I loved this story. I wish there was more information about the years in between their last meeting and their final days. The ending...just so beautiful in a crazy way..

This is a strange book, in my opinion. It's a romance, but it's also a thriller. We have Adam Micah. He commits suicide several times over the course of the story, but he doesn't stay dead. Instead he is transported to another location. What controls his landing place, we don't know. He doesn't know where he's going to end up. He just knows he'll get there without clothes and missing part of his memory.
We have Lilyanne Beloshinsky. She is the daughter of a minion of a cartel of very rich men who want to live forever. If they can't live forever, they want one of their descendants to do so, mostly to keep their fortunes in the family. Another minion of the group, Dr. Bunn, posits a mutation that allows a person to recover from death. He says it is a mutation of a gene cluster. You have to have the mutation from both parents to have the death defying ability. Otherwise, you are just a carrier. Lily is a carrier. She is also Adam's love interest.
Adam needs to keep track of his deaths, so he creates a new name for himself. Because Adam Micah is an ordinary name, he renames himself Aristotle Zurr-McIntyre. Each time he dies, he looks for that name in the obituaries. The day does come when he needs to hide better than just dying. It takes Lily years to find him again.
I liked the story. While most of the characters had long, hard to pronounce last names, the story moved quickly.
I read the copy of this book for this review on Netgalley.

Sadly, this book didn’t live up to my expectations. I think the idea for the plot is genius, but it could have been executed better. There is a lot of mystery in this storyline so it can often get quite confusing, and I sometimes felt a little lost as to what was happening. Despite this, I thought that the ending was absolutely beautiful. It gives closure both to the characters and the readers, which is quite rare for a book of this genre. Overall, a fairly disappointing read, I expected much more from this book.

Love, loss, the mysteries of death and what could follow. Absolutely heartbreaking and truly romantic.

This was boring, bland, and just outright stupid! I hate to say that about a piece of literature, but this feels like a Riverdale spin-off (and Riverdale is subjectively the worst show to ever air on television). I’m disappointed because the plot sounded so good! It had so much potential! There’s just too much going on at once. I wish I could’ve loved this.

Strange Deaths of the Last Romantic
Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev

I haven't really read anything quite like this book. I found myself sucked into the story from the beginning, and I enjoyed the suspense of not truly knowing what was going on for most of the book. It's part love story, part mystery, part sci-fi, part everything! The book follows the story of Adam Micah or Aristotle Zurr-McIntyre, a young man who cannot die. Every time he tries, he ends up in a strange new place with fewer memories of who he is. I don't want to spoil anything, so I'll leave it at that.

Likes:
- The suspense
- the way my attention was grabbed from the get-go
- the general premise

Dislikes:
- The romance/love scenes (maybe it's just not my thing, but I found it pretty over-the-top). To me, it seemed quite forced and it wasn't all that romantic. At times, it was cringey (calling her "my kitten")
- It was challenging to follow the plot because of the numerous Jon Smyth's and I feel like some of that wasn't fully explained. There were a lot of characters, a lot of moving pieces, and not a lot of explanation. I found myself waiting to hear what happened to certain people or not understanding their role in advancing the story.

Overall rating: 3.5 stars. I enjoyed this book although I found it confusing and hard to follow at times and I wasn't a huge fan of the intense romance because it seemed more forced than actually romantic. I would recommend to anyone who is looking for a unique read.

I am sorry but I really did not enjoy this book. The storyline had potential but it was really a mishmash of events with characters that were randomly placed and not developed at all. I didn’t really care what happened to any of the characters. Others may love it but this book did not do a thing for me.

Book Review for Strange Deaths of the Last Romantic by Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev
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Hardly anything actually happens for the first half of the book because the plot moves way too slowly. At times, it was hard to follow and more than once, I found myself mixing characters up and how they were all connected. I also didn’t really find myself liking the main character.

This book is INSANE. Total modern day Romeo and Juliet. But plot twist - Romeo is cursed where he cannot die. There is a whole bunch of extra caste stuff going on that has a total True Blood/X-men vibe and even had some Notebook thrown in. I know right you’re probably thinking I am insane. Love story cursed from the start and mutants being chased down by a bigger agency. This book is legit packed. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Talking about the book, I'll start with the cover because it's always the first part of a book you see, so automatically the first impression is made at this point.
I think the cover is quite interesting; it seems to have some flair of native American folks but at the same time, it's designed very modern. It's like a collage of paper, pictures and between those pieces, you see the glimpse of a girl, which stares far away. After reading the book, the girl could portray the idea of Lilyanne, a seemingly perfect girl.
The story is about Adam Micah, who discovers at the age of ten years, that he cannot die. After dying, he reawakes naked somewhere, without any control about where he lands. Every time he dies, he loses more and more memories about his lives before. As he meets the love of his life, his life seems normal again, though he knows barely who he is. Adam, who gave himself a new name: Aristotle, enjoys life again, but soon he realises again, that there are people who want to use and examine his gift/curse.
The main parts are narrated out of Adams sight in I-narrator, but there are parts about other characters too, those perspectives get told by a personal narrator. Those different perspectives confused me firstly, because I didn't know the characters and why they're relevant, but soon it brought spice into the whole storyline because it showed different connections and led to own thoughts about what could happen next.
Mikheyev's writing style was very figurative, for me, it was like being there and live this life full of chaos together with the main character. That affected a very uncomfortable feeling while reading the bloody parts, which fit perfectly well in the Thriller genre. But the writing style also made me get lost in the romantic parts. The poems transported so many emotions but even more did the prose describing the scene around. Considering how it was written stylistically, it is definitely worth reading.
But to be honest, I cannot say the same thing about the storyline, especially about the end. As I finished the book, I was heartbroken and a bit disappointed, it always seemed, like there was a lot potential for an interesting, good end but it didn't happen, it was suddenly all over and brought no sense to anyone. In the author's comment at the end of the book, Mikheyev told the reader about the process of creating this novel. He explained how it started, why he created Lilyanne without character development, how he struggled to finish the novel, how he published it and that he thinks it's an awful book. Reading the final statement helped me a lot to understand why the end is how it is, but that does not make it any better. Some might consider endings of such kind as romantic, I think it's just sad. The story had such an interesting, thought-out start and developed in a good way, but the end was weak. The book started dramatically and exiting but ended sadly. Additionally, I recognised more mistakes in logic or rather in continuity at the last pages, for example, said Adam at the beginning, that he lost his mother as he was ten years old, at the end, he said he was seven as she died. This could be interpreted as a sign of his lost memories, but why should he be mistaken just in the age, when he lost other disturbing memories completely and not just partly? Why place such a small, alone standing hint? Also, there is said it's about the year 2025 as Adam reawakes in a field, but that would make no sense because he died in 2010 and it's said in the second part of the chapter, that it was fifteen years ago, that he woke up in this field, so why not say it's about the year 2025 at the beginning of the second part, like it was done before?
As this is the first version published, I assume mistakes like that get corrected, so that's no reason to say the book would be no good. To judge a book, I always ask myself, if I would read it again. Well, for this one I can say, by all means, I'm gonna read some parts again. I'm sensible to bloody and cruel scenes and love romantic, so the parts I'm gonna rereading are probably the good times between Aristotle and Lilyanne. As said, I really like the style of Mikheyev's writing, but the story wasn't that good. So, I'll do what one can do only in literature and movies: I'll pick the good parts and live them over and over again.