Malady

Omg that ending was vile Mourning Star, how dare you!

Loved everything about this story. The violence, the love story, the super powers, the change of POV between different perspecrives from 1st to 3rd. It all makes it so unreliable narrator while also being very Deadpool with the 4th wall breaks.

It's hilarious, gory and emotionally devastating! I'm waiting for the second installment with bated breath!

The character is basically a walking cheat code in this world but always seems so vulnerable which i think is super hard to do with an overpowered character.

Thanks to Mourning Star for the free ARC in exchange for an honest review. I will however be buying both books!

MALADY is a very fun, dark, and twisted read with vigilante justice that just feels so right. The two MCs go from one-sided enemies to completely in love at first sight but it somehow works. There’s yearning and hurt/comfort that transforms the initial attraction quickly into love.

I enjoyed the humor and 4th wall breaking quite a lot (very Deadpool-esque which is super fun because that’s my favorite anti-hero).

There’s very little spice in this one and it’s not very freaky/kinky -which, coming from the author of The Cat, felt like it should be- but it’s decently written. Overall, would recommend this book (and I’m saying that of my own free will).

Wow! I loved this book so much. It is brutal, beautiful, vulnerable, hot and also completely heartbreaking. There is humour, gore, secrets, corruption, trauma, spice and so much yearning. I absolutely love Annie and I can so intensely feel the trauma she has been through. The Trans and AuDHD representation is amazing. And I just loved the relationship between Zeta and Annie.

The way the book is written with 1st person POV/4th wall breaking for Annie’s part made me feel very connected to her.

And the ending………..!!!!

So, this book will absolutely destroy you in best of ways and it is so incredibly worth it.

I absolutely can not wait for book two.

Tore my heart out.

Some quotes from me while reading: “Ugh, I fucking love them.” “I laughed, and then laughed harder at the next line.” And, last but certainly not least: “HOLY FUCKING SHIT, DUDE. THE ENDING!!!!!”

Malady’s rage, and the world she is raging against, is written so incredibly well. The ending hit as hard as it did because of the sheer intensity, vengeance, and everything the story had built up to that moment. So don’t let the promise of heartbreak scare you away. Trust me, it’s worth it.

The way the author tackles real-world problems within a fictional world is brilliant. They captured the feeling of a lived experience so well, creating a world that feels both eerily familiar and completely different from our own. There’s so much depth to what this story is saying, and it never feels forced.

I would read absolutely anything this author writes, and I’m already counting down until the next part of the story.

Firstly I LOVE the way Malady is written. My first book by Mourning Star and it will certainly not be my last. The mixture of writing styles including fourth wall breaking is 10/10.  Leaving you feeling as though you are inside Annie’s head (crazy.)

Malady is a book FULL of entertainment, surprises, plot twists, love, humour and death (a lot of death) but it’s justified death, right? Annie is the epitome of a ‘hero’ problem is the others think she’s a maniac.. and maybe she is and I LOVE it.

Our FMCs Annie and Zeta- WOW it’s a complicated relationship with intense lesbian yearning. A connection between them that is beautiful but filled with secrets your heart will ache as you ride the emotions with them. The spicy scenes between them are perfection.

It was truly a 5 star read, if you don’t read it you are missing out on a ‘WHAT THE F*CK’ kind of plot twisting ‘love story’.

I am so ready for Malady 2!!!