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A review by bryckklovesbooks
Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
1.0
Pestilence & Sara: Their "Romance" was As Ridiculous As This Story
I usually don't give one-star ratings. I tried to think of one reason to give this book at least two. I just couldn't. The concept had a lot of promise. Unfortunately, it just fell flat.
Sara is a firefighter who drew the short stick (in this instance, a match) and was elected to kill Pestilence, one of the Four Horseman. She tries and fails. As a result, her punishment is to suffer. The Horseman takes her as his prisoner, where she is forced to walk the Earth with him as he renders judgement in the form of a plague that is killing millions along his path. Surprisingly, Sara is unaffected by the plague thanks to her captor.
They travel from town to town, invading people's homes so that Sara may sleep and eat. Throughout this killing spree, Sara finds herself having feelings for Pestilence and vice versa. I guess this is where the romance comes in.
Pestilence is very stern and judgmental and is focused on his task. How he develops feelings for the a "mortal", as he refers to her and not be swayed by any of the others, he kills confounds me. Including, a sweet elderly couple. In truth, I didn't like him, and I find it hard to get behind a hero and root for a couple I don't like.
Sara had some funny moments and made me laugh a couple of times. However, throughout reading this book, I wondered how they were going to pull these two together. After all, he did shoot her in the back with arrows and dragged her with his horse. But hey, he's gorgeous so I guess that's forgivable to Sara and enough to give him a pass. Further, they waited too long to get these two in the bed. At 65%, I just didn't care if they would or wouldn't anymore.
There was a lot of talk about religion and "man's existence with good and evil" in this book. So much so that I found it to be a turn off. The ending was just as preposterous as the story, but I expected nothing less.
I'm going to stop this series right here. I have a feeling that its more of the same. This was one of those moments where I wished I read some more reviews before going in.
Happy reading!
I usually don't give one-star ratings. I tried to think of one reason to give this book at least two. I just couldn't. The concept had a lot of promise. Unfortunately, it just fell flat.
Sara is a firefighter who drew the short stick (in this instance, a match) and was elected to kill Pestilence, one of the Four Horseman. She tries and fails. As a result, her punishment is to suffer. The Horseman takes her as his prisoner, where she is forced to walk the Earth with him as he renders judgement in the form of a plague that is killing millions along his path. Surprisingly, Sara is unaffected by the plague thanks to her captor.
They travel from town to town, invading people's homes so that Sara may sleep and eat. Throughout this killing spree, Sara finds herself having feelings for Pestilence and vice versa. I guess this is where the romance comes in.
Pestilence is very stern and judgmental and is focused on his task. How he develops feelings for the a "mortal", as he refers to her and not be swayed by any of the others, he kills confounds me. Including, a sweet elderly couple. In truth, I didn't like him, and I find it hard to get behind a hero and root for a couple I don't like.
Sara had some funny moments and made me laugh a couple of times. However, throughout reading this book, I wondered how they were going to pull these two together. After all, he did shoot her in the back with arrows and dragged her with his horse. But hey, he's gorgeous so I guess that's forgivable to Sara and enough to give him a pass. Further, they waited too long to get these two in the bed. At 65%, I just didn't care if they would or wouldn't anymore.
There was a lot of talk about religion and "man's existence with good and evil" in this book. So much so that I found it to be a turn off. The ending was just as preposterous as the story, but I expected nothing less.
I'm going to stop this series right here. I have a feeling that its more of the same. This was one of those moments where I wished I read some more reviews before going in.
Happy reading!