Name: Masters of Death
ISBN: 9781035011520

Olivie Blake

When Viola Marek, real estate agent and vampire, discovers the house she's trying to sell is haunted, she enlists the help of a medium to exorcise the ghost. But Fox D'Mora is a fraud - even if he is the godson of Death.

Masters of Death

Victoria Justice

'“Love is a rather mortal concept,” he said, which both of them were quite aware was not an answer. “Don’t you think? It can be born; it cannot exist alone; it can die. Love itself, then, is mortal, and thus not within either of our realms.”'

“Ah, but the tricky thing about love,” Vi-Lainey said, inching toward him, “is that it can save you just as much as it can hurt you.

"Isn’t forever a terrible blessing, and a terribly blissful curse?”

“Do you need help with it?” Death countered, arching a brow. “Forgiving him, I mean. For what he’s done.” 

Fox took a moment. “No,” he replied, surprised by how easily it left him. “I love him, Papa. I forgave him the moment he came back to me. I would love him still, even if he left me again. I would love him through several lifetimes, I think,” Fox determined, resigning himself to the truth, “and I would love him in every world, if he asked.”

To live, to love; it was always a choice, and inherently a brave one, to face down certain doom with open arms.

That over and over, he was presented with the same impossible decision—live and suffer, love and grieve—but still, every time, with all his being, his answer was and would always be yes. It would be difficult and painful, and however it ended, it would end—but still, he could choose it. To live, to love; it was always a choice, and inherently a brave one, to face down certain doom with open arms.

brandtfox changed the trajectory of my life

eden ☮

cee 

more than her other works, i can see the direct path from her fic to this. the non-linear narrative here is... it's messy, the side characters felt underdeveloped, but it was easy to read, engaging, with unique storytelling elements that i have come to expect from her. i understand that this is a story within a story within a story, but do i think she did it well? a master this time, she is not.

Fox D'Mora, the godson of Death, and Violet Marek, an estate agent who just also happens to be a vampire, combine forces (with a whole menagerie of creatures) to discover the mystery of a billionaire (correction, millionaire) estate owner who doesn't remember his death, as well as track down the disappearance of Death.

The whole vibe of this story reminded me of the hell act from George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman! It had humour, intrigued, wonderful characters who jumped off the page and made you believe in them ardently and route for them constantly.

The non-linear storyline and the beautifully quiet writing of Olivie Blake combine to bring you a magical story of what it means to live and love and the human desire to master and evade Death.

With the most compelling of narrators, this story captured my mind from the first page, but it was the gradually unwoven tale of Fox and Brandt that ensnared my heart for all eternity.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for a review, I can't wait to have a physical copy for my shelves!

Fox D'Mora, the godson of Death, and Violet Marek, an estate agent who just also happens to be a vampire, combine forces (with a whole menagerie of creatures) to discover the mystery of a billionaire (correction, millionaire) estate owner who doesn't remember his death, as well as track down the disappearance of Death.

The whole vibe of this story reminded me of the hell act from George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman! It had humour, intrigued, wonderful characters who jumped off the page and made you believe in them ardently and route for them constantly.

The non-linear storyline and the beautifully quiet writing of Olivie Blake combine to bring you a magical story of what it means to live and love and the human desire to master and evade Death.

With the most compelling of narrators, this story captured my mind from the first page, but it was the gradually unwoven tale of Fox and Brandt that ensnared my heart for all eternity.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for a review, I can't wait to have a physical copy for my shelves!

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