Four years ago the world as humans knew it ended. Shapeshifters, formerly thought to be mythical creatures, violently rose up and took over the world. Now North America is divided into two sections, the shifter side called Federal Nation of Therianthropes, or FNT, and the Combined Human States, or CHS. Passage between the two is strictly controlled with no shifter being allowed on the CHS side of the border. Alexia Williams was a normal woman before the world ended. She was a devoted wife and mother to her toddler son, but that all changed when she watched them both die at the hands of the uprising shifters. Now she is part of the military of the CHS and has become a legend among the shifters. She has killed so many of the shifters that they had named her Death.

They Call Me Death is firmly placed in the category of the Top 10 Best Books I’ve read in the last couple of years. The writing was fresh, the plot was well conceived, and the characters were dynamic and charismatic. I could not put this book down! Alexia was such a grief stricken figure; who wouldn’t be after seeing their world destroyed in one single horrifying instant? Four years later she is only interested in defending what is left of the human way of life and destroying the evil that was wrought upon humanity by the shifter uprising. Andor Olavson saves Alexia’s life and she finds herself growing more and more conflicted about her chosen life path. Why? Because Andor is a shifter and he is nothing like the Therianthropes that she has known in the past. Slowly Alexia is beginning to realize that all in the world is not black or white and sometimes the animals in the world wear the face of her fellow soldiers. The slowly building trust between the characters was finely wrought, author Missy Jane has a fine hand when it comes to drawing the slowly evolving nuances in the relationship between Alexia and Andor. I felt Alexia’s conflict and guilt and held my breath at her evolution. The romance aspect of the story is important but the secrets behind the façade that Alexia once believed about the uprising is where the true story lies. I loved this fantastic world and please, please let there be another book!

Reviewed by: Hayley