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librarianwho's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
thebookplatypus91's review against another edition
4.0
“My brother failed. I will not.”
“Pestilence might have been a conqueror, but I don’t seek to conquer, savage woman, I seek to destroy”.
We have War and badass Miriam.
War got it in his head immediately that Miriam is his wife because she can understand his language that seems to be a dead language.
As much as Miriam fought on it, he absolutely is convinced that she was made for him.
“I will tell you this: you are my wife, you will surrender to me, and you will be mine in every sense of the word before I’ve destroyed the last of this world. “
Talk about alpha daddy. But honestly I thought War was so freaking sweet. I’m probably totally warped in the head after all the books that I read but War was really good to Miriam the entire book it seemed. She’s the one that fought him every other chapter because he obviously was killing humankind. HER kind. But he was always gentle with her and ended up being extremely loyal to her.
“You are mine wholly and completely-and I am yours. For now and always it will be this way”. Oh dear God. That sounded a lot like a vow to me. What have I done?”
So like book one, this book had a crap ton of action as they pillage and plunder through different towns and cities. War has his own army of human men and not so alive people that he can make rise from the dead. I love this authors creativity and how she can build up a pretty intense world with these gorgeous and dominate Horsemen.
I can’t wait for a book 3 which is Famine!
“Pestilence might have been a conqueror, but I don’t seek to conquer, savage woman, I seek to destroy”.
We have War and badass Miriam.
War got it in his head immediately that Miriam is his wife because she can understand his language that seems to be a dead language.
As much as Miriam fought on it, he absolutely is convinced that she was made for him.
“I will tell you this: you are my wife, you will surrender to me, and you will be mine in every sense of the word before I’ve destroyed the last of this world. “
Talk about alpha daddy. But honestly I thought War was so freaking sweet. I’m probably totally warped in the head after all the books that I read but War was really good to Miriam the entire book it seemed. She’s the one that fought him every other chapter because he obviously was killing humankind. HER kind. But he was always gentle with her and ended up being extremely loyal to her.
“You are mine wholly and completely-and I am yours. For now and always it will be this way”. Oh dear God. That sounded a lot like a vow to me. What have I done?”
So like book one, this book had a crap ton of action as they pillage and plunder through different towns and cities. War has his own army of human men and not so alive people that he can make rise from the dead. I love this authors creativity and how she can build up a pretty intense world with these gorgeous and dominate Horsemen.
I can’t wait for a book 3 which is Famine!
mssjm3's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
aqua_lilium's review against another edition
You know how there are TW for dark books, I believe they should do something similar for pregnancies, I genuinely dislike that. Like ma'am just let me enjoy a book without the girl getting pregnant. I mean what purpose does that have? And I'm just furious that for most people a happy ending is when they get married and they have kids. Not everybody wants that, and I'm being thrown with that on my face most of the time. Like c'mon.
laurel_farley's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
eve_ward's review against another edition
2.0
Pain. That's what I felt while reading this. Not even the good kind, the kind that makes you want to throttle someone. It felt as though this one took all the things that bothered me in the last book and just made them infinitely worse. I mean, okay, this book is a kind of enemies-to-lovers, man-is-really really-bad-and-trying-to-kill-the-human-race romance so of course we're bound to have a hypocritical MC because she falls in love with the very thing she detests; but COME ON!! This one was just frustrating. It wasn't even like "I'm starting to see him change and that's why I started falling" NO, she was into while he was still massacring people. In fact, he was probably only a 'good guy' for 2% of the book. It never felt like there was any *true* redemption, he just one day decided "imma be good-ish" and that was the book.
It especially didn't help that I saw reviewers talking about how much they loved War,,,like why??? I mean, Pestilence basically tortured his love interest and yet I still prefer him; someone explain that.
I just think this book could have been *better*. Like, the dude is War...WAR. It shouldn't be that he's just going round killing everyone with his big sword (oooaye wink), he should be causing tension and chaos and animosity between people, have them fight each other. Him just slaughtering people isn't war, its just randomly killing blokes. Not to mention that his undead army just didn't make any sense at all.
Imma still read the next book. I want redemption Laura Thalassa ma'am.
OH YEAH, just a lil note on the end but this was set in parts of the Middle East and Africa and yet it lacked ANY culture. Like come on, you're in these places and you're not gonna take advantage of that fact. If it never mentioned where we were, honestly, I'd have thought we were still in the Americas.
It especially didn't help that I saw reviewers talking about how much they loved War,,,like why??? I mean, Pestilence basically tortured his love interest and yet I still prefer him; someone explain that.
I just think this book could have been *better*. Like, the dude is War...WAR. It shouldn't be that he's just going round killing everyone with his big sword (oooaye wink), he should be causing tension and chaos and animosity between people, have them fight each other. Him just slaughtering people isn't war, its just randomly killing blokes. Not to mention that his undead army just didn't make any sense at all.
Imma still read the next book. I want redemption Laura Thalassa ma'am.
OH YEAH, just a lil note on the end but this was set in parts of the Middle East and Africa and yet it lacked ANY culture. Like come on, you're in these places and you're not gonna take advantage of that fact. If it never mentioned where we were, honestly, I'd have thought we were still in the Americas.
hauntedhexgirll's review against another edition
3.0
At first I was really hopeful I would like this one more than Pestilence, because I liked how War was experienced and seemed to be thrilled that Miriam was a fighter and I loved the tension in the beginning of him wanting her but her hating him.
But then she stopped hating him way too fast and too easy. She forgives him after a few hours or days pass and she’s over it and ready to sleep with him again.
I had fun with this book, there was things I really liked in it. I liked the whole thing about her scar meaning surrender in Angelic, and that he interpreted it as her surrendering to him but in the end it was the opposite. I think that part of the book was really clever.
This book was also really repetitive just like the first one. And it was also very similar to the first one. With just a few differences here and there, it was practically the same story honestly. Including the ending, is Death going to spare all the horsemens’ partners?
Regardless, it was still a good time. I flew through the first 300 pages because I was having a fun time, but the book honestly could’ve been a bit shorter.
Also I’m not always a hater in the unexpected pregnancy trope, but it felt like a really cheap shot to force War to change in this book. I would’ve liked it more if he would’ve changed just for Miriam in the end, not for a baby.
But then she stopped hating him way too fast and too easy. She forgives him after a few hours or days pass and she’s over it and ready to sleep with him again.
I had fun with this book, there was things I really liked in it. I liked the whole thing about her scar meaning surrender in Angelic, and that he interpreted it as her surrendering to him but in the end it was the opposite. I think that part of the book was really clever.
This book was also really repetitive just like the first one. And it was also very similar to the first one. With just a few differences here and there, it was practically the same story honestly. Including the ending, is Death going to spare all the horsemens’ partners?
Regardless, it was still a good time. I flew through the first 300 pages because I was having a fun time, but the book honestly could’ve been a bit shorter.
Also I’m not always a hater in the unexpected pregnancy trope, but it felt like a really cheap shot to force War to change in this book. I would’ve liked it more if he would’ve changed just for Miriam in the end, not for a baby.
haleyautrand's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
reflective
sad
fast-paced
3.5
llucie_b's review against another edition
Dnf at 59%. God this was so fucking boring. I can’t take it anymore. Nothing interesting is happening. It’s the same conflict over and over again. The same conversations.