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A review by eve_ward
War by Laura Thalassa
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.