SHORT REVIEW:
One for my Enemy is an amazing book that is inspired by Romeo & Juliet & basing the tale on the Eastern Folklore of Baba Yaga. Recently, there have been retells to paint Baba Yaga in a different style and this story separates Baba Yaga from Marya Antonova as a few other stories have done. Reading “One for my Enemy” had the addition of a theatrical flow without it actually being a theatre prose.

This book has multiple POV, with two love stories happening at the same time. Sisterhood/Brotherhood is another important topic that Blake addresses, in two different ways. This book delves deeply into the fact that when we choose to love someone, we must accept that they will hurt us in ways we cannot fathom. This could be anyone, from your partner, to your siblings/parents and anyone else you open your heart to. This book shows just how much of a limitation we have in controlling our future, even if we have all the power in the world. We all must accept that in the end: Life consist of sacrifices and loss and it is what we make out of it in the end.

"Sometimes Koschei is not Koschei. When he is not, he comes to his house. It is the same house his wife once occupied, along with his now-grown sons. Not much has changed inside his house for decades, only it's empty now.
Such is the case when time goes by: emptiness"

"I wont lie to you, not everything in this life is so straightforward. But we are Yaga's daughters. We earn our right to success by the sacrifices we make." - Marya Antonova

This would have never happened if you'd never existed •
If she'd never loved you •
If you hadn't wronged her, wronged us, wronged me"- Baba Yaga

"Where do you want to go?" - Lev
"Anywhere" A different life, a different world, somewhere under different stars. Any place but here and now. "Nowhere." - Sasha
"We might not have time for an entire book." - Sasha

"She loved me," he said again, "and I know you wouldn't cheapen our life together simply because you are suffering, Yaga. Maybe she never lovevd me like she loved Dimitri Fedorov, but there are other loves. There are better loves," he informed her, defensive, "loves that enrich us, that dont cost us our lives and our sanity •" - Stas Maksimov

"Dont you dare die, Lev Fedorov ... We were supposed to have more time, We were supposed to have a book, Lev, you promised me a long story" - Sasha Antonova

"Listen, I always knew we were a long story, but I think I underestimated it. Can you imagine, lover after death? Even I couldn't have guessed that. And I really am an optimist."- Lev Fedorov

This is simply what this life is , Sashenka. Sacrifice and loss. So long as you remain a part of it, that's all you'll be capable of feeling. It's all you'll be able to do. Your only gifts will be what you can take, what you can break, and what you can ruin. This life is a thief, Sasha. It takes and takes, and then maybe you die or maybe you dont. But either way, this life will try to leave you empty-handed unless you learn to strike first." - Marya Antonovs