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A review by azrah786
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
4.25
**I was provided with an ARC through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**
CW: violence, blood, murder, death, abandonment, addiction, emotional abuse, toxic relationship, kidnapping /confinement, infidelity
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In terms of overall vibes I think this may be my favourite Olivie Blake book to date.
There is just something about supernatural and immortal creature being thrown into the modern day world that I enjoy a lot and there were some great characters in this book and their dynamics with one another were so fun!! I’m not alone in seeing the Good Omens vibes here and I was hooked all the way through, speeding through the book in the space of a weekend.
Down to the bare bones the book is about a bunch of characters who are thrown together to rescue Death but there are also a lot of moving pieces behind the mystery at the heart of the story.
Blake’s storytelling made the world (though it is pretty much just an AU of our world) feel so lived in with these creatures and beings just going about their lives. The writing just makes you feel so deeply for them and their conundrums particularly when it came to relationships, I was very much invested with all of the pairings in this one.
The only real issue that I had were how sometimes the writing style switched up, changing from a more regular third person account to script like dialogue without any warning. I think it disrupted the flow of the story for me and threw me off a little at times especially when these script-esque segments dragged on for a bit too long..
However, I really enjoyed watching the individual arcs of the characters unfold and they all came together in such a satisfying way. All in all a very entertaining read.
Final Rating - 4.25/5 Stars
CW: violence, blood, murder, death, abandonment, addiction, emotional abuse, toxic relationship, kidnapping /confinement, infidelity
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In terms of overall vibes I think this may be my favourite Olivie Blake book to date.
There is just something about supernatural and immortal creature being thrown into the modern day world that I enjoy a lot and there were some great characters in this book and their dynamics with one another were so fun!! I’m not alone in seeing the Good Omens vibes here and I was hooked all the way through, speeding through the book in the space of a weekend.
Down to the bare bones the book is about a bunch of characters who are thrown together to rescue Death but there are also a lot of moving pieces behind the mystery at the heart of the story.
Blake’s storytelling made the world (though it is pretty much just an AU of our world) feel so lived in with these creatures and beings just going about their lives. The writing just makes you feel so deeply for them and their conundrums particularly when it came to relationships, I was very much invested with all of the pairings in this one.
The only real issue that I had were how sometimes the writing style switched up, changing from a more regular third person account to script like dialogue without any warning. I think it disrupted the flow of the story for me and threw me off a little at times especially when these script-esque segments dragged on for a bit too long..
However, I really enjoyed watching the individual arcs of the characters unfold and they all came together in such a satisfying way. All in all a very entertaining read.
Final Rating - 4.25/5 Stars
Content Warnings
Moderate: Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Addiction, Death, Murder, Violence, Confinement, Blood, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Infidelity