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Graphic: Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Laura Thalassa did a wonderful job to showcase what stage their relationship was at and how it got to that stage. I really enjoyed Sara and Pestilence on their own as well. Their actions felt realistic in the situations that they found themselves in.
I'm interested to see where the rest of the series goes.
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Animal death, Death, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cursing, Grief
Minor: Child death, Torture, Pregnancy
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Excrement, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Death, Gore, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Murder
Graphic: Death, Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Fire/Fire injury
Moderate: Animal death, Child death, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping, Alcohol
Minor: Body horror
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Sexual content, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death, Gun violence
I don't know what I was thinking picking up a book called Pestilence and it not even entering my head that it might be sad. Good grief. I don't like apocalyptic books for a reason. A lot of my personal anxiety stems from this type of content and, unfortunately, this didn't have a great effect on me after reading. However, I don't regret reading it, if that makes sense.
This is a series of books that follows each of the four Horsemen and it's set up like a contemporary romance series where each book follows a different couple. The overarching story between the four is that the end of the world is here, etc. Since I'm not a fan of these types of plots I'm not going to really comment on it other than the fact that this book made me cry several times, which is rude.
The characters were good. The book is told in first person present tense, which took some getting used to. It was very graphic for the unpleasantness and I've listed some content warnings. This book was written in 2018 and has a different feeling to it with a topic like pestilence and what's going on in our world today. It hit a little too close to home. I'm not sure that I will be able to continue the series, but that is definitely a me thing.
The romance was good. The steamy scenes were steamy. There were a few parts where I felt like things could have been better explained, but for the most part I enjoyed the tension and the angst. Even though this didn't blow my mind, I see it being a book that I won't forget anytime soon and I would recommend to anyone who can handle the content.
CAWPILE Score: 7.86 = 4.25 stars
Characters: 8
Atmosphere: 9
Writing: 8
Plot: 7
Intrigue: 8
Logic: 7
Enjoyment: 8
Graphic: Gore, Gun violence, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief
Moderate: Torture, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Animal death, Child death
Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Blood
Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Kidnapping