A review by slowglow
One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake

dark medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

This book had a really cool premise and cool ideas, and the writing style is dry but it definitely fits the vibes of the story. All is fine in that regard. My complaint comes with the ending, and maybe it's just because I didn't have to read Romeo and Juliet in high school (so I've never read it) but the ending just felt way out of left field for me-- like I had no clue where the story was going for the last quarter of the book, and then when the ending did come it wasn't satisfactory. I was very baffled by it, and not in the good way.
I was expecting two of them to die, but the set up and the reasoning behind it just didn't make the deaths feel justified, at least for me.
I can see the audience for this and I get why it had so much hype and I really did have a good time reading it, but I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend it. 
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