With every new book I read from Olivie Blake I'm falling more and more in love with her writing. I love the poetic quality to it and the chaotic nature her dialogue is always written is messy and real and beautiful. I loved all the different mythologies that were used in this for the Creatures and adored having Death itself as a character and having it's own narrative viewpoint at the beginning of the book. 

I was sceptical about the cast of characters going in because I think that's what I struggled with in the Atlas books but I think they're all equally well-developed and you get to know each of them well. The way they all interact with each other as a group is written immaculately, but this is true for the individual pairings and smaller groups too - I would love to read short stories/novellas about all the characters after the novel ended. 

I thought the romance subplots all worked really well too - they were present enough to have a pay-off in adding to the characters themselves and the stories without feeling shoved-in, but they definitely weren't the focus of the book either (possibly excluding Fox and Brandt) which worked really well. 

I absolutely loved the Game sequence and watching the characters move through the Game and best each other. The way it jumped between (manipulated) memories and the present added so much to the story and really made the reader feel immersed in the Game.

Another great hit from Olivie Blake!