***SPOILER***

One thing that I can say with certainty is that I loved the ending of this book.

The book itself has a very interesting and intriguing premise but it lacked substance. The writing style felt all over the place. Every other paragraph was from a different characters’ point of view, and I had to reread the same paragraphs several times to understand who was speaking or thinking in that specific moment. It also felt like it needed more clear world building in order to understand why Death is who he is and to understand his otherworldly world. The same applies to Molly; there were mentions of her past, both good and bad (mostly bad) but it wasn’t enough for me to be clear as to why she is who she is. Her obsession with her family remains or her deceased ‘boyfriend’ remains is unclear. I also felt that it lacked additional trigger warnings such as mention of suicide, age-gap intimacy, or non-consensual sex. I really do see the potential in the ending and what its intent is, but it definitely lacked due to the writing style and unclear world building.

Thank you NetGalley for providing me the opportunity to read this ARC. To be honest, if it was on any other situation, I would have DNF this book.

Wow this is an absolutely amazing book with an incredibly unique premise and spin on the idea of Death and how he is personified. I absolutely loved all the characters and tat Death was this more awkward clusmy character who gets to experience giving a life. Overall an amazing premise which is really original and this just blew me away I couldn't put it down and really recommend.

I am insanely in love with this book! It was such a beautiful moving read. Molly is such an interesting character and Death/Azrael
, oh gosh I love his character. I feel like he is described so wonderfully. So achingly beautiful! I loved the plot line, the journey they take you on when Death decided to save a life instead of taking it. A definite must read! I cannot recommend this book enough. Azrael’s point of view is a little bit harder to follow at times but I love it all nonetheless.

Usually, when one reads a book about death personified, he is cool, macho and often a hard ass. This death is the opposite, he is clumsy, a little timid, and has no idea about what it is to be human. What a unique twist on not only death personified but also on Death's love story. Each character is so well written and so different from each other, yet they complement each other so well. This story did not go in the direction I thought it would but I loved every moment of it

I honestly did not know what to expect once I started to read this book, I almost DNF’d within the first few pages and I am truly thankful I continued to read it.

This book is so full of life, it’s definitely one not to be missed.

How does Dearh feel about his job? Can Death fall in love? What happens to us after we die? Vale pulls back the curtain for this orginal look behind the scenes of our everyday life, and death, experiences. I adored her perspective on those unknowable questions, and the heart she cultivated within these pages.
Bring Kleenex, and a curiosity for old English words. I truly enjoyed this book.

*Special thanks to NetGalley and Sungrazer Publishing for an e-arc of this novel.*

This book deserves more details. The plot is promising, and I’m not sure how it fell short. It was quite funny though!

I really enjoyed this story! I loved Death being a mail character but acting out of character. Molly is a very humorous character and I definitely enjoyed the interaction. There is romance and a little heartbreak. Definitely recommend.

Thanks to NG and the publisher for allowing me access to this story.

This book has me stumped. I can't decide if I really liked it or really hated it.

The language and the writing style just don't work. There is no flow to it and I found it very difficult to read. I had to put it down a few times because it was giving me a headach.

But something kept drawing me back to it. The character of death is just so interesting and likable I had to keep reading even though I didn't want to.

This is a beautiful love story with two fantastic main characters but I feel like the book didn't do justice to their story. it could have been an amazing book of I didn't have to re-read paragraphs to work out what they were actually trying to say.

This was an incredibly intriguing and quirky love story. I’m morbidly fascinated with Death as a character and I blame it on Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, where they engage in a series of board games with death to escape their fate, but also Death as he’s portrayed in Family Guy. So I loved the premise of Death falling in love with an ordinary waitress. I loved how inept he was in modern day NYC, after a mistake where Molly is saved from death by a chicken wing. He doesn’t have an understanding of modern day to day living and Molly is a little bit too much for him as well. She’s a very strong woman, hard working in her waitressing job and quite inured to death, since she’s experienced a lot of loss in her life. Death on the other hand is knocked sideways by her, which is delightful. They’re such an unlikely pair, but they do form a bond with each other. It’s always intoxicating to watch a character who is experiencing the fullness of life for the first time. I loved that the character experiencing life is someone who usually takes it away. He is now getting a taste of what he takes away from people. I had no idea where the story was going to go, but I was definitely there for the ride. Strangely joyful and unique.

I was sent an arc of this book for my honest review.

I’d like to thank NetGalley, the publishers, and Maria Vale for giving me the chance to read this book.

When Death ‘accidentally’ saves the girl whose life he was meant to take, what does he do? More so, what does he do when that girl turns out to be the most ordinary and amazing person he’s met?

I liked the premise of this book. The whole concept of Death being so infinite and yet so young in the ideals and ways of Earth and its inhabitants is an angle I thoroughly enjoyed reading about.

Both Molly and Dee were fun characters to read about and I liked to see how their relationship grew and how each other literally impacted the others existence.

However, I found the overall book quite difficult to follow. I found myself skim reading most of it. I wanted to know what happened to the pair but also wasn’t as invested with the story as I wanted to be. It didn’t really drag me in. Don’t get me wrong, I like how unique the writing style is for this book, I just feel that it was too different for me to enjoy. Others may absolutely adore the style but it just wasn’t for me.

So this tried to be humorous, but kinda fell flat, and also felt forced at times. Molly doesn't have friends somehow, and Death is either stupid, or.. idk.. oblivious to anything? How does someone exist for so long, but know so little about anyhhing?
It was an interesting story, dont get me wrong, but also weird and illogical, even for fantasy.
Also, the one ANNOYING trope really had no business being here. I was already struggling to get through the book, and that ruined it all.

This did not become a DNF because I am committed to finishing arcs.

The writing was overly complicated which made it difficult to want to read. Some sentences required multiple re-reads, and I have been an avid reader all my life, why was I so confused ? Some sentences were so long that they visually looked like paragraphs. There is nothing wrong with long, complex sentences, the author just did not execute well.

The grammar/writing style choices were insufferable and it really affected the book. The author had a great premise, and there was a lot of potential, but ultimately this book was not worth the time it required.

Unfortunately I was not able to get caught by this book so I didn't finish it. The prose is difficult to get through, and because of this I was distracted trying to figure out what was happening with the characters that I couldn't get caught by the romance. This will be for some readers, just not me.

Thank you #NetGalley for the early access copy!!

I give it 4.5 stars because the book is good, even though I myself did not like it that much.
Death is quirky and interesting, Molly is admirable in her resistance to the tragedies of life, and even though the author warns us it is not a romance, it most certainly is a love story.
I loved some ideas more than the characters or the plot, and maybe that’s why the book did not engage me so much. Still, the idea of the consequences of angels existing at all moments always, making them have multiple versions and a very bad understanding of what “yesterday” or “tomorrow” mean (since they are in a perpetual “now” in their multiple “we”) is very well used – and so is the solution to making Death’s plot even possible, since he gives his multiple versions up to live among humans. What did not make so much sense to me is how he could live 200,000 years with us and still not have a clue – although the fact that time stops around him would explain a lot.
My problem with the book is in part the style and in part that I found it a little depressing (again, the author gives more than fair warning, so it would not be fair to judge it on this last aspect). The book begins funny and quirky, so I got into that mindset – maybe that was the problem: expectations. Then the style stiffens, it becomes a tad dry: I don’t think the vocabulary is the main problem, as other reviews stated, but the fact that sometimes the style is so tight you don’t know which character is thinking a sentence in an isolated paragraph. You go back, reread it and it could be both characters in the scene – for me, that is annoying. Together with the fact that the plot is not eventful and that their life is almost banal, it makes for a slow reading.
My last observation, with a much veiled kind of spoiler (be warned): at the very ending, the big things/ideas beyond Molly and Death himself resolve in a valid way, and if that were what actually happened in the real world, it would almost be reasonable (if not beautiful). But because we know it is not, it’s just bittersweet at best, if not downright painful. Their almost banal life together is what’s supposed to make us think about what it means to be human – and it does, but for me it’s just really mildly depressing. Still, that is just my point of view, so if you don’t mind bittersweet endings or the tragedies of life, go for it.

Death accidentally picks the wrong soul and Molly Molloy lives. From now on Molly can see Death and interact with him. Death is depicted as going with the time on Earth but with the comic relief of no education and no clue about the world he wants to live in whatsoever, i.e. he writes everything phonetically, doesn’t know how modern amenities work. A love story between the two of them ensues, including a very fast-forward to several years on.

I'm certain my love for the funny stories about Death by either Pratchett or Christopher Moore had an influence on my perception of this rather lukewarm rom-com.

While Molly Molly and the Angel of Death isn’t my usual type of book, I quite enjoyed it.

I have to admit, it was hard to get into at first as I found it a little confusing. It took me a few chapters to really grasp what the Custodes were and that the grammatical mistakes were intentional. I believe that certain parts of the book could have been elaborated better, but that may have just been the writing style.

I loved Death’s growth and his innocence. I loathed the use of “yuh-oh” and some other… quirky terms. I got over it due to the story itself.

I laughed, I cried, and at the end I was glad that I read the book to the end.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me this e-ARC. All opinions expressed here are my own.

This was too cute. I absolutely loved the characters as they moved through the story, especially the character of Death. This was not a too long story either and was just right. Definitely recommend!

An incredibly intriguing premise for a book that offers a new take on an immortal/human romance. Death’s character was completely quirky and very sweet and completely fascinated by this human who is not dead and can see him. Molly is a strong woman who has experienced a lot of death in her life and she’s not interested in experiencing her own, thank you very much. Watching this unlikely pair form a bond was intoxicating and whilst I wouldn’t say there’s chemistry between them, their romance is sold through their interactions - however unusual they might be.

The second half of the book was a little rushed and I would have liked to have seen more of Death and Molly here together rather than an overview of their separate experiences and I also got pretty confused at the ending but all in all this was a unique and enjoyable story and worth a read!

I received a free copy of this book. All views are my own.

Thank you to Maria Vale and Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review! Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death by Maria Vale is a perfectly, quirky little tale. As a lover of Meet Joe Black - the premise of death learning to be human is one of my favorites. Death (Dee) accidentally saves Molly Molloy when it was her time to die. Now Dee and Molly have a special connection leading to death staying in NYC, learning to be human. Dee has to even learn emotions:
“It makes me feel very… very shaky and spicy.” - Dee
“Angry, maybe?” - Molly