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Death by Laura Thalassa

13 reviews

kirahaycock21's review

adventurous dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I would have liked more information about what happened for the rest of their lives, but this book was amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, Sexual content, Cursing, Gore, Violence, Death of parent, Genocide, Blood, and Suicide

Moderate: Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Medical content

mattiedancer's review against another edition

adventurous dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Writing: 3.75⭐️/5 

The writing is serviceable. Somehow, Thalassa made this very relatable despite being a novel about the apocalypse. AND YET, I wanted more. I fully believe Thalassa could have made me contemplate so much about humanity with both Death and Lazarus, and yet she almost held back, depending more on tropes and less on the potential for sections of more interesting prose. Overall, still a good read.

Characters: 4⭐️/5

I liked Lazarus. She was much different than Miriam, Sara, and Ana, even if only in her ability to defy death – both literally and figuratively. I liked how her voice came through differently than with the other two. Death, on the other hand, felt fascinating for the first half of the book, and then he fell into a rut where he really just seemed like another carbon-copy Horseman. I feel like there was so much potential with him, and I’m a little disappointed it wasn’t used, even if the outcome was still enjoyable.

Plot: 3.75⭐️/5 

I wish I could pull this book in two and rate each half. The first half of this book was so fascinating – and so different from the others. I wanted a bit more from this section, and would have loved to see Thalassa push this section as far as it could go. I liked the two chasing each other, slowly coming to look forward to seeing the other person. And then, when Lazarus meets Death’s brothers, it would have been much more interesting to keep Laz with them for longer, or to tease out this section in a new one. I feel like there was so much potential for more, and I felt a bit disappointed those choices weren’t followed. However, I do appreciate that this plot (at least for the first half) varied from the plots in books one, two, and three of this series. 

Who Should Read This Book? 

• Those who liked and loved the first three books (but maybe take a break between so it’s not too fresh)
• Those who like spicy scenes (there were quite a few of them in this one)

Content Warnings? 

Death, murder, sexual content, physical abuse, emotional abuse, kidnapping, gore, blood, injury, injury detail, violence, torture, grief, body horror, alcohol, cursing, child death, illness, medical content, medical trauma, pandemic/epidemic, suicide, suicide attempt, suicidal thoughts, sexism, misogyny, vomit, pregnancy

Post-Reading Rating:  4.25⭐️/5

A good end to the series. 

Final Rating: 3.75⭐️/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Suicide, Vomit, Body horror, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Suicide attempt, Gore, Violence, Self harm, Child death, Grief, Kidnapping, Emotional abuse, Murder, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy and Police brutality

caitlinemccann's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Kidnapping, Vomit, Blood, Medical content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual content, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, and Torture

Moderate: Abandonment and Animal death

twinklepuff's review

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Child death, Cursing, Murder, Physical abuse, Blood, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Suicide, Torture, and Toxic relationship

kat1105's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Death of parent, Genocide, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Self harm, Torture, Violence, and Vomit

thebookwrym's review

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

Hhhhhhhhm this was a big let down, and super boring. I didn’t give to shits about the characters. Actually I really didn’t like this. 
<Spoiler> there’s nothing romantic about a man as soon as he lifts a hand to injury the mc. What a turn off

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail and Gore

caseygirlreads's review

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

5 finally finished a series this year stars!

I really loved this series. I remember Pestilence blowing me away. I am so glad I finally managed to read the conclusion of the four horsemen's story. I thought Lazarus was a really interesting character, and her inability to die was a great touch for death's book. There were so many interesting quotes about life, death, love, and humanity. I really enjoyed this book. I will say some of the plot felt a little forced (but that could be due to the creator Herself's influence), and the ending was very predictable. However, a predictable ending could be good if it's due to good writing or it could be bad if it's cliche or unoriginal. I felt like it might have been a little bit of both (reminded me of twilight -if you know you know). Overall, I think this series was fantastic and had a solid ending. I would 100% recommend this series and if you need the push to read the final book this is it. It's dark and it's lovely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Animal death, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Medical trauma, Sexual content, Body horror, and Gore

xlaurareads's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

what a bittersweet but perfect ending to this series. i have many thoughts on this one, but let's start with the most prominent one: after the ending of famine's book, i was expecting death to be way differently than he actually was in his book. i felt like he might be the harshest, most murderous one that's connected to humanity the least and, thus, doesn't give a shit about humanity. however, in the first chapters of the book it became blatantly obvious that death is the softest of the four horseman, the one who falls for the woman (lazarus) in an instant when he sees her and needs to resist the urge to claim her from the first second on. i liked the "banter" between them and the on-off-killing situation, although it's always been clear how much death feels for her. what put me off a little was the time he "captured" her and the ongoing process of that; however, lazarus meeting the other horsemen was great and essential to the story unfolding. nonetheless, for the 500+ pages i feel like the book was a bit dragged at some points and there wasn't happening very much except laz and death trying to seduce each other and falling in love. like, don't get me wrong, I'm all here for passionate lovestories with good spice, but i was essentially bored at some points and, as the storyline of all four books was essentially somewhat the same, the ending seemed incredibly predictable to me. that's not a bad thing at all and i was prepared for it but i grew hella frustrated with death and his decisions at that. the ending was beautiful and bittersweet still, and tbh i couldn't imagine it otherwise. for me, the epilogue wasn't really needed because the real ending was, to me, perfect as it is. all in all, i did probably like this one second best of the series but it still had its weaknesses. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Torture, Blood, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Alcohol and Gore

c_dmckinney's review

adventurous challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Bullying, Torture, Grief, Abandonment, Animal death, Violence, Kidnapping, Gore, Genocide, Child death, Death of parent, War, Murder, Confinement, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

ladylunabee's review

adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

What a fun end to this series! I loved how it was all brought back around and included the characters from the first 3 books. Definitely would recommend this series overall. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and Gore