A review by sophiaxscherm
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

adventurous challenging emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Ok where do I start? I really really enjoyed this book and I did not expect to do so after I finished Blakes' Atlas Series this year and it was awful. I feel like what is written on the back of the book describes it only vaguely and the content is much better.

After reading the summary on the back I somehow thought it was about Fox and Vi finding each other and ending up together. While reading it, I really hoped it would not turn out that these two are endgame and I am so fucking glad that they are not because they don't even deal with each other that much and their personal storylines are rather separate from one another but again, I feel like the book summary suggested otherwise.

It's interesting because at the beginning I did not really like the characters but it was rather entertaining and funny because they were all somewhat annoyed of each other but as the story goes on you grow more and more fun of all of them. The throwback chapters especially of Fox and Brandt I think I loved the most, they were just sooo good and I love those guys so much (even though I hated Fox in the beginning because like he was obviously exploiting women's vulnerability for sex). Olivie's writing is a bit tough sometimes and could you more puncutation and less parentheses but it was still not as bad as in the last two Atlas books. I had a tough time understanding the game itself and how all of the different stories are connected to one another (and I'm still not sure if I understand all of it now) but I somehow didn't mind it that much in this book. Overall I was positively surprised by this book and did not think Olivie Blake would be able to have written my least favorite book of the year as well as one of my favourites.