Pestilence by Laura ThalassaMy rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ stars
Wow, this book was certainly different from anything I have read in a while. Centred on the earth after the apocalypse and the return of the Four horsemen. This book focuses on the first Horseman. Pestilence and his journey across the world spreading disease, but he unexpectedly comes across Sara Burn, her need to protect her town and save humanity…. what could possibly go wrong?
This book is hard hitting, raw, often dark with two characters who are certainly polar opposites but wok together really well. Pestilence is well what his name suggests, a guy (who’s not really a guy but an entity) destroying the world and purging it of humans and Sara who is just trying to survive, get back to her family and save mankind. It all seems pretty straight forward in theory but what we have is a really complex book where you feel both sympathy and anger at humanity and are trying to understand a plague that doesn’t discriminate but kind of wish it would as there are genuinely good people in the world. You also have to deal with the ongoing relationship of the two main characters who seem to torture each other whilst falling in love/lust and trying to balance out how that works with two people who certainly sit on two very different posts.
Overall, you have a really great book which makes you think about what you would do if you were ever in that type of situation and at times you do have to push through the cruelty that Pestilence dishes out not only to the world but also to Sara. I guess being reminded that he is redeemable does help in the end. If nothing, this book will definitely make you think.
A great read for those who like dark, post-apocalyptic, paranormal books with some steamy and sometime graphic scenes thrown in.
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