Why You Should Read The Fire And Brimstone Scrolls By Nikole Knight

why you should read the fire and brimstone scrolls by nikole knight

HELLO y'all. you might remember me from this post where I went on about why people should read wolfsong, the first book in the green creek series, and it’s been two years since I made that post. it still gets notes, and judging by how many it has I’m guessing I got a good portion of y'all to read it. so I figured I’d try again with a new book series and a new author!! I completely devoured this series over the last week and a half, and as far as I know, it has almost no fandom on here or anywhere else I’ve seen and I need to fix that. SO, here we go:

it’s six books (the first one is called revelations, shown above), so there is plenty of content for you to absorb!

and the series is completed so there will be no agonizing waiting between books, you can just read the next one right away!

it’s a dark new adult fantasy/romance set in a world of angels and demons, heaven and hell

sloooooow burn at first. but oh my god the payoff.

as of now there are only 2 (TWO!!) fics on ao3 and NOTHING in the tags here (except a moodboard I made hehehe) so just like when green creek was just starting to be popular, we all have the opportunity to build up the fandom and spread word of it around!

eventually ends up being a poly romance!!!

poly rep, ace rep (in a main character!), gay rep, bi rep, fluid characters (characters who identify with he/him pronouns but like to dress up occasionally/wear feminine things), just delightfully queer from beginning to end

begins with our hero riley shephard, sweet, sweet, sheltered riley, who has grown up in an abusive household and is away from home for the first time at college

in the first book you can tell that he’s very innocent and naive, he hasn’t been exposed to the outside world much due to his upbringing with an abusive foster parent, so to watch him grow and discover himself is just so incredible, and by the end of the sixth book you’re like WOW!! MY BABY GROWN

a heart-wrenching journey of self-discovery, freedom, and love and acceptance that I just could not stop reading from start to finish, I literally finished every single book within a day or two and I can’t remember the last time I binged a series like that

will definitely not be for everyone, but if you can handle all the stuff listed below then I promise it is SO worth it to read because of the story at the heart of it

TRIGGER WARNING: the whole series contains graphic violence, gore, scenes of traumatic sexual assault both on and off page, child abuse, torment, and a couple other things that might be difficult for people to read, but the author includes a content warning at the beginning of every book!!

hella, hella angst

but so many beautiful scenes too, scenes of coping and healing from trauma and incredible chemistry between the characters!!

did I mention the poly romance

it’s a long journey to get there, but it ends happily and in such a satisfying way!!

the development of the main character is just such a great thing to read, it made me cry to read how he changes for the better but also has to fight the darker parts of himself

if you liked the green creek series I truly believe you’ll like this too! and if I’m wrong you can come into my inbox and drag me! but this is one of my new favorite series ever and I have no one to talk about it with!

but seriously if you like gay werewolves and gay witches, try some gay angels!

I just love Riley Shepard so much

and the angels. oh my god the angels. jairus, noel and gideon. I love them all so much.

I don’t know what else to say I just want to spread this series around because it deserves the love!! it’s so good! so fucking good!

I’m just begging y'all to give this series a chance so I won’t be alone in my little corner

Editing this to add: Kirt Graves, the same person who narrates TJ Klune’s audiobooks, will also be narrating this series!!

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afkalways

4 years ago

Our 20's may not be roaring but they're certainly doing something huh

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afkalways

4 years ago

The House in the Cerulean Sea has the same vibes as Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children except completely different and way better (imo)

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afkalways

4 years ago

im going through that phase, yknow the one, where im super into various mythologies and literally have shelves just full of myths and legends

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literally half the people i know relate so id say its pretty common yknow

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afkalways

4 years ago

I was trying to explain to my mum that I want to be cremated and made into a reef when I die and she just said "you won't die" with such surety and determination and I was like "oh alright then I guess not"

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afkalways

4 years ago

Arthur Parnassus (of The House in the Cerulean Sea), Norman (of The Promised Neverland), Kite (of Japan Sinks 2020), and Kenya Kobayashi (of Erased) give off the same vibes no i will not elaborate

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afkalways

4 years ago

The sheer power of Arthur Parnassus returning to the island where he was abused and victimized as a child and instead of burning it to the ground, instead of raging and destroying and turning it to ash and slag as he maybe had a right to do, instead choosing to reopen the orphanage that made him a prisoner. To make it instead a place of healing and a home for the lost, to be for children outcast and alone (like he was) a father and a guide and a protector (like others should have been for him), to make the place where he suffered instead a place of safety and love...the power of that is something more then I can put into words.

Arthur chose to write over his trauma and pain with love and acceptance and warmth. He didn't just chose to not let his past define him but instead he chose to redefine his past. And that makes him one of the strongest characters I've ever read about.

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afkalways

4 years ago

Hey uh @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses have you maybe thought ur just jealous of the secretary birds eyelashes

why are birds so cursed

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afkalways

4 years ago

Something I find funny is that there's a large gap in Arthurs life that we know nothing about. Assuming he left the DICOMY school at 18, there's 20 or so years that he could have been doing literally anything.

We know what the other adults did

Linus- worked at DICOMY pretty much forever

Zoe - was on the island being her sapphic self and generally being the Greatest

Helen - everything

Charles Werner - actually we don't know this one but based off what we do know it probably involved him being a selfish prick

So I'm taking it upon myself to compile a list of possible things Arthur could have been doing with his life, (getting increasingly unlikely as the list goes on.)

So far I have

studying philosophy Real Hard because as we know he's a Huge Nerd

babysitting or teaching because yknow he'd be good at it

studying ornithology because I'd personally find that kinda cute and funny

maybe he studied marine life bc that one scene where he said chauncey was a jellyfish and I know he probably did all that research specifically for chauncey but my special interest is the ocean so I deserve this

he could have played Jenga for profit bc in that same scene he startled me and Linus with that trick with the books

maybe he studied the blade because he's gay and has a sword

Feel free to add

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afkalways

6 months ago

Arthur finding joy in little dumb things is actually so cute, he deserves all the things that make him happy

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afkalways

2 years ago

going to bold the ones you’ve probably never heard of!

Romance

Devils line, My little monster, Kamisama kiss, Brothers conflict, Hitorijime My Hero, Say I love you, And you thought there is never a girl online?, Dusk Maiden of Amnesia, Wolf girl and black prince, Nijiiro Days, Uta no Prince-sama ,Diabolik lovers, Net juu no Susume

Action

Mob Psycho 100, Code Breaker, Noragami, Dororo, Shingeki no Kyojin, Hakata Tonkotsu Ramens, Ansatsu Kyoushitsu, Claymore, Btooom

Mystery

Monster, King of Thorn, Psychic Detective Yakumo, Ajin, Death note, Another, Death parade, Zankyou no Terror, No 6

Drama

Kiseijuu Sei no Kakuritsu, 91 days, Gangsta, Banana fish, Nana, Inuyashiki, Inuyasha, In This Corner of the World, Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin