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I Am Fallen - Scarlet Blackwell I don't know if the ending can be called "bitterswet", when it's predictable since the very beginning. It's 1888, Jacob is in his last stage of cancer, no cure can help him -- so we know how it will end for him. What lack of this story, I think, it's emotional feeling. It's just too "clinical" for me, no form of attachment. We have Jacob in pain, then talking to the angel, then in pain again, sleep, eat, awake, sleep, in pain ... it's pretty repetitive. I don't feel like Jacob as a great persona for me to actually care for himThe secondary "love story" is more intriguing. The angel that visits Jacob is no other than Lucifer himself. He takes interest to the mortal, because Jacob reminds Lucifer of himself, who is in pain after being in love with Raphael, then being cast away, while Raphael denies the opportunity to be with him. Lucifer is still in love with Raphael -- and when Raphael is being charged to be Jacob's guardian angel in these last days of his life, it gives a chance for both archangels to do something about that. Without this secondary plot, I will only give the story 2.5 stars.... although, Kiernan Kelly's Hell Takes A Holiday is better in telling a story about Lucifer and his angel lover (though there, it's not Raphael, but Uriel).