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My Review:Title: War
Author: Laura Thalassa
Series: The Four Horsemen #2
Published by: Indie
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 502
Genres: Apocalyptic, Supernatural, Paranormal Romance, Post-Apocalyptic
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Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2022 COYER Winter, Lenoreo's 2022 Diversity Reading Challenge
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My rating:
Blurb:They came to earth—Pestilence, War, Famine, Death—four horsemen riding their screaming steeds, racing to the corners of the world. Four horsemen with the power to destroy all of humanity. They came to earth, and they came to end us all.
The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp.
Now Miriam faces a terrifying future, one where she watches her world burn town by town, and the one man responsible for it all is her seemingly indestructible “husband”. But there’s another side to him, one that’s gentle and loving and dead set on winning her over, and she might not be strong enough to resist.
However, if there’s one thing Miriam has learned, it’s that love and war cannot coexist. And so she must make the ultimate choice: surrender to War and watch humankind fall, or sacrifice everything and stop him.
3.5 stars — Well shit. I swore to my hubby that War was irredeemable. That the more time went on in the book, the less likely I was going to believe in his redemption. I was at a 3 stars, maybe less, thinking that this was just not my book (I’m not a motorcycle club book reader either). And then we hit around 80%. And bugger me, I believed it. I can’t believe it, but I believed it. I am bewildered. I need a moment.
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Seriously though, I am shooketh! I mean, I still would have preferred that there had been more moments before 80%, but even for those last 100 pages, something about it even made the first 400 more believable. And yet, I’m having a hard time convincing myself to round up! I think it’s just spite though. I mean, if a book is meh for 400 pages, how much of a difference do those last 100 pages make? I DON’T KNOW????!!!
I enjoyed Miriam more than Sara. She was a different kind of badass. She also withheld her love for way too long, but at least the back and forth in her head wasn’t as overwhelming and unbelievable. I wasn’t always impressed with the decisions she made, even if I understood the motivations behind them. I genuinely don’t know what I would have done in her place. Died? Yeah, definitely died. I really enjoyed that she was born of 2 very distinct cultures/religions, though that didn’t come into play too much. I know other readers have had a problem with the setting and things around it, but I’ll let them argue those points.
Then we have War. War whom I genuinely was not interested in, and in fact was fairly disgusted and disturbed by for most of the book. And yet…he turned it around for me. *sigh* I can’t really say more, and I don’t know if it will work for others, but it worked for me.
The two of them together? Well, just like Sara and Pestilence, there was a lot of lust and physical attraction to account for their chemistry…which, well, I tend to need more. But, strangely, I kind of did enjoy seeing them challenge one another. I’m not an enemies to lovers fan in general, but this story kind of couldn’t be anything but that.
So yeah. I’m still intrigued by the way this author is interpreting the end of days, and how it’s playing out. Even if I generally know that when it comes down to it, love is what wins, I still kind of want to see how it plays out…but reading the bad reviews for Famine and Death, I’m feeling more wary, b/c their points are the kinds of things that often don’t work for me. Maybe I’ll wait a bit. Maybe I’ll get the audio. I guess we’ll see.
Haha! That awesome that War proved you wrong.