After Jackson finds Evie in a blood bath (literally) the Arcana are back together to fight post flash world. 
 "Every few centuries, a contest begins, pitting twenty-two kids against each other in a life-or-death conflict. We're called Arcana, and we have special powers, the same in each game." 
 The game is changing though for the first time in centuries. The Empress is refusing to play Deaths game except for one kill - death himself. 
 There was great action throughout the book, but I just found the premise so unrealistic to get into the story. The idea of our main character falling in love with someone because she's the only person that he can fall in love with physically. That just doesn't seem right to me at all and has so many red flags for abuse. Also Death was highly glorified behind his reasoning of the way he acts. An abusive relationship is still an abusive relationship no matter the reasoning though. In the end I was hating both aspects of the love triangle and not shipping her with anyone except herself. 
 (view spoiler)[The only emotion I felt was Cyclops the wolf dog dying. Her only friend and companion in that damn mansion of hell.Damn you Ogen! 
 Death captures the Empress in this book (as we knew would eventually happen). We learn though that they had been married in their previous lives and every life the Empress betrayed him. This life he'd rather die than continue living without the one girl he can touch despising him. Honestly. It makes sense. 
 We end off with The Lovers having captured Jack and Evie (possibly) giving into Deaths compromise of being with Death to save Jack. Though I'm not a huge fan of Jack either for all the lies he's been hiding from Evie this entire time - oh you know like killing her mom and being her ex boy-friends half brother. Though here as well the author tries to redeem him as though his actions were okay and had reasoning. (hide spoiler)]