A review by zabeishumanish
Railed by the Reaper by Dalia Davies

challenging dark slow-paced

3.0

This book killed me a little inside. If I hadn’t wanted all the juicy world-building for the larger series, I would have DNF’d this book. The series world-building that happens in the book makes it well worth reading this, but that doesn’t negate how painful of a read this was. Lack of communication from both Death and Onna was rampant. If these two had had a single proper conversation in the over two centuries of Onna’s life, then two centuries of suffering wouldn’t have happened. The themes of this book are dark and twisted and the plot is convoluted, but unlike the rest of the series this book does not have enough smut to make the pain worth it.

The ending is perfect and fabulous, but I don’t think it was worth all the pain of the book leading up to that point.