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A review by lucy_qhuay
Lethal Rider by Larissa Ione
5.0
Larissa Ione, look at what you do to my heart and mind! :'(
I knew that Thanatos was special. It was obvious that he was an incredibly tortured hero, with a lot of anguish, guilt and pain to deal with.
After all, how easy could be being Death? To be attracted to death like a junkie to heroine? To have to kill? To go on crazed rampages, doing the most horrible things without being aware of that? To live with the aftermath of what you did? To want a family and love and yet, thinking that those things would always be denied to you?
Not easy at all! I would say that Thanatos is the one Horseman, except Reseph, who has the heavier burden.
And, of course, these heroes are the ones who fascinate me the most.
But I didn't expect to react this strongly.
Frankly, I spent the entire book either hell of pissed or extremely hurt.
I just couldn't forgive Reagan and her betrayal of Thanatos!
I am a little pissed with Thanatos himself because I think he forgave her too easily.
Damn! He was used, betrayed, incapacitated for 8 damn months, trapped inside his treacherous body, with nothing but his own anger and then he freed himself only to find out that he was going to be a father and that the damn Aegis wanted to steal his own son.
Dammit! I would hate everything and everyone, including Reagan.
I do hate Reagan and I wanted to see her punished and suffering for all the shit she did but, of course, I was not expecting Thanatos to feel the same, giving that he was attracted to her from the beginning and he always hungered for a family, which the bitch gave it to him.
But I sincerely wanted to see Thanatos a little more inflexible and making her work for his forgiveness.
Things as they really happened, it seemed that Thanatos was the one who needed to make amends.
That's not true! Than was the one wronged so the Aegis bitch should have been the one doing something to make things right.
Apart from that, I really loved the book, as it always happen with something written by this author.
Larissa Ione knows how to create and develop amazing heroes.
I was amazed by Thanatos and how, one moment, he was a completely unstoppable lethal force and in the next he was just a vulnerable man, with a lot of guilt for the things he had done and who always dreamed of a family but always saw his deepest wish denied to him.
His pain was very difficult to bear since I felt it like it was mine.
It was like I was that lonely, broken man, anguished by the knowledge that I had lived so many years and that that didn't mean anything because everything was the same for me.
That there was a huge hole in me and that I knew exactly what it would fill it but it was completely impossible.
And then that I had been robbed of my will and choices, betrayed and that no one cared about what I felt.
Worse, that there was finally hope for me and yet everyone was trying to take it away from me.
Gosh, it hurt like hell! :(
I just have one more thing to say - I was really sad with everything that happened to poor Reseph. It was not his fault that he became Pestilence. :(
That could have happened to Ares, Limos and Thanatos as well. Their seals could have broken and they would have become evil bastards as well.
And they all said that Reseph was the best of them all so I am feeling betrayed for him.
I am feeling betrayed because when Thanatos thought he had killed him, he felt relief. And the others certainly felt the same.
It is just not fair!
And now with what Reaver did to him to try to give him peace of mind and a new life, I just hope that is exactly what he gets.
I am very afraid for him.
Can't wait for Rogue Rider.
I knew that Thanatos was special. It was obvious that he was an incredibly tortured hero, with a lot of anguish, guilt and pain to deal with.
After all, how easy could be being Death? To be attracted to death like a junkie to heroine? To have to kill? To go on crazed rampages, doing the most horrible things without being aware of that? To live with the aftermath of what you did? To want a family and love and yet, thinking that those things would always be denied to you?
Not easy at all! I would say that Thanatos is the one Horseman, except Reseph, who has the heavier burden.
And, of course, these heroes are the ones who fascinate me the most.
But I didn't expect to react this strongly.
Frankly, I spent the entire book either hell of pissed or extremely hurt.
I just couldn't forgive Reagan and her betrayal of Thanatos!
I am a little pissed with Thanatos himself because I think he forgave her too easily.
Damn! He was used, betrayed, incapacitated for 8 damn months, trapped inside his treacherous body, with nothing but his own anger and then he freed himself only to find out that he was going to be a father and that the damn Aegis wanted to steal his own son.
Dammit! I would hate everything and everyone, including Reagan.
I do hate Reagan and I wanted to see her punished and suffering for all the shit she did but, of course, I was not expecting Thanatos to feel the same, giving that he was attracted to her from the beginning and he always hungered for a family, which the bitch gave it to him.
But I sincerely wanted to see Thanatos a little more inflexible and making her work for his forgiveness.
Things as they really happened, it seemed that Thanatos was the one who needed to make amends.
That's not true! Than was the one wronged so the Aegis bitch should have been the one doing something to make things right.
Apart from that, I really loved the book, as it always happen with something written by this author.
Larissa Ione knows how to create and develop amazing heroes.
I was amazed by Thanatos and how, one moment, he was a completely unstoppable lethal force and in the next he was just a vulnerable man, with a lot of guilt for the things he had done and who always dreamed of a family but always saw his deepest wish denied to him.
His pain was very difficult to bear since I felt it like it was mine.
It was like I was that lonely, broken man, anguished by the knowledge that I had lived so many years and that that didn't mean anything because everything was the same for me.
That there was a huge hole in me and that I knew exactly what it would fill it but it was completely impossible.
And then that I had been robbed of my will and choices, betrayed and that no one cared about what I felt.
Worse, that there was finally hope for me and yet everyone was trying to take it away from me.
Gosh, it hurt like hell! :(
I just have one more thing to say - I was really sad with everything that happened to poor Reseph. It was not his fault that he became Pestilence. :(
That could have happened to Ares, Limos and Thanatos as well. Their seals could have broken and they would have become evil bastards as well.
And they all said that Reseph was the best of them all so I am feeling betrayed for him.
I am feeling betrayed because when Thanatos thought he had killed him, he felt relief. And the others certainly felt the same.
It is just not fair!
And now with what Reaver did to him to try to give him peace of mind and a new life, I just hope that is exactly what he gets.
I am very afraid for him.
Can't wait for Rogue Rider.