Azrael's Stop (Book Review)

I don't read much. Well no, I read. I read horror stories. True horror stories, not those Goosebumps series.

Azrael's Stop isn't a horror story. It's an E-Book btw. I just chanced upon it on Wattpad. I needed some inspirations.

If you don't know what Wattpad is, its a mobile app for people who like to read and write. There are a lot of good books there and I really love this one - Azrael's Stop.

The author is a genius. Short words, deep meanings. Azrael's Stop is a story about life, death, friendship and love. Really meaningful story. Priceless. 

Synopsis from site

Azrael’s Stop is an experimental fiction and music project, about life, death, and friendship. It is the story of a mystical tavern and how the people who go there develop over the course of a year: Ceph, the seventeen-year-old bartender who has seen all his loved ones die; Tom, the depressed old man, whom death will not take; Rye, who visits every day, though he died a year ago; Nael, the blind minstrel who saw war too young; Lona, the mysterious hunter of the dead; Trin, the girl who refuses to deal with her past; and the crow who watches over it all, cawing only when someone dies in Azrael's Stop.

My own synopsis 

It's about a bartender named Ceph. All he knew was death. His family, friends, people who he gets close with, dies. He works at Azrael's Stop, a bar for people who are seeking death, or to say, finding peace. Ceph listens to their stories. 

There's this crow who watches over everything. It caws whenever someone dies. 

Rye who is Ceph's friend, died when they were still young. Rye still sticks around at the bar, but Ceph seems to be moving on. It hurts him when Ceph meets Trin, a girl who understands Ceph. A girl who knows what he is thinking. Rye feels happy for Ceph that he finally met someone who he is able to pour everything out to. Even then, it still hurts because it seems that Ceph didn't need him anymore.

In the end, everyone has their own stories. They have their own reasons for leaving or to be afraid of falling in love again.

Thoughts of mine

It makes you feel sad yet you won't cry. It helps you to see life in a different way. Dang, the author is really a genius.

It's the TFIOS if you know what I mean. People are so obsessed with TFIOS. Well I think this is much better.

"No myth is just a myth. No song is just a song. No story is just a story. There is truth in even the most blatant fiction. You find the meaning you need"

"They say people go there when they're ready to die."

You guys can read the whole thing at http://azraelsstop.com/

Hope you'll like it too!!

UPDATE:

It's not free anymore. Neither it is on Wattpad. You can read the first few chapters on their website and purchase it at http://silverstringmedia.com/store

I'm still loving it, btw. ;)