I gave it a try, but I ultimately decided to DNF at around 85%.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
Thank you to NetGalley for this arc
I enjoyed reading throughout the book. However when reflecting it after finishing i felt some things were off e.g. trigger warnings. Even though the trigger warning was mentioned it was minimal to what is it to be expected.
The concept of the book was interesting dystopian demons I need more books like that.
The characters I liked but was lacking character development. This made me disconnected with the characters than I did at the start.
I enjoyed reading throughout the book. However when reflecting it after finishing i felt some things were off e.g. trigger warnings. Even though the trigger warning was mentioned it was minimal to what is it to be expected.
The concept of the book was interesting dystopian demons I need more books like that.
The characters I liked but was lacking character development. This made me disconnected with the characters than I did at the start.
Did Not Finish
September 18, 2026dnf @ 30%
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
There’s potential for a really good story here. The overall concept is interesting, it’s just not fleshed out as well as I would like it to be. There were quite a few times where the plot jumped in what’s that didn’t fully makes sense and the world building itself could be a bit stronger.
The characters are also very flat and the chemistry between the two main characters is practically nonexistent to me.
I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t really like it.
Thank you to Net Galley for the ARC.
The characters are also very flat and the chemistry between the two main characters is practically nonexistent to me.
I didn’t hate it, but I also didn’t really like it.
Thank you to Net Galley for the ARC.
September 11, 2026
⭐️⭐️½
I was really intrigued by Raven’s Wrath and was excited to get into it. The combination of demons, a dystopian setting, romance, and a woman trying to survive in a world built around men immediately caught my attention. Unfortunately, I don’t think the writing and execution quite lived up to the concept.
Raven enters the Brotherhood as a new demon hunter after choosing it as her way out of a society that severely limits women’s choices. She already has plenty of reasons to resent the world around her, but things become even more complicated when she is sent after Dax, a half demon, also the son of Lucifer. When Raven fails to kill him, the two find themselves caught up in something much bigger than either expected.
The concept was easily my favorite part. I loved the idea of demons existing in a futuristic dystopian world, and Raven trying to find her place in an organization dominated by men was really interesting. I also enjoyed the themes surrounding women’s autonomy and the control placed on them. There was so much potential here, and I just wish those ideas had been explored more deeply.
My biggest issue was the world building. I wanted so much more information about how this world came to be, the demons, the Brotherhood, and how everything actually worked. I often felt like I was missing pieces that would have helped me understand and connect with the story.
There was also a lot happening at once, and I think that hurt the pacing. There were so many different elements being introduced that some plot points felt rushed or underdeveloped. I also struggled to connect with the characters, and the romance between Raven and Dax didn’t quite work for me. I wanted more time to build their relationship and develop the chemistry between them.
Thank you to NetGalley and Alcove Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
I was really intrigued by Raven’s Wrath and was excited to get into it. The combination of demons, a dystopian setting, romance, and a woman trying to survive in a world built around men immediately caught my attention. Unfortunately, I don’t think the writing and execution quite lived up to the concept.
Raven enters the Brotherhood as a new demon hunter after choosing it as her way out of a society that severely limits women’s choices. She already has plenty of reasons to resent the world around her, but things become even more complicated when she is sent after Dax, a half demon, also the son of Lucifer. When Raven fails to kill him, the two find themselves caught up in something much bigger than either expected.
The concept was easily my favorite part. I loved the idea of demons existing in a futuristic dystopian world, and Raven trying to find her place in an organization dominated by men was really interesting. I also enjoyed the themes surrounding women’s autonomy and the control placed on them. There was so much potential here, and I just wish those ideas had been explored more deeply.
My biggest issue was the world building. I wanted so much more information about how this world came to be, the demons, the Brotherhood, and how everything actually worked. I often felt like I was missing pieces that would have helped me understand and connect with the story.
There was also a lot happening at once, and I think that hurt the pacing. There were so many different elements being introduced that some plot points felt rushed or underdeveloped. I also struggled to connect with the characters, and the romance between Raven and Dax didn’t quite work for me. I wanted more time to build their relationship and develop the chemistry between them.
Thank you to NetGalley and Alcove Press for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
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I wanted to love Raven’s Wrath more than I did. There were definitely things I enjoyed, and the overall concept had so much potential, but I felt like the story needed more world-building. I wanted to understand the world, its magic, its history, and the rules surrounding everything so much more.
At times, I felt like I was dropped into the story without enough explanation, which made it harder for me to fully connect with the characters or become completely immersed in the world. There were some really interesting ideas here, and I could see the potential for this to become something I’d absolutely devour with a little more depth and development.
Overall, it wasn’t a bad read, but I was left wanting more—especially when it came to the world itself. I think with stronger world-building and a bit more depth, this could have easily been a 4-star read for me.
I wanted to love Raven’s Wrath more than I did. There were definitely things I enjoyed, and the overall concept had so much potential, but I felt like the story needed more world-building. I wanted to understand the world, its magic, its history, and the rules surrounding everything so much more.
At times, I felt like I was dropped into the story without enough explanation, which made it harder for me to fully connect with the characters or become completely immersed in the world. There were some really interesting ideas here, and I could see the potential for this to become something I’d absolutely devour with a little more depth and development.
Overall, it wasn’t a bad read, but I was left wanting more—especially when it came to the world itself. I think with stronger world-building and a bit more depth, this could have easily been a 4-star read for me.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
Thank you netgalley for the ARC!
Raven was such a fun ride to go on. I love feminine rage in main characters, but Raven's specific brand of it was so well crafted. She was snarky, sarcastic, and always had an edge of dark humor that made an otherwise depressing world feel a little bit lighter. There were several scenes that I thought were such a mix of funny and awful at the same time --like demon soup. Gross, but also, Hell Yeah! You go girl!
I loved that Raven was, essentially, Raven's own savior. Dax came into the picture and supported her and helped her, but I never felt like she became anything less than her own damn hero. I especially loved the scenes when she was interacting with other women--the solidarity was always there and I thought that was so powerful.
Raven was such a fun ride to go on. I love feminine rage in main characters, but Raven's specific brand of it was so well crafted. She was snarky, sarcastic, and always had an edge of dark humor that made an otherwise depressing world feel a little bit lighter. There were several scenes that I thought were such a mix of funny and awful at the same time --like demon soup. Gross, but also, Hell Yeah! You go girl!
I loved that Raven was, essentially, Raven's own savior. Dax came into the picture and supported her and helped her, but I never felt like she became anything less than her own damn hero. I especially loved the scenes when she was interacting with other women--the solidarity was always there and I thought that was so powerful.
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
Dystopian, demons, and emotional damage. Raven is a badass demon hunter in a world where there is a portal directly to hell.
You will be transported to a bleak world where women are placed at the very bottom of society with limited options for autonomy.
This was very intense!! Definitely check the trigger warnings for specifics.
I would have loved the story to be a little bit longer to better understand some of the world.
Thank you, Net Galley and the author, for the early copy!
You will be transported to a bleak world where women are placed at the very bottom of society with limited options for autonomy.
This was very intense!! Definitely check the trigger warnings for specifics.
I would have loved the story to be a little bit longer to better understand some of the world.
Thank you, Net Galley and the author, for the early copy!
Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
I loved this book from beginning to end. It was fast paced and endlessley entertaining. As others have said, I would have loved to see more of the dystopian world Margot created. I also wouldn't have minded a little more spice from Rae ad Dax but that would have taken away from the Gestational plot line, which was heartbreaking and I LOVED Raven's wrath. She sure kicked some ass! Can't wait to have my preorder in my hands in March!
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Review of advance copy received from NetGalley
This review has my own thoughts and opinions of my own. I could not put this book down. It was really good. The story did feel dark and I liked that because it really shows that it can get interesting and it catches my attention as a reader. I highly recommend the book.
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