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A review by feyley
War by Laura Thalassa
5.0
December 23, 2019:
We are finally given a more concrete timeline and explanation for the horsemen’s tasks. The horsemen first arrived and threw the world into turmoil ten years ago. Five years ago, Pestilence arrived and was swayed by a human, abandoning his task. Recently, War has arrived and begun his part in the end of humanity. When I first started reading the series, I didn’t realize the larger timeline. I can’t recall if it was mentioned in Pestilence. I devoured that book so quickly that, unfortunately, many of the details are lost to me. I intend to re-read it before the next book in the series, Famine, comes out so that everything is a little more solid in my mind.
One of the things I love the most about this series thus far is the time Laura Thalassa takes to introduce us to the world, to the current state of things. She has created a believable new world in the shambles of the one that currently exists.
The horsemen come off as terrifying before they are even introduced and, somehow, seeing them just makes them even more fearsome. War gives me mixed feelings. There are moments I adore him and moments I want Miriam to find someway to kill him. I think that back and forth rings true to how Miriam is dealing with her feelings about him and his actions throughout the book. The reader is taken along as War softens to her and Miriam finds solace in any mercy she can bring forth from him. There is an internal struggle over whether she should love him despite all the atrocities he is committing or convincing humans to commit against each other. The fact that so many people chose to help him destroy the world instead of dying by his hand is fascinating to me. I was not expecting that aspect when I started the book, I assumed his Phobos riders rose with him when he was sent to destroy the world. I think War perfectly made his point that humanity was far worse than Miriam realized. The Phobos riders not only helped him destroy others but some of them seemed to find true joy in doing so.
From the beginning Miriam hates War and makes the decision to die but he will not allow it. He believes Miriam has been given to him by God to be his wife. War will stop at nothing to get her to surrender to him and accept him as her husband. The book follows the pair getting to know each other and understanding each other’s side of the story. This included a lot more back and forth between the couple than Pestilence did. Neither wants to surrender to the others will. But neither wants to live without the other either.
I adored this installment in the Four Horsemen series even more than the first. I didn’t even know that was possible. The only reason I didn’t read this the day it was released is that I knew I would have to wait even longer before I could read the next one in the series, Famine. Finally I broke down and had to read it, now I have undetermined amount of time before I find out what happens next. I look forward to seeing how Laura Thalassa deals with Famine and makes me fall in love with him as much as I have Pestilence and War. Before starting this series, I didn’t even know it was possible for me to see such characters redeemed
December 22, 2019:
When I stop crying about this book, I’ll post a proper review.
We are finally given a more concrete timeline and explanation for the horsemen’s tasks. The horsemen first arrived and threw the world into turmoil ten years ago. Five years ago, Pestilence arrived and was swayed by a human, abandoning his task. Recently, War has arrived and begun his part in the end of humanity. When I first started reading the series, I didn’t realize the larger timeline. I can’t recall if it was mentioned in Pestilence. I devoured that book so quickly that, unfortunately, many of the details are lost to me. I intend to re-read it before the next book in the series, Famine, comes out so that everything is a little more solid in my mind.
One of the things I love the most about this series thus far is the time Laura Thalassa takes to introduce us to the world, to the current state of things. She has created a believable new world in the shambles of the one that currently exists.
The horsemen come off as terrifying before they are even introduced and, somehow, seeing them just makes them even more fearsome. War gives me mixed feelings. There are moments I adore him and moments I want Miriam to find someway to kill him. I think that back and forth rings true to how Miriam is dealing with her feelings about him and his actions throughout the book. The reader is taken along as War softens to her and Miriam finds solace in any mercy she can bring forth from him. There is an internal struggle over whether she should love him despite all the atrocities he is committing or convincing humans to commit against each other. The fact that so many people chose to help him destroy the world instead of dying by his hand is fascinating to me. I was not expecting that aspect when I started the book, I assumed his Phobos riders rose with him when he was sent to destroy the world. I think War perfectly made his point that humanity was far worse than Miriam realized. The Phobos riders not only helped him destroy others but some of them seemed to find true joy in doing so.
From the beginning Miriam hates War and makes the decision to die but he will not allow it. He believes Miriam has been given to him by God to be his wife. War will stop at nothing to get her to surrender to him and accept him as her husband. The book follows the pair getting to know each other and understanding each other’s side of the story. This included a lot more back and forth between the couple than Pestilence did. Neither wants to surrender to the others will. But neither wants to live without the other either.
I adored this installment in the Four Horsemen series even more than the first. I didn’t even know that was possible. The only reason I didn’t read this the day it was released is that I knew I would have to wait even longer before I could read the next one in the series, Famine. Finally I broke down and had to read it, now I have undetermined amount of time before I find out what happens next. I look forward to seeing how Laura Thalassa deals with Famine and makes me fall in love with him as much as I have Pestilence and War. Before starting this series, I didn’t even know it was possible for me to see such characters redeemed
December 22, 2019:
When I stop crying about this book, I’ll post a proper review.