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Death
by Laura Thalassa
He pauses, then kneels at my side again.
I knit my brows and rear back a little. “What are you doing?”
His eyes gleam in the darkness. “Getting a head start.”
And then, for the second time that day, the fucker reaches out and snaps my neck.
When I first started this book, I hadn’t read the synopsis so I knew pretty much nothing other than the basics I learned from the other 3. When I heard the main character's name, I literally wrote “That’s her name?? No wonder she can’t die” and lol’d to myself until it was revealed that she was named because she can’t die. And then I was like, hm, should have read the blurb. 😂
The beginning was great! And, you know, horrific, as you can imagine with her whole family being killed and she’s the only one who survives. But what really hooked me was when she caught up to Death and he tested to see if she could, in fact, not die.
“My will alone should kill you,” he says, ignoring my reaction. “It does not. My touch should rip your soul from your bones. It cannot. There is only one option left.” His ancient eyes seem…sad. The horseman moves shockingly fast. He grabs me by either side of the head, and with one swift jerk—Snap.
She wakes up and he’s just like, oh, wow, you can’t die and I’M DYING IN THE BACKGROUND😂
Lazarus dies so many times in this book, like, she can’t catch a break. She’s killed by Death and by humans. She’s impaled at one point for like 3 days and…eaten by scavengers – in unending agony. This poor woman. I really liked Lazarus though, after all she went through, all she goes through, she still tries to save humanity.
Death on the other hand. I wasn’t a fan of his. But don’t go feeling too bad for Lazarus, she can hold her own, which I loved as well.
“I leap. For a moment, while I’m airborne, I realize how absolutely batshit and prone to failure this idea is. But by then it’s too late. Rather than land in the saddle, as I so elegantly pictured, I clobber into the horseman. He grunts as I knock him off his horse, and the two of us tumble to the road below. The whole thing is painful and more than a little embarrassing, but before Death can react, I stab him through the neck.”
There were funny moments, which I live for.
“Did I plan on distracting Death with my tits today? No. Will I take it? Yes.”
“Death no longer needs to kill me – I think my own embarrassment will do the job just fine.”
Ben. Adorable. That’s it.
Also, it's not a trope that's done very often, but it was done well here 😏
Virgin MMC
VIRGIN DEATH
Okay, sorry. I'm done.
VIRGIN.
I’m not sure when I stopped enjoying it, I think it was near the end, maybe 75%? I can’t remember. Death started to bother me a little too much. I think it might have been when Ben was in the hospital – YOU KNOW THE DAMN SCENE IF YOU’VE READ THIS BOOK. I think it didn't help that I really liked Famine, and was just a little disappointed. Anyway, I didn’t like the fight scene at the end, it felt strange to me? I dunno.
The epilogue. You know how there are happy endings but they’re sad and your chest hurts and you kinda want to go back a chapter and leave it there? MEEE RIGHT NOW 😭😭😭
Thank you to Bloom Books and the author for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review!