Book seven will be a full novel
Nicole explains that while she originally contemplated wrapping up the series with a novella for book seven, the expanding storyline and multiple points of view made a full-length novel necessary.
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Amber V. Nicole
Amber V. Nicole is an international and USA Today bestselling author of dark fantasy novels, including the Gods and Monsters series. She incorporates elements of horror into her writing and has a fondness for morally gray characters. When not writing, she enjoys playing video games and obsessing over anime.
On LuvemBooks, we've reviewed 2 of Amber V. Nicole's books, including The Throne of Broken Gods and The Book of Azrael.
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Author Amber V. Nicole sits down to discuss character motivations and pivotal narrative decisions across The Book of Azrael and The Throne of Broken Gods.
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Confirming Kadan's genuine love for Dianna
Nicole confirms that Kadan's love for Dianna is canonical, explaining that while it differs from Samkiel's love, it is entirely real within his circumstances.
Why Gabby's death was necessary
Nicole explains that Gabby had to die because her character arc was fulfilled and Dianna needed that profound loss to shed her constraints and evolve into her powerful, uninhibited self.
Defining the nature of Igmoraenthians
Nicole clarifies that Igmoraenthians are fundamentally shapeshifting vampires who can take forms such as wyverns, drawn from her lifelong love of vampire fiction.
Pushback on BIPOC characters and morally gray roles
Nicole reflects on facing early pushback regarding Black and mixed-race characters like Kadan and Samkiel, arguing that diverse characters deserve to be multifaceted leads, villains, or morally gray antiheroes.
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Amber V. Nicole is a USA Today bestselling author whose two reviewed books — both entries in her Gods and Monsters series — carry a strong reader aggregate of 4.4/5 across tens of thousands of Amazon ratings, signalling a readership that keeps showing up. Her dark fantasy work leans into morally gray characters and horror-inflected world-building, a combination that sets her apart from cleaner high-fantasy fare and gives books like The Book of Azrael a distinctly edgier register.
- Where should I start?
- Start with The Book of Azrael, the opening volume of the Gods and Monsters series. It establishes the world, the mythology, and the morally gray central characters that the series builds on — and with over 50,000 Amazon ratings sitting at 4.4/5, it has clearly landed well with a large readership. Beginning here also means The Throne of Broken Gods, Book 2, will hit with the full weight of the prior setup.
- What's their writing style?
- Amber V. Nicole writes dark fantasy with a deliberate horror undertow — her prose tends toward the atmospheric and intense rather than the adventurous. A recurring signature across her reviewed work is her investment in morally gray characters: figures who operate in ethical ambiguity rather than clean hero-versus-villain dynamics. The result is fiction that feels psychologically weightier than genre-standard fantasy, which helps explain why her readership skews toward readers who want emotional complexity alongside the world-building.
- Books we've reviewed
- We have reviewed two books by Amber V. Nicole, both from the Gods and Monsters series. The Book of Azrael: Deluxe Special Edition is the series opener, a dark fantasy with horror elements and morally gray characters that has accumulated over 50,000 Amazon ratings at 4.4/5. The Throne of Broken Gods: Gods and Monsters, Book 2 continues the series with a similarly strong reader response — 37,614 Amazon ratings, also at 4.4/5 — suggesting the series maintains its quality into the second volume.
- How do her books compare?
- Both reviewed titles sit at 4.4/5 on Amazon — The Book of Azrael across more than 50,000 ratings, The Throne of Broken Gods across more than 37,000. That kind of rating consistency between a series opener and its sequel is relatively uncommon; second volumes often shed readers or goodwill. It points to a writer who develops her story across books without a significant drop in execution, which is reassuring if you're considering committing to the series.
- What genre does Amber V. Nicole write?
- Amber V. Nicole writes dark fantasy, a subgenre that draws on epic fantasy conventions — elaborate mythologies, gods, monsters, high-stakes conflict — but leans into morally ambiguous characters and a darker, sometimes horror-inflected atmosphere. Her Gods and Monsters series is the clearest example of this, and it's the style of fantasy that tends to appeal to readers who find traditional good-versus-evil narratives too clean.
- What should I read after The Book of Azrael?
- The direct next step is The Throne of Broken Gods, the second book in the Gods and Monsters series, which continues the story and cast from The Book of Azrael. It carries an identical 4.4/5 Amazon rating across more than 37,000 ratings, which suggests the series doesn't stumble in its second entry — a reasonable sign to keep going.
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Who is Amber V. Nicole?
Amber V. Nicole is an international and USA Today bestselling author best known for her Gods and Monsters dark fantasy series. She writes fiction that blends fantasy with horror elements and centres morally gray characters, giving her work a darker, more ambivalent tone than most mainstream fantasy. Outside of writing, she is an avid gamer and anime fan, interests that likely feed into the mythologically rich, visually driven worlds she constructs.
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The Throne of Broken Gods
4.4/5
reader rating · 38,777 ratingsThe Throne of Broken Gods is the second book in Amber V. Nicole's Gods & Monsters series, following immortal enemies-turned-lovers Dianna and Samkiel as forbidden devotion and world-ending grief push both toward catastrophe. The series has been described as a global phenomenon in the romantasy space, and this installment raises the emotional and mythological stakes considerably.
Reviewed Aug 10, 2026
The Book of Azrael
4.4/5
reader rating · 54,301 ratingsThe Book of Azrael is the first novel in Amber V. Nicole's Gods and Monsters series, following Dianna — a villainous shapeshifter who bargained away her humanity a thousand years ago to save her sister — and Samkiel, the World Ender and God King who has hidden from his crown since a devastating Gods War. It earns attention for its high-stakes enemies-to-lovers premise and its viral BookTok momentum, which has propelled it to international readership ahead of its Kensington trade edition.
Reviewed May 26, 2026
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