Death's guest-starring appearance in The Books of Magic was the only time I didn't like her, because Tim Hunter is pretty much right in 90 percent of his objections to her - he's a kid who's basically spent his entire life getting shit all over for things that have nothing to do with him, and by people who openly admit to him that he doesn't deserve their mistreatment of him, and yet, here's Death, saying "Why are you so worried about this stuff? Aren't I perky?" Unlike Sexton Furnival, who's simply possessed by ennui, Tim has incredibly powerful assholes playing chess games with his fucking life, so, yeah, I always thought he was entitled to tell everyone around him to go fuck themselves, starting with the Trenchcoat Brigade.