The Phoenix and the Spider

My rating out of 5:5

Introduction

The Phoenix and the Spider was sold to me as a "dark fantasy" but it felt more like a supernatural thriller. Neither of those are genres I prefer, but I did really enjoy this book. So lets get into it!

Development

The world and character building was amazing. Benny Charles & Alex Robinson did a really good job! The characters are graphically realistic. I have loved many characters in books before, but these were so loveable and hateable all at once. The best way to describe her protagonists is that they are heroes with sins. The authors were not afraid to portray the dark sides of their characters, and it gave each person you met a sharp edge. 
The world itself is literally our world, but seen through the eyes of three characters who keep getting reincarnated amidst their mortal combat. Some chapters take place in a modern day city, and others in ancient cultures.
The plot is a series of the lives of three reincarnating characters, the Phoenix, his lover, and the Spider, who likes to call himself "Anasazi."  Each chapter we either see Anasazi kill the phoenix once again, in his attempts to send him to the aether, or the current happening in the lives of Theo and Auryn the modern reincarnations of the phoenix and his lover.
As I read, the chapters skipping between Auryn, some random reincarnation of the Phoenix, and Theo, I felt more and more dread for what I knew would eventually happen. Each chapter about the past always ended with the Spider showing up, and I knew the story of Theo and Auryn would have to cross paths with the Spider eventually.
The authors built very realistic characters, in a very realistic word, and underlined it with thickening dread. 
It was amazing!

Grammar and Spelling

No complaints.

Things I loved about this book

My favorite chapter was The Humber Britain, 567 CE chapter. In that chapter the Phoenix lives life as Ingram, and marries a woman named Leila. It of course ends tragically, but I really enjoyed those two characters, and the story in that chapter.

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