Olivie Blake

In New York City where we lay our scene, two rival witch families fight to maintain control of their respective criminal ventures. On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters, each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless, and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants known only as Baba Yaga. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss known as Koschei the Deathless, whose community extortion ventures dominate the shadows of magical Manhattan. After twelve years of tenuous coexistence, a change in one family's interests causes a rift in the existing stalemate. When bad blood brings both families to the precipice of disaster, fate intervenes with a chance encounter, and in the aftershocks of a resurrected conflict, everyone must choose a side. As each of the siblings struggles to stake their claim, fraying loyalties threaten to rot each side from the inside out.If, that is, the enmity between empires doesn't destroy them first.

One for My Enemy

(Bre)anne✨

This was why Dimitri hadn’t left him a note.

He would have known Lev would have precisely what he wanted him to hear, even if it came from someone else.

“Did you come here to shame me for my omissions, my untruths? Because if so, you should know I’ve been lying to you forever, Sashenka, unceasingly, by letting you think this life could ever fulfill you, or satisfy you. It does not.” She paused, and then conceded, “It will not.”

“This world, Sasha, it will never apologize to you.”

In truth, the man called Koschei was waiting to be impressed by something; to feel something other than numbness in his veins. He waited and waited to be moved but, for years, he felt nothing.

Marya Antonova’s heart had started a war. Somehow, it would end one, too.

“What does it mean to be a Fedorov son if we destroy ourselves in the process?” Dimitri asked, and his expression was nothing Lev had ever seen on his face before. “What does it mean to be in this family or that, if loss is the only thing that comes from it?”

Clara

Anjorin Molayo 

“Write me a tragedy, Lev Fedorov,” “Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the pages by heart. Isn’t that a story, too?”

Olivie Blake has done it again. She has a way of making one stick to reading her book till the end without stopping at any point. God, how I love this book so much. 
Her writing style is unmatched. She makes you feel. This particular book is just filled with pure angst. It broke me. 
The story is about 2 families trying to control their domains, but blood was spilled trying to do that. They had to fight to stay relevant even though one was cheating the other. At first, I thought the story would be about Sasha and Lev, but it turned out that I was wrong. 
I enjoyed the tragedy. I knew what I was getting myself into before starting, but that didn’t stop me from crying. 

“You are you, an entire whole, all on your own. If you have loved and been loved, then you are richer for it; you don’t become a smaller version of yourself simply because what you once had is gone.”

“At best, Dimitri Fedorov was Marya Antonova’s greatest weakness. At worst, she was his.”

I’ll now proceed to read more of Olivie Blake’s books!

Isabella 

PAIN!! Had me screaming, crying, sobbing, and gasping for air; It was such an exhilarating read. Not even halfway through the book, and my heart already broke into pieces. The world-building was phenomenal, and the characters were amazing— Dimitri, Masha, Sasha, and Lev deserves everything good, I love them so much. Olivie Blake never disappoints with her writing; it's breathtakingly beautiful. Her ability to enable readers to immerse themselves in the world she created is outstanding. I am convinced she can write a Shakespeare piece, but he can never write an Olivie Blake novel. I'm at loss of words that this review isn't even half of what I want to say about this book. I love it so much, and it is definitely sitting on my all time favorite books shelf!! mashadima and sashalev owns my heart pls take it.

nina 

4.5 stars

give me interesting sibling dynamics (especially two sets of them!) and you have me invested.

jupiter

4.5,,,, i cried yeah they got me 🫡

loved the characters and the story. took me forever to read tho, like maybe it’s cos of the pov type and the writing style took a while to get used to.

Sloan MacDonald

“Write me a tragedy, Lev Fedorov,” she whispered to him. “Write me a litany of sins. Write me a plague of devastation. Write me lonely, write me wanting, write me shattered and fearful and lost. Then write me finding myself in your arms, if only for a night, and then write it again. Write it over and over, Lev, until we both know the pages by heart. Isn’t that a story, too?”

Montagues and Capulets but make them rival witch families ! this was not at all what I was expecting honestly. it was really slow moving mostly because it is hugely inspired by Shakespeare and was mainly a complex scheme/political scheme being laid out throughout the whole book. but one of the most beautifully romantic written books I’ve ever read (annotated the fuck out of this book).

Read the Tor e-book version. My heart is currently ripped into tiny, tiny little pieces. Great character study, as well as really, really well-done dialogue. Didn't realize this was going to kind of be a Romeo and Juliet re-telling with sprinkles of folklore mixed in! Also really loved how it dove into the cycle of parents not fully understanding their children as they are, but instead of how they want them to be. Highly recommend.

TW to be added later

Read the Tor e-book version. My heart is currently ripped into tiny, tiny little pieces. Great character study, as well as really, really well-done dialogue. Didn't realize this was going to kind of be a Romeo and Juliet re-telling with sprinkles of folklore mixed in! Also really loved how it dove into the cycle of parents not fully understanding their children as they are, but instead of how they want them to be. Highly recommend.

Stella Cravo

“sometimes my eyes open and I know, somewhere in my bones, that I have formed myself to the shape of waking up beside you.” ………… hey god its me again

olivie blake i love you bye

One for My Enemy

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