Oh my goodness this book. This book was a really cute choice for around Valentines Day. 
 This book follows two individuals, Flora and Henry who are from two very different worlds brought together by The Game that Love and Death have been playing together for millennia it appears. 
 "He would watch the asp sink its fangs into Cleopatra, the castration of Abelard, the slow death of Lancelot, the suicide of Juliet, players all." 
 So clearly this kind of thing has been going on for quite a while.. 
 The book follows Flora and Henry's relationship but with the meddling of Love and Death it gets complicated quick. It doesn't particularly benefit in any way that this love story is set in the 1930's and issues such as racism and poverty conflict against them even having contact with one another quite frequently. 
 Saying that I truly enjoyed the book's setting in the 1930's. Although I hoped the discussion on the 1930's and race, sexuality and poverty were more prominent in this story they were ultimately the sub-plot. The main plot was the love story and although they were not a significant focus I feel they were written in sensitive way. 
 So if the main story is the love story, how did I find it? 
 ...It was cute? I am a romantic I really am but I found myself quite astonished by the instalove that happened here. I could inhale the beautiful writing and the wonderful quotes that make me want to believe in seeing someone and just knowing that you love them when you first meet them but I find value in building chemistry and developing the love. I don't think in the time frame of the game that the author set that would have really been possible. I found myself enjoying the romance but wishing it could have been built on so that I could be immersed in this love that had been written in destiny and all that. I felt I kind of got what I wanted in the last date entry where we see the outcome of The Game in 2015 instead of 1937. I didn't feel I was hugely invested but as I read that last entry ohh a tiny tear was shed. Turns out I really was with them from the start but I think that it took me until the last couple pages to feel that meant it missed out on being a 5 star book for me. 
 My favourite part of this book I'd say is the personification of Love and Death. I enjoyed the relationship dynamic between the two immortals and the references towards past Games. I hated and loved their intrusion in Flora and Henry's lives. Most of all I loved the shift of Death as a character from the beginning and end of the book. 
 TL;DR I really liked this book but I did not love it. The writing and the personification of Love and Death were the main highlights for me. I will be sneaking quotes from this book for a while to come. It is an entire book on love but still felt a little instalovey.