Don’t get me wrong, I love a good romance, and my Goodreads shelves demonstrate that. This book defies that standard and is part of a necessary shift in lesfic to offer more to readers. There’s a common idea that all lesbian genre fiction must be romance, and if it’s not, there at least must be a strong romantic thread running throughout.
Requiem for Immortals is a thriller and not a romance novel at all, and thank goodness for that. I won’t go into anything about the characters themselves because I truly believe the less you know, the better, but I loved both of them and I was happy with where they were by the end. The character work is divine and is perhaps the strongest element of all with both Natalya and Alison being masterfully drawn, and having arcs that are strong, believable and relatable. The plotting is incredible and left me constantly surprised, and the pacing is so tight that it was almost impossible to put down. The writing in Requiem for Immortals is gorgeous, somehow managing to be both crisp and luxurious, perfect in not only conveying the story and all necessary information, but informing the tone so that I found my emotions shifting from scene to scene. It’s only when she bumps into Ryan at an elite musical engagement that she starts to understand that there may be more to the meek woman than meets the eye. Used to taking contracts to kill the worst of the worst, like a crime boss who trades in underage girls, Requiem doesn’t understand why someone has offered her an exorbitant amount to kill Alison Ryan, an administrative assistant at a local police department. What the world doesn’t know, however, is that she’s also Requiem, an assassin who’s regularly hired by all four of Victoria’s rival crime families to mete out poetic punishments for people who cross the line. Regularly requested to fill in by symphonies around the world, she’s poised, beautiful and cold, only moved by her music. Natalya Tsvetnenko is a professional cellist at the top of her game. But this is a book review and I suppose that won’t do. Don’t read anything about it, stop everything in your lives, just buy this book, take it in, then sit and marvel at it. Requiem for Immortals is a difficult book to talk about because I want to tell you to just read it.
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