One For My Enemy: A Bewitching Urban Fantasy from the Bestselling Author of The Atlas Six

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this story is a mash up reimagining of Romeo and Juliet and A midsummer Night’s dream, which is a really insane combination. we get to see two different families, two different worlds, and two different timelines of power, love, and betrayal. this is a story about family, and sibling bonds, and love that feels too big too much of the time. but everything is also filled with magic, and fae, and secrets. i really did adore this, and it was very impressively crafted. i loved seeing all the different powers, and u think i lost part of my own heart upon finishing this epilogue. I wanted more interactions between them, I wanted to know more about their powers (which was never explained) and more about them.

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When i first started reading this book i thought it would be a good read. It had good writing, promising worldbuilding and some kind of intriguing characters with intense dynamic but as i went on reading i realized that the author is horrible at executing what i believed would be delivered at first. I liked the nod to Slavic folklore with their names, and I wish that tied into the magic a little...it kind of does, but most of the magic here is what I’d call hexes or curses. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intricate web of love, magic, and rival witch families in New York City.Blake's writing is grandiose, but in THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY. This is a sweeping, lyrical retelling of Romeo and Juliet that is SOMEHOW both less and more tragic than it's Shakespearian roots. Her prose is a sort of songlike intensity that makes the novel feel magnified, romantic and edged at the same time; Not over flowery or pretentious- but detailed and and clever enough to blow you away. sasha and lev were really cute together. i cannot lie and say it wasn't very insta-lovey which i typically do not enjoy. but i still really thought they were sosososo cute, i think they replicated romeo & juliet a lot in the way they acted and how they spoke to each other. their devotions to each other still made me tear up, and lev and dimitri were so similar it was adorable to see how much brotherly love they had toward each other. The book features romance and grief often in the same breath. The love of a partner against the devotion/loyalty of a child. Olivie Blake is a mind-blowing talent."―Chloe Gong, author of New York Times bestselling These Violent Delights

One For My Enemy | Olive Blake

The magic system is almost nonexistent in the book's first half. We don’t see any magical characters being magical, except for a hand-warming charm. The reader is left to desperately attempt to infer the extremely nebulous limitations of said magic system. But if I can only have you as a fire, Sasha, as a flame of what you are, then I want you to burn for me.” An urban fantasy set in New York City, Blake’s story centres on the vicious power plays and intricate romantic entanglements between two warring witch families. On one side of the conflict are the Antonovas – seven beautiful and magically gifted sisters helmed by the unforgiving Baba Yaga, a woman who clawed her way to power and has raised her daughters to be just as shrewd and strong. Their adversaries are the Fedorovs – Koschei the Deathless and his three unflinchingly loyal sons: golden heir Dimitri, overshadowed Roman, and sheltered youngest Lev. For twelve years the families have maintained a fraught stalemate. Until now. I DO NOT CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS ABOUT MY BABY ROMA. I AM A ROMAN APOLOGIST, AND I FULLY UNDERSTAND HIS ACTIONS. All Roma did was for his family, even though he was always the least favorite Fedorov son. Yes he had flaws, made mistakes, but at the end of the day, Roma is the only one who would ever truly sacrifice love and all he has for family, and how could I ever despise him for that? A feud between two powerful witch families heats up, thanks to two pairs of star-crossed lovers and an ambitious middle son, in this stand-alone by the author of The Atlas Six (2022).I fell in love with you, didn't I, Sasha Antonova?" His laugh, the set on her jaw, they both said I love you, it's over, we're doomed. "I was always going to be trapped." from this point we switch to our other main characters, sasha meets lev at a bar, and without knowing who exactly they are, they share a moment of pure romance and lust. until that is when lev figures out who sasha is and his brother convinces him to figure out her family secrets. they start to see each other more and more, and although conflict still persists you can tell they each want different things.

One for My Enemy Quotes by Olivie Blake - Goodreads

There were characters I liked and characters I didn’t, but my main issue is how fleshed out the brothers were compared to the sisters. Dima!” Koschei roared in anger, snatching Lev from his eldest son’s hands and pressing him close to his own chest, protective at last over the fragility of his newest son. “You would have dropped him!” i absolutely loved this book! It was definitely something different from what i have been reading lately. although i have had really good reads in the past week, i needed angst and tension!! and boy, this book served me up and gave me a three-course meal. Admittedly, too, I only felt invested in two characters. Masha and Dima were everything. The antagonists were successfully antagonists and that's good, sure, fine, but everyone else we were supposed to like or root for (mostly Sasha, Lev was okay) I just.. didn't. Maybe because it was insta-lovey? And they were very dramatic. Which I guess ties into the whole R&J angle. And now that I think about it I wonder if Masha and Dima were Blake's way of writing a better R&J story. Because it was. It was so much better.

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The Antonova sisters are beautiful, cunning and ruthless, and their mother—known as Baba Yaga—is a elusive supplier of intoxicants. 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. The banter between Sasha and Lev was also pretty cute—I lived for their text banter and adorableness. Oh my sweet Masha. I think Masha's ending may have been the most bittersweet for me. Her grief and pain felt so deep and incredibly real. She deserved so much and got so little, and that completely ruined me. I'm glad she managed to find herself in the end rather than being completely lost to insanity. I'm happy that she at least got somewhat of a happy ending. Emphasis on somewhat.

One For My Enemy | Olivie Blake | 9781035011575 | NetGalley One For My Enemy | Olivie Blake | 9781035011575 | NetGalley

YA giant Clare makes her adult debut with a whirlwind epic fantasy featuring secret plots, ancient magic, and hidden identities. dima and misha ❤️‍🩹, when i was reading this i thought they were side characters at first but THEY ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS. their love was so pure and although masha was married and had not spoken to him in 12 years, you could tell how much love they have and will always have for eachother. it was so pure and blissful. dima just knew what to say to masha, he would have given up everything for her 🥹 I’ve found before (when I was reading The Atlas Six) that while there are so many plotlines, nothing is happening.

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However, when the two households reach a conflict that ends not just in financial, but also physical loss, the children will have to decide whether they are content remaining just as faithful sons and daughters, or if they are finally ready to put themselves and their interests first.