Small Miracles

Yay, this was fun! Atwater truly channels Good Omens with a dash of Screwtape Letters, but with lower stakes. A masterful take on cozy religious satire. Cozy Fantasy is very much in vogue and it is easy to see why. Comforting but fun.

Small Miracles follows the attempts of the ‘Fallen Angel of Petty Temptations' to tempt Holly Harker as a way of paying off his gambling debts to a former angelic comrade. There is a wonderful gentle humour to this, the silly score keeping, the petty interactions between different celestial beings, the day to day mundanity of school life. Everything plays off each other in a delightful manner with Gadriel's cynicism forming the root of it all.

This was definitely a worthy winner of SPFBO 8 and I am glad I discovered it through this competition.

Definitely a 4.5 and I'm rounding up.

I neglected writing this review for more than a month, so I don't have the words or energy to write now. But I thoroughly enjoyed this mostly cozy, cute romance and family story about finding love, grieving your losses, and still moving on. Totally worth winning the SPFBO award this year.