Dante has a beautiful writing style that is evocative and poetic but their books read quite slowly so it took me a while to get through this book despite it being one of my most anticipated releases of the year. 

The Saint of Heartbreak is a delightfully blasphemous romance between Judas Iscariot and The Devil after Judas ends-up in Hell. Their story spans almost two millennia as Judas struggles with the role he had in Yeshua’s death despite being in love with him. The Devil is immediately drawn to Judas and deeply protective of him but he is also a sad boi because who could love him?

Something that I really love about this book was the way that angel biology is so unlike human biology and The Devil spends a lot of the book coming to terms with the pain of losing the children that he had with Lilith, half of whom he carried.

I had such a good time reading this book and I look forward to reading the Raphael / Cain romance set in the same world in the near future.